Example sentences of "[adj] who had [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The announcement that the society lacked the cash to fund its operating costs surprised few who had followed that institution 's relatively quiet descent into insolvency .
2 Before their initial gall stone dissolution treatment , 15 of 82 patients followed up for more than six months had had solitary stones , compared with 67 who had had multiple stones .
3 Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) .
4 But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all .
5 This was a man of forty-six who had had multiple sclerosis for six years .
6 A few had been to other universities , to Sandhurst , Dartmouth or an agricultural college , making 190 in all who had had some form of higher education .
7 The term " senior dealer " was generally understood to apply only to those who had achieved certain levels of business which would usually take at least three months .
8 He said the figure included people who no longer needed treatment , those who had gone private and failed to inform the health authority , and those who were reassessed .
9 About 400 sick conscripts were discharged ( this having been one of the demonstrators ' demands ) , as were those who had served 18 months of their two-year service .
10 When I went overseas I had graduated from the " Pat and Giggle " stage and could join those who had served several years in Mespot .
11 One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 .
12 Arguing once more from the personal to the universal , he concluded that those who had done such a thing to him were the enemies of all civilised society .
13 The defence given by some of those who had authorised this unparalleled act of iconoclasm in modern England , while clearly sincere , points to the narrow perspectives that had allowed the events to occur .
14 For one night at least , one member of the quartet who hijacked the course of popular music lived up to the hopes of those who had waited 23 years for the moment .
15 He said that licensing justices at Flint , Mold and Hawarden were endeavouring to only grant licences to experienced people and those who had completed various licensing training courses and had passed the British Institute of Inn Keeping examination .
16 There were similar inequalities based on gender and region among those who had completed primary and secondary school cycles .
17 After a long and uphill struggle , lasting for most of the 1950s , Margery Fry had persuaded the Howard League and the newly formed Justice to take up the cause of monetary restitution to be paid out of public funds to those who had suffered personal injury from acts of criminal violence .
18 Over a 16-month period , 296 accidents were reported and of these , 285 were falls ( 3 were scalds , and 8 were abrasions caused by wheelchairs ) and the falls were most likely to occur among those who had suffered previous falls indoors , frequently because of impaired gait and balance , associated usually with a pathological condition .
19 The restoration of the monarchy and its patronage proved a particularly valuable source of wealth and position to those who had remained faithful or changed their allegiance with a careful eye to the future .
20 His finding was that the capacity to experience it was much more highly developed in wives who had indulged in intercourse before marriage than in those who had remained chaste — in short there was much to be said against chastity .
21 It was a triumph for all that was best and most enlightened in British life ; a triumph for those who had preached equal justice between peoples ; a triumph for those who had courageously denounced the harshness and short-sightedness of Versailles .
22 Weaver and his colleagues ( 1985 ) found that residents most able to come to terms with admission were those who had exercised some degree of control or choice in entering residential care .
23 There was also a form of opposition to perestroika that stemmed from outdated patterns of thinking and the self-interest of those who had become used to living at the expense of others .
24 He castigated those who had become wealthy by exploiting their political standing for private gain .
25 Her Royal Highness went round the room meeting many of those who had supported this Gala evening .
26 Those who had received poor service , he said , could consider their right of action and if necessary start proceedings in the Small Claims Court .
27 In their study of the civic culture , Almond and Verba found that there were differences in attitude toward government between those with different levels of education , and between those who had received some formal education and those who had received none .
28 Among those who had received medical advice , knowledge of postcoital contraceptive methods differed significantly according to the source of that advice ( table ) .
29 However , levels of satisfaction were high among those who had received either service .
30 Almost 30 when he was finally crowned at Scone , and with his naturally introspective , melancholy temperament soured by long , enforced idleness , he drove himself to become a man of action and set about destroying those who had grown rich and powerful in his absence , especially the Albany faction .
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