Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this , quite a lot of good work was done by the eighty fourth-year " leavers " ( aged I 4-plus ) who were the trial group for the project . |
| 2 | She sought discovery of psychiatric reports held by the defendants who were the education authority . |
| 3 | Hana was lying-in with Mrs Finklestein and Mrs Robovitch , who were the neighbourhood delivery and despatch team . |
| 4 | From 1887 the land was farmed by E.A. White who was a hop grower and constructed the four magnificent Victorian oast houses which now stand on the site known as Bells 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 . |
| 5 | This may have been due to the support of Steel-Maitland who was a founder member before he became Party Chairman and who later served on its committee on mental health . |
| 6 | Mr Stanley Keyse , who was a founder member of the Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion Railway Society , died recently following an operation . |
| 7 | Mr J. Daubney , who was a relief signalman at Wrawby and Barnetby , relieved Ted at about 5.30pm . |
| 8 | Jimmy Souness , who was a school cleaner , had a history of heart disease which runs in the family . |
| 9 | As a former teacher with a wife who is a teacher , and as one who was a school governor throughout the 1970s and into the early 1980s , I have always been surprised and disappointed at the way in which most schools are infrequently inspected . |
| 10 | The right hon. Gentleman , who was a Treasury Minister throughout the lifetime of the Labour Government , will appreciate that figures such as those that I have just disclosed to the House would have been regarded as a complete impossibility in his time . |
| 11 | He used to come over to us a lot at weekends , along with another character called Bob Brown , who lived at Blackton and who was a bachelor brother of my great-aunt 's husband . |
| 12 | In my youth there was a man who lived in our block of buildings who was a champion boxer while in the Army in India and he was always known as being doolally tap . |
| 13 | She liked St Etheldreda , who was a Virgin Queen , although she was twice married — she became Abbess of Ely and founded a great House , and was buried in the odour of sanctity — ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Schlieffen , whose peripatetic studies included stints at the Kunstakademies of Vienna and Düsseldorf , and who was a master student of A.R.Penck , paints compositions of figures or objects in which the main formal issue is an ever-changing , often dislocated relationship between subject and ‘ background ’ . |
| 16 | adult life was spent in South Africa , and erm I found a couple of years ago two books written by a remarkable while English-speaking South African called Donald Woods , who was a newspaper editor , who befriended and then championed a remarkable young black South African called Steve Beeko , who was killed in police detention . |
| 17 | I hoped he would do nothing to hurt Mr Edgar , who was a kind master to me . |
| 18 | Lord Chorley inherited his title from his father , who was a law professor at the University of London and who joined Attlee 's Labour government . |
| 19 | Goering almost destroyed Goebbels in a scandal over his mistress , who was a film star . |
| 20 | Mr Huxley Jones , of Fairlands Crescent , Rhuddlan , who was a branch manager with a plumbing supplies firm , has been pastoral steward at the local English Methodist Church for more than 20 years and a driver for the local meals-on-wheels service for eight years . |
| 21 | Lillywhite 's team-mate Brian Smith moved up to second place overall , 38 seconds behind , and Irishman Conor Henry , who was a shock winner last year , is in third spot overall at 41 seconds . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The single mother who was a rape victim ( you have no excuse whatever , the judge had told the culprit ) ; the family whose home was struck by lightning the day after their insurers went broke ; the legless man who packed cosmetics at home because he liked to feel he was paying his way . |
| 24 | She should have realised , she should have stopped Dan from making the bookings through a friend of his who was a travel agent . |
| 25 | That glow was swiftly dampened , however , as she realised that in one and the same breath he was as good as saying that he was aware of Lubor Ondrus 's propensity to flirt with any female who was a quarter way pretty . |
| 26 | One of Gehlen 's assistants , Major Werner Haase , who was a wartime electronics expert with the German Army , volunteered to take a cable across the Heidenkamp Canal on the night of 13 November 1953 . |
| 27 | One just heard a whistle , one said it sounded like a hymn and the third , who was a church woman , claimed she could identify it precisely , ‘ Now the Day is Over' ’ . |
| 28 | Edna was obviously charmed to find that Celia had married such a presentable husband who was a heart specialist into the bargain . |
| 29 | Mary 's fiancé , Johnny , who was a sergeant motor mechanic on one of the bomber air fields in Yorkshire , came down to visit her and took us all out for a drink one evening . |
| 30 | As my darling new mother ( whom I loved ) moved radiantly about the room introducing Derek , who had just directed Equus at the Contact Theatre , to Bryan , who was a freelance journalist specializing in film , or Karen , who was a secretary at a literary agency , to Robert , who was a designer ; as she spoke of the new Dylan album and what Riverside Studios was doing , I saw she wanted to scour that suburban stigma right off her body . |