Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headmaster of a school in Tazarbu lived with his father who was doorman in the same school . |
| 2 | Bob Stokes , who was coach of the side when they last won the trophy ( under the guise of Whitburn ) has since been to the final on six occasions ( with Whitburn and Team Scottish Farm ) and lost every time . |
| 3 | Who was Paul Revere ? |
| 4 | There was some , who was Paul 's father ? |
| 5 | ‘ Who was Rosie ? ’ |
| 6 | In the following April John II , fearing that the dauphin , Charles , who was duke of Normandy , was plotting against him with members of the Navarrese party and others , went secretly to Rouen and , as the dauphin was entertaining his guests to dinner , arrested some and had them led away to immediate execution . |
| 7 | That 's the scathing view of Riddick Bowe — the next challenger for Evander Holyfield 's world crown — who was ringside for Lewis 's fourth-round victory over outweighed and outclassed American Mike Dixon here yesterday . |
| 8 | William Clark , who was press adviser to Anthony Eden during his premiership , wrote , while under sentence of death from the cancer of which he died last year , a book of mémoires d'outre tombe in the unconventional yet quite literal sense of that description . |
| 9 | After a few seconds ' thought I realised that she meant their President , that is the former General who was dictator with the continuing consent of their other commanders . |
| 10 | But instead of setting about matters in a straightforward way and asking Marko if he would sell him the ram , or let him have it as a gift-which Marko might well have done , for he was a good-natured young man-the king asked the advice of his prime minister Milosu , who was Marko 's uncle . |
| 11 | But in 1348 the Earl of Arundel , who was Warenne 's sister 's husband and sole legitimate heir , petitioned the king to revoke this agreement , for it would ‘ disinherit the petitioner of his right to premises which should descend to him in the event of the death of the earl … without lawful heir . |
| 12 | Women 's participation as combatants is less marked than in other work , although there are renowned women in important military positions , such as Comandante Ana Guadalupe Martinez , a highly skilled urban combatant who has now become a member of the FDR Political Diplomatic Commission and the late Comandante Ana Maria , who was second-in-command of the FPL . |
| 13 | Her republican sympathies brought her into direct conflict with her brother Sir John French , who was viceroy , but they were reconciled before he died in 1925 . |
| 14 | ‘ Who was Ian White ? ’ |
| 15 | Egidius was certainly hostile to the dux Lupus , who was Brunhild 's favourite . |
| 16 | Sir Stephen Fox , who was Member of Parliament for Sarum and served as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury for both King Charles II and William 111 , from 1665 until his death in 1716 , bought the copyhold , in 1682 , or thereabouts , of an estate north-west of Corney House ( on the river front of Old Chiswick ) and behind the first Earl of Burlington 's mansion in Chiswick , and in 1691 he also acquired several acres on the west side of Chiswick Lane , where he sited a mansion with gardens , which he came known as Manor Farm House . |
| 17 | Robinson , who was England B coach with Alan Davies until both were dumped in the summer , reluctantly accepts he is fighting a lost cause : ‘ It is n't going to happen and the situation is beginning to get worrying . |
| 18 | In the 1974 Centenary history of Ballinary Church Sister Bettina Bridges quotes part of a letter written by the widow of the Reverend T McCord who was Minister of Derryall , Derranville , Ballinary and Cloncore in 1910 . |
| 19 | Mr. Redwood , who was Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities before the latest Cabinet re-shuffle , is an enthusiastic supporter of public and private partnerships in the rejuvenation of urban areas . |
| 20 | Busek , who was Minister of Science and Research in Vranitzky 's government and was seen as coming from the ÖVP 's progressive wing , won 325 votes against 252 for Bernhard Görg , an economist . |
| 21 | On Aug. 26 the Foreign and Expatriate Affairs Minister Faris Buwayz , son-in-law of President Elias Hrawi , and the Phalangist leader Saadeh , who was Minister of Telecommunications and Posts , resigned from the Cabinet . |
| 22 | Kathy Pitkin , who was child bride Fizz , has already left the screen . |
| 23 | She looked at Peter 's back — she had not , she observed , done a perfect job this week on ironing his surplice and old Miss Dunstable , who was Mistress of the Robes at the Cathedral , but lived in Loxford , would both notice this , and point it out — and wondered what would become of him . |
| 24 | He was running hand in hand with a girl who was Juliet or Felicity , but wearing Frances ' old white duffel coat . |
| 25 | The social standing of deaf people may also have in no small way been aided by the Princess of Wales ( later Queen Alexandra ) who was stone deaf and who used fingerspelling as well as lipreading to communicate . |
| 26 | The grandest moment in Kenilworth 's colourful history came when Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester , who was Elizabeth I 's favourite , built and furnished state rooms for her visits . |
| 27 | Who was Renoir |
| 28 | Eupolemus , who was Judas Maccabaeus ' envoy to Rome in 161 B.C. , composed a work in which one could read an exchange of letters between the twelve-year-old Solomon and his client kings Vaphres of Egypt and Suron of Tyre ( Eusebius , Praep . |
| 29 | Who was Osvaldo 's chief assistant these days , X. Ray or the Corporal ? |
| 30 | Who was Osvaldo 's rival ? |