Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv] a [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 | The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | The people who were once a minority in the Labour party now represent the views of the majority . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is headed by a Britain , Bill Richards , who was formerly a director of Sun Life , and has offices in New York and Tokyo . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There were punks and Sikhs and he went to work with a postman who was not a man at all , but a woman . |
| 13 | Maybe he would show Eleanor to her as a sample of the younger woman who was not a gold-digger . |
| 14 | 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 . ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | According to press reports Chaovalit , who was not a member of any political organization , was being courted by a wide spectrum of parties including the opposition grouping Ekkaparb ( founded in April 1989 — see p. 37082 ) . |
| 17 | May 1990 : nomination by Najibullah of Khaleqiar ( who was not a member of the PDPA ) as Prime Minister and appointment of new Cabinet [ see p. 37453 ] . |
| 18 | The appointment of Tapie — who was not a member of the ruling Parti socialiste ( PS ) although as a deputy for the " presidential majority " he had voted along with it — had been controversial within the PS . |
| 19 | Charles , the bridegroom , was in some ways set apart from his three brothers ; for a start he appears to have been illiterate , whereas they were not , and also he was the only one who was not a cardmaker — or if he had learned the trade , he chose not to practise it . |
| 20 | What an extraordinary suggestion , to put forward a girl — a charity child who was not a Sister , a novice , a postulant , nor anyone with the remotest intention of becoming a nun — and raise her up above the many Sisters in the Community who were all hoping and praying for a chance of higher education … what would they feel if a girl who had already been pampered , it seemed , by the convent in Knockglen , were put in to study , over their heads ? |
| 21 | Whether an equivalent car would be made available to a company secretary who was not a family member is a question of fact — perhaps depending on the size of the company and customs in the particular trade . |
| 22 | In Long ( 1830 ) 172 ER 756 , a person who was not a doctor killed two patients by applying corrosive plasters to their chests . |
| 23 | of women raped by a relative who was not a husband and 61 per cent . |
| 24 | Officials said talks would be held next month to see if other methods of repatriation could be employed , but vetting procedures to determine who was and who was not a refugee prevented ‘ international migratory chaos ’ . |
| 25 | It may be extremely difficult for the landlord to resist a claim by a person at the premises who suffers injury as a result of the landlord 's default and who was not a party to the lease . |
| 26 | But under the revised membership clause of the constitution the Rev W. B. Sleight , who was not a missioner , was eligible for this honour and it was he , who , " in accordance with the general feeling " , was elected the first President of the BDDA . |
| 27 | His 17 year-old brother who was not a miner was also sent to prison after the police claimed that he would ‘ support his brother ’ if released . |
| 28 | Under normal circumstances , Lucien would have been reared by his uncle , Enkhari , who was not a blood relative but the lover of his father . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Ken was happy to do good turns to anyone who was n't a threat . |
| 30 | Helmut Kragan sat on his right , his seat away from the table , as befitted the recorder of minutes who was n't a council member . |