Example sentences of "of [noun] [Wh pn] have " 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 law , similar to one already introduced in Estonia , has angered many thousands of Russians who have moved into the republic in recent years . |
| 3 | Skin abscesses due to injecting were reported more often by drug users who seroconverted than by controls but the selection of seroconverters who had probably used infected injecting equipment may have biased this result . |
| 4 | Well done to … the Leeds branch of The Guild of Hairdressers who have been raising money over the last twelve months for the Children 's ’ Wing at the Seacroft Hospital . |
| 5 | ‘ I think a lot of lecturers who have come directly into teaching without formal training would appreciate more in-depth workshops on lecturing/teaching skills . ’ |
| 6 | UBS P & D plans a series of roadshows in Europe to present the proposals to Heron 's many thousands of bondholders who have seen bonds slashed to a third of their face value . |
| 7 | If he is to succeed , Simpson might have to rely heavily on his father , Gordon Simpson , a former finance director of Shell who has come on board as deputy chairman . |
| 8 | In the film Magnum Force he ironically blasts away a set of cops who have become off duty vigilantes . |
| 9 | And , as many have pointed out , he is working with the nomenclatura of communism who have served their political masters faithfully for the past 40 yerars . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the absence of anyone more nearly related I had been designated next-of-kin , and now I wrote to the Court of Protection who had been dealing with her affairs , asking what my responsibilities would be if she died . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There were calls to revoke the mandate of deputies who had failed to register as Lithuanian citizens . |
| 14 | There was one man near Tynemouth who was known as ‘ Dead Bodies ’ , so named because he earned seven and sixpence for collecting ( by hook ) the corpses of suicides who 'd jumped from the Tyne Bridge , ten miles up-river . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The audience waved , swayed and sang along enthusiastically , as they had for the procession of artists who had preceded him . |
| 18 | In last month 's issue , The Art Newspaper published the list of artists who have been included in this ambitious survey and identified a second list of candidates whom Rosenthal and Joachimedes had decided to ignore . |
| 19 | Fudah , 47 , was a professor of agriculture who had unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in legislative elections , most recently in 1990 . |
| 20 | By 1966 , the Church was better able to take advantage of the new interest in its separatist stance because it now had a core of Ulstermen who had been converted under Ian Paisley s preaching and who had grown up with his politicized evangelicalism . |
| 21 | The Sorrel Quartet , a young group of musicians who have played all over the world , were joined by violist Roger Bigley , a founder member of the Lindsay Quartet , to play two Mozart String Quintets , No 1 in B flat , K174 , and No 4 in G minor , K516 . |
| 22 | Kandel , trained as a psychiatrist , spent a period working on Aplysia with Ladislav Tauc in Paris in the 1960s , saw the potential of the organism , initially for the study of short-term processes such as habituation , and over the subsequent quarter-century in New York he has made its study peculiarly his own and that of the generations of researchers who have cut their teeth in this Columbia laboratory . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | They were , and are , especially concerned about what this might mean for the rights to be enjoyed in their country by an ever growing number of Germans who have bought property in the south of Denmark . |
| 25 | ‘ My sympathy goes out to the people of Gateshead who have suffered a similarly sickening attack and I believe the government must now ensure that there is a positive and rapid response to meet the concerns of local residents . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They bore the names of prisoners who had died at Whitely . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Funny little things like the way he could find a mental case to confess to every gangland killing , and the number of prisoners who had sudden heart attacks while he was questioning them . |
| 30 | The report recorded six cases of prisoners who had died apparently while under torture or as a result of neglect . |