Example sentences of "who [vb past] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the ICF who realised that looking casual allowed them to travel in large numbers and remain undetected by the police . |
| 2 | He quotes Kettle ( 1982 ) who argued that according to the Home Office , 50 per cent of the population of Ashford remand centre were black , and for Brixton and Aylesbury prisons , remand prisoners were between 25 per cent and 35 per cent black . |
| 3 | Men who reported that talking with their closest friend or relative made things worse had 29% and 40% higher rates of short and long spells of absence , respectively , compared with those who reported positive support from this person . |
| 4 | This finding conflicts with those of Bransford and Johnson ( 1972 ) and Dooling and Mullett ( 1973 ) who found that providing information about the theme or context of a passage after it had been presented did not improve performance , and so concluded that such information only affected the organisation carried out when the passage was memorised . |
| 5 | Homeopathy , used by the Royal Family for generations , was discovered in the 1800s by German physician Samuel Hahnemann who found that treating like with like The Law of Similars worked . |
| 6 | Statements in favour of the ‘ freedom of the press ’ and the ‘ freedom to publish ’ — from Milton 's Areopagitica of 1644 onwards — were , therefore , intended as replies to those who maintained that granting the press its freedom would pose threats to the stability of the state . |
| 7 | A BRITISH tourist who vanished while sight-seeing in South Africa was found dead in a ravine yesterday . |
| 8 | A BRITISH tourist who vanished while sight-seeing in South Africa was found dead in a ravine yesterday . |
| 9 | A post mortem examination on an Oxford University student , who collapsed while training for next month 's boat race , has revealed he died fron natural causes . |
| 10 | The financial constraints on Ayr racecourse are reflected in much-reduced prize-money for today 's Scottish Champion Hurdle , which features a rematch between Fidway , fourth in the Champion Hurdle , and Granville Again , who fell when challenging at the second-last . |
| 11 | It 's only a thought , but is it possible that the person who threw the carton of orange juice and 50p piece at Morrissey at the Madness ( Madness , not Morrissey ) gig was not some National Front yob but someone who felt that draping oneself in a Union Jack — still , like it or not , a symbol of racism — is itself racist ? |
| 12 | The IEHO is calling for the strengthening and extension of existing legislation , a move supported by Mr Mayled , who felt that making the HSC guidelines law was the only way to improve standards across the board . |
| 13 | I expect you read about the girl who disappeared while staying in his villa in Rhodes . |
| 14 | " In memory of Ian David Plant " , a plaque reads above the pothole , " a fine caver who died while diving Bull Pot of the Witches , 14 October 1985 " . |
| 15 | Those who died while protecting the Lithuanian parliament from Soviet tanks and the ‘ black beret ’ crack troops were hardly imagining a great role for Lithuania in world councils : they just wanted their country to run its own affairs without foreign domination , which they have now achieved . |
| 16 | In Bateman ( 1925 ) , where a doctor had attended the confinement of a woman who died whilst giving birth , the Court of Criminal Appeal held that there must be negligence over and above that which is sufficient to establish civil liability , and which shows ‘ such disregard for the life and safety of others ’ as to deserve punishment . |
| 17 | Tucholsky once remarked that there were people who thought that staying in an elegant hotel made them elegant themselves . |
| 18 | The Spanish were sometimes justified in thinking that a pirate base was precisely what English companies had in mind ; in the 1630s the providence Island Company was set up by determined Protestants who thought that plundering Catholic ships would be rewarded in this world and the next , though other Englishmen , who settled informally on the east coast of central America , were concerned with felling trees and exporting logwood as a dye-stuff . |
| 19 | This concern was voiced most publicly in November 1985 by Lord Stockton , the former Conservative Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan , who complained that selling off state assets was similar to a family ‘ selling off its silver ’ , and questioned what would happen when none was left . |
| 20 | When he arrived at Manly beach with a board he had carved out of sugar pine , many were those who said that riding a wave on a board was pure myth , a legend of the South Seas brought back by drunken sailors . |
| 21 | Both came near success , but , in the end , were defeated by those in the US Administration , who believed fervently in the preservation of the American monopoly , and who considered that sharing with Britain constituted too great a risk to American security . |
| 22 | The attitude adopted by North was criticized by Judge Harold Greene who suggested that questioning the witness was " like drawing teeth " . |