Example sentences of "of [noun] who had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Buddhist piety led representatives of the thousands of Untouchables who had embraced Buddhism to invite him to be their leader . |
| 2 | The decision , taken in the presence of the current Minister of Religion Nicolae Stoicescu ( an old acquaintence of Teoctist who had shared responsibility for religious affairs under Ceausescu ) , was not universally welcomed . |
| 3 | Similarly , in France , though a majority of neo-Gaullist deputies were anti-Maastricht , the total number of deputies who had voted Yes in the referendum ( 363 ) outnumbered those voting No ( 174 ) by two to one . |
| 4 | There were calls to revoke the mandate of deputies who had failed to register as Lithuanian citizens . |
| 5 | After the Second World War , for example , the photographer Alexander Liberman decided to visit the studios of artists who had contributed to a century of painting in France , painters and sculptors closely connected with the School of Paris . |
| 6 | He had heard enough stories of artists who had started painting too soon , and failed , floundering in a morass without sound drawing and perspective techniques . |
| 7 | The audience waved , swayed and sang along enthusiastically , as they had for the procession of artists who had preceded him . |
| 8 | Empirical evidence also began to build up , and Spooner ( 1972 ) , in a study of employers who had moved to the southwest found that more of them cited the attractive environment of Devon and Cornwall as reasons for moving to the area , than its labour supply , and Lonsdale and Browning ( 1971 , 267 ) found that manufacturing plants in 10 southern USA States were more orientated to rural than urban areas and that : ‘ manufacturing firms appear to be placing increased emphasis on rural and small town sites ’ . |
| 9 | The aim appears to have been two-fold : to reassert the authority of the crown to appoint to military commands and , by a ruthless dismissal of the majority of commanders who had come to assume such commands , to make the army once more an efficient weapon of state in royal hands . |
| 10 | Of the hundreds of prisoners who had escaped from the orphanage there were still a number hidden in the surrounding countryside , but I did not know where . |
| 11 | They bore the names of prisoners who had died at Whitely . |
| 12 | The report recorded six cases of prisoners who had died apparently while under torture or as a result of neglect . |
| 13 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 14 | By contrast , almost half of subjects who had received solely outpatient consultations had unmet needs ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 15 | In the late afternoon of the second of June a courier rode into Aber on a reeking horse , the last of a chain of messengers who had carried urgent news from Cydewain . |
| 16 | Accordingly , thousands of Czechoslovaks who had fled the country after the 1968 clampdown and were subsequently stripped of their citizenship would be able to regain it . |
| 17 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 18 | The officials chosen to represent her on intermittent and shortlived embassies were usually ignorant of the languages of the countries to which they were sent and often ‘ Moscow Germans ’ ( descendants of foreigners who had settled in Russia ) rather than Russians by ancestry . |
| 19 | By noon , he could hardly stand , let alone tramp over the moor , and he stumbled about , muttering away in Gaelic , complaining about working for a bunch of foreigners who had usurped his rightful King . |
| 20 | But just as the auction was about to begin there was a commotion amongst the knot of gentlemen who had gathered around the foot of the stairs . |
| 21 | Pat O'Keefe slipped and fell as the boat was setting off and injured his hand as he plunged six feet over the side of the harbour , and had to be rescued by the crowd of journalists who had gathered to see Jack off . |
| 22 | They were leery of the figure of light who had appeared as if by magic yet who looked so solid . |
| 23 | His coup this time was to read a list , shortly before polling day , of Jews who had contributed to the campaign of his challenger , Mr Mel Reynolds . |
| 24 | It was run by a couple of brothers who had started with one large pub in North London and had built the company , by dint of aggressive take-over tactics and shrewd property dealing , to a sizeable enterprise with a turnover of nearly forty million pounds . |
| 25 | So through that dismal day Hugh Templar sat at his kitchen table and pursued the adventures of a team of space-travellers who had discovered a world directly behind the sun , which was a mirror-image of our own Earth , with the same physical composition , but with a rather different kind of population , a race having strange and , I hoped , thought-provoking ideas about how to run their planet … |
| 26 | As imperial portraits attracted faith , so images of emperors who had betrayed their subjects ' trust were treated with contempt . |
| 27 | Once in the car on their way to the reception , Ace , still smiling at the hundreds of fans who had turned up , spoke out of the side of his mouth . |
| 28 | From August onwards the newspapers were over-flowing with the exploits of the various gangs in London : the ‘ Lion Boys ’ from the Lion and Lamb in Clerkenwell ; the so-called ‘ Clerkenwell ‘ pistol Gang' ’ ’ ; the ‘ Girdle Gang ’ which took its name from Thomas , alias ‘ Tuxy ’ , Girdle ; the ‘ Somers Town Gang ’ who were said to be the pests of Euston Road and Gower Street ; the ‘ Pinus Gang ’ who infested Leather Lane and Clerkenwell ; the ‘ Drury Lane Boys ’ ; the notorious ‘ Waterloo Road Gang ’ ; the ‘ Pickett Gang ’ ; , ‘ McNab 's ’ ; the ‘ Rest Gang ’ ; the ‘ Fulham Boys ’ ; the ‘ Chelsea Boys ’ ; the ‘ Velvet Cap Gang ’ ; the ‘ Plaid-Cap Brigade ’ from Poplar ; the gangs who romped around King Street and Great Church Lane in Hammersmith and who were said to be ‘ not ‘ Hooligans ’ ’ but worse' ; and many others , including a band of youngsters who had adopted the dare-devil title of the ‘ Dick Turpin Gang ’ . |
| 29 | Anna Essinger 's commitment to refugee children was extended into the peace by the arrival of youngsters who had survived the concentration camps . |
| 30 | It was magical in June , at Towyn , to see the faces of youngsters who had boarded a two-coach DMU headed by No. 75069 . |