Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ideal type codifies a scheme of reasons which would motivate someone who was wholly a bureaucrat , and understanding proceeds from what such purely rational — legal persons would think and do . |
| 2 | I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country . |
| 3 | They must have been amazed and resentful that Pyke wanted to listen to me , of all people , someone who was barely an actor . |
| 4 | Do you know what that meant , and means , to have someone who was there every night like that ? |
| 5 | Among the throngs of passing students I was thinking fondly of Jordi when someone who was obviously an American passed by , and our eyes met for a split second . |
| 6 | My next tour took me through the outside gardens , of which there were quite a number , all of a very high standard . |
| 7 | The programme continued on 5 January 1990 , when Mr G Vincent ( Society Member ) of Wolverhampton and a former Chairman of the Tal-y-Llyn Railway , gave a talk and slide show dealing with the minor railways of Shropshire , of which there were quite a number in the heyday of steam . |
| 8 | For their part , however , the Poles saw their only access to the sea through a port that they did not fully control , and in which there was already a swell of anti-Polish feeling . |
| 9 | They cast a shadow a mile wide , within which there was just the howl of the gale , clouds of dust and the occasional flurry of hail . |
| 10 | Taffe agreed to allow the society , of which he was also a member , to use an upstairs room at the public house for a social occasion . |
| 11 | In McHugh ( 1989 ) 88 Cr App R 385 ( CA ) , the accused used money of a company of which he was a director to pay off the debts of subsidiary companies , of which he was also a director . |
| 12 | It was designed by Henry Alsbroke and the brickwork looks similar to that of Tattershall Castle for which he was also the architect . |
| 13 | The major forum for " constructive " thought remained in the Christian organizations of which he was already a member , and throughout the war he played a prominent part in their deliberations . |
| 14 | In 1902 , Joiner sold the mill to the Somerset-based Dulcote Leatherboard Co , of which he was already a partner , and the mill became home to a number of special processes , mainly for the manufacture of shoe stiffeners . |
| 15 | For one moment , when the right hon. Gentleman first rose to speak , and given that he will not be standing at the next election , I thought that Daniel had come to judgment and that the right hon. Gentleman was going to show some concern for those who seek asylum in this country and who have fled from oppressive regimes that were supported by the Government of which he was happily a Cabinet member for so many years . |
| 16 | Eventually we all agreed we wanted this fierce bark that was both harsh and metallic , after which it was just a case of refining it down until we settled on the precise tone we ended up using . |
| 17 | Either way he or she returns to disturb the heterosexual norm , especially in its masculine form , and does so according to a psychic and/or social dynamic which is intrinsically perverse : deviance emerges from the terms of its exclusion , eventually undermining that of which it was initially an effect , and which depended upon its exclusion . |
| 18 | ‘ Why did n't you tell me you were still a virgin , Caroline ? ’ |
| 19 | To me she was just a brain , a scientific machine in a bedworthy body . |
| 20 | Clad in nothing but black and sipping on her jar of Guinness , Debbie Smith , pint-sized guitarist with indie sensations Curve , is attempting to convince me she was never a goth . |
| 21 | As for the rest of the staff — well , I suppose to them she was just a name — another client . ’ |
| 22 | There were times when she did n't mind Star 's anger , times even when she deliberately provoked it , waiting with half-shameful excitement for the extra-ordinary outburst of bitterness and despair of which she herself was less a victim than a privileged spectator , relishing even more the inevitable remorse and self-incrimination , the sweetness of reconciliation . |
| 23 | For the CNAA itself there was also the problem of the transitional situation in which the new BEd degree would run in parallel with the existing certificate courses , and the Committee laid down that ‘ the new BEd must be established as an award of degree standard , distinct from the Certificate course which it is intended to replace ’ . |
| 24 | Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop . |
| 25 | Erm mind you it was really a step onto something else that as far as I was concerned in those days I meant o go to sea of course and er that was the best place you could have er to serve an apprenticeship because everything er I mean it was one of the As everything was starting to get specialized in in other works nowadays it 's gone completely now . |
| 26 | As to the other matters , in my view the Secretary of State 's decision not to alter the review date having considered the petition was one which was entirely a matter for the exercise of his discretion . |
| 27 | She eventually found one who was also an art collector and paid him for operating on her with her own works of art , most of them created at the Fine Arts School of Dijon where she teaches . |
| 28 | Myself and English , as she is taught in schools , came to a conflict and gradually to a more and more friendly agreement through the necessity of writing long letters daily to one who was neither a schoolboy nor an elder , the subject of the letters being matters concerning nobody else in the world . |
| 29 | For the last seventy-three years the Bishop of Durham was a scholar ; five bishops in succession ranging from one who was among the leading minds of Europe to one who was more a publicist than a scholar but who still had academic interests . |
| 30 | Their hosts drew up chairs on the other ; the one who was apparently the senior of the two said , ‘ Julia , I think we could manage some more coffee … ’ |