Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
| 2 | The report showed that there were between 27,000,000 and 35,000,000 blind people in the world , over 90 per cent of whom lived in the developing world , mostly in rural areas . |
| 3 | From the studios and shows I visited I spoke to women artists , all of whom graduated in the last 10 years about their work , their experiences with galleries , residencies , organising shows and lecturing , in an attempt to assess current directions in women 's work and gauge their position within the art world . |
| 4 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 5 | Didier had class-mates who lived in the extensive nineteenth-century houses , set back in their own grounds , on the hill behind the rue Victorie . |
| 6 | Martha was not the only child who lived in the highest settlement , but she was the only one who was ordered to school each day . |
| 7 | This view , named Nestorianism after Bishop Nestorius who lived in the fifth century , is still hinted at today . |
| 8 | The Buckinghamshire freeholders who lived in the immediate neighbourhood of the Tory local landowner , Sir John Verney , in fact also tended to poll in favour of the Whigs . |
| 9 | There were only three spaces available on a concreted section of the front garden and I normally left these for the use of Mrs Bradshaw and the two families who lived in the second-floor flats . |
| 10 | There was a peremptory sharpness to the knock which announced the presence of Mrs Bradshaw , a lady in her early sixties who lived in the next-door flat . |
| 11 | Harold was as well-mannered , she considered , as anyone in the University , including the stiff old Prebendary Porkadder , who lived in the next-door house with his housekeeper . |
| 12 | She paused and peered down the rocky road to make sure that none of the children who lived in the lower houses had followed her . |
| 13 | The war was unlikely to become much more than a dispute over frontier posts , in which success would depend to a considerable extent on winning the support of the Indians who lived in the wide area between the colonies . |
| 14 | A section of the hardboard wall was tugged aside , and Chrissie glimpsed the pale , unshaven features of the man who lived in the concealed room . |
| 15 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |
| 16 | The grid street plan is believed to have originated earlier and further east , possibly in Mesopotamia , but the concept is familiarly associated with the name of Hippodamos , a Greek philosopher and town planner who lived in the early fifth century B.C. This is due to Aristotle who ascribed its invention to Hippodamos who was born in Miletos . |
| 17 | At least 125 people who lived in the two buildings were either dead or critically injured . |
| 18 | It occurs to me , for example , that given that all we 've heard this afternoon about the fact that a new settlement and again I 'm playing devil 's advocate , that if it were possible to build onto an existing settlement the quality of life of those who lived in the new settlement might in fact be better than if they were , to put it crudely , finding themselves in the middle of a field . |
| 19 | Yolande was an attractive French girl , who lived in the up-market district . |
| 20 | From the shade beneath the trees emerged each day some of the considerable number of people who lived in the mysterious heights . |
| 21 | The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole . |
| 22 | They were concerned most , however , about one section of the mass audience and that was the hard-core army of regular adolescent film-goers who lived in the disorganized city centres , the so-called ‘ crowded section ’ . |
| 23 | Needless to say , those who lived in the inner cities had a high index of deprivation . |
| 24 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 25 | He is said to have instructed that a castle be built to impress and intimidate the wild Ui Meith who lived in the surrounding countryside . ’ |
| 26 | My Mum was the only white person who lived in the whole house , a point not unnoticed by me since I often asked her how come she lived there with us when everyone else was black … |
| 27 | Even with evidence for the level of wealth in each building , this could imply that the village society was led by a single chief , who lived in the biggest house in the centre of the village , or that the village was run by a council of all the members of the village , who built a large central hall in which to hold their meetings . |
| 28 | Next to the church are the massive ramparts of the defended manor house of a Lord Ghilo who lived in the 11th Century . |
| 29 | Even so , the jobs located in the cities were not going to inner-city residents but to people who lived in the leafy suburbs . |
| 30 | The upkeep of Hogarth House became neglected and it was severely damaged by enemy bombing , during the second world war , but a well known Chiswick resident who lived in the fine mansion of Grove House , Col. R. W. Shipway , J.P. , made a generous gift to the Middlesex County Council who restored the house and reopened it to the public as a museum in 1951 , transferring it to the London Borough of Hounslow in 1965 . |