Example sentences of "who [was/were] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past did people really deny support to relatives who were in no position to reciprocate , or at least who seemed unlikely to be able to do so ? |
| 2 | Does he not realise the bitterness of the steelworkers who were in no way consulted ? |
| 3 | The membership was to include appropriate volunteers who had knowledge of ‘ education and of other conditions affecting young persons ’ , and who were in a position to advise the exchanges . |
| 4 | that the defendant took care to inform himself , from others who were in a position to provide the information , as to whether the deposit would constitute an offence and had no reason to suppose that the information given to him was false or misleading ; |
| 5 | This gave them little time to develop influence where it mattered , but also meant that the Supreme Soviet had a body of deputies holding important jobs who were in a position to be influential ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 177–81 ) . |
| 6 | Being concerned with gentlemen or noble persons , in other words those within the society who were in a position to act , Spenser directs his poem to make them aware both of dangers and responsibilities . |
| 7 | Quantitative limits were also thought to restrict competition as they hampered efficient banks who were in a position to create new deposits . |
| 8 | The NATO Secretary-General , Manfred Wörner , commented that " to see defence ministers who were in a sense at the heart of the Cold War confrontation sitting in a spirit of partnership around the same table is a remarkable and moving event " . |
| 9 | P C Raymond Hall was shot last November in North London when he tried to arrest Kelly and an accomplice who were in a lorry which was found to be packed with more than three tonnes of explosives . |
| 10 | Support staff , who were in a majority , were as a consequence involved in productive and creative dialogue with teachers and governors . |
| 11 | All four of Charles 's children who married were to do so by licence ; that suited two of them — Elizabeth in Frome and then Benjamin in London — who were in a bit of a hurry , but in Sarah 's case there was maybe a hint of Nonconformist protest against having banns read out in a church which she did not attend . |
| 12 | There had been a recent incident involving my younger brother , Russell , who had been at a party and on his way home been accosted by a group of men that he knew , who were in a car . |
| 13 | The Cadders , who were in a hire car with their two young sons , were the only witnesses . |
| 14 | Er but er and , and the they negotiated er a payment er for working in these er cold conditions for the men who were in the machine shop . |
| 15 | We then p positioned ourselves further into the room er P C obviously was still with me behind the shield erm once we 'd got ourselves in a in a better position , as far as we were concerned , P C then started talking to the people , erm who were in the bed . |
| 16 | Another criticism of this study is that the authors only differentiated very generally between first and second generation Asian and Afro-Caribbeans without discussing the implications of mixing them together in the study , potentially masking important differences in the rates of schizophrenia between the two , and leaving an unclear picture as to whether second generation Asians , who were in the minority , benefited in the same way from the postulated protective factors . |
| 17 | But er it , it , it er it appears to have been overlooked that , erm some of the directors who were in the bracket in nineteen eighty eight of two hundred and thirty thousand to two ninety five thousand have been increased from three hundred and fifty five thousand this year to a top of four hundred thousand . |
| 18 | Many people who were in the film are gone now , including one of the girls he used to dance with alot in those days . |
| 19 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 20 | In the same 1943 raid , Torquay was also bombed again and the deaf centre escaped with minor blast damage when a bomb fell on the St. Marychurch building a few yards up the road , killing 18 children who were in the building . |
| 21 | The observations invariably show that the risk of dying before reaching the end of the first year of life is higher for infants born to mothers who were closer to the lower and upper limits of the reproductive period than to those who were in the prime of their childbearing ages . |
| 22 | And they who were in the ships , fled to Denia . |
| 23 | In the UK all Iraqis were from Jan. 19 required to have visas to enter the country , and strict registration procedures were laid down for Iraqis who were in the UK on limited leave ; as of Jan. 29 , out of 101 Iraqis detained since the beginning of the year 42 ( together with seven Palestinians ) were currently in detention awaiting deportation , 21 had left or had been deported and three had been released ; 35 serving members of the Iraqi armed forces were being held in military custody . |
| 24 | Stirling 's old troop from No. 8 Commando had been absorbed by the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards who were in the desert at a place called Bug Bug , from where Johnny Cooper was recruited . |
| 25 | It was railway workers who were in the vanguard of the protest , worried about job losses and safety , but Middle England was also on the march , concerned that services might suffer , polls indicate that four out of five voters oppose the sell off . |
| 26 | At the Westminster election of 1698 , for example , 300 horsemen who were in the service of the Court Whigs , James Vernon and Charles Montagu , charged at their opponents in Tothill fields , and cudgelled them into nearby ditches . |
| 27 | As Lord Bridge of Harwich said : ‘ I was one of those who were in the majority at the conclusion of the first hearing of this appeal in holding that s 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , construed by conventional criteria , supported the assessments to income tax made by the Revenue on the appellants … |
| 28 | My Lords , I was one of those who were in the majority at the conclusion of the first hearing of this appeal in holding the opinion that section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , construed by conventional criteria , supported the assessments to income tax made by the revenue on the appellants which had been upheld by Vinelott J. and the Court of Appeal . |
| 29 | Most of the people who were in the street at that time would have been in one or other of the pubs , but do n't forget that the harbour is full of craft of all sorts and there are sure to have been people aboard some of them . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've never known anything like it : over two hundred interviews with people who were in the street , mostly in the pubs , at some time between nine and eleven on the night and nobody saw or heard a damn thing . |