Example sentences of "who [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment .
8 Bogie was the kind of hellraiser who lived at one end of the scale .
9 Another risk is that when information is filed under address a consumer may be refused credit not because of his own record but because the record of some other person who lived at that address .
10 At Key Stage 2 , with older pupils , the enquiry can easily be pushed back to the Victorian Age , when pupils are now faced with the " problem " that all the people who lived at that time are now dead .
11 Anybody who lived through that time in Oswaldston will have a lot of memories of it-some of them bitter , some of them funny .
12 The death threats had been provoked by Motoshima 's suggestion in December 1988 that Emperor Hirohito ( who was at the time dying of cancer ) bore some responsibility , " as do all of us who lived in that period " , for Japan 's role in the Pacific War of 1941-45 .
13 The Council 's rehoused everyone who lived in that street . ’
14 The dust burned ; as did any populace who lived in that plate , supposing they had survived the plunge of their factory-homes .
15 Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door .
16 A great aunt , who was also pious , but who lived in manorial comfort , provides by contrast the most immaculate portrait of respected ageing :
17 Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive
18 who lived in these house plus I should think about
19 Mrs Yaxlee , by no means the eldest of the clan ( there was a great aunt of eighty-seven who lived in independent squalor at Nether Oldfield ) but still a senior member , sat in her parlour surrounded by the trappings of her state .
20 The same payment is given to staff who lived in furnished accommodation at the previous base who move to rented unfurnished property at the new base or who buy their own houses in the new area .
21 The coastal villages were a little bigger , containing many landless peasants , represented by numerous 20s. assessments , who lived by grazing stock on the common saltmarshes .
22 Even so , it did strike me as peculiar that someone who lived by French literature should be so calamitously inadequate at making the basic words of the language sound as they did when her subjects , her heroes ( her paymasters , too , you could say ) first pronounced them .
23 In March 1886 Joseph Chamberlain , as President of the Local Government Board , responded by issuing a circular to local authorities urging them to schedule necessary public works for periods of depression , and to co-operate with the Poor Law by providing paid , non-pauperizing work for those who applied for poor relief due to temporary unemployment .
24 It is given in translation here as a tribute to a brave man who fought under British leadership for the freedom of his country .
25 Those who fought for political control after James V 's death , therefore , were fighting for far more than personal position .
26 I thank those who fought for that gift and who built the lasting institutions of NATO and the European Community from the ruins of 1945 .
27 In many ways the stimulus for this came not from the miners but from the wool and worsted textile workers who fought against further wage reductions in 1925 .
28 He is seen as a philosopher who passed through logical positivism ( which he largely created with his early work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus ) to a position more sympathetic towards religious language as outlined in his later Philosophical Investigations .
29 The President invited the Representative of the Trustees , , who announced of Southern Division ( tutor ) as the winner .
30 to distrain by their lands and chattels all those who shared in that liberty , and have lands within the bounds of the disafforested districts , to contribute towards the payment of the 200 marks to the King , in proportion to the lands they had in the said district , and the advantage they gained from the disafforestment .
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