Example sentences of "[Wh pn] were [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the ‘ scholar patriots ’ perhaps one can say that , instead , they helped to awaken the national consciousness ; and in the evening of his life Phan Boi Chau , in a moving analogy in which Vietnam was likened to an orphan child which by this time should have learned to walk and France to a tutor who felt that the child was easier to control when he was unable to run , talked of a people whose traditional values had been destroyed and who were thus a generation of uprooted people on their own soil . |
| 2 | there was er 's , erm 's who were probably the biggest , Samuel 's , erm 's and s . |
| 3 | Last night there were a lot of people at the gig who were here the first time around and they can relate to what we 're doing . |
| 4 | In this research , follow-up interviews will be conducted with entrepreneurs who were previously the subjects of a study on entrepreneurial aspirations and motivations . |
| 5 | Although the first half had been surprisingly passionless , it was Liverpool who were easily the better side , and had Ronnie Rosenthal seized three opportunities , they would have been comfortably in front by half time . |
| 6 | For a lord this meant securing the service of men who were already the servants of others . |
| 7 | For a lord this meant securing the service of men who were already the servants of others . |
| 8 | It is more significant how little patronage was going to men who were primarily the duke 's own servants . |
| 9 | It is more significant how little patronage was going to men who were primarily the duke 's own servants . |
| 10 | The dancing was to good old rock and roll music , and even those who were just a twinkle in their father 's eye in the 6Os joined in with the jiving fun . |
| 11 | So did a succession of home helps who were also the source of strange tales and occasional adventures . |
| 12 | NWC members included Thabo Mbeki , head of the international affairs department , Joe Slovo , general secretary of the SACP , and Mohammed Valli Moosa , who were also the other members of the negotiations commission ; Patrick " Terror " Lekota was named as assistant to the head of the security and intelligence department ; and Cheryl Carolus as convenor of the health , welfare and human resources commission . |
| 13 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 14 | ‘ I talked about it with friends and they always knew someone who had been through it who were twice the men they were before , ’ said Mr Morton , 59 . |
| 15 | Maggie glanced over at the Lawlers who were about a dozen feet from her . |
| 16 | And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics . |
| 17 | And er so we were the kind of erm the team who were there the , at the time so |
| 18 | Despotism seemed , to the French writers who were much the most important source of this type of thinking , to promise more rapid progress than was possible under balanced and ‘ mixed ’ régimes in which power was widely distributed , such as that in Britain . |
| 19 | Because although that war did n't have conscription in nineteen fourteen or nineteen fifteen , I believe it started in nineteen sixteen , back end , and er we we 'd got all women teachers who were quite a different problem from a school of that nature . |
| 20 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |
| 21 | A claim was made against a firm of accountants who were never the auditors of B. & C. and the order was sought so that unspecified claims could be investigated . |
| 22 | Soon after midday Tom Poole and his brother Richard decided to take their interesting visitors on a short walk to the farmhouse called Marshmills in Over Stowey , home of a large tribe of Poole cousins who were almost a second family to Tom and Richard : among them were Penelope Poole , ‘ a beautiful , dark-eyed girl ’ who would never return Tom Poole 's love for her ( he died unmarried ) , and John Poole , an Oxford fellow and later the rector of Enmore , who was Tom Poole 's friend and companion from childhood . |
| 23 | The people who were once a minority in the Labour party now represent the views of the majority . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | hens who were once the oats were so were sown they had to they were closed down and that . |
| 26 | He allowed her more freedom of choice than many of his clients who were perhaps a better advertisement for his dressmaking skills . |
| 27 | Special mention simply must be make of the members of the Cathedral 's Catholic Mothers group who helped Mrs Roberton with the lynches , and who were perhaps the best of all the many good things that happened to our 1981 Christian Aid programme . |
| 28 | When I took my first weekend break in Paris in the early 70 's I booked with Cresta Holidays who were then the leading Manchester/Paris weekend break specialists . |
| 29 | In the latter I was shocked to find letters from contenders for the distinction of Nottingham 's oldest graduate who were only a year or two older than I. Maybe I ought to record some of my own recollections as a student in the Physics Department of University College Nottingham during the academic years 1928 to 1932 . |
| 30 | Then , in the sixteenth century , what had been a military building was converted by the Albret dynasty , who were now the rulers here , into a sophisticated civilian one , suitable as a home for courtly pursuits — there are some fine Renaissance doorways and windows dating from that conversion on the left and at the far end of the very irregular courtyard into which you first go . |