Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun] " 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 | In this research , follow-up interviews will be conducted with entrepreneurs who were previously the subjects of a study on entrepreneurial aspirations and motivations . |
| 3 | The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority . |
| 4 | Also , in several European countries legislation had been passed to ‘ extend ’ agreements to employers who were not a party to the negotiations ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 5 | This was a telling comment on Francoism 's concept of " normality " and , particularly , on its view of the intellectual and political capacity of women : men who were not the head of the household in which they lived and all unmarried women were disenfranchized , even if they had reached the age of majority . |
| 6 | Inside the college at Lincoln the students thought that this teacher was a fine teacher and fun but too odd to be offered responsibilities ; and outside the college were a plethora of people who were not the university of Cambridge , anxious to offer every variety of job , pastoral , academic , or administrative . |
| 7 | For a lord this meant securing the service of men who were already the servants of others . |
| 8 | For a lord this meant securing the service of men who were already the servants of others . |
| 9 | It is more significant how little patronage was going to men who were primarily the duke 's own servants . |
| 10 | It is more significant how little patronage was going to men who were primarily the duke 's own servants . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So did a succession of home helps who were also the source of strange tales and occasional adventures . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The people who were once a minority in the Labour party now represent the views of the majority . |
| 16 | hens who were once the oats were so were sown they had to they were closed down and that . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Mr Pearson is currently at Orion where , by a happy irony , he is the editor of Vikram Seth , who was formerly a Faber author . |
| 23 | It is headed by a Britain , Bill Richards , who was formerly a director of Sun Life , and has offices in New York and Tokyo . |
| 24 | a subject specialist with industrial or professional expertise , who was not a panel member , would prepare detailed comments on the documentation for circulation to panel members and the course team prior to the validation event . |
| 25 | Thereafter she resumed a close relationship with her father , who was not a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 26 | This held true even in marriage ( a man who loved his wife too passionately was an adulterer , said St Jerome , who was not a man you 'd invite to parties ) ; and rampant millenarianism encouraged the tendency , since if you think that the end of the world , no , this world , is imminent , then procreation must seem something of a waste of time , and preparing your soul for Judgement Day will be pushed up your list of priorities . |
| 27 | There were punks and Sikhs and he went to work with a postman who was not a man at all , but a woman . |
| 28 | Maybe he would show Eleanor to her as a sample of the younger woman who was not a gold-digger . |
| 29 | A certain Mr Tomlinson was in trouble ‘ having several times played in the upper part of the links with some gentleman who was not a member of the Club and who had on each occasion omitted to pay his green fee ’ ( at this time 2s. 6d . ) . |
| 30 | But Palmerston 's surprise at the announcement seems genuine , and Hall , who was not a member of the Cabinet , probably failed to keep it informed about his proposals . |