Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority . |
| 2 | The janissaries , who were once the elite corps of the sultan 's army , had degenerated by the end of the eighteenth century into an unruly and lawless rabble , who were at best an embarrassment and at worst a threat to their rulers . |
| 3 | Mr Pearson is currently at Orion where , by a happy irony , he is the editor of Vikram Seth , who was formerly a Faber author . |
| 4 | a subject specialist with industrial or professional expertise , who was not a panel member , would prepare detailed comments on the documentation for circulation to panel members and the course team prior to the validation event . |
| 5 | Whether an equivalent car would be made available to a company secretary who was not a family member is a question of fact — perhaps depending on the size of the company and customs in the particular trade . |
| 6 | Under normal circumstances , Lucien would have been reared by his uncle , Enkhari , who was not a blood relative but the lover of his father . |
| 7 | Within the Rowdies group , there was some confusion as to who was and who was not an aggro leader and also with regard to the characteristic behaviours expected of such a person . |
| 8 | The Salvadorean Feminine Front pursues much the same line with vitriolic attacks on the United States and the armed forces for imposing a provisional president ( Alvaro Magana ) after the March 1982 elections , who was not the ARENA candidate . |
| 9 | Helmut Kragan sat on his right , his seat away from the table , as befitted the recorder of minutes who was n't a council member . |
| 10 | Anyone who was n't a wheels-on railwayman was demonstrably stupid . |
| 11 | I spent an afternoon in Sunderland with an old miner in his eighties , who was n't a club man or active in the union , with this lovely voice , talking about first going down as a trapper — he sat all day when he was thirteen by the trap doors which the paddy wagons carrying coal had to pass through , all day in the pitch dark . |
| 12 | One dog who was already a UK champion was exported to Ireland : Ch. and Irish Ch. |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So I , and the only other lad in the dormitory , who was also a railway enthusiast , were surprised and stunned to hear , just as we were slipping off to sleep , the sound of wagons being shunted in the station . |
| 15 | IKE : Name given to General Eisenhower , husband of Tina Turner , the famous black female singer who was also a pigeon fancier at weekends . |
| 16 | President Eisenhower , who was also a war hero , er Republican president er when he heard of Forbus 's erm actions er he er he sent federal troops to Little Rock , Arkansas , and on the second day of the school year federal troops in full combat gear , you know with , with machine guns and all the rest of it and er helmets and stuff , escorted the black children into school . |
| 17 | She eventually found one who was also an art collector and paid him for operating on her with her own works of art , most of them created at the Fine Arts School of Dijon where she teaches . |
| 18 | I once astounded a good guitarist friend of mine — who was also an electronics engineer , believe it or not — at the difference in tone and volume between a Whirlwind lead and a cheapo cable . |
| 19 | Stephen Garrett , its British director , who was also the Getty Museum 's first director , will be leaving at Christmas . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Then in Hill House , just outside the mill , where Mr Besley now lives , there was a grocer 's shop kept by a Mr Flick who was also the village carrier , taking goods to and from Ipswich . |
| 22 | Jim Moodie , who was rather a surprise winner of the earlier 600cc , showed he had lost none of his talent when leading all the way to out-gun Brian Reid with third place going to another Scot Ian Simpson . |
| 23 | The French boy nudged Joseph as a tall , white-haired Moi who was obviously the village chieftain slowly descended the stepped tree trunk that led from his hut to the ground . |
| 24 | A millionaire businessman who was currently the minority leader in the state 's House of Representatives , Isakson was considered by most commentators to be the most credible gubernatorial candidate fielded by the Republicans in Georgia for 90 years . |
| 25 | The crucial suggestion was made in 1972 by Jacob D. Bekenstein , who was then a graduate student at Princeton University and is now at the University of the Negev in Israel . |
| 26 | ‘ Gerry Francis , who was then the England captain , was forever trying to get out of taking part in the silly games but the boss would have none of it . ’ |
| 27 | At Leicester a hostile crowd several thousands strong prevented A.K. Chesterton who was then the Midlands organizer , from attending a meeting . |