Example sentences of "who were [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She joined Defries and Johannsen , who were vainly scanning the horizon for signs of life . |
| 2 | In their eyes , they were not refugees but legal inhabitants of Palestine who were illegally exiled . |
| 3 | And it was one that was admired far outside the sort of people who were generally believed to be ‘ Carry On ’ fans . |
| 4 | There was a relative abundance of recent information on the totemic beliefs of the supremely ‘ simple ’ hunting and gathering Australian Aborigines , who were generally regarded as , in Frazer 's phrase , ‘ humanity in the chrysalis stage ’ . |
| 5 | No distribution network in the world could have survived without damage the severe weather which struck that part of Britain in December 1990 , but the regional electricity company concerned , with help from other companies and from overseas , did what it could in the circumstances to connect those who were temporarily cut off . |
| 6 | The scale of his new responsibility was illustrated last week by two estate workers who were laboriously repairing a broken stretch of the eight-mile-long stone wall that surrounds Althorp . |
| 7 | The proportions of elderly people living in households who were neither living alone nor as a couple on their own fell by about half in the period 1961 to 1981 , so there is reduced scope for similar falls to occur in the future . |
| 8 | Moreover , some studies suggested that the crucial floating voters were not characterised by a high degree of interest , involvement , and knowledge , but by ignorance and indifference , and they were less involved in following the election campaign than were those who were keenly attached to a party . |
| 9 | In response , Baghdad maintained its attacks on Kurdish centres , sometimes making use of Sudanese mercenaries who were particularly hated by the Kurds . |
| 10 | I remember also the reaction of one or two of Ben 's older contemporaries , Constant Lambert and Patrick Hadley , who were particularly touched by this quartet when they first heard it at the dress rehearsal . |
| 11 | At our conference in November we had a roll call of five hundred and six G M B members who 'd ha who were either killed in work or had died from work-related disease since May nineteen seventy nine those who attended may recall the emotional er |
| 12 | While some senior policemen , like Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Kenneth Newman , wanted to stress the link between the police and other areas of ‘ social policy ’ ( Metropolitan Police , 1986 ) , the official government response attempted to decontextualize the riots and see them as the actions of a small minority who were either criminalized or influenced by extreme political ideas . |
| 13 | Some of the missioners were deaf themselves , but most of them were hearing people who were either related to someone deaf or with some other chance connection with deafness . |
| 14 | The notion of acquired distinctiveness was originally devised by theorists wedded to an associationist interpretation of all forms of learning ( Miller and Dollard ( 1941 ) , drawing heavily on the S-R theory of Hull ( e.g. 1939 ) ) , who were thus seen as offering an associative account of perceptual learning . |
| 15 | Free field audiometry was carried out preoperatively in only 25 children , who were thus excluded from the audiometric analysis . |
| 16 | These features for many whites were primarily associated with the arrival of black settlers , who were thus blamed for the problems . |
| 17 | Back in Plymouth he worked with J. N. Darby [ q.v. ] and became a leader of the newly formed community at Providence Chapel who were soon nicknamed ‘ Plymouth Brethren ’ . |
| 18 | Eventually this plan was abandoned in favour of a completely new church and , in Mr Dwyer 's own words : ‘ — while God was pouring out His Spirit and building His spiritual house , a spacious and attractive sanctuary was rising for the accommodation of worshippers who were soon to fill it with songs of praise . ’ |
| 19 | Let me see , there would be Mary and Ellen , two older daughters who were soon to move away , and then Neddy , Sidney , George , Dick , Sepp , and eventually Geoffrey . |
| 20 | It included a large force of Welsh infantry — soldiers who were soon to win a fearsome reputation for themselves . |
| 21 | the proletarian party must first of all advocate the proclamation and immediate realization of the complete freedom of secession from Russia of all the nations and peoples who were oppressed by Tsarism , or who were forcibly joined to or forcibly kept within the boundaries of the State . |
| 22 | The Ukrainian delegation offered to resettle in Ukraine the ethnic Germans who were forcibly deported from Ukraine during the Second World War . |
| 23 | Scholars assume that modern Basque derives from the original tongue of the Celtiberians , the ancient people of Spain who were eventually overcome by the Romans . |
| 24 | ’ The provision of the men who were eventually to take over responsibility for the management of an enterprise was regarded as a matter of making sure that enough young men entered business at the foot of the ladder , ’ wrote Falk of the old days . |
| 25 | Lost to a rich Jewish family who were eventually to die in the concentration camps after Hitler had promised to return the estate to his father for duties performed . |
| 26 | On Aug. 4 the Ciskei military forces were confronted on the borders of the bantustan by 30,000 protesters , who were eventually allowed to hold a rally within Ciskei , following negotiations with Brig. |
| 27 | THE lovely spring crocuses are almost as pretty as sisters Sarah and Samantha Barker , who were clearly enjoying a stroll among the early flowers making a colourful backdrop in Southend Avenue , Darlington yesterday . |
| 28 | Hollywood was full of ‘ nitwits ’ , ‘ bubble-heads ’ , ‘ airheads ’ , who were presumptuously marching on the nation 's capital to dictate policy . |
| 29 | Lads and lassies who were newly hired locally would be readily accepted when they turned up , looking for a bit of company and conversation . |
| 30 | THE jet-setting daughter of crooked publisher Robert Maxwell is showing few signs of curtailing her lavish lifestyle despite the plight of thousands of pensioners who were mercilessly robbed by her father . |