Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | Among the successful opposition candidates was Hitoshi Motoshima , who was narrowly elected to a fourth term as mayor of Nagasaki . |
2 | However , the type of cynicism greeting the arrival of Haines , who was officially introduced to the media yesterday on his second day in office , smacks very much of a ‘ Pavlov 's dogs ’ response which assumes every move the Club makes is anachronistic and autocratic and therefore automatically to be shot down in flames . |
3 | A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy in Cape Town , who was slowly suffocating to death , yesterday became the world 's first child to have an artificial windpipe implanted , during an operation by a British surgeon . |
4 | They had lit upon Sarah Ferguson instead , who was hotly tipped to be announcing her engagement to Prince Andrew any day , and her appearance in Klosters was their dream come true . |
5 | HUGO SANCHEZ : Famous footballer who was sometime considered to be the black Pete . |
6 | The applicant , who was strongly connected to the voters of Angus , sought Panmure 's assistance to obtain a post of inspector of customs for his son , Robert Fullerton , who had served for five years as clerk of the customs and had acted as inspector when some of these officers were under suspension . |
7 | Ultimately , however , the German decision lay with Adenauer who was strongly committed to the Europe of the Six . |
8 | Anderson , the Clerk to the meeting , who was strongly attached to Sir John Anstruther , when he was called upon to attach the seal to the commission returning Alexander ‘ pretended that it had been abstracted from him ’ . |
9 | In 1858 Wallace ( who had also read Malthus ) hit upon the idea of natural selection and wrote up an account , which he sent to Darwin , who was widely known to be interested in the species question . |
10 | Also replaced in the ensuing Cabinet reshuffle was Petroleum Resources Minister Jibril Aminu , who was widely expected to be a candidate in the presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 5 . |
11 | Col. Djibril Ould Abdullah , the Interior Minister , who was generally considered to be second in the political hierarchy after President Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohammed Taya , lost his post in a Council of Ministers reshuffle on Feb. 4 , being replaced by the Fisheries and Maritime Economy Minister , Col. Mohammed Sidina Ould Sidya , a southerner . |
12 | Her husband was knocked of his bike and killed by a drunken driver , who was later sentenced to twenty one months in prison . |
13 | ‘ The man who can win the allegiance of the Teddy Boys ’ , remarked Mr Andrew Fountaine who was later to come to prominence within the leadership of the National Front , ‘ can rule this country . ’ |
14 | A few years ago , a young woman was brutally killed by a notorious murderer who was later brought to justice . |
15 | Johnny was a show-off — a balding braggart who was later proved to be a liar . |
16 | One of those arrested was conference director Abdurakhim Pulatov ( who was later reported to be in a Tashkent prison ) . |
17 | This will not affect anyone who was already contributing to a pension plan prior to July 1988 unless , that is , they actually wish to change . |
18 | The person responsible for QA ( who was already known to LIFESPAN and had the necessary privileges for QA work ) logged on to LIFESPAN and requested the QA listings as a file into his personal account . |
19 | The poet praises Beowulf by linking his killing of the monster Grendel with the feats of Sigmund , who was clearly expected to be familiar to an English audience . |
20 | That somewhat chilling prediction was made in the presence of the hon. Member for Cornwall , North ( Sir G. Neale ) , who was here to listen to the opening speeches but who is not here now . |
21 | He employed a builder from his home town who was well used to the sophisticated style in which the many rich cloth merchants were building their houses . |
22 | In the absence of an alternative slate of candidates , seven comandantes of the old leadership were re-elected to a nine-member national directorate ( DN ) , headed by former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra who was also elected to the new post of FSLN secretary-general . |
23 | UNITA admitted that abuses had occurred , but blamed N'Zau Puna , who was also said to be responsible for the disappearances . |
24 | It had been carried out by himself , Dr Peter Brophy , and Dr Robert Wilson , who was also going to the premiere . |
25 | His absences seem to have influenced Bayles , who was likewise alleged to be often away , his duties being performed by monitors . |
26 | It was there that I picked up Tom Phillips , an artist who was just beginning to be sought after . |
27 | At a rally addressed by Labour 's Dennis Healey , they spent most of the time trying to avoid one of their school dinner ladies , who was forever shouting to the platform : ‘ You 're just feathering the beds for the Tories . ’ |
28 | Major has been embarrassed by unauthorised revelations : about his engagingly eccentric brother , Terry , who still bears the family 's original surname , Major-Ball ; and his sister Pat , now retired and in straitened circumstances , who was once taken to court for failing to pay the rates . |
29 | The small girl who was once told to be a little lady need now only be a girl and , indeed , boyish behaviour is smiled upon in girls for a longer period than the opposite is approved in boys . |
30 | And the youngest was Phyllis , who was always trying to be good . |