Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was the surname of the Tory mother and son who were both elected to Parliament in 1983 ? |
| 2 | Innocent did not associate Philip with the murder , but relentlessly sought the true murderers who were finally brought to justice in Rome in April 1203 and sent to the Holy Land . |
| 3 | A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy in Cape Town , who was slowly suffocating to death , yesterday became the world 's first child to have an artificial windpipe implanted , during an operation by a British surgeon . |
| 4 | ‘ The man who can win the allegiance of the Teddy Boys ’ , remarked Mr Andrew Fountaine who was later to come to prominence within the leadership of the National Front , ‘ can rule this country . ’ |
| 5 | A few years ago , a young woman was brutally killed by a notorious murderer who was later brought to justice . |
| 6 | The person responsible for QA ( who was already known to LIFESPAN and had the necessary privileges for QA work ) logged on to LIFESPAN and requested the QA listings as a file into his personal account . |
| 7 | Major has been embarrassed by unauthorised revelations : about his engagingly eccentric brother , Terry , who still bears the family 's original surname , Major-Ball ; and his sister Pat , now retired and in straitened circumstances , who was once taken to court for failing to pay the rates . |