Example sentences of "who was [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | IBM Japan Ltd , which restructured in January by creating two subsidiaries , one aimed at small and medium-sized companies and the other offering overall services including consultation and facilities management , has a new president , Kakutaro Kitashiro , who replaces Takeo Shiina , who was also a member of the IBM Corp main board , and is now non-executive chairman of IBM Japan : the new president is 48 years old , a 26-year veteran of IBM Japan , and possesses little of the charisma of the outgoing Shiina ; he rose rapidly through the ranks to a position of potential candidate for president in 1984 . |
| 32 | ROLAND Boyes , the only Member in the last Parliament who was also a cricket umpire , was up with half the rest of Britain at 4.30 this morning . |
| 33 | Here was a second double life — that of a scientist who was also an artist , a chemist who was also an alchemist , a businessman who was also a magician . |
| 34 | As Del Genie — a name borrowed from an American theology student who was also a conjuror — he did magic tricks round the town , at rotary clubs and children 's shows . |
| 35 | So I , and the only other lad in the dormitory , who was also a railway enthusiast , were surprised and stunned to hear , just as we were slipping off to sleep , the sound of wagons being shunted in the station . |
| 36 | It ill became the English king , who was sovereign in his own country , to behave as a vassal towards his French suzerain , and the French king had great difficulty in controlling the behaviour of a vassal who was also a sovereign . |
| 37 | IKE : Name given to General Eisenhower , husband of Tina Turner , the famous black female singer who was also a pigeon fancier at weekends . |
| 38 | I have since heard of a Roman Catholic nun who was also a doctor , who was allowed to train part time to fit in with her religious duties . |
| 39 | President Eisenhower , who was also a war hero , er Republican president er when he heard of Forbus 's erm actions er he er he sent federal troops to Little Rock , Arkansas , and on the second day of the school year federal troops in full combat gear , you know with , with machine guns and all the rest of it and er helmets and stuff , escorted the black children into school . |
| 40 | In 1777 he became a partner of Henry Park [ q.v. ] , who was also a surgeon to the Infirmary , and in the same year he moved to Basnett Street . |
| 41 | Turner has been watching Mathie , who was also a target for Newcastle . |
| 42 | ‘ It was one of the quietest schooldays I can remember , ’ says Alwyn Miller , of Granville Terrace , Binchester , Bishop Auckland , who was also a pupil at Bishop Auckland . |
| 43 | He may have met Burgess at Oxford ; Lord Rivers , who was also a graduate of Magdalen College , and was president of the Odiham Society , may have discussed the society with him ; or Penn may simply have read the society 's advertisement of its intention to send two lads to Alfort for training . |
| 44 | Of the other two paintings , one is a picture of a friend , a girl who was also a student , posing in the same life-room , and the other , a portrait I made of a fellow student and good friend of mine from the Royal Academy , James Tower , who became a noted ceramicist . |
| 45 | They devoted the second half to a work written by a composer who was also a student at the time of its creation , Josef Suk . |
| 46 | Roberts , who was also a witness to the Goodwood incidents , was seen for for twenty minutes . |
| 47 | Abe Moses , who was also a poet when he was not gutting fish , died while the children were st ill young , and Miriam Leah , who stunk of fish , decided to go into something more glamorous . |
| 48 | People dismiss this aspect of Wordsworth 's poetry as ‘ odd ’ , forgetting that George Orwell became a tramp for six weeks and lived for a year as a down-and-out ; and Shakespeare wrote a play about a mad old man who was also a vagrant ! |
| 49 | They included three vicars , of whom one doubled up as an architect ; a doctor who was also a horse-breeder ; a barrister ; a master builder ; five shopkeepers ; a smallholder and packman ; and — by far the largest group — ten farmers . |
| 50 | Here was a second double life — that of a scientist who was also an artist , a chemist who was also an alchemist , a businessman who was also a magician . |
| 51 | She eventually found one who was also an art collector and paid him for operating on her with her own works of art , most of them created at the Fine Arts School of Dijon where she teaches . |
| 52 | I once astounded a good guitarist friend of mine — who was also an electronics engineer , believe it or not — at the difference in tone and volume between a Whirlwind lead and a cheapo cable . |
| 53 | There has been a suggestion that Aethelburh , kinswoman of Ealdred , sub-king of the Hwicce , and abbess of Fladbury in Worcestershire ( CS 238 : S 62 ) , was Offa 's daughter of the same name who was also an abbess ( CS 251 : S 127 ) , but there were clearly several prominent women of this name . |
| 54 | Here was a second double life — that of a scientist who was also an artist , a chemist who was also an alchemist , a businessman who was also a magician . |
| 55 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 56 | Asmodeus , the Devil 's banker ’ — William was still working his way through the forces of Good and Evil — ‘ who was also the Maker of Bad Marriages … ’ |
| 57 | Germanus of Paris excommunicated Charibert for marrying Marcovefa , a nun who was also the sister of the king 's previous wife , Merofled , from whom he had as yet not separated . |
| 58 | Thorn , the big defender who was also the hero of the midweek Coca-Cola Cup triumph over Liverpool , powered the Eagles ahead with a 29th minute header and Steve Coppell 's men grimly fought tooth and nail to claim their fourth successive victory . |
| 59 | But luckily help was at hand in the person of Anna-Lisa Hammer , a blonde , Norwegian freelance journalist who was also the Press Officer for the Bislet Games in Oslo . |
| 60 | Then in Hill House , just outside the mill , where Mr Besley now lives , there was a grocer 's shop kept by a Mr Flick who was also the village carrier , taking goods to and from Ipswich . |