Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the battle of Naseby in 1645 , Richard Baxter was concerned about the safety of some friends of his who were serving with the parliamentarian army . |
| 2 | Scottish Members of Parliament who were serving on the Committee for the Enterprise and New Towns ( Scotland ) Bill regarding the central provision of core functions in Scottish Enterprise ; |
| 3 | AUTHOR compiling a detailed history on the 300/400 Australian Short Service Commission airmen ( mostly pilots ) , who were serving in the RAF at the outbreak of World War Two . |
| 4 | Newcastle were handicapped by the absence of David Bargh and Mark Thorpe , who were competing in the World Pairs semi-finals in Germany . |
| 5 | Nor will we forget those hon. Members who were regarded as the darlings of the rioters . |
| 6 | Despite the arrival of occasional parvenus such as Speransky in the early decades of the nineteenth century , the Tsar was surrounded by military and civil advisers who were bound by the strongest bonds to the serf-owning nobility . |
| 7 | The summit declaration 's notable omission of any plans to resolve the crisis in Yugoslavia was understood to have stemmed from lack of agreement among leaders who were bound by the CSCE 's rule of consensus . |
| 8 | Although they saw other Girls rehearsing in troupe , Elsie and Eddie Port seemed to be the only pupils who were training at the School . |
| 9 | The models , who were clustered at the door , stepped quickly out of her way . |
| 10 | The south Italians and Sicilians , who were to flood into the big cities of the Americas , had hardly yet begun to stir from their native slum villages , the east Europeans , Catholic or Orthodox , remained largely sedentary , only the Jews seeping or flooding into provincial towns from which they had hitherto been excluded and thence into larger cities . |
| 11 | By the time they reached the Mearns Road near Eaglesham and trudged to the wreckage of the Messerschmitt , it had acquired a small crowd of sightseers , who were bantering with the Home Guards trying to keep it safe from looting . |
| 12 | Were these people who were staying at the house ? |
| 13 | She liaised with the RSSPCC social workers on the mainland who were dealing with the children , and conducted meetings in Orkney about the case . |
| 14 | So , while in 1814 the prime criticism of the idea was that it expected too much of human nature , too much of the people who were to live in the communities and of those who were to put them there , while then it was in short a social criticism , by 1832 the idea had become an economic nonsense . |
| 15 | The kind of people who were to live in the network of what now amounts to eight properties — six owner-occupied houses and two rented apartment schemes — were not people with severe disabilities and high levels of dependency . |
| 16 | They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market . |
| 17 | These were the men who formed the main links between the papal curia and the Church at large and who were charged with the maintenance of orthodoxy in their dioceses . |
| 18 | No doubt there were also older men who were farming in the township , but most farms were smallholdings and their occupants were usually described by their craft names . |
| 19 | The sample comprised 450 information system executives from major corporations in the telecommunications , travel and transport , insurance , manufacturing , banking , securities , and retail industries who were questioned about the costs and other impacts of online computer system failures . |
| 20 | The poem was n't written to give a realistic account of war but to glorify those men who were killed in the war , to give some comfort to their friends and relatives . |
| 21 | Among the mayors who were killed in the run-up to the November 1989 municipal elections [ see p. 37039 ] was the left-wing mayor of Ayacucho , Fermín Azparrent , who was shot dead at his home on Sept. 19 . |
| 22 | Fire fighters from across the country have been paying tribute to airmen who were killed in the second world war . |
| 23 | It is now a memorial to all the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia who were killed by the Nazis — a staggering 77,297 . |
| 24 | Estimates of the number of people who were killed by the military varied form several hundred to several thousand . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ I answered , glad to have his attention , ‘ those two messengers who were killed by the Maillotins . |
| 26 | Yet these signs in themselves emphasise the provisional nature of the Kingdom , because all of those who were healed in the New Testament subsequently became sick and died . |
| 27 | Clients of one firm who were pushed into the shares of a restaurant company were pulled out of them once the price started to rise . |
| 28 | Only when she had this data could she say with any confidence whether people who were converted into the Unification Church ( the dependent variable ) were different in any systematic ways from the rest of the population . |
| 29 | It was women who were defined as the human agents of infection , threatening national health and security and challenging the social order by their active and autonomous sexuality . |
| 30 | The action project began on 1 April 1984 and any people aged 65 or over who were referred to the hospital psychogeriatric service during the 12 months to the end of March 1985 and who were diagnosed as suffering from dementia , became members of the action sample if they lived in the action area , and of the control sample if their home was in the control area ( so long as they were not living permanently in an institution at the time of referral and they or their carers gave consent for their inclusion ) . |