Example sentences of "who [vb past] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mohamed Ali was a ruthless figure who realised that to exploit his effective autonomy as ruler of Egypt , in the face of the growing power of Europe in particular , he would have to modernise his country . |
| 2 | It was the ICF who realised that looking casual allowed them to travel in large numbers and remain undetected by the police . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This was firmly denied by the Committee , both before and after publication , who argued that to urge a change in the law was not necessarily to approve or endorse homosexual behaviour . |
| 5 | The appeals were opposed by Robert Harman QC , who argued that to have allowed the Press to stay in court , subject to a postponement order , for the disputed hearing would have served only to satisfy the ‘ inquisitiveness ’ of Old Bailey journalists . |
| 6 | It was impossible to tell the age of the man who owned that face , what he had looked like five minutes ago , or even that that was the face of a man . |
| 7 | I 'm a descendant of the same family who owned that house we passed . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These were the people who used that experience to free themselves from intellectual slavery to any party , but who did not lose the innocence of faith in the human capacity to change the world for the better . |
| 10 | Our results are in agreement with those of thers who found that activated and non-activated macrophages and granulocytes relax vascular smooth muscle by release of NO that is synthesised from L-arginine by a stereospecific enzyme , NO synthase . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Woe betide anyone who moved that bar forward without first indenting on stores . |
| 15 | The Bethnal Greeners of the 1950s who believed that to live together was an invitation to ‘ open conflict ’ belonged to a long tradition . |
| 16 | The Court 's decision was largely influenced by the evidence of a psychologist who claimed that to award custody or access to the grandmother would diminish the child 's prospect of developing ‘ a balanced personality ’ . |
| 17 | I have never met anyone who heard that broadcast , but the Indian superintendent and I felt we had seen the job through to the end . |
| 18 | His value was partly to bewilder those Americans who felt that to dilute hard liquor with tonic water or soda was in some way unmanly . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The city has always had a crowd who knew that to get anything out you have to put something back — from Tokyo Joe 's at the end of the Eighties , through the larger clubs you mentioned such as Base and Joy , to Sugarsweet at present . |
| 22 | The salary paid to the collector by the county for his efforts to extract the cess from the taxpayers , moreover , was sufficient to stimulate competition for the post , and the attraction was enough on occasion to cause severe embarrassment to county politicians , who feared that support for one candidate would lead to the permanent alienation of his rivals and their friends . |
| 23 | Tucholsky once remarked that there were people who thought that staying in an elegant hotel made them elegant themselves . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You 'd have er there 's somebody on yesterday who said that thinks it should er it should be against the law to cut a tree down . |
| 28 | Buzz 's views on psychiatry were well known : psychiatrists were ‘ trick-cyclists ’ , not to be taken seriously , people who said that grown men were in love with their mothers : disgusting . |
| 29 | Has my right hon. Friend noticed the remarks of Sir Brian Corby , the president of the CBI , who said that to sign the social charter would be an act of remarkable lunacy ? |
| 30 | Dulcie Howes , who wrote that comment to me , had told the Cape Town critic Denis Hatfield at the time that John would never really be a dancer but that he had ‘ such a remarkable eye for balletic pattern , an imagination so vivid , and such an ear for music in relation to movement ’ that she was certain he would make a choreographer . |