Example sentences of "who [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of Leuchars mountain rescue team , who were on an exercise in the area , went to his aid and moved him to an area accessible for the helicopter . |
| 2 | Wolfgang Rosch , the deputy commander of the Leipzig worker 's militia , which had been out in force during recent demonstrations , admitted that members ‘ had the same concerns as the people who were on the streets ’ . |
| 3 | I have seen in my own area where wee lads who were on the border line of going one way or another regarding life in Northern Ireland , ending up getting jobs and doing great for a year and at the end of the year just thrown back onto the dole and people have lost interest in them again . |
| 4 | The Nuclear Test Veterans Association has been fighting for 10 years to get compensation for British servicemen who were on the Pacific islands when the tests took place in the 1950s . |
| 5 | The two men were waiting for Gesner , the production manager , and the two members of the Gemeinderat who were on the theatre committee . |
| 6 | They brought out large packs of cigarettes — then rationed — and shared them out among the men who were on the road watching . |
| 7 | So anyway , at Khabarovsk we were eating ice-cream — there were always ice-cream sellers on the platform — and I was taking pictures of David and sneaking pictures of the soldiers who were on the platform with us but , unfortunately , they caught us at it . |
| 8 | And then that one conservative who did go and do it , he swapped places with people who were on the dole , and he went and lived up in Newcastle . |
| 9 | This must seem like bliss to those who were on the rack for much of the last three years . |
| 10 | This is fighting talk , and suggests his fond memories of Maurras and the Action Française , but it was only talk — perhaps it was Eliot 's way of enlivening what he thought to be the muted tone of discussion in England ; perhaps it was also a method of inspiring his colleagues at the Moot whom he called " companions in affliction " , intellectuals or refugees who were on the periphery of events to which there was no foreseeable end . |
| 11 | Ken 's friendships and the way he established them continued to surprise those who were on the periphery of his activities . |
| 12 | The people who were on the radio when I first got into listening were really fine singers , people like Perry Como , Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby , but good as they were , they did n't inspire me to be like them . |
| 13 | But then , as Blackstone pointed out , the opinion gained ground that it would be to the advantage of trade , and of creditors in general , if debtors outside the scope of the bankruptcy laws who were on the point of insolvency could also surrender their property for the benefit of their creditors , and in return be protected from legal process . |
| 14 | Some who were on the list contested their placing and felt ‘ it was unreasonable that they had lost out in the advertisement race ’ . |
| 15 | The DPP , which wants an independent Taiwan and unlike the KMT harbours no dreams about the mainland , sees itself as representing the majority of the Taiwanese , who were on the island long before the mainland influx of the late 1940s . |
| 16 | The imprisoned Mr Mandela has met in recent months more than a dozen of the chieftains and assorted dignitaries — his Xhosa wife , Winnie , among them - who were on the podium . |
| 17 | Managers have been chosen by the old boy network , recommendations from people who were on the boards of charities . |
| 18 | And you had get the two people who were at the back , you have to get them out before you landed because when you when you brought the flaps up if they were still in this little bay you would squash them to death and one day his dials showed that he had , in fact , squashed them to death ! |
| 19 | During the days I go and see my friends , most of the people who were at the hotel at the same time as I was have been moved up here . |
| 20 | I appreciate that this view is somewhat unfashionable and would gain little support from the majority of teachers who were at the centre of the disruptions of recent years . |
| 21 | ‘ Whilst Irvine , ’ he remarked , ‘ could have had his throat cut by any member of Queen Margaret 's household except for four ; you and I who were at the convent , and Catesby and Melford who were in Nottingham . |
| 22 | There are still one or two people we 've got to see who were at the Muddington dance , notably a lad called Barry Taylor who has some explaining to do . |
| 23 | I suppose that I was influenced by the exploits of the great test pilots of the day , people like Peter Twiss , Neville Duke and John Derry , who were at the time just coming to grips with high-speed flight and what was called the ‘ sound-barrier ’ . |
| 24 | The legal charge was executed by the Hammonds , who were at the time transferees under a transfer executed by Mrs. Steed as attorney for the registered proprietor . |
| 25 | Most casualties ( 46% ) recorded involved people who were at the time of the incident standing in buses , but it is not always clear from the recorded data whether the passengers were standing due to the vehicle 's seating capacity being fully utilised or were on their feet moving towards a seat or the bus exit . |
| 26 | Back for Swansea are Mark Titley , Scott Gibbs and Simon Davies , who were at the Hong Kong Sevens with the Barbarians last week and missed the Schweppes Cup tie against Dunvant . |
| 27 | With a political prisoner escaped , all of us who were at the City of the Horizon must come under increased scrutiny . ’ |
| 28 | The collections indicated a wider hidden culture of support for ‘ the lads ’ who were at the forefront of the battle to restore national unity , in addition to the much smaller party political support they enjoyed in the South . |
| 29 | But while they gave support and commitment , it was lesbians who were at the forefront of change when the Girls ' Work Movement came to life in the late seventies and early eighties . |
| 30 | Harmsworth was one of many — others include Marconi and the pioneers of the film industry — who were at the forefront of what Briggs has called ‘ the development of the mass entertainment industry ’ at the turn of the century . |