Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — instructing an expert witness who was previously a client albeit in a matter totally unrelated . |
| 2 | But luckily help was at hand in the person of Anna-Lisa Hammer , a blonde , Norwegian freelance journalist who was also the Press Officer for the Bislet Games in Oslo . |
| 3 | Thorn , the big defender who was also the hero of the midweek Coca-Cola Cup triumph over Liverpool , powered the Eagles ahead with a 29th minute header and Steve Coppell 's men grimly fought tooth and nail to claim their fourth successive victory . |
| 4 | Of the other two paintings , one is a picture of a friend , a girl who was also a student , posing in the same life-room , and the other , a portrait I made of a fellow student and good friend of mine from the Royal Academy , James Tower , who became a noted ceramicist . |
| 5 | At Cedars Mrs Singh had instantly made friends with a young Asian woman ( wearing trousers and a shirt ) with a little girl who was evidently a year older than Balbinder . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , it was something like a castle , and he 'ad tons of servants and a butler as well , and a sister who was secretly a witch and tried to make the poor girl worship Satan , but — ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Here was a second double life — that of a scientist who was also an artist , a chemist who was also an alchemist , a businessman who was also a magician . |
| 10 | ROLAND Boyes , the only Member in the last Parliament who was also a cricket umpire , was up with half the rest of Britain at 4.30 this morning . |
| 11 | They had a male barn owl who was about a year old . |
| 12 | ‘ Suragai who was once Sergei ; the counsellor to a Khan who was once a servant of the Empire — ’ his father pronounced . |
| 13 | IKE : Name given to General Eisenhower , husband of Tina Turner , the famous black female singer who was also a pigeon fancier at weekends . |
| 14 | Here was a second double life — that of a scientist who was also an artist , a chemist who was also an alchemist , a businessman who was also a magician . |
| 15 | There were the agronomist nephew and his wife who was already a schoolmarm , two younger brothers , one having finished his philo , the other his service militaire , a niece who was at the Sorbonne and her fiancé reading economics at the university of Rennes . |
| 16 | He would see Scruffy , his friend who was also a cat . |
| 17 | This emphasis on income rather than influence was appropriate in the endowment of a royal duke who was still a child , but once Gloucester came of age his lack of a suitable power base was less acceptable . |
| 18 | This emphasis on income rather than influence was appropriate in the endowment of a royal duke who was still a child , but once Gloucester came of age his lack of a suitable power base was less acceptable . |
| 19 | There has been a suggestion that Aethelburh , kinswoman of Ealdred , sub-king of the Hwicce , and abbess of Fladbury in Worcestershire ( CS 238 : S 62 ) , was Offa 's daughter of the same name who was also an abbess ( CS 251 : S 127 ) , but there were clearly several prominent women of this name . |
| 20 | There is one other name who was probably a monk here at Halling . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was the third day after she had dressed , gone out , without wearing her underclothes , into her car , driving on the main road through Tadley , driving all the way to Kingsclere , knocking at the front door of the home of a woman who was almost a stranger , going into a house that she hardly knew . |
| 23 | I have since heard of a Roman Catholic nun who was also a doctor , who was allowed to train part time to fit in with her religious duties . |
| 24 | Germanus of Paris excommunicated Charibert for marrying Marcovefa , a nun who was also the sister of the king 's previous wife , Merofled , from whom he had as yet not separated . |
| 25 | It ill became the English king , who was sovereign in his own country , to behave as a vassal towards his French suzerain , and the French king had great difficulty in controlling the behaviour of a vassal who was also a sovereign . |
| 26 | As Del Genie — a name borrowed from an American theology student who was also a conjuror — he did magic tricks round the town , at rotary clubs and children 's shows . |
| 27 | People dismiss this aspect of Wordsworth 's poetry as ‘ odd ’ , forgetting that George Orwell became a tramp for six weeks and lived for a year as a down-and-out ; and Shakespeare wrote a play about a mad old man who was also a vagrant ! |
| 28 | Not much later a man who was probably a Samaritan composed another history of biblical times . |
| 29 | We all smiled at that , because there was already a young man who was often a visitor at New Place . |
| 30 | In this opening episode , Marshal Matt Dillon tracks down and tragically kills Ray Gilcher , an outlaw but a man who was once a friend . |