Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By devising an oral rehydration solution made from home ingredients , the problem of cost was ( partially at least ) solved , as was the problem of supplying pre-packaged Oral Rehydration Salts to a population 92% of whom lived in rural areas where transportation was generally very poor . |
| 2 | Is the Minister aware that there are now thousands of people waiting for home improvement grants , some of whom applied before 1984 ? |
| 3 | Inset The right travelling bags denoted the smart set , some of whom came with dozens of pieces of luggage and servants to unpack them . |
| 4 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
| 5 | Among the guests were thousands of plain-clothes police and out-of-uniform soldiers , some of whom arrived in military trucks , dressed as clowns . |
| 6 | How many Northern Ireland Members who agreed with Labour Members and opposed the privatisation of Shorts and of Harland and Wolff would do so now ? |
| 7 | Although some speakers urged everyone who agreed with some proposition to show their hand , at no time was a vote taken : the chairman summed up the sense of the meeting after each item , announcing what he thought Kufra 's delegates were mandated to say at the National Assembly . |
| 8 | This level of activity stands in marked contrast to that of the very few working class women who qualified under local government franchises ( although increasing numbers became Guardians after 1894 , when the property qualification was abolished ) , who squeezed in two or three hours Poor Law work on a Saturday between household chores . |
| 9 | On May 31 he was quoted as saying that he was satisfied that all prisoners who qualified for political status had been released but that officials were still sifting petitions . |
| 10 | Parents of children who qualified for secondary education signed an undertaking that the child would complete the course , and they could be fined if they failed to keep their word . |
| 11 | This summer marked the retirement of two of our teachers : Anna Koller , who qualified in 1966 and has taught in West London and Buckinghamshire , and Mabel Io Smith , who qualified in 1971 and has always taught in Surrey . |
| 12 | This summer marked the retirement of two of our teachers : Anna Koller , who qualified in 1966 and has taught in West London and Buckinghamshire , and Mabel Io Smith , who qualified in 1971 and has always taught in Surrey . |
| 13 | In Molly 's absence Kay Evans presented certificates to three of the teachers who qualified in 1980 and who were unable to attend the last qualified teachers ' meeting . |
| 14 | The assistant was John Percivall , who qualified in 1795 . |
| 15 | All teachers who qualified in 1981 and 1982 are reminded that they will be introduced as a group at the Reunion in November . |
| 16 | As Kay Evans was unable to be with us during Notices June Bascombe presented their certificates to the three teachers who qualified in 1982 who had been unable to attend the training day in June . |
| 17 | Calls for democracy along western lines with a multi-party system , free choice of candidates and free elections were not tolerated by the old party leaders , Who clung to centralised ‘ socialist democracy ’ . |
| 18 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 19 | The reason given for this change is that there was recent wide coverage in the press of the case of an American paramedic who succeeded by fraudulent means in obtaining limited registration from the council . |
| 20 | Erm the the third prize was erm seven hundred and fifty eight pounds sales from South Suffolk , they got a hundred pounds , and seven other er constituencies who sold between six hundred and ninety three pounds seventy five and five hundred and one pounds ' worth of tickets |
| 21 | Mention has to be made of Julia Chapman 's singing of ‘ Joshua ’ , of the trio called Full Swing , who entertained with modern jazz in the foyer as the audience arrived and , inevitably , the Petersfield School Dance Band ( another happy family ) who set out feet a-dancing in the Rose Room after the concert . |
| 22 | ‘ Who asked for two eggs and a sausage ? ' |
| 23 | Sometime after , the Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 and Mr Kendal sent details of the North Road Station incident to the President , Prof Sidgwick , who asked for further details of Durham 's bodily state on the eventful night . |
| 24 | It also marks the return of drummer Mark Brzezicki , who quit in 1989 , leaving Adamson , guitarist Bruce Watson and bassist Tony Butler in a sour relationship with their record company . |
| 25 | Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods . |
| 26 | The worst rioting was in Podujevo , where on Jan. 29 and 31 several thousand demonstrators , many of them schoolchildren and students , fought running battles with police who resorted to rubber bullets and tear gas dropped from helicopters . |
| 27 | , Frederick Winston Furneaux , second Earl of Birkenhead ( 1907–1975 ) , biographer , was born 7 December 1907 at 70 Eccleston Square , London , the only son and second of three children of Frederick Edwin Smith [ q.v. ] , known always as ‘ FE ’ , who became in 1922 first Earl of Birkenhead , and his wife Margaret Eleanor , second daughter of the Revd Henry Furneaux , fellow of Corpus Christi College , Oxford . |
| 28 | John Rowlands 's search ended with the discovery of his surviving grandfather , a ‘ severe and sour old man ’ who lived with two of Rowlands 's aunts in an old Welsh farmhouse . |
| 29 | She had been born in India , where her father was stationed with the Air Force , but after her parents separated she was brought up by her mother , who lived with another woman in Northampton . |
| 30 | For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay . |