Example sentences of "who were [verb] [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , the last time he was in , he actually went to a group of people who were determined to make their decision , were determined what their decision was . |
| 2 | In one test , different responses were noted of pupils who were asked to explain their methods of working out their answers to a question about a set of related patterns of tiles . |
| 3 | In Exeter the wool staplers moved quickly in 1787 to imprison some striking wool sorters who were seeking to advance their wages , but at several other times since the statute they employed had been enacted in 1726 , they had conceded advances sought by their journeymen . |
| 4 | Not simply the women dying of too many children , but the women who were compelled to sell their bodies because that was all that they had to sell . |
| 5 | It was there for all to see — BR became less of a corporate business , more an overlord for the sectors who were expected to find their own feet with or without government subsidy . |
| 6 | Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes . |
| 7 | Only recently he 'd bought more land off the Roscarrocks ( who were selling to pay their church fines ) and built himself a new house made of ship 's beams and red brick , with upstairs rooms , a panelled hall , latticed windows and six curly chimneys . |
| 8 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |
| 9 | Although the authorities declared that the customs ban only applied to large consignments of books , which had to be sent via the Ministry of Culture in Bucharest , Hungary was still complaining in June that the Romanian post office was failing to deliver Hungarian-language publications to subscribers , who were forced to form their own distribution networks . |
| 10 | However , he will have increased his unpopularity among those eagerly awaiting the return of the king , those who were forced to put their ‘ welcome home Michael ’ T-shirts away once again . |
| 11 | The implementation of comprehensive education was not just significant for teachers in secondary schools , who were forced to reassess their curriculum and school organisation . |
| 12 | Deep well-springs of ideas were tapped and a new Renaissance set in motion by men who were unafraid to let their spirits roam in the new universe of science and invention . |
| 13 | A hospital has began an inquiry into how the parents of a cot death baby who were encouraged to cuddle their dead child were given the wrong body to hold . |
| 14 | Hence the attempt to ‘ hold the scales evenly between those who were allowed to develop their land and those who were not ’ was abandoned , but the use of 1947 development values as a ‘ permanent basis for compensation ’ safeguarded the public purse . |