Example sentences of "who [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She knew that the Bogeyman was a huge bat-like creature who lived in dark corners and feasted on the blood of ungrateful and disobedient children . |
| 10 | However , he became embittered with age , losing his fine looks and noble habits , and becoming a surly , cob-webbed ghost who lived in dark caves . |
| 11 | A great aunt , who was also pious , but who lived in manorial comfort , provides by contrast the most immaculate portrait of respected ageing : |
| 12 | For Schroder-Sonnenstern , who lived in psychiatric institutions from 1919 onwards , drawing was a means of communicating with the world . |
| 13 | Another man who lived in modest circumstances was Thomas Harington of Ridlington , a non-landowner with only £7 in goods ; yet he must have been related to the squire , John Harington the younger , whose servant he was . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Peters ' article on Bedouin families contains information about who lived in particular camps , leading him to suggest that ‘ the core ’ of a camp was not a male head of tent-hold , but his mother ( Peters , 1965 ) . |
| 16 | Many Armenians who lived in Turkish Armenia never spoke their own language . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | According to former Tangier refugees like Pubi Rosenbaum , who lived until recent years in New York , and George Wertheimer of Madrid , Samuel was entrusted with considerable sums of money and jewellery from his orthodox brethren in Vienna and Hungary which he left in various strategic places for safekeeping . |
| 21 | This can only be done , of course , with authors who lived within modern categorizations of sexuality — but that period , after all , does include the entire history of the cinema . |
| 22 | I was always the one who argued for equal ages at Ladymont . |
| 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 | For Spengler , democracy was a sham and parliament a front for external forces who ruled by other means . |
| 25 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 26 | The Soviet authorities presented it to those in the Royal Navy and merchant service who operated in Russian waters during the war . |
| 27 | It is given in translation here as a tribute to a brave man who fought under British leadership for the freedom of his country . |
| 28 | Those who fought for political control after James V 's death , therefore , were fighting for far more than personal position . |
| 29 | And McAvennie , 32 , who laid on Dalian Atkinson 's Villa goal to rock the Saints , says : ‘ Ron had better sign me before I fade away completely . |
| 30 | 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 . |