Example sentences of "who had [adv] be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonni was the daughter of a prosperous dealer in scrap metal who had also been a lay preacher . |
| 2 | A lieutenant-colonel , who had evidently been a close friend in his class at St. Cyr , greeting the new C.O. had addressed him as tu , only to receive a shrivelling rebuff : ‘ Colonel , I must request you to keep your distance . |
| 3 | Again the Chancellor comes to be usually a lawyer : Lord Shaftesbury under Charles II was the last Chancellor who had never been a practising lawyer . |
| 4 | ’ As the influence of Cézanne grew , so that of Gauguin , who had hitherto been an important influence in the work of the Fauves , waned . |
| 5 | After the war interest was again roused over Piltdown Man who had always been a sore point with anthropologists who could never really accept him . |