Example sentences of "the [adj] who [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a place to associate with bare-breasted maidens , the bohemian European artists of the thirties who immortalised them , floral garlands , towering cloud-capped peaks . |
| 2 | Success for the few who achieved it was often bought at the cost of Korean ties and identity . |
| 3 | Experienced volunteers thought that they should help with in-bureau tutoring ; among the few who knew what social policy work was , there were some who wanted to take more part in it and others who wanted more time to read in order to keep up to date . |
| 4 | Here and there a few barricades were erected but they were defended half-heartedly by the few who manned them . |
| 5 | The few who maintained they had had no benefit from their training were all apprentices . |
| 6 | Soldier of Fortune was one of the few who published my pictures ; I had a cover . |
| 7 | She was one of the few who possessed it . |
| 8 | God would reward good ; his judgements in battle would be just ; he would favour the humble who honoured him and recognised his strength by bringing down the proud . |
| 9 | Of the 507 who said there is NO conspiracy , 45.2 per cent were women and 54.8 per cent were men . |
| 10 | The 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain provided an opportunity to pay a tribute to ‘ The Few ’ who flew in the Battle and the many who supported them . |
| 11 | The book was ‘ A Tribute to 'The Few' who flew in the Battle of Britain , and to the many who supported them ’ . |
| 12 | I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on his courageous stand against the 11 who opposed him , but may I ask him a simple question ? |
| 13 | It was the latter who inspired me on my first day at the tech . |
| 14 | The 35 players who beat par in the first round set a record , beating the 33 who did it in 1991 . |
| 15 | It was not the twelve who fulfilled their Lord 's command to go and teach all nations the good news . |
| 16 | If she did , then she would be the first who cared anything for his opinions since his old master died . |
| 17 | Her husband , seventy-four , was the one who fished her out . |
| 18 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 19 | Although not all the Tory dissidents now discussing tactics over individual bills were among the 60 who withheld their votes from her last Tuesday , the arithmetic of the leadership election does raise the question of whether she can rely on her Commons majority in the coming battles . |
| 20 | That 's a tough , brutal sport traditionally played in England and Scotland by the sons of the wealthy who invented it — so talk of hunger breeding the best fighters is garbage . ’ |
| 21 | Among the religious who distinguished themselves in combat was the abbot of Battle — that ‘ outstanding warrior in monk 's habit ’ , as one chronicler described him — who twice , in 1376 and 1377 , defended the town of Winchelsea from French raiders . |
| 22 | Even at night the policeman recognized the two who brought me home . |