Example sentences of "[noun sg] who were [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stretched their lead at the top of the Premier League to five points , beating an Aston Villa side who were gradually becoming the force everyone else feared . |
| 2 | There was also a group of male students ; three soldiers on their way to have some specialist medical treatment , and a number of older couples of peasant stock who were probably visiting their well-to-do offspring in Paris . |
| 3 | Material did come to me at EMI Publishing from EMI Records , and if we were interested in an act who were also looking for a record deal , we would pass the information through to EMI Records . |
| 4 | We had not the experts in Burmese poetry who were really needed for this task , only a handful of hymns in the true Burmese style were available , and these had been composed earlier by Father Jackson . |
| 5 | In my early years here , I had a small group of friends from home who were also studying or nursing . |
| 6 | The fresh and crispies went on to receive a great deal more acclaim than The Chorus who were hardly noticed , even within their hometown . |
| 7 | It is possible , however , that Christianity 's greatest early influence was on those of the Jewish faith who were already questioning the manner in which the scriptures were being used to justify the establishment of secular privileges , and were being cited in support of other controversial practices such as the use of the Temple for financial purposes . |
| 8 | The move won Gordon the heavyweight Open title and provided a much-needed lift for a British men 's team who were inevitably overshadowed by the success of the women . |
| 9 | I remember one team who were deeply affronted by this and went away and never came back . |
| 10 | The silver processional cross is in memory of three of the deceased who were directly associated with the church and was a gift from their parents . |
| 11 | Baby Sousan had been a gift from Allah , a blessing , a reward for the affection of two people for each other who were never meant to be together . |
| 12 | At least , in those extraordinary days between Hiroshima and the declaration of Vietnamese independence , hardly anyone , except the French garrison who were still imprisoned , first by the Japanese and then by the Vietminh , could be found to contradict this assumption of power and by the time it took place , or at least was claimed , another thread in the French connection had been broken . |
| 13 | ‘ The tavern wench says she saw the young man and woman who were later found murdered in the forest . |
| 14 | While some senior policemen , like Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Kenneth Newman , wanted to stress the link between the police and other areas of ‘ social policy ’ ( Metropolitan Police , 1986 ) , the official government response attempted to decontextualize the riots and see them as the actions of a small minority who were either criminalized or influenced by extreme political ideas . |
| 15 | Most of the minority who were suddenly faced with ‘ pecuniary embarrassment ’ would have taken fright and felt a sense of failure , if not disgrace — sometimes needlessly , and for the most part would not have displayed it openly . |
| 16 | Tizard puts a similar , though less emphatic , case in Adoption : A Second Chance , which reports a study that compared children in institutional care in early life who were subsequently adopted , with similar children who were restored to their natural parent . |
| 17 | The study comprised 28 patients with diarrhoea who were consecutively referred for the SeHCAT test ( table ) . |
| 18 | What are you saying that you were the ori the company who were originally asked to do the |
| 19 | It would then be regarded as the property of the Company who were then permitted to run cars over it , only between the hours of 9.00 p.m. and 9.00 a.m . |
| 20 | Back in Plymouth he worked with J. N. Darby [ q.v. ] and became a leader of the newly formed community at Providence Chapel who were soon nicknamed ‘ Plymouth Brethren ’ . |
| 21 | The script was left open by straw-clutching executives at Grundy TV who were still clinging vainly to the hope that their biggest audience puller might one day return . |
| 22 | In this context , I would argue that while the unleashing of widespread revolutionary activity in Latin America in the 1960s must obviously be attributed to the impact of the 1959 Cuban revolution , this event was essentially a catalyst , which supplied a model and a source of inspiration to a radicalised generation who were already looking for an alternative to the Soviet theory of ‘ revolution in stages ’ . |
| 23 | Though his first wife remains a shadowy and rather pathetic figure about whom one longs to know more , there is plenty here on the crowded , ramshackle household and its often hand-to-mouth existence constructed entirely around the demands of the workaholic , temperamental sculptor — the hoarded treasures , the art and music which pervaded the house , the much loved but somewhat casually raised children , the constantly changing and eccentric cast of live-in models , nannies , general factotums , portrait sitters , studio visitors , plaster moulders , musicians , friends and members of the press who were usually given short shrift . |
| 24 | He nodded towards the couple who were solicitously cooking his food for him , mouthful by mouthful . |
| 25 | On the other hand they feared the working class who were also pushing for constitutional change against the aristocratic interest . |
| 26 | It was , however , a lucky surprise for the residents of the Masham almshouse who were hurriedly summoned by the vicar to enjoy the breakfast instead . |
| 27 | What was the surname of the Tory mother and son who were both elected to Parliament in 1983 ? |
| 28 | Lost to a rich Jewish family who were eventually to die in the concentration camps after Hitler had promised to return the estate to his father for duties performed . |