Example sentences of "who [was/were] [vb pp] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A broad middle section of self-employed tradesmen formed the backbone of this urban society , but nearly 50 per cent of those who were taxed were dependent on their wages and were likely to be reduced to poverty in times of depression . |
| 2 | The four men who were killed were sent on a murder mission . |
| 3 | Moreover , its existence was completely at odds with the national trend for community care , since patients who were referred were brought to a location quite remote from the area in which they had lived . |
| 4 | The formative years of many of the elderly who were surveyed was a ti-me of popular demand for greater equality . |
| 5 | It was true that some of the team who were sent were among those who were most experienced in the use of the gifts of the Spirit , but others soon emerged to take their place in the mother church . |
| 6 | The fact that a significant number of the independents who were elected were DLP sympathizers who had failed to secure party endorsement as candidates , meant that most observers expected Roh to be able to construct a working majority within the new Assembly . |
| 7 | Among those who were defeated were Gao Dai , editor of the People 's Daily , and Deng Liqun , who , as a member of the party 's central advisory commission , had acquired huge influence following the Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 8 | for example , BBC Television on the evening of the 11 July Day of Action , and the papers next morning , were full of pictures of injured policemen , but the pickets who were injured were hardly mentioned , although among them was a man who had had an epileptic fit , a woman who had collapsed at the rear entrance to the factory and two Yorkshire miners who had to be carried away by their friends . |
| 9 | None of the 120 children aged under 6 who were tested were seropositive but the true prevalence could be as high as 2.5% ( the upper limit of the 95% confidence interval ) . |
| 10 | Values in patients taking NSAIDs who were colonised were not different from control subjects . |
| 11 | He planned to acquire one of the Agricultural Project smallholdings , and although he was not eligible , he had some hopes since those who were qualified were not applying . |
| 12 | One would like very often to have more erm people involved in decision making , but they simply do n't have the time to inform themselves and one or two experiments in the kind of democracy you might Brian might have had in mind , came to horrible grief where decisions were taken simply uninformed and where the small number of people present who were informed were n't able to persuade the majority and the history of education is littered with them most unfortunate examples of this . |
| 13 | The only people ( or so I thought ) who were miffed were the council members of the European Athletic Association , steeped in their protocol . |
| 14 | Two rebel leaders who were arrested were named as Mohammed Abdoulaye , Minister in charge of State Enterprises until December 1989 , and Mohammed Ahmoundou a former adviser in the President 's Office . |
| 15 | It is true that the elections resulted in a House fairly evenly balanced between the two parties , but the fact that the elections came to be fought over the issue of the Church in Danger meant that those Tories who were returned were in no mood for compromise , with the result that the new House proved extremely difficult for the ministry to manage . |
| 16 | Among seven who were recaptured was Carlos Pino Molina who , together with Luis Melo Mendoza , was granted unconditional freedom by a judge one week later on grounds of lack of evidence for the case against them . |
| 17 | The few AEs who were distracted were unsuited to their roles in any case . |
| 18 | One study of women whose pregnancies had run to 41 weeks or more showed that those who were induced were less likely to have a Caesarian . |
| 19 | The man who was killed was one of three people who attacked a crew from the international television news agency , Visnews , 50 yards from the Marines ' post at the airport entrance . |
| 20 | When Wilbur achieved this great win , the bitch who was invited was SA Ch. |
| 21 | The Parable of the Lost Son is much more involved but still follows the same principle that the son who was lost is found again . |
| 22 | Three gypsies were arrested but the police admit they may have to be released without charge , because no one who was injured is prepared to make a complaint . |
| 23 | This tearing of the curtain symbolised that the God who was hidden is now revealed to all people . |
| 24 | The young man who was hanged was a special friend of Claudia . |
| 25 | Neighbours in Walford Road , Stoke Newington , said they did not hear any shooting but told of screaming and said the face of one of the men who was arrested was bloody and bruised . |