Example sentences of "who [was/were] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are problems even with this more sophisticated test , because it could be argued that to examine those who were as a matter of fact interested in science is to skew the sample . |
| 2 | Needless to say the proposed settlement — widely publicised — drew a good deal of criticism , almost entirely from the Left who were for a variety of reasons extremely hostile to white Rhodesians . |
| 3 | The membership was to include appropriate volunteers who had knowledge of ‘ education and of other conditions affecting young persons ’ , and who were in a position to advise the exchanges . |
| 4 | that the defendant took care to inform himself , from others who were in a position to provide the information , as to whether the deposit would constitute an offence and had no reason to suppose that the information given to him was false or misleading ; |
| 5 | This gave them little time to develop influence where it mattered , but also meant that the Supreme Soviet had a body of deputies holding important jobs who were in a position to be influential ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 177–81 ) . |
| 6 | Being concerned with gentlemen or noble persons , in other words those within the society who were in a position to act , Spenser directs his poem to make them aware both of dangers and responsibilities . |
| 7 | Quantitative limits were also thought to restrict competition as they hampered efficient banks who were in a position to create new deposits . |
| 8 | The NATO Secretary-General , Manfred Wörner , commented that " to see defence ministers who were in a sense at the heart of the Cold War confrontation sitting in a spirit of partnership around the same table is a remarkable and moving event " . |
| 9 | P C Raymond Hall was shot last November in North London when he tried to arrest Kelly and an accomplice who were in a lorry which was found to be packed with more than three tonnes of explosives . |
| 10 | Support staff , who were in a majority , were as a consequence involved in productive and creative dialogue with teachers and governors . |
| 11 | All four of Charles 's children who married were to do so by licence ; that suited two of them — Elizabeth in Frome and then Benjamin in London — who were in a bit of a hurry , but in Sarah 's case there was maybe a hint of Nonconformist protest against having banns read out in a church which she did not attend . |
| 12 | There had been a recent incident involving my younger brother , Russell , who had been at a party and on his way home been accosted by a group of men that he knew , who were in a car . |
| 13 | The Cadders , who were in a hire car with their two young sons , were the only witnesses . |
| 14 | 6–9 Mrs Holliday , Bowmore , applied for the baptism of her daughter in the absence of her husband who was on a voyage to Africa and not expected to return for a year , and as they were " satisfied with Mrs Holliday 's knowledge as to the ordinance and the obligation " they agreed . |
| 15 | The congregation was told that Paul , who was on a weekend visit home from Newcastle , where he was studying industrial and architectural design , was a young man mature beyond his years . |
| 16 | Dr Ormerod , who was on a working holiday in the Carpathians , is to be tried on charges of attempting to smuggle a Romanian citizen out of the country . |
| 17 | It was called Are We Nearly There ? and it was about a little boy who was on a journey with his father . |
| 18 | While producing a series of vocal recitals at CBC I had the pleasure of working with Mrs John Christie ( Audrey Mildmay ) , who was on a visit to Vancouver , and who had a remarkably fine singing voice . |
| 19 | Because his wife had made dishes of it as first-night presents for the cast , apart from Titania , who was on a diet and would have to be dealt with in some other way . |
| 20 | And there was a a a a lad who was about a couple of years older than me , he 'd be about twenty three , he 'd been through the War and er he was a real revolutionary , he was re and and he was very intelligent . |
| 21 | He married a girl who was with a firm who repaired old clothes . |
| 22 | I turned back to my plate , registering as I did so that Geoff Tulloch , who was with a group of his data-processing colleagues at a nearby table , had noticed our interest . |
| 23 | Help of a more immediately practical nature was given to Manan , a young pianist who was without a piano . |
| 24 | A Russian emigre who was for a while vice president of research and development at Prime/Computervision , has caught the start-up bug . |
| 25 | She detested Mrs Deacon , who was like a sterner , more forthright edition of Mrs Martin . |
| 26 | It was Justine , the young woman who looked after the children and who was like a sister to us . |
| 27 | ‘ We had a guy called Charlie Cooke who was like a ballerina . |
| 28 | He grinned and she felt her spirits rise as she looked with affection at this man who was like a brother to her . |
| 29 | they 're looking for an old boy eighteen to twenty five who was like a carpenter or a plumber who 's actually learnt a trade but he said the trouble is , he said |
| 30 | " You know you 're doing wrong , " said the team leader who was like a bear with a sore head for the rest of the morning . |