Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This agitation was directed principally at those members of the planning office , the full Council , and the Planning Committee who were most closely identified with the housing policy . |
| 2 | The National Executive wrote to the four signatories and supporters who were most closely identified with the Petition campaign , Bevan , Strauss , Cdr Young , and W. Bruce , asking them to discontinue their support for the campaign or face expulsion from the Party . |
| 3 | Some of the people who were most closely associated with him at the time find that hard to believe ; they remember him as being liberally inclined but not politically minded . |
| 4 | This proved very successful in the '60s when Picato used to put all six strings in one packet , namely the circular plastic box which those of us who were around then remember with affection . |
| 5 | A wind large enough to make it certain that no Yule feast could be held , and small enough to allow the workmen and their womenfolk and the hall people who were over already to cross to the shore and spend Christmas with a clear conscience at home … |
| 6 | The only sheep around here are the sad bastards who walk around in Man Utd shirts ( particularly the fat bastard in Wakefield who has No.7 and Cantona stencilled on the back ) who were presumably sexually abused at a young age and hence feel the need to rebel — why not go the whole hog and dress up as a woman , you would nt look half as silly . |
| 7 | An important clue was his reading of Malthus on population , which allowed him to see that the ‘ struggle for existence ’ caused by population pressure would act within the species , killing off any individuals who were not well adapted to the conditions and allowing only the ‘ fittest ’ ( i.e. best-adapted ) individuals to survive and breed . |
| 8 | Those of the fort 's garrison who were not instantly blown to pieces had their lungs burst by the blast waves travelling along the corridors . |
| 9 | The news sent a shock of horror through people who were not yet hardened by the horrors of war , and this was followed by a surge of rage . |
| 10 | Most seriously , the only feminists of any note who were not vehemently opposed to the attempt to introduce Prussian–Napoleonic regulation of prostitution into Britain were Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , and in the 1890s the maverick temperance campaigner Lady Henry Somerset . |
| 11 | The validity of comparing the effects of cyclosporin and placebo on ulcerative volitis in patients who were not randomly admitted to the study or who were removed from the study owing to the severity of ulcerative colitis disease activity can be justified as follows . |
| 12 | Those smallholders who were not directly excluded by the awards lost their shares in the common indirectly , since they were unable to pay the prohibitive legal and fencing costs of securing their small allotments . |
| 13 | Persons who were merely unable to perform particular types of job and who were not really handicapped by their disability might be protected . |
| 14 | There were a lot of very poor men also in a number of these trades who were not originally covered by the legislation , and that 's where the erm the developments have , have come from since then , the dynamic of the policy , because the argument over whether it should be only for women rebounded on them , and people said , ‘ No , it should n't ’ , so for a while the legislation was all scrapped and then they started again , and now the Americans have much more comprehensive laws than we do . |
| 15 | We have also encountered patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in France who were not apparently linked to any previously described ethnogeographic cluster of this mutation but bore it , suggesting the existence of separate foci . |
| 16 | If the object is to determine whether a puritan spirituality was conducive to scientific activity , it would surely be necessary to take into account the far larger body of puritans who were not so enthralled by the book of nature . |
| 17 | Their study showed that the Anglo Saxon groups who were already well established in the area ( and whose parents came from similar backgrounds ) indulged in French and Traditional American furniture and ornate wall mirrors . |
| 18 | Another important item which followed the same route was white slaves , who were more highly prized in Italy than the Africans who were supplied by the Arabs . |
| 19 | Others ( who were more justly accused of commercial megalomania or electrical messianism by critics ) felt that the ‘ all-electric ’ future was near at hand , and that it was only a matter of time before all heating — continuous or intermittent — would be by electricity . |
| 20 | Apart from O'Leary 's injury , Arsenal had things largely their own way in the first half against a Norwich team who were still obviously suffering from the disappointment of Sunday 's Cup defeat . |
| 21 | Two miles to the north-west of this village near Redruth in the desolate former tin-mining region of Cornwall is Gwennap Pit which , although not exactly an industrial monument , has great significance in the social history of the local tinners , who were often ruthlessly exploited by their employers and were obvious targets for the message of Nonconformism . |
| 22 | The Gascon nobility and the clergy ( who were often closely related to them ) are therefore the subject of this chapter . |
| 23 | The waiters , who were obviously well accustomed to their elderly clientèle moved at a brisk trot . |
| 24 | If all Labour Members , who were supposedly so opposed to the Bill , had turned up , the Bill would not have become an Act . |
| 25 | Such a habit was ‘ affordable ’ by those in work , those who were perhaps already engaged in petty crime , and those who were relying on the legal or illegal activity of others to support their use . |
| 26 | The Celts , who were only superficially touched by Hellenistic civilization and represented the greatest terror for both Greeks and Romans , have simply been left outside the horizon of the traditional civilized Western world . |
| 27 | Some sort of dress rehearsal was clearly required for the Cypriot police officers who were only just coming to grips with wiretap technology , and , right on cue , one of Hurley 's informants passed the word that Abou Daod , a Lebanese drugs trafficker , was coming to Cyprus to set up a deal . |
| 28 | O'Hara asked , and Stella accepted at once , almost running out of the restaurant , scarcely bothering to wave a farewell to the others who were now giddily swaying across the dance floor . |
| 29 | This very high participation rate was due to the fast turnover in membership , especially of the chairmen , who were very poorly paid in a time of rapid inflation . |
| 30 | Balfour ( who was not wholly convinced by the plotters and who refused finally to do their bidding ) sent a message to Baldwin to say that the constitutional course was to meet Parliament . |