Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | It is more significant how little patronage was going to men who were primarily the duke 's own servants . |
| 3 | It is more significant how little patronage was going to men who were primarily the duke 's own servants . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So did a succession of home helps who were also the source of strange tales and occasional adventures . |
| 6 | The people who were once a minority in the Labour party now represent the views of the majority . |
| 7 | hens who were once the oats were so were sown they had to they were closed down and that . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It has been organised for Daedalus by its European director Dr Nicholas Reeves , who was formerly a curator in The British Museum 's Department of Egyptian Antiquities ( and now advises the Earl of Carnarvon on his Egyptian collection at Highclere ) , together with Rupert Wace who has dealt in ancient art for over fifteen years . |
| 11 | Even so , a miner such as Anthony High , who was formerly a cobbler , could earn money repairing underground shoes for the management , and in June 1846 he was given 3/ for repairing a blacksmith 's leather bellows . |
| 12 | It is headed by a Britain , Bill Richards , who was formerly a director of Sun Life , and has offices in New York and Tokyo . |
| 13 | Besides Maxim Gorky and a daughter of L. Tolstoy , it included the President of the Second Duma and even S. N. Prokopovich , the Minister of Food in the Provisional Government of 1917 , who was neither a Bolshevik nor a Menshevik . |
| 14 | Myself and English , as she is taught in schools , came to a conflict and gradually to a more and more friendly agreement through the necessity of writing long letters daily to one who was neither a schoolboy nor an elder , the subject of the letters being matters concerning nobody else in the world . |
| 15 | Whether the compensatory remedy available ‘ together with ’ the restitutionary remedy , could be obtained against an accomplice who was neither a party to the transaction nor a person to whom money or property of the investor had been transferred is equally doubtful . |
| 16 | He further submitted that the owner of an incorporeal right did not derive his profits from the place where a sub-licensee , who was neither an agent nor joint adventurer , of these rights exploited them itself . |
| 17 | How could he be falling in love with the beautiful cuckoo in his nest who was exactly the sort of pampered darling a poor doctor ought to avoid ? |
| 18 | They must have been amazed and resentful that Pyke wanted to listen to me , of all people , someone who was barely an actor . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , it was something like a castle , and he 'ad tons of servants and a butler as well , and a sister who was secretly a witch and tried to make the poor girl worship Satan , but — ’ |
| 20 | — instructing an expert witness who was previously a client albeit in a matter totally unrelated . |
| 21 | Mr who is on my right , and who was previously the chairman of the Southern Area Planning Committee of Ryedale District Council , but not at that time , which explains that erm a change was in hand . |
| 22 | Dr Marriage , who was previously the editor of Christian magazine , succeeds Rev Alec Gilmore , who has reached retirement age . |
| 23 | Dr Marriage , who was previously the editor of Christian magazine , succeeds Rev Alec Gilmore , who has reached retirement age . |
| 24 | THE economic development and planning departments of Gwynedd County Council have been merged into one , to be headed by Dr Eurwyn Lloyd Evans who was previously the county 's economic development officer . |
| 25 | The ideal type codifies a scheme of reasons which would motivate someone who was wholly a bureaucrat , and understanding proceeds from what such purely rational — legal persons would think and do . |
| 26 | At Cedars Mrs Singh had instantly made friends with a young Asian woman ( wearing trousers and a shirt ) with a little girl who was evidently a year older than Balbinder . |
| 27 | She died in 1729 , and in 1731 he married Elizabeth ( died 1744 ) , daughter of Sir Philip Jackson of Pontrilas , Herefordshire , who was evidently a relative of Mary 's . |
| 28 | Not much later a man who was probably a Samaritan composed another history of biblical times . |
| 29 | There is one other name who was probably a monk here at Halling . |
| 30 | Item No 3 : is a 1794 Hendon half-penny , issued by B Price who was probably the landlord on an inn named The Greyhound , which would be why that dog is featured on the token . |