Example sentences of "who was [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Brolls , who was formerly vice-president and debates convener of Strathclyde students ' union , also won the prize for best individual speaker . |
| 2 | Someone who was neither service class nor intermediate class would , by elimination , be working class . |
| 3 | Incidentally , Tommy had a dog of 57 varieties called Sammy who was predominantly Spaniel by looks and devoted to him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There thus stretched from the Channel to the Pyrenees an ‘ empire ’ ( termed Angevin ) , ruled by one man who was also king of England . |
| 8 | Saadeh , who was also Minister of Telecommunications and Posts , was regarded as more moderate than Geaga . |
| 9 | Miss Bayliss had been visiting her brother with her cousin Brian Barton , 21 , who was also strip searched . |
| 10 | Another minister , Edward Pease , who was also Chairman of the Peace Society , decided to stay on . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Designed by the City Architect , R.A.H. Livett who was also Director of Housing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | According to Alcuin he was devoted to the pursuit of learning from his earliest years , a wise man who was both king and teacher . |
| 22 | He said the comments were ‘ deeply revealing ’ about Mr Major , who was both Treasury Chief Secretary and Chancellor in the Thatcher government . |
| 23 | Corman , who was both producer and director of The Trip , was unsure about Nicholson 's script . |
| 24 | Modesty , of course , from a man who was twice motorcyle racing champion of the world . |
| 25 | Also Bangor-bound is Tim Hutchings of Crawley in England who was twice runner-up in the World cross country championships , and the first international lady to be snapped up is Plymouth 's Marion Sutton , who ran for Britain in the recent World track and field championships in Stuttgart . |
| 26 | Pictures and documents about Robert Tassell , the original owner of Blacklands , who was twice Mayor of Maidstone , hang on the walls of the comfortable TV lounge . |
| 27 | Kenneth Baker , who was Home Secretary from 1990-92 , told the BBC Radio 4 programme Today that young people faced a moral vacuum . |
| 28 | A man who was apparently brain damaged during an operation has been given permission to sue for damages … even though the operation took place twenty five years ago . |
| 29 | And , did they but know it , they will also play before an accountant in a waxed jacket who was once king of the line-out in Nairobi . |
| 30 | The main opposition comes from the Group N Ford Escort Cosworths of Daniel Alonso ( 3rd ) and Jesus Puras ( 5th ) as well as Borja Moratal ( 4th ) , who was once part of the Meeke team but is now driving for Peugeot . |