Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men , who were mostly Sudanis from the south , ignored them but looked uneasy . |
| 2 | Peirithous , king of the Lapiths in Thessaly , invited to his wedding the Centaurs , wild man-horses of the mountains who were both neighbour and kin to him . |
| 3 | When Djilas eventually decided that a new class had emerged in communist society he did not include all administrative officials but rather the ‘ party or political bureaucracy ’ , by which he appeared to mean state functionaries who were also party members . |
| 4 | Very often cattle owners negotiated with the thieves , usually through intermediaries , who were sometimes village headmen . |
| 5 | On warm days those of the hospital 's old people who were still mobile used to sit and chatter under the tree in front of the building , watching the passers-by . |
| 6 | In contrast , higher taxation had an incentive effect on work ( income> substitution effect ) for a rather smaller percentage of the population , who were characteristically part of large families , young , less well-off , urban dwellers . |
| 7 | Now erm the wealthy peasants or and sort of and , and other people who , who were possibly sort of er small landlords , they were trying to get involved in these associations because they felt they , they could see they were gathering pace and that the , the cost of exclusion would be very high . |
| 8 | But any any one of us in here now who were who were actually training and have finished our time , no no apprentices were to become part of the union . |
| 9 | And indeed it would seem that it was only at about this time , in the Europe of the late-sixteenth century , that a few thoughtful men first began to think seriously about the moral nature of mankind as a whole , as against the older , narrower concept of the moral nature of " ourselves " , God 's chosen people , ranged against " the others " , the barbarians , who were only part men , unnatural monsters , beasts . |
| 10 | Ms Brolls , who was formerly vice-president and debates convener of Strathclyde students ' union , also won the prize for best individual speaker . |
| 11 | Someone who was neither service class nor intermediate class would , by elimination , be working class . |
| 12 | Incidentally , Tommy had a dog of 57 varieties called Sammy who was predominantly Spaniel by looks and devoted to him . |
| 13 | David Morgan has retired as chairman and is succeeded by Keith Montague who was previously chairman of the supporters society ( The Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway Society Limited ) , and who has been associated with the North Norfolk Railway for over 20 years . |
| 14 | The title of King of the English was carried by no less than ten male successors before King Canute — who was already King of Denmark and Norway — succeeded at the end of 1016 , to be succeeded by his son in 1035 , and another son in 1040 , but that son died two years later , aged only twenty-four . |
| 15 | Even when Archbishop Thomas died , he was succeeded by a new archbishop , Gerard , who was already bishop of Hereford , and as such had taken an oath of obedience to Anselm . |
| 16 | There thus stretched from the Channel to the Pyrenees an ‘ empire ’ ( termed Angevin ) , ruled by one man who was also king of England . |
| 17 | Saadeh , who was also Minister of Telecommunications and Posts , was regarded as more moderate than Geaga . |
| 18 | Miss Bayliss had been visiting her brother with her cousin Brian Barton , 21 , who was also strip searched . |
| 19 | Another minister , Edward Pease , who was also Chairman of the Peace Society , decided to stay on . |
| 20 | The Middlesex secretary of the Edwardian years , who was also secretary of the MCC , Sir Francis Lacey , mixed a curt politeness with public condescension in his treatment of the professional staff . |
| 21 | Foreign dependants of the Court continued to be appointed to important Forest wardenships — such as Amaury de St Amand , Steward of the Household 1233–40 , who was also warden of the Forest of Dean during the greater part of that time , and Peter Chaceporc , the able Poitevin Keeper of the Wardrobe 1241–54 , who was appointed to the same wardenship in May 1248 . |
| 22 | Lafford is a prebend of Lincoln Cathedral , and Richard has been assumed to be also identifiable as Richard de Bello ( of Battle , probably Battle in Sussex ) who was prebendary of Lafford in 1277 and who was also treasurer of Lincoln Cathedral by October 1270 , until at least April 1278 . |
| 23 | Criticism from the Vatican during the papacy of Pope John Paul II had also resulted in one of Arns 's auxiliary bishops , Mgr Luciano Mendes de Almeida , who was also president of the Bishops ' Conference , becoming Archbishop of Mariana in the largely rural state of Minas Gerais , while other progressive Brazilian bishops , including Arns , had lost their seats on Vatican councils and other responsibilities to conservatives . |
| 24 | The head of the Bar Association , who was also president of Togo 's Human Rights League , Kokou Koffigoh , denouncing this " plot " as a fabrication , said that troops had fired on demonstators in a " premeditated " act . |
| 25 | Designed by the City Architect , R.A.H. Livett who was also Director of Housing . |
| 26 | The Rally for Democracy and National Unity ( RDUN ) , recognized on Aug. 22 , was headed by Ahmed Mokhtar Sidi Baba , a minister under Mauritania 's first President , Ould Daddah ( 1960-78 ) , who was also mayor of the town of Atar . |
| 27 | Ali Yahya ( who was also chair of the Algerian League of Human Rights — LADH ) said that charges against Kebir had been dropped as a result of an Algiers court hearing . |
| 28 | The agreed price of the three acres of land was £180 and a proper conveyance was to be prepared by Theed Pearse the solicitor , who was also owner of the adjoining land on which the County Hospital was to be built nearly a century later . |
| 29 | The Free Cuba political action committee headed by Jorge Mas Canosa , who was also leader of the right-wing anti-Castro Cuban American National Foundation ( CANF ) , had donated US$17,000 to Torricelli and a reported total of US$500,000 to 50 other US politicians to promote the bill . |
| 30 | According to Alcuin he was devoted to the pursuit of learning from his earliest years , a wise man who was both king and teacher . |