Example sentences of "who [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the revolutionaries who were the villains , the Royals and their supporters the good and kind and handsome heroes . |
| 2 | There are still exquisite doors and bookcases all over the house — probably from the firm of Gillows , who were the leading mahogany importers in the north-west of England . |
| 3 | There were leaks everywhere and well-reported battles between the so-called ‘ dries ’ who were the outright supporters of the Government 's economic policies and the ‘ wets ’ who were the sceptics . |
| 4 | There were leaks everywhere and well-reported battles between the so-called ‘ dries ’ who were the outright supporters of the Government 's economic policies and the ‘ wets ’ who were the sceptics . |
| 5 | So who were the nice people ? |
| 6 | This was an idea that appealed strongly to me , though Unamuno had not been thinking of some of the ‘ brothers in solitude ’ — the outcasts from social and sexual ‘ normality ’ — who were the brothers that first sprang to my mind on reading that sentence in Corsham . |
| 7 | Jane and Ann Taylor , who were the daughters of a Dissenting Minister , had published in 1806 what was the first volume of poetry primarily designed for children . |
| 8 | It was middle classes who were the major beneficiaries of the economic and social changes which occurred during the inter-war years . |
| 9 | He had been bred by the Thessalians who were the most renowned horse breeders of those times — their horses being famous over all others for their beauty , courage , speed , and endurance ; and Bucephalus was one of the best ! |
| 10 | But it was these same heads of kindreds and lords who were the major factor in ending feud and in maintaining order within local society ; and they were able to do so not as individuals but as men of power with powerful backing . |
| 11 | It was they who were the defenders , not the aggressors , the men pushed by fear of extermination into acts which they knew came dangerously close to that disturbance of the social order which was almost as much to be feared . |
| 12 | She was especially concerned for those who were imprisoned for debt , particularly those who were the ‘ most worthy ’ . |
| 13 | They ousted the Gallic landowners who were the last remnants of the Roman Empire , conquered the Visigoths in the south of France , and fought other Germanic tribes , such as the Burgundians and the Alamanni , who were already settled there . |
| 14 | A steam engine was installed in 1859 by the Bowly family , who were the millers then , to supplement the sometimes erratic water supply from the River Coln . |
| 15 | Users fell basically into two groups : there were the milder peace-loving ‘ Smile on your brother ’ types , whose philosophy was invoked by Jefferson Airplane 's hit record using that phrase , or the far more violent set who were emerging with hard rock and the free-as-the-wind Hell 's Angels , the unkempt , unwashed , tough and brutal rabble who were the built-in bad guys of the counter-culture ; they made the gangs in Rebel Without a Cause and Brando 's The Wild One look like a Sunday school gathering . |
| 16 | ‘ Who were the others , eh ? ’ he hissed . |
| 17 | Incidentally , now that I come to think further about it , it is not quite true to say there was no dispute as to who were the great butlers . |
| 18 | It was the older people who were the saddest . |
| 19 | The visiting party , who were the first and last ever to get a good look at the crater of Perboewetan , found it to be about 1,000 metres in diameter and about fifty metres deep , with a small pit , also about fifty metres deep , in the centre of the crater floor ; it was from this pit that the steam cloud was escaping with a great roar . |
| 20 | When crime series started it was quite clear who were the goodies and who were the baddies . |
| 21 | When crime series started it was quite clear who were the goodies and who were the baddies . |
| 22 | I remember when I was at the Open University , the people who were engaged in implementing Open University programmes in the States , who were the deans in charge of the Open University experiments , were all women and all ‘ marginal ’ to the mainline male career people . |
| 23 | Hana was lying-in with Mrs Finklestein and Mrs Robovitch , who were the neighbourhood delivery and despatch team . |
| 24 | Then there were the ‘ Rowdies ’ , boys of 15 and 16 , who were the most identifiable group by virtue of their appearance , the noise they made and their tendency to run around the most . |
| 25 | The latter body intended that the programmes should become self-financing , but the National Education Centres who were the major providers found that employers were not attracted by full-cost funding . |
| 26 | Then , on 9 July 1859 ( 11 years later ) Professor Spooner was asked to report to the governors on the state of the fund , and to ascertain who were the current trustees . |
| 27 | When things were at this interesting stage , to my irritation the senior of the two Waaf officers who were the bane of our lives developed an interest in ‘ my ’ Corporal . |
| 28 | Who were the bump-readers ? |
| 29 | Who were the country gentlemen who were so put out from pursuing their time-honoured pastime ? |
| 30 | By the twelfth century , especially in England , juries could be used to provide information , to answer such questions as : who were the notorious criminals of the neighbourhood ? — or , who had held a particular plot of land in the recent past ? |