Example sentences of "who [was/were] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The international nature of the event was represented by Charlotte Teske ( GER ) and Wanda Turo ( USA ) who were the next home . |
| 2 | William the Conqueror , who was a second cousin to King Edward the Confessor , succeeded as Duke of Normandy in 1035 , and believed that he was entitled to the crown of England , despite the fact that Harold II had fought along side him in his many battles against his great enemy , the King of France . |
| 3 | The Queen is related to the dead Tsar through her grandfather King George V , who was a first cousin . |
| 4 | Circumstances changed at the end of the summer of 1986 , when matters , and men , were becoming desperate , and when North also seemed to think he had found a soulmate in the ‘ brave young soldier , who was the Second Channel . |
| 5 | Sir Stanley Matthews , who was the first footballer to be knighted says he still does n't know what all the fuss is about . |
| 6 | Weizsäcker , who was the first head of state to be received in Czechoslovakia since Havel 's election as President , was accompanied by Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the West German Foreign Minister , who held talks with Dienstbier . |
| 7 | A British double-century looks very much on for the 11-times South African champion , who was the first man to achieve that feat in his native land . |
| 8 | Who was the first man born outside England to captain that country ? |
| 9 | Brabham , the quiet , shy Australian , who was the first man from the Antipodes to break into Grand Prix racing , retired from driving in 1970 with 123 Formula One Grand Prix starts to his credit and 14 victories . |
| 10 | Mass production dates from the time of Henry Ford , who was the first man to adopt the principle of the production line , when he used this approach to produce a restricted range of motor cars put together in a flow-line process . |
| 11 | Many of them were designed by E. R. Robson ( 1835–1917 ) who was the first architect to the London School Board . |
| 12 | Anatole Kaletsky , the Times economics correspondent , who was the first person to expose the punitive nature of John Smith 's shadow Budget . |
| 13 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 14 | Lawrence 's views on brown dominions owed something to his intimacy with Lionel Curtis , the indefatigable imperial publicist who was the first person to think seriously about the idea of a multiracial Commonwealth . |
| 15 | And even though they were supposed to be the biggest and gravest army in the world they were frightened to get off the So what , who was the first person who stepped on land ? |
| 16 | ‘ There is some doubt over who was the first person in the world to swim the back crawl , but arguably it was actress Rita Tushingham 's uncle Thomas , who also swam for the Garston club , ’ he explains . |
| 17 | Who was the first person to speak ? |
| 18 | John Foster , who was the first director of the Countryside Commission for Scotland , said existing provisions would never secure public access over mountain areas . |
| 19 | Who scored Charlton 's first goal on their return to The Valley is a logical sequel to the original poser : Who was the first player to score in the first live televised game in England ? |
| 20 | Who was the first teacher ? |
| 21 | Present at the reunion , which begins at 7pm on March 24 , will be Dr W Pugh , who was the first superintendent of the company when it reopened in 1936 . |
| 22 | Who was the first leader of the parliamentary Labour Party ? |
| 23 | The meeting was attended by Hun Sen , Premier of the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) and SNC member , who was the first leader of the Phnom Penh regime to visit China . |
| 24 | Membership of the National Deaf Club tended to attract those deaf people of a certain social standing , and included S. Bright Lucas ( who was the first President ) , wealthy businessman A.J. Wilson , the artist Thomas Davidson , the editor of the British Deaf Times , Joseph Hepworth , explorer and photographer Henry Newton-Lowry , and the type of activities pursued tended to reflect the membership : chess , table-cricket , tennis , badminton . |
| 25 | Who was the first captain to score a Test fifty ? |
| 26 | The main impetus for change came from Gorbachev 's close colleague , Alexander Yakovlev , who was the first Politburo member to ask publicly whether there had been alternatives to the command-administrative system . |
| 27 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , who was the first woman Treasury minister when Mr Major formed his first government , was drafted into Conservative Central Office last year as joint deputy party chairman . |
| 28 | Who was the first woman appointed to a British cabinet ? |
| 29 | Who was the first woman MP to be elected to Westminster ? |
| 30 | Who was the first woman MP to take her seat at Westminster ? |