Example sentences of "who was [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen Pinsent , a former weightlifting champion who was jailed last month for supplying anabolic steroids , had his three-month sentence reduced to 28 days by the Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 2 | It could have been your child , your parent , or your friend who was killed that day . |
| 3 | For those tiring of today 's political grand prix scene , Gerald Donaldson 's Gilles Villeneuve — The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver represents a long-overdue memorial to the heroic Canadian driver who was killed seven years ago practising in his Ferrari for the Belgian Grand Prix . |
| 4 | The need for guidance on restraint has been fed by the intense media attention on lack of control in homes , which is said to have allowed young people to abscond — such as the case of Sally Ann Catell , who was killed last month in Birmingham while driving a stolen car . |
| 5 | An example is the appalling tragedy of lorry driver Leslie Parsons , who was killed last February when he was just doing his job . |
| 6 | who was watching that with ? |
| 7 | To this day it is the address to which Diana has her private mail directed and has done ever since she suspected Fergie was visiting the Buckingham Palace post room in order to tell Prince Charles who was writing confidential letters to his wife . |
| 8 | At Alcala 's adult education centre , one toothless old woman in slippers sang her a flamenco lament about a lovely but strong-headed girl from the next village who was stabbed seven times by her jealous husband . |
| 9 | Although he had merely played with the idea , he had thought about murder this morning and who was to say that given propitious circumstances and the required degree of desperation , he might not indeed … murder ? |
| 10 | THE vigilante businessman who was cleared last week of murdering a suspected car vandal was jailed for 18 months yesterday for an alternative charge of affray . |
| 11 | Even 10 years ago any nurse who was asked this question would probably have replied ‘ I 'm answerable to sister . ’ |
| 12 | The sultanates of Muscat and Zanzibar had recently been separated by the terms of the Canning award , but Majid 's position remained insecure ; in 1859 his half-brothers Thuwayn of Muscat and Barghash , who was to succeed Majid as sultan , attempted to capture Zanzibar . |
| 13 | It was presented ‘ for outstanding care for his father , who was paralysed due to a stroke . ’ |
| 14 | Simonds , who was to give three to five lectures a week , admitted that , coming from practice in Twickenham , he was not an experienced teacher , and had never lectured to such an audience as attended his inaugural discourse . |
| 15 | A man who was using private land as an unofficial scrap-yard and heavy goods vehicle base has been asked to get the site cleared up . |
| 16 | To put that another way , would a person who was using all the available information concerning the process determining aggregate demand have predicted that the position of the aggregate demand curve was going to be AD 1 ? |
| 17 | A Rumanian doctor , Ana Aslan , who was using these injections , noticed that her elderly patients appeared much more lively , and generally healthier after long-term procaine injections . |
| 18 | Who was controlling that bit of cord ? |
| 19 | The intrusion of the false belief that there was an extraterrestrial ‘ god ’ in some form who was controlling earthly development has caused it to abandon completely its responsibility in this respect . |
| 20 | This is of interest for art historians who like to know lots of details of when and by whom a painting was commissioned and painted , how much it cost , who was buying this kind of work , where was it being exhibited . |
| 21 | I have a neighbour with a toddler who was outgrowing several of the things I was looking for ; the pram came from her , and a few other things as well . |
| 22 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 23 | This move had three objects : to complete the education of our two younger children , Fiona at Fettes ( where my old Highfield playmate Inky Chenevix-Trench was now headmaster ) and Alastair at the Edinburgh Academy ; to have Moira 's mother who was living alone in an Edinburgh flat and becoming increasingly tottery to live with us ; and to own property once again and so benefit from its ever-increasing rise in value . |
| 24 | All of us are aware of the problems of someone who was living alone and struggling to maintain a large house , but I am genuinely surprised at Conservative Members ' enthusiasm for a benefit that is clearly not targeted . |
| 25 | Her first children 's book , Tell Me a Story , which included an account of her daughter 's death , was published ( still under the name of ‘ Ennis Graham ’ ) in 1875 , with drawings by Walter Crane [ q.v. ] , who was to illustrate many of her books . |
| 26 | The BMA decision came with perfect timing for Mr Clarke , who was facing serious Conservative unrest at Blackpool about the presentation of health policies . |
| 27 | His views were criticised by the House of Lords , for example in Pett No. 2 ( H.L. , 1970 ) and even he held in Maynard v. Osmond ( C.A. , 1977 ) that legal representation was not an absolute requirement where a police officer who was facing disciplinary charges was denied legal representation under the Police Disciplinary Regulations . |
| 28 | Notable absentees included President Doe of Liberia , currently threatened by a rebellion ; President Houphouët-Boigny of Côte d'Ivoire , who was facing mounting dissent ; and President Mobutu of Zaïre , who was dealing with a crisis over the alleged massacre of students at Lubumbashi . |
| 29 | And former manager Terry Butcher , who was dismissed last January , has taken out a High Court writ for the remaining two years of his contract — an estimated £500,000 . |
| 30 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |