Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] who [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian Social Union ( CSU , part of Kohl 's coalition government ) and organizations specifically representing the 12,000,000 Germans who fled what became Polish territory after 1945 , had called for the treaty to include a " right of return " , and for German " topographical designations " to have official status in the traditional settlement areas of the German minority in Poland . |
| 2 | As a member of the Advanced Volunteer Foundation , Gail was one of 750 Canadians who helped out at the fourth annual International Amateur Athletic Foundation indoor track and field meeting . |
| 3 | Demonstrators were angered by a government announcement in February that King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV had agreed to amend the law , thereby giving Tongan citizenship to 426 foreigners who had bought Tongan passports . |
| 4 | The gathering was small but that did not diminish the effect of the occasion as two of only 12 remaining Scottish survivors — out of 500 Scots who fought on the republican side in the Spanish Civil War — gathered with district council representatives to pay their respects at a simple ceremony . |
| 5 | An infant at eight months who retrieves a completely-occluded object has made a major advance in understanding the appearance-reality distinction , at least on the plane of action , because he now knows that , although the perceptual input at one time tells him that there is no rattle in his reachable space , really there is . |
| 6 | A group of about fifty teenagers who had followed them then set off on their own march through the banned area . |
| 7 | A similar sample of 100 was taken from the 216 clients who received counselling from the local Drugs Council . |
| 8 | Of twenty-one housewives who mind being labelled a housewife , nineteen ( eighty-six per cent ) are dissatisfied with work ; of the nineteen who ‘ do n't mind ’ this label , ten ( thirteen per cent ) are dissatisfied . |
| 9 | The occasion was a joint one , the presentation of ‘ wings ’ to 12 flyers who have just qualified , in the presence of five surviving Second World War pilots . |
| 10 | The project consists of three linked studies : in-depth interviews with 100 members of the general population ; exploratory interviews with 30 solicitors who work in the field of probate ; examination of a sample of 1,000 wills , drawn from a 40 year period . |
| 11 | More than 3,000 turned out for a rally organised by 2 hoteliers who say they just had to do something . |
| 12 | As a result , chairman Bob Horton ordered an increase in ‘ refreshment points ’ for the 800 shareholders who crowded into the Barbican Centre . |
| 13 | Of the 105 authors who completed PEN 's questionnaire , 62 reported attempts to censor their work for reasons of political correctness . |
| 14 | These were 30 drivers who had responded to an advertisement placed in a local newspaper . |
| 15 | Each of the 12 speakers who accepted our invitation to be here has been told that they have seven minutes to address the conference . |
| 16 | HUNDREDS of children enjoyed a sunny day out by the sea yesterday , thanks to the kindness of 300 drivers who gave their time to transport the youngsters . |
| 17 | Over 800 Libyans who sailed for Naples in a former cruise liner to mark the 78th anniversary on Oct. 26 of the invasion of Libya by Italy in 1911 , were not allowed to disembark ; however , a group of some 250 Libyans visited the Italian island of Ustica for a commemorative ceremony . |
| 18 | FORTY fans who got off the train at Peterborough and tried to board a ferry at |
| 19 | The measure of previous knowledge here is the percentage of the 30 subjects who reported knowing that junction at least moderately well previously . |
| 20 | The Darlington College of Technology part-time student won a regional heat to be one of 12 finalists who travelled to London last week . |
| 21 | Another survey , published in 1975 , covers the period 1876–1972 and , with a few omissions , analyses the 317 judges who sat in the High Court , the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords during that period . |
| 22 | For , among other reasons , Turks did not fit into a Zuwaya genealogy ; in theory , it is possible to find all forty shaikhs who appeared from time to time in Zuwaya stories in a genealogy ( although it is only anthropologists who are sufficiently naive to ask which men were the victims and where did they fit in lists of ancestors ) . |
| 23 | The vote was split along party lines with the exception of 15 Democrats who opposed the measure and 22 Republicans who supported it . |
| 24 | There 's a woman nearby I 've known about 30 years who rescues cats and we agree there are less unwanted cats about . ’ |
| 25 | The father-of-three was caught after four of the 800 workers who paid into the City Council Life Insurance Welfare Scheme died in a short space of time . |
| 26 | At the a.g.m. of the Booksellers Association in Torquay this week , president John Hitchin announced the names of the 12 booksellers who had been elected to the revamped BA Council for 1993–94 , following a postal ballot of the entire BA membership . |
| 27 | Today rebels attempted to persuade one hundred and forty workers who 'd not yet signed the agreement to battle on , but they failed in their bid to stop them from signing the deal . |
| 28 | On Oct. 28 , 1989 , 625 rebels who had been captured in fighting in the north and north-east since 1986 and detained without trial were released . |
| 29 | Mr Woodley said the ballot had already achieved its objection of bringing pressure on the receivers and the Government to sanction immediate payments of at least the minimum state redundancy payoff to the 1,600 workers who have already lost their jobs . |
| 30 | The highest count in the alcohol group was 14.8% in a chronic alcoholic aged 49 years who had been drinking heavily since the age of 15 years . |