Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The County Manager said that a conference of Health Board and Department of the Environment officials and County Council engineers , who were undertaking a special study of uranium mining , had agreed to investigate the situation . |
| 2 | They would be outskirters who were getting a thin time and wondering what to do about it . |
| 3 | At a concert at London 's Town and Country Club they were joined on stage by Metelic , a team of Ukrainian dancers from Reading who were given a rousing reception . |
| 4 | If I remember correctly , ’ he says , ‘ for the trials they brought out some legal people , people who were given a military rank and sat as judges at the war crime tribunals . |
| 5 | When interviewed , Clive Howard said he went every morning to feed the animals , particularly the cats , who were given a free run of the house . |
| 6 | ‘ The chances are a thousand to one that you might stay here for ten seasons and never see a boatman in a hurry , ’ quoted Sir Thomas loudly to his brood , waving a lordly hand towards William and Joe who were enjoying a quiet chew of tobacco at the end of the pier . |
| 7 | It might be , therefore , that the 19th-century scholars who were seeking a large Ruckers harpsichord were rather too precipitate . |
| 8 | That was a story Hopper liked to tell , to demonstrate how they were all good friends who were creating a new style of acting ; later , when Nicholson arrived , they had long discussions about this era and the influences it had on all of them . |
| 9 | The significance of these beliefs in creating a commonsense culture of taken-for-granted racism in Britain is difficult to underestimate , although widespread illiteracy may well have protected the subordinate classes from the level of immersion in racism experienced by the upper classes who were fed a growing diet of racist mythology in fiction , newspapers and missionary tracts ( Lorimer , 1978 ; Miles , 1982 , pp. 118–19 ) . |
| 10 | A story that is sometimes used to explain market opportunity concerns the managing director and marketing director of a shoe-making firm , who were visiting a less-developed country . |
| 11 | Andrew Ker landed two penalties for Watsonians , who were missing a few regulars . |
| 12 | His deliberate act was in fact obstructing the police who were making a lawful arrest , and that was sufficient mens rea . |
| 13 | On June 9 a bomb placed on the roof of the headquarters of the Honourable Artillery Company in London injured 17 civilians , mainly students , who were attending a 21st birthday party there . |
| 14 | Then there were the fifty-five auction bidders who were filing a mass suit for slander and defamation of character against a sergeant in the Special Forces . |
| 15 | The over-riding reason for the fall was the reduction in the working week which was particularly marked from 1966 onwards and was disproportionately large among female workers who were constituting a bigger share of the total working population . |
| 16 | The most that can be said with any certainty is that the revolt was led by two families who were to play a great part in the next generation of Aquitainian politics , two families with whom Richard was to become very familiar : the house of Lusignan and the house of Angoulême . |
| 17 | It also brought European immigrants , who were to play a crucial role in the introduction of Marxist ideas to Latin America , flooding into these countries , where newly built ports and railways were facilitating the spread of new political theories . |
| 18 | The leaders , who were paid a small amount to compensate for their organizational work , recruited seven other team members ; there were eight such teams . |
| 19 | England 's one fitness doubt tomorrow concerns Phillip DeFreitas , who was resting a sore elbow yesterday , but otherwise their major problem is whether to play both their spinners . |
| 20 | Sir William , who was expressing a personal view because of internal differences over the reorganisation , said that to split the NCC into three would remove a strategic overview in formulating national policies . |
| 21 | Wellington looked to an aide who was seated a few places down the table . |
| 22 | A boss who was expecting a quiet birthday with his family at home was taken completely by surprise when his highly desirable secretary invited him back to her home for a drink after work . |
| 23 | ‘ Why do n't the kids all phoo off ? ’ a scrawny , shaven-skulled youth who was lacking a little finger , remarked at the ceiling . |
| 24 | Wiser than Jenny , who was chasing a romantic will-o'-the-wisp and who would end up with more heartache . |
| 25 | What a man like Siward would do , who was hiding a second time in a forest and had blown the withdrawal within minutes of the Normans ' arrival . |
| 26 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 27 | He was a bulky young man , who was wearing a black coat and a white shirt ; the comparison with a panda was unkind but accurate . |
| 28 | The man , who was wearing a black balaclava tried to pull the boy to the ground , but he managed to struggle free . |
| 29 | In a more sober account , Cendrars ’ first wife Félicie remembers seeing Modi , poor and preoccupied , escorting Jeanne , who was wearing a white shawl which served as a cloak to hide her figure , across the Avenue de la Gare . |
| 30 | The Sherman brothers looked up to see the governor and their father talking to an old Annamese with a long gray goatee , who was wearing a black-winged Ming dynasty mandarin 's bonnet and a long embroidered gown of brilliant sea-green silk . |