Example sentences of "those [Wh pn] had [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Almost at once , those who had most favoured the change start squealing .
2 And then Lord Pugh distributed the hands of the dead to those who had most distinguished themselves — to be wrought upon patiently over many years in their cells with scrimshaw designs .
3 Some transactions were conducted with honest customers but the object of the exercise was to recover stolen property for the owners and obtain evidence against those who had either stolen or dishonestly handled it .
4 This was to ensure that , as far as possible , the teachers in the sample included only those who had either experienced the entire process of review , reporting and feedback or who had at least been involved in the review component .
5 Not only in large population centres but also in the countryside and small towns , those who had traditionally exercised power found themselves confronted , whether in newly constituted local councils or in the workplace , with a more open and popular style of politics and a more assertive lower class .
6 1989 ) we asked those who had just adopted children whether they would be prepared or willing to accept or consider adoption with contact .
7 I spoke to as many reinforcements as I possibly could , especially those who had just arrived from Achnacarry .
8 Another call — sometimes from those who had just sung the Internationale — was : ‘ Freedom — the West ! ’
9 The main agreements included a comprehensive general amnesty offered by the Rwandan government to all refugees which , subsequent to a ceasefire , would be extended to all those who had allegedly committed acts against the state .
10 Nowadays , the only noble families who sent sons to the Valiance Redoubt were those who had formerly espoused faiths other than Ixmarity and were now , under the ever-expanding rule of the Church , so impoverished by Ixmaritian tithes they were desperate to offload children in any direction .
11 It was a triumph for all that was best and most enlightened in British life ; a triumph for those who had preached equal justice between peoples ; a triumph for those who had courageously denounced the harshness and short-sightedness of Versailles .
12 Seventy-two per cent of those who had previously worked were currently unemployed as a direct result of their heroin use : 17 were dismissed for continual lateness and/or absenteeism ; two were dismissed for theft from work to finance their habit ; two lost their jobs when they were imprisoned for burglary or possession of heroin ; one was dismissed after two years of illness related to his drug use ; and one went bankrupt trying to support his habit .
13 In short , the single most significant factor in the unemployed status of those who had previously worked had been their use of heroin .
14 Of those who had previously worked , the reasons given for their current unemployed state were as follows : short-term MSC contract , or redundancy , 36 per cent ; dismissal because of lateness , etc. , due to heroin use , 23 per cent ; imprisonment , 14 per cent ; collapse of business , 9 per cent ; pregnancy , 9 per cent ; boredom with job , 9 per cent .
15 It was certainly good to read that so many people had never felt healthier or had more energy ; and I was gratified to hear from those who had previously attempted to diet but without success that this diet had worked for them .
16 Perhaps half of those who had previously voted for the middle-class parties now voted for the NSDAP .
17 Those who had previously taken six catches in a match are : M.C. Cowdrey ( v WI , Lord 's 1963 ) , A.W .
18 Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood .
19 The immediate costs to the United States would have been political , the main gainers being the major gold producers — South Africa and the USSR and those who had previously speculated against the dollar by demanding gold .
20 Thus , the Gundovald affair highlights the dangers posed by magnates caught in three different situations : by those who were unsure of their position at court , those who had already fallen from royal favour , and those whose royal patron had been killed .
21 Those who had already received the carapace and graduated to the status of probationer-superhumanity were elsewhere in the galaxy fighting as terror troops .
22 But , however this may be , the pope proceeded to the practical consequences of the new state of affairs : those who had already received lay investiture , or done homage , or consecrated others who had received lay investiture , were absolved ; for the future , those who received ecclesiastical preferment and did homage to the king could be consecrated , provided that they had not received investiture at the king 's hands ; and this was to continue until the heart of the king was softened by the rain of Anselm 's preaching .
23 It was difficult to tell if those who had already risen were trying to help their fellows , or if those still recumbent were actually pulling the feistier ones back down , into the grave .
24 However , high interest rates in 1989 and 1990 brought about a sharp reduction in sales , and some of those who had already bought their houses found themselves in financial difficulty .
25 So the literary set , many of them agnostic or hostile to religion , ranged behind Lord David , while those who had already committed themselves , together with those who esteemed him as a scholar , voted for E. K. Chambers .
26 On the examinations front , those publishers who had left undone titles for certain examinations are now doing them , while those who had already produced titles for the same examinations are producing more .
27 Those who had somehow violated the bond of trust , friendship , loyalty — for reasons they may not always be able to discern — could find themselves suddenly and inexplicably cast out into the cold .
28 The final version was more stringent than the original proposals , broadening the criteria for screening to ban those who had simply collaborated with the StB ( Security Service ) .
29 Improvisation and improvements came slowly , from those who had also suffered .
30 The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules , to replace those who had used them , to disguise themselves so as to pervert them , invert their meaning , and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them … so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules .
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