Example sentences of "who was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four months ago , I wrote about Michael Harris from Crosby , who was the classic victim of the ‘ no claim , no blame ’ trap . |
| 2 | But who was the young trooper ? |
| 3 | Who was the young lawyer . |
| 4 | When James begins with the simple statement " The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated " , he begs such questions as : Who was the young man ? |
| 5 | Who was the young page , and the mysterious young fop who had trailed them ? |
| 6 | Doug Tannock , who was the former UK Champion metal detector has been promoted to Service Manager at London East . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Sister Constance , who was the then the principal sister there she let us have the field so we got entertainment laid on we invited a celebrity , I think our first celebrity was erm I think it was Lord and Lady and then each time we had a different one , we had entertainment the whole time we started , about half past two and then we had entertainment until six then we had an interval then we had entertainment till twelve o'clock I even took my piano down onto the field so that we could have music . |
| 9 | One typical story recalled the fate of the apocryphal Lupescu , who was the alleged inventor of several scurrilous stories with the Comrade as their butt and who was supposed to supplement his income with hard currency or Western cigarettes given him by his appreciative audience . |
| 10 | The formidable Mrs. Mary Campbell of Boquhan , a lady with great influence in the affairs of the town of Stirling , and with equally strong views on the choice of a minister for her parish church , demanded that the king 's presentation should be obtained for Robert Ure , who was the assistant minister of St. Ninian 's parish . |
| 11 | I had to wheedle the information out of him , but Capron said he was the senior case officer on the investigation into Mills , and could confirm absolutely that it was Mills who was the Soviet agent who had betrayed my father . |
| 12 | There was no doubt who was the junior partner ! |
| 13 | Chainarong Noonpakdi of Class 11 , a cousin of Gen. Issarapong Noonpakdi of Class 5 , who was the Interior Minister , NPKA secretary-general and Deputy Army C.-in-C . |
| 14 | There are stories of cruelty heaped upon Clift by Huston during the making of Freud , and when weighing up one person 's story against another 's you start wondering just who was the worse rogue . |
| 15 | We had lots and lots of trolley buses and er who was the General Manager had sought powers to run all over Ipswich . |
| 16 | Who was the tall man I had seen standing against the moon ? |
| 17 | And Abul Pharajius tells us , that Zerdusht , or Zoroastres , ( who was the great Patriarch of the Magians , who wrote the Book Zendavesta ( which is the Bible of that Sect ) and whose Name is still in the same Veneration among them , as that of Moses is among the Jews , and that of Muhammed among his Followers ) foretold to his Magians the Coming of Christ … |
| 18 | He also had a copy of Gauguin 's Avant et Après which recounted the episode in the Yellow House from Gauguin 's point of view , patronising , complacent in its nervousness , making sure the world knew who was the great painter , the great influence , the major man . |
| 19 | Employing a semi-structured format , we asked interviewees about their attitudes towards the care programme approach and details of their practice — which client groups were considered , who was involved in reviews , who was the key worker and so forth . |
| 20 | Well on the basis of what was told by the guy she went to see at who was the key account manager |
| 21 | Frank Salter , who was the Liberal candidate for Cambridge borough , made ‘ a genial solid ’ speech of thanks . |
| 22 | He dedicates this part of the story to Taffy Bowen , who was the prime mover . |
| 23 | and everybody , everybody will hear you know , who was the Prime Minister of India between the year such and such a , and were saying Mahat Ghandi , me hat and me coat |
| 24 | It was she who was the essential element in the alchemy which had absolved him and promised him such a refreshment of security and calm here . |
| 25 | The case will be keenly remembered by the hon. and learned Member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) , who was the principal Law Officer for Scotland at the time . |
| 26 | Er my biggest downfall was that the guy that employed me who was the eldest brother of the two that owned the company got killed in a bloody erm riding accident |
| 27 | Revie was in no doubt who was the better player … and its skill we are talking about . |
| 28 | It reminds me of the time I went to a school in Clevedon to interview one of the masters , David Bryant , who was the greatest bowls player in the world and a star in his own right . |
| 29 | The Executive elected at that Conference was packed with diehards , and " a debate on cooperation against Labour revealed the depth of division : a motion calling for closer collaboration met strong opposition , but so did one calling simply for a Unionist government : They must turn out the man who was the greatest danger to the Conservative Party " , ( a voice — " Lloyd George " ) . |
| 30 | Motor racing , like other sports often poses the question : " Who was the greatest ? " |