Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got her in to see an agent who was a friend of Jock Lennox , and he had arranged an appointment with a producer who was sending out a show with the American Ragtime Octette and Cissie Loftus the impressionist , as well as The Ramblers , a famous juggling act , and an Australian called Pansy Montague , who toured as La Milo , an exponent of the art of living statues . |
| 2 | It was as much the way of the world for a Congregationalist keen on disestablishment to be keen on electoral reform , state education and ‘ reform ’ of the House of Lords as it was for an Anglo-Catholic priest who was a member of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament also to belong to the Guild of All Souls . |
| 3 | For the first time in my life I had a lover who was a companion . |
| 4 | On my way out of the office that first day I fell over the only other disabled student in the college who was a wheelchair user . |
| 5 | Paul Gascoigne 's nightclub assailant who was a paragon of publicity-shy discretion just like |
| 6 | You wo n't find it easy to name an important critic who was a critic , and nothing else ; that is , until quite recently . |
| 7 | Roberto Lui Wu , a congressman who was a member of Fujimori 's small political party , was shot dead by masked gunmen as he had lunch in a Lima market yesterday . |
| 8 | Modern society , he said , no longer required either the nineteenth-century intellectual or the ‘ perfect individual ’ of German classicism , but rather the citizen who was a member of a community , and whose education had turned him into a ‘ social being ’ . |
| 9 | If there was any sign of a rastrellamento in the neighbouring villages or in our own , a carabiniere who was a friend of the family used to cycle over and warn her . |
| 10 | All this was achieved at the cost of only two S.A.S. soldiers killed — Captain Roy Bradford and a trooper who was a mechanic for the jeeps , both casualties in the one incident — and seven men wounded . |
| 11 | ‘ The old lady who was a matron ? |
| 12 | Er the er the lady he was a widower and his , er his f er he was with a lady who was a widow and erm I know for a fact that she 'd not spent a penny , she had n't p you know for a you know , of the trip or , or he just would n't let her , I mean , I mean you , you 've got to have some money have n't you to keep |
| 13 | No right , there 's this lady who was a prostitute and she 'd got a daughter . |
| 14 | She was offering him the deputy to Hitler , through an intermediary who was a friend of George Vl and Winston Churchill . |
| 15 | A girl who was a hairdresser gave Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia a blue rinse . |
| 16 | On each of these occasions , Freddie was with someone else , a spectacularly good-looking girl who was a nurse at the local hospital . |
| 17 | It tells the story of the sudden death of a young girl who was a liar . |
| 18 | And there 's the message , not to mention the other girl who was a witness ! ’ |
| 19 | With finance coming partly from the Parent-Teacher Association ( PTA ) and partly from capitation , the library was gutted , refurbished and painted during the summer holidays , the labour being provided by teachers , fifth-form and sixth-form pupil librarians , the caretaker and a parent who was a builder . |
| 20 | McLean was described by the prosecution as a divorced alcoholic who was a friend of the dead woman . |
| 21 | Why could n't she live with granny and grandpa , and help care for them , like Dorothy the sister who was a couple of years older ? |
| 22 | He had been talked into editing the Complete Poems and Plays as early as 1959 , with the blessing of the present Lord Ash , an elderly Methodist peer who was a descendant of a remote cousin of Ash himself and heir to the ownership of the unsold manuscripts . |
| 23 | ‘ Apart from once having a porter who was a burglar , I think it is . |
| 24 | Just below George Herbert 's lived Mr. Player , a wood turner who was a master craftsman noted for superb work — samples in his window included twist chair and table legs , candlesticks and even wooden eggs . |
| 25 | If the approved accounts do not comply with the Act , every director who was a party to their approval and who knows that they do not comply or is reckless as to whether or not they comply is guilty of an offence and every director at the time the accounts were approved is taken to be a party to their approval unless he shows that he took all reasonable steps to prevent their approval . |
| 26 | If a vassal died leaving daughters only , or if an heir who was a minor had sisters , they were also the lord 's wards , and he could freely dispose of their hands in marriage — freely , but with two provisos . |
| 27 | dwarf of ugly appearance , a helpful divinity who was a protector against evil . |
| 28 | The remark of Honoré Bouvet , a Benedictine who was a contemporary of both Bromyard and Venette , that no man who did not know how to set places on fire was worthy of the name of soldier , might be cynical , but it was not entirely unmerited . |
| 29 | His father had kept two sets of books — following the advice of an accountant who was a friend of a friend . |
| 30 | Edna was obviously charmed to find that Celia had married such a presentable husband who was a heart specialist into the bargain . |