Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whites had significantly more in privately rented accommodation ( confirming the census , Table 3 ) and had over half who had lived in their house less than three years , compared with about a quarter of Blacks and Asians ; they also had more than academic qualifications . |
| 2 | As he approached the age of 40 he bowed out in favour of Peter May , an heir-apparent who had succeeded Sir Leonard Hutton as England captain two years earlier . |
| 3 | At this level of intimate contact with the sovereign were to be found also his medical advisers , chief among them Dr Conneau , another one of the faithful who had accompanied the Prince at Boulogne and who had shared his imprisonment at Ham . |
| 4 | The announcement that the society lacked the cash to fund its operating costs surprised few who had followed that institution 's relatively quiet descent into insolvency . |
| 5 | The most enterprising and literate , those few who had travelled , in the army or otherwise , and the thin cream of village intelligenty ( agronomists and the like ) everywhere rose to the top in order to represent their less sophisticated brethren . |
| 6 | So I and the few who had escaped illness enjoyed the beautiful summer weather , with no lessons or discipline at all . |
| 7 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 8 | After the War a few who had married in the island remained , but the majority returned to Gibraltar . |
| 9 | With Sycorax , the islanders were more successful in administering the proper rites , for during the treaty negotiations that followed the battle , her eldest daughter 's husband , who had been wounded in the foot but survived , pleaded for the bodies of the few who had died inside the stockade . |
| 10 | Surprisingly , that is , for mainstream economists , who had assumed that Keynesian economic management would abolish such crashes , but without surprise for the few who had remembered Kondratiev 's ideas . |
| 11 | part of the process of universal involvement in recognition of Artai as Lord of the Earth now necessitated the removal of the Dragon Throne — a solid piece of carving of the weight of seven thousand diram — with its occupant from the top of the plinth down to the concourse from whence it was destined to be borne on a processional route on the shoulders of teams of men of every degree in the Khanate , most of whom had been selected by lot , although there were a few who had paid out considerable sums in gold koban for the privilege of inclusion . |
| 12 | Few who 've seen Pool of late will doubt their ability to sneak up on the rails , as they did last season , as a surprise late success in the promotion race . |
| 13 | His record of sixteen consecutive rides at Aintree still stands and he 's one of the lucky few who 've won the national . |
| 14 | ‘ I would have loved to join the elitist few who have made 500 League appearances and , but for my spell in the Conference and my long list of injuries , I probably would have done it , ’ added McDonough , who netted 89 goals in 460 league games . |
| 15 | In Britain , Eastman ( 1984 ) , a social worker , is one of the few who have sought to draw attention to abuse of old people . |
| 16 | It is , however , unseen and unsuspected by travellers along the road and its charms are known only by a relative few who have discovered its existence during their wanderings in the area . |
| 17 | Although it is difficult to reach firm conclusions from the small number of patients who underwent balloon counterpulsation , those few who have survived in the long term underwent such a procedure while their renal function was still normal or nearly normal and their renal state remained stable until transplantation . |
| 18 | The few who have dealt with this subject from an alternative political standpoint have mainly been liberal Conservatives , concerned to meet the needs of casualties of the social system but suspicious of the claims of the state to regulate many aspects of our lives . |
| 19 | Few who have worked in this field would deny that , at present , it is a labour intensive procedure . |
| 20 | Among the few who have tried to compare the two regions , French and Smith ( 1985 ) are concerned particularly with subpolar tundra , and Aleksandrova ( 1980 ) prescribes a simple geobotanical regional zoning that covers both polar and subpolar zones at both ends of the world . |
| 21 | Few who have read Professor J. F. Verbruggen 's The art of warfare in western Europe during the Middle Ages from the eighth century to 1340 will forget this vivid approach to the subject including , for example , his description of the very human fear experienced by men about to face battle , an emotion also vividly described in the more popular , but no less serious work of John Keegan , The face of battle . ’ |
| 22 | Few who have confronted his writings remain serenely indifferent . |
| 23 | The scene of one of Drachenfels ' most infamous atrocities , this chamber has been shunned by most of the few who have penetrated the Castle . |
| 24 | The few who have attempted to query appointments at a local level have been met by shocked indignation and comments like : ‘ The fact of the matter is that the applications that we receive from doctors from the subcontinent leave much to be desired . ’ |
| 25 | She is one of the few who has gained hope through the technique , known as the Ilizarov frame . |
| 26 | Pennings ( 1985 ) is one of the few who has attempted to investigate strategic decision-making taking this simple fact into account . |
| 27 | Before their initial gall stone dissolution treatment , 15 of 82 patients followed up for more than six months had had solitary stones , compared with 67 who had had multiple stones . |
| 28 | Some who had gone to Israel had been involved in protests from July 1985 onwards against the ruling of the Chief Rabbinate that they should undertake a " formal " conversion to Judaism [ see p. 34008 ] . |
| 29 | However , a spokeswoman for the RIR said these figures included some who had transferred to full-time duties . |
| 30 | He clearly had friends in high places , as he was able to take on prominent people who had been purged after 1968 and even some who had suffered after the takeover of 1948 . |