Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Efficiency about the house on the part of others always inspired wistful envy in Meredith who was efficient about the office and rather at sea about the home . |
| 2 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 3 | Cameron talked with Minerva , who was being magnanimously tolerant of her husband 's much-publicised affair with Nina Kenyon , and with Anne , who was well into the tertiary stage of her fourth marriage ( to Didier Bishopric , a society restaurateur ) and just back from the Betty Ford clinic after a spell of amphetamine dependency . |
| 4 | Was it because of Emmanuel Steele , who had his shoemaking shop between the Misses Cardings and the bakery and who was well into his forties , but apparently had no use for women , inasmuch as he did his own housework in the rooms above the shop , and ate most of his meals out . |
| 5 | But I wanted to be involved with a company who was well into the swing of tube amps and take it on from there , and so I started with Ampeg in 1990 . ’ |
| 6 | Simon , who was well on his way to becoming a millionaire through his dealings on the stock exchange , had leaned over his pleasant young wife to peer at his step-grandmother 's plate . |
| 7 | These included Thomas Attwood , a young English composer who took lessons with Mozart , an Irish tenor , Michael Kelly , who sang for four years at the imperial theatre , and became Mozart 's favourite billiards partner and drinking companion ; another composer , Stephen Storace , who had had two light operas produced in Vienna , and his sister Nancy ( Anna ) , who was principal soprano at the imperial theatre . |
| 8 | The five surviving freeholders included the dean of Windsor , Robert Dormer of Wing , who was one of the richest landowners in the county , and a lady who was principal proprietor of the hamlet of Horton in Ivinghoe , not the kind of tenants to yield to pressure to sell out , if pressure there was : most of the small landed families of 1522 were still there as customary tenants at the later date . |
| 9 | Matthew Truskett , who plays in the national youth orchestra , hopes to study music in a big way and become a violinist ; Janine Peacock , who was principal cellist in the national children 's orchestra , recently played solo in a concert at Stockton Parish Church ; and many others have won singing prizes . |
| 10 | The tallest deaf mute in 1890 was a Hugh McIntyre , a Scotsman living in Buenos Aires , Argentina , who was 7 feet 1 inches tall , and the smallest deaf mute was a man named West living on the Isle of Wight who was barely 3 feet tall . |
| 11 | Franklin , who was 18 years Gould 's senior , had established ‘ for the better class of colonists ’ a scientific society , the first of its kind in the colonies ( and later to become the Royal Society of Hobart Town ) and welcomed the ornithologist 's arrival with great enthusiasm . |
| 12 | The girl clearly missed having a woman around who was closer to her age than the rather stiff-faced servants who ran the great hacienda . |
| 13 | Barbara , who was uncertain what the Thirty-nine Articles were , patted his hand . |
| 14 | With time running out , another Bob Daynes surge down the right wing earned a corner for 'Mill , and it was Daynes himself who crossed the ball to pick out brother Peter who was unmarked in the penalty area to score with a thumping header into the roof of the net . |
| 15 | Gloucester scored three tries in six minutes and this was the best of them … it was made by a kick on from Cummins … the ball bounced perfectly for Jerry Perrins who was unmarked in the fast lane with a straight drive to the line to park the ball … |
| 16 | Although precise definitions are hard to come by , it is clear that they looked to some kind of ideal worker , that is , someone who was trustworthy , interested , intelligent , literate and numerate , full of initiative , and capable of mental and physical agility . |
| 17 | There was no way in the world that he would deliberately inflict on her a woman who was unsuitable to be her mother . |
| 18 | Socialist Worker , edited by Paul Foot , was a passable imitation of the Daily Mirror , and the International Marxist Group 's Socialist Challenge was edited by the imaginative and talented former student revolutionary leader Tariq Ali , who was 100 per cent Right-On . |
| 19 | For the Roman catholic social teaching of the day laid down certain things as of natural law which anyone who was reasonable and honest was supposed to be able to recognize . |
| 20 | Canon Claude Rutter , who was rural dean of Sherborne for eleven years and is now the diocese 's Rural Link Officer , agrees with him . |
| 21 | The butcher , who was gentle and warmhearted in spite of the cruel bloodstains on his boater , loaded her basket free with bones for the dog and offered to show her the mysteries of his store room where , shaggy with frost , the sides of meat hung in refrigerated darkness . |
| 22 | The derogatory phrase ‘ he 's not a real polis ; he 'll never be a polis as long as he 's got a hole in his arse ’ quickly set out markers to define who was one of us and who was not . |
| 23 | Roger Blyth , chairman of the Swansea selectors who was one of Saturday 's touch judges , said : ‘ I did n't see the incident but it 's quite obvious that the bloke was cut from contact with a boot . |
| 24 | What we did n't realise at the time was that one of the main reasons that Malcolm was so keen on John was that he was so like Richard Hell — who was one of Malcolm s mates in New York . |
| 25 | Her mother , she thought with a most annoying pride , who was one of the few genuinely creative women scientists around and in whose success , were it anyone except her mother 's , she would be rejoicing . |
| 26 | Equally productive , though somewhat more sophisticated , was James Williamson , a former portrait photographer and lanternist who was one of a group of filmmakers gathered in Brighton . |
| 27 | Hence the community of subsequently famous musicians ( the Amadeus Quartet , Egon Wellesz , Peter Stadlen ) , architects ( Bruno Ahrends , Schwitters ) , scholars ( Richard Friedenthal , Stefan Zweig 's literary executor ) , and above all , perhaps , Eugen Spier , who was one of the moving political and industrial spirits behind British anti-Nazism throughout the 1930s , and was imprisoned for two years in spite of very high level representations ( another Official Secret never explained ) . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most famous incumbent of Stanton Lacy is poor Robert Foulkes , who was one of the very few clergymen ever to have been executed for murder . |
| 29 | By the age of thirteen , Worrell 's ability was obvious and , still in short trousers , he was playing top-grade cricket in his school first team , modelling himself on Derek Sealy , who was one of his masters . |
| 30 | During lunch Joe kept us entertained with anecdotes about his friends and contributors — old Wyndham Lewis , half blind , who was one of his art critics , and who , when taken to eat at L'Escargot , just pushed his gourmet food around on his plate . |