Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been organised for Daedalus by its European director Dr Nicholas Reeves , who was formerly a curator in The British Museum 's Department of Egyptian Antiquities ( and now advises the Earl of Carnarvon on his Egyptian collection at Highclere ) , together with Rupert Wace who has dealt in ancient art for over fifteen years . |
| 2 | It is headed by a Britain , Bill Richards , who was formerly a director of Sun Life , and has offices in New York and Tokyo . |
| 3 | Whether the compensatory remedy available ‘ together with ’ the restitutionary remedy , could be obtained against an accomplice who was neither a party to the transaction nor a person to whom money or property of the investor had been transferred is equally doubtful . |
| 4 | She died in 1729 , and in 1731 he married Elizabeth ( died 1744 ) , daughter of Sir Philip Jackson of Pontrilas , Herefordshire , who was evidently a relative of Mary 's . |
| 5 | In the eyes of a deckhand in his twenties who joined the " Sunderland Union " in the days of John Beresford and who was already a member of the Australian Seamen 's Union , it seemed little more than a " miscellaneous collection of beards and whiskers " including " old greybeards of sixty , seventy and eighty years of age , with little idea of how to conduct business " , who " reflected the pessimistic outlook of their leaders , supposing that everything was wrong and that nothing could be put right " . |
| 6 | ‘ I think it is a shame that more people are not convinced by the results that care in the community is producing and are not prepared to move over in greater numbers , ’ says Mrs Polson , who was also a sister at Aycliffe Hospital during her 10 years there . |
| 7 | Carter , on the other hand , not only had big majorities , but was a centrist ideologically — a self-proclaimed fiscal conservative who was also a liberal on civil rights , the environment and education , making it possible for him to straddle the historical division in the Democratic party . |
| 8 | IBM Japan Ltd , which restructured in January by creating two subsidiaries , one aimed at small and medium-sized companies and the other offering overall services including consultation and facilities management , has a new president , Kakutaro Kitashiro , who replaces Takeo Shiina , who was also a member of the IBM Corp main board , and is now non-executive chairman of IBM Japan : the new president is 48 years old , a 26-year veteran of IBM Japan , and possesses little of the charisma of the outgoing Shiina ; he rose rapidly through the ranks to a position of potential candidate for president in 1984 . |
| 9 | In 1777 he became a partner of Henry Park [ q.v. ] , who was also a surgeon to the Infirmary , and in the same year he moved to Basnett Street . |
| 10 | Turner has been watching Mathie , who was also a target for Newcastle . |
| 11 | ‘ It was one of the quietest schooldays I can remember , ’ says Alwyn Miller , of Granville Terrace , Binchester , Bishop Auckland , who was also a pupil at Bishop Auckland . |
| 12 | He may have met Burgess at Oxford ; Lord Rivers , who was also a graduate of Magdalen College , and was president of the Odiham Society , may have discussed the society with him ; or Penn may simply have read the society 's advertisement of its intention to send two lads to Alfort for training . |
| 13 | They devoted the second half to a work written by a composer who was also a student at the time of its creation , Josef Suk . |
| 14 | Roberts , who was also a witness to the Goodwood incidents , was seen for for twenty minutes . |
| 15 | John Lennon , the leader of Her Majesty 's Loyal Opposition , who was briefly a member of an unsuccessful group called The Quarrymen back in the 1960s , was apparently asked if he wanted to reform to appear on the bill . |
| 16 | His employer , Oscar Godolphin , was one of the eleven to whom the flame of Roxborough 's intent had been passed , though of all of them surely none was so perfect a hypocrite as Godolphin , who was both a member of a Society committed to the repression of all magical activity , and the employer ( Godolphin would have said owner ) of a creature summoned by magic in the very year of the tragedy that had brought the Society into being . |
| 17 | Brigadier Canford , who was indeed a lover of pretty girls , looked at Perdita 's impassive , dead-pan face , and had a strange feeling he 'd seen her before somewhere . |
| 18 | Hector stood undecided for a moment , his eyes travelling from Theda 's outstretched hand back to the gentleman who was obviously a favourite with him . |
| 19 | ‘ Suragai who was once Sergei ; the counsellor to a Khan who was once a servant of the Empire — ’ his father pronounced . |
| 20 | On May 21st Mr Yavlinsky and Mr Allison came to see Mr Zoellick , who was once a student of Mr Allison 's . |
| 21 | At Luhring Augustine the Cologne artist Albert Oehlen — who was once a student of Sigmar Polke — shows six square paintings which look , at first glance , like pure abstractions but which yield , upon further perusal , figurative elements . |
| 22 | KYOKUSHINKAI This style of karate , which means ‘ the way of ultimate truth ’ , was created by Masatatsu Oyama , who was once a student of Shotokan under Gichin Funakoshi . |
| 23 | To Letterman , who was once a fan of Marcuse , it is a distinctly toothsome word . |
| 24 | Similarly , in 1888 a Southern Province mudaliyar attributed a fall in the crime to a magistrate ‘ who was really a terror to evil-doers ’ . |
| 25 | Avitus 's father , who was perhaps a tribune in 456 , experienced the same shift from secular to ecclesiastical office as Sidonius . |
| 26 | An elderly man named John Thomas , who was still a member of the Association of Foremen Lightermen but who had not worked in that capacity for some two years and who was now a watchman , was approached to join Harry Gosling 's Amalgamated Society of Watermen , Lightermen and Watchmen of the River Thames . |
| 27 | Eva sang and Margaret watched , filled with admiration for the sister who was only a couple of years ahead of her in age but light years away in confidence . |
| 28 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 29 | Tina Sederholm … who was only a spectator at last year 's event . |
| 30 | Montague , meanwhile , who was only a party to the takeover , appears to have come off better than the man who masterminded it . |