Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So people who were generally in the big box knew about it ? |
| 2 | During my travels across the Siberian Steppes , some years ago , I chanced upon a team of Russian palaeontologists , who were clearly in a state of heightened exuberance . |
| 3 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 4 | Ever since his time as a medical student , he had been drawn towards women who were higher up the career ladder , revelling in both the challenge and the reflected glory when he succeeded . |
| 5 | On the other hand when the Goigama made money payments in return for services or labour it was always to people who were right outside the system such as shopkeepers or Tamil labourers hired on a casual basis . |
| 6 | But he had to release his hold on her mouth as he dragged her up the stairs , so she screamed at Agnes and her mother , who were already on the stairhead , ‘ He 's killed him ! |
| 7 | Moynihan and his growing body of supporters ridiculed this proposal , and many commentators felt that the administration would find it very difficult to reject Moynihan 's demand for an immediate social security tax cut ( which would benefit all citizens ) whilst pursuing a reduction in capital gains tax which would be of chief benefit to those who were already among the most wealthy . |
| 8 | The resultant backlash of unwelcome public attention forced the Government , who were already in a legislative frame of mind , to act swiftly . |
| 9 | On the other hand , when the amount produced is such that the demand price is less than the supply price , sellers receive less than is sufficient to make it worth their while to bring goods to market on that scale ; so that those who were just on the margin of doubt as to whether to go on producing are decided not to do so , and there is an active force at work tending to diminish the amount brought forward for sale . |
| 10 | Laura 's parents , Fran and Les Davies , who were also at the news conference , said they did not know how much the next operation would cost . |
| 11 | The policeman on crossing duty had taken the 30 runners ' numbers : ‘ We are checking numbers with race officials who were also near the crossing and the runners involved will be interviewed with a view to prosecution , ’ Sergeant Lawton said . |
| 12 | His fiancee Maureen Savage , 35 , and her two sons , aged 17 and nine , who were also in the car , had minor injuries . |
| 13 | Two off-duty prison officers who were also in the minibus were beaten up and then released , but three others who escaped claimed that they had been unable to get help from a nearby police and Army checkpoint . |
| 14 | Mannaia seem to have taken care to propose people who were indeed from the active lineages but who lived in Tazarbu , and were therefore not personally involved in the conflict with Awlad Amira : while insisting on the principle of unrelenting solidarity , they tacitly mitigated the provocation by proposing candidates who had themselves not been active in the dispute . |
| 15 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 16 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |
| 17 | The three pirates who were still on the island did not trouble us . |
| 18 | He was solid , scientific , conscious in all his creating , learning his art from masters who were still in the youth of artistic development , his whole work shows a progress towards an ideal which the trammels of Gothic tradition never left him free to attain without a struggle . |
| 19 | On the other hand , there are what might be termed the ‘ recreational ’ users , those who were still in the ‘ experimental ’ stage . |
| 20 | In 1985 in Washington DC I was responsible for the security co-ordination of eleven prime ministers and twenty other Conservative party leaders from around the world who were there for the International Democrat Union Party Leaders ' meeting . |
| 21 | If one regards the benefit in this light I can not see that the cost incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of the benefit , can properly be held to include the cost incurred , in any event , in providing education to fee paying pupils at the school who were there as a right in return for the fees paid in respect of them . |
| 22 | ‘ We have a number of differing accounts from the people who were there at the time . |
| 23 | The Society has displayed confidence in the contributors by printing their nostalgic talk verbatim and the result is a fascinating account of the town in the earlier part of this century , through the voices of the men and women who were there at the time . |
| 24 | But all the radical social workers who were there on a political and class base were asking the most difficult questions I have ever heard , saying ‘ We 're not here to service the medical profession . |
| 25 | His pride was shared by the rest of the family who were there in the front pews behind them — Hana , with little Jitka in her arms , Uncle Mick , who looked so much older all of a sudden , Carmella , who was much the same , but Joey had lost a lot of his old sunny quality and slumped sullenly in his place . |
| 26 | A traveller or two , pedlars and shepherds , were persuaded to join the few hundred who were there by the weight of glowering disapproval from dozens of faces when they showed signs of passing by . |
| 27 | ‘ Around that time there were an awful lot of white guys who were deeply into the blues . |
| 28 | But for those other people who were actually at the meeting agreed Didcot are not considering this step . |
| 29 | Before we go on to keep the , to look at the minutes and for the young people who were actually on the weekend in . |
| 30 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |