Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scale of his new responsibility was illustrated last week by two estate workers who were laboriously repairing a broken stretch of the eight-mile-long stone wall that surrounds Althorp . |
| 2 | It included a large force of Welsh infantry — soldiers who were soon to win a fearsome reputation for themselves . |
| 3 | The briefs and opinions in the case were immediately circulated by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference to the experts who were shortly to attend a Special Commission of the Conference to review the workings of the Convention , and this gave the case a prominence ( and in some quarters a notoriety ) which it might otherwise have escaped . |
| 4 | One reason for this is probably that subjects who were not told the overall theme of the passage until the end were able to draw on their knowledge of similar stories which they had heard before . |
| 5 | It rapidly became established because of its immediate appeal to masses of people who were either ‘ pagan ’ , that is , people thus labelled primarily because they had not acquired knowledge of , or held allegiance to , the ‘ god ’ of the Hebrew scriptures , or others who were already questioning the absolute authenticity of the Old Testament as it then was , and were therefore ostracised . |
| 6 | Women who were already paying a reduced rate contribution were however allowed to continue doing so . |
| 7 | Very quickly , Polanski and Nicholson became darlings of the west coast film and rock-music communities , who were also selecting the new heroes of the screen — anti-heroes in fact — because it was old values that had kept those handsome , pristine hulks of the last generation at the top and old values were now strictly taboo amongst the young and trendy . |
| 8 | ‘ YER'LL'AV TA FILL YER CUPS LAOW ’ ( to two po-faced caravanners who were fussily clamping a magnetic spirit level onto their trailer in an unsuccessful attempt to get it to stand even — and to think caravans originated with gipsies ! ) . |
| 9 | Those who were there saw an eighth Prenton win of the season in an unbeaten run of 11 home games . |
| 10 | Last year for instance Barton Shield skipper Colm McCarroll brought Wilson , Winston and Kehoe junior , the men who were subsequently to win the National youth title , into his line-up and Derry battled their way through to the quarter-finals before losing to Belvoir Park . |
| 11 | The royal authority was being challenged not only by princes but by a growing menace of another kind , the increasing number of freelance soldiers , or routiers , who were gradually becoming a characteristic force in French society , reflecting the faltering grip of lawfully-established authority . |
| 12 | At one extreme , there might be the virtual monoculture of the new agricultural areas , imposed by their orientation towards a remote world market , and intensified , if not created , by the characteristic mechanism of foreign merchant firms in the great port cities which controlled this export trade — the traditional Greeks who ran the Russian corn trade through Odessa , the Bunges and Borns from Hamburg who were about to fulfil the same function for the River Plate countries from Buenos Aires and Montevideo . |
| 13 | Like the Union it was founded to forward the work and views of the Tractarians , who were then fighting an uphill battle against fierce opposition in the Church . |
| 14 | One of the many Serbs who gained their first military experience during the brief Austrian interlude was Djordje Petrović ( Karadjordje ) ( kara in Turkish = black ) , a pig dealer from the Šumadija , who was later to lead the Serbian revolt of 1804 and to be the founding father of one of the Serbian royal houses . |
| 15 | As it was , George Scott — who was later to captain the victorious Great Britain soccer team at the World Games for the Deaf at Amsterdam in 1928 ( see photograph on page 310 ) — but then a small schoolboy at Donaldson 's remembers : |
| 16 | Political comment from a high Tory stance and literary reviews were its chief contents , but there were architectural contributions , usually from the pen of its joint editor , owner and founder , A. J. B. Beresford Hope , who was later to make an important contribution to the development of the scheme . |
| 17 | That summer , George Ball , the master ( who was later to become the first hospital secretary of Bedford General Hospital ) joined the R.A.F. A special committee met in order to appoint a temporary master , and George 's father , Walter Mills Ball , a retired poor-law officer , offered to fill his place while his son was serving . |
| 18 | In St Petersburg in 1789 the French ambassador was publicly congratulated by the Grand Duke Alexander ( later Alexander I ) on the fall of the Bastille , while Alexander 's younger brother the Grand Duke Constantine , who was later to become an extreme reactionary , was also at first an enthusiastic partisan of the Revolution . |
| 19 | A close friend of Elaine Blond , who was later to found the Blond McIndoe Centre for Medical Research , it was not too difficult to persuade McIndoe to help where the removal of a disfigurement , usually facial , could boost a patient 's confidence . |
| 20 | One of Wilson 's associates was a gentleman who was later to attain a high degree of publicity and notoriety , namely Joseph Kagan . |
| 21 | One was Alan Hayling , who was later to play a central role in the story of News on Sunday . |
| 22 | He had a brother , Richard , who was later to play an important part in the family 's advancement in Rome , being destined to take over the running of the Conti estates in the Romagna . |
| 23 | The Royal Commission was chaired by Sir John Maud ( he became Lord Redcliffe-Maud in 1967 ) who was already chairing a departmental committee on management in local government . |
| 24 | Former Securitate chief Iulian Vlad , who was already serving a 3@1/2-year sentence handed down in March for a similar offence [ see p. 38108 ] , received a four-year sentence ( it was unclear whether the new sentence would run consecutively or concurrently ) . |
| 25 | Charles found the Stage Doorman , who was already regaling a little circle of cast with what he had seen . |
| 26 | The miller during the 1880s was James Spiers who was also running the Upper Mill at nearby Kemerton . |
| 27 | It was a good system for everyone except the artist , who was frequently offered a low rate for the job , then had his payment deferred , and sometimes had to battle for months to receive anything at all . |
| 28 | And he let the others in the cast know it , including that young actress , Sheila Hancock , who was soon to become the major star she now is . |
| 29 | And in a conversation with William Turner Levy , a young American who was about to become an Episcopalian minister , Eliot raised the possibility that he might eventually enter retirement in an abbey — such a life suited him , he said . |
| 30 | Who was nt wearing the correct lucky underpants ? ? |