Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had also been taking up quite a lot of time for public service , chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council , and also , more relevantly , working under Richard Hoggart who was chairing the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , which had a remit to develop national policies for education as a process continuing throughout life . |
| 2 | ‘ That girl who was killed the other night , they 've been checking the area . ’ |
| 3 | Betty Friedan , who was to give the whole phenomenon of fulfilment-through-motherhood a name — The Feminine Mystique — also made a revealing admission when she came to look back on those unliberated years in a later book ( It Changed My Life ) : |
| 4 | Now it was she who was using the past tense . |
| 5 | Carrie came into the room carrying a plate of cheese sandwiches followed by Nellie who was holding the large enamel teapot in both hands . |
| 6 | as to who was to take the most credit . |
| 7 | Among the many notable prisoners taken was Charles , duke of Orléans , who was to spend the next quarter of a century an honourable captive in England , developing a considerable talent as a poet in both French and English . |
| 8 | It was as Cornelius waited humbly and receptively in prayer , that God 's supreme gift , the Holy Spirit , was poured out upon him before ever Peter who was preaching the good news to him , reached the climax of his sermon ! |
| 9 | Another famous Marxist , Edouard Bernstein — who was to lead the right wing of Social Democracy — began to challenge this position in 1890 . |
| 10 | Most important was the inclusion of U Tin Tut , no longer in the ICS , who was given the vital Finance ministry . |
| 11 | A young woman who was dressing the female dummies in the lingerie department window Steven was looking at frowned at him and gave him a suspicious , disapproving look which he noticed her just in time to see . |
| 12 | And being the one who was taking the raw material and bashing it into the records I had to pick a time to leave where it was n't going to be a huge blow to everybody else . |
| 13 | After them , the mill belonged to a Mr Chapman , thought to be the man who was running the nearby Sevilles Mill . |
| 14 | On his way there the frigate taking him to Suez had called at Jidda to enable him to meet Sharif Husain , the father of Amir Faisal who was leading the Arab Revolt . |
| 15 | The Foreign Minister , Faris Buwayz , who was leading the Lebanese delegation at the Madrid peace talks [ see p. 38513 ; 38594 ] , had appealed to the USA to intervene , and a protest had been submitted to the UN Security Council . |
| 16 | It was the Argentinian Fangio who was to dominate the early years of the championship , winning the titles on a record five occasion between 1951–57 . |
| 17 | ‘ Rincewind thinks he ought to be able to harness the lightning , ’ said the picture-imp , who was observing the passing scene from the tiny doorway of the box slung around Twoflower 's neck . |
| 18 | But Fate took a hand , as it has a habit of doing , and the first person I encountered in the hut was Barbara , who was putting the final touches to her make-up before going to the dance herself . |
| 19 | But already in the early years of his pontificate , before he was master of the enlarged Papal State from Radicofani in the north to Ceprano in the south , mercenaries had been used in the campaign against Markward of Anweiler , who was fighting the imperial cause in Italy between 1199 and 1201 ; five hundred at one time and possibly as many as 2000 . |
| 20 | The government were not reassured to learn that Branson had been in consultation with Robert Beckman , the New York lawyer who was fighting the anti-trust action on Laker 's behalf . |
| 21 | ‘ That sounds most encouraging , ’ said Rex , who was changing the cosmic messenger 's kecks . |
| 22 | At every level the lines of communication were with the central authority , not with the official who was doing the same job in the adjacent district . |
| 23 | The Israelis were furious at the attack on their colonel who was doing the same job as British soldiers in Ulster , they said . |
| 24 | He said that Dougal was a researcher who was investigating the Devenish case . |
| 25 | On Dec. 7 Judge Ahmed Taher al-Zawi , who was directing the Libyan inquiry into the allegations , said that the two men were under house arrest . |
| 26 | The story is told of a professor who was giving the first lecture of the year to a group of new medical students . |
| 27 | Even the speaker who was to tie the whole thing together admitted that the monkey data would be put to better use in various studies on the general subject of immunoregulation . |
| 28 | Several seconds passed before I recognised the features of the PLO officer who was defending the Palestinian camp and shelling the area around Ben Ami . |
| 29 | The leader of the opposition National Democratic Party of Georgia ( NDPG ) , Georgi Chanturia , was arrested at Tbilisi airport as he tried to leave for Moscow on Sept. 16 , together with his wife Irina Sarishvili and another NDPG leader Vakhtang Talakhadze ( who was released the following day ) . |
| 30 | As they gossiped noisily I followed Granny who was pulling the reluctant animal towards our house . |