Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | there was er 's , erm 's who were probably the biggest , Samuel 's , erm 's and s . |
| 2 | Last night there were a lot of people at the gig who were here the first time around and they can relate to what we 're doing . |
| 3 | In this research , follow-up interviews will be conducted with entrepreneurs who were previously the subjects of a study on entrepreneurial aspirations and motivations . |
| 4 | Although the first half had been surprisingly passionless , it was Liverpool who were easily the better side , and had Ronnie Rosenthal seized three opportunities , they would have been comfortably in front by half time . |
| 5 | For a lord this meant securing the service of men who were already the servants of others . |
| 6 | For a lord this meant securing the service of men who were already the servants of others . |
| 7 | It is more significant how little patronage was going to men who were primarily the duke 's own servants . |
| 8 | It is more significant how little patronage was going to men who were primarily the duke 's own servants . |
| 9 | So did a succession of home helps who were also the source of strange tales and occasional adventures . |
| 10 | NWC members included Thabo Mbeki , head of the international affairs department , Joe Slovo , general secretary of the SACP , and Mohammed Valli Moosa , who were also the other members of the negotiations commission ; Patrick " Terror " Lekota was named as assistant to the head of the security and intelligence department ; and Cheryl Carolus as convenor of the health , welfare and human resources commission . |
| 11 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 12 | ‘ I talked about it with friends and they always knew someone who had been through it who were twice the men they were before , ’ said Mr Morton , 59 . |
| 13 | And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics . |
| 14 | And er so we were the kind of erm the team who were there the , at the time so |
| 15 | Despotism seemed , to the French writers who were much the most important source of this type of thinking , to promise more rapid progress than was possible under balanced and ‘ mixed ’ régimes in which power was widely distributed , such as that in Britain . |
| 16 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |
| 17 | A claim was made against a firm of accountants who were never the auditors of B. & C. and the order was sought so that unspecified claims could be investigated . |
| 18 | The janissaries , who were once the elite corps of the sultan 's army , had degenerated by the end of the eighteenth century into an unruly and lawless rabble , who were at best an embarrassment and at worst a threat to their rulers . |
| 19 | hens who were once the oats were so were sown they had to they were closed down and that . |
| 20 | Special mention simply must be make of the members of the Cathedral 's Catholic Mothers group who helped Mrs Roberton with the lynches , and who were perhaps the best of all the many good things that happened to our 1981 Christian Aid programme . |
| 21 | When I took my first weekend break in Paris in the early 70 's I booked with Cresta Holidays who were then the leading Manchester/Paris weekend break specialists . |
| 22 | Then , in the sixteenth century , what had been a military building was converted by the Albret dynasty , who were now the rulers here , into a sophisticated civilian one , suitable as a home for courtly pursuits — there are some fine Renaissance doorways and windows dating from that conversion on the left and at the far end of the very irregular courtyard into which you first go . |
| 23 | If the membership increases to two or more , a statement that the company has ceased to have only one member must be entered in the Register of Members alongside the name and address of the person who was formerly the sole member . |
| 24 | Louis Gerstner was by no means the first , and IBM Corp has been actively hiring executives from outside the company since the beginning of the year , Associated Press reports : it says that IBM has hired about 30 outside executives in the past two years and is searching for 50 more ; incomers include Robert Howe , 48 , general manager , IBM Consulting Group , former head of worldwide financial services practice at consulting firm Booz-Allen & Hamilton ; Michael Cannon , 40 , vice-president , personal systems storage devices , Adstar , former senior vice-president , worldwide operations at Syquest Technology Inc ; John Osborne , 39 , sales director , Personal Software Products , former vice-president of sales and marketing at Zenith Data Systems Inc ; Jon Cornell , 53 , assistant general manager , original equipment manufacturers sales and marketing , IBM Technology Products , former president , Harris Corp ; John Singleton , 56 , general manager , business development , Integrated Systems Solution Corp , former chief executive , Security Pacific Automation Co ; and Clare Thain , 43 , advertising and promotion director , IBM US , who was formerly the managing partner at Ronald James Direct . |
| 25 | How could he be falling in love with the beautiful cuckoo in his nest who was exactly the sort of pampered darling a poor doctor ought to avoid ? |
| 26 | David had been shocked ; Jonathan , who was altogether the more worldly , found the spectacle to have been immensely diverting . |
| 27 | Dr Marriage , who was previously the editor of Christian magazine , succeeds Rev Alec Gilmore , who has reached retirement age . |
| 28 | Dr Marriage , who was previously the editor of Christian magazine , succeeds Rev Alec Gilmore , who has reached retirement age . |
| 29 | Mr who is on my right , and who was previously the chairman of the Southern Area Planning Committee of Ryedale District Council , but not at that time , which explains that erm a change was in hand . |
| 30 | THE economic development and planning departments of Gwynedd County Council have been merged into one , to be headed by Dr Eurwyn Lloyd Evans who was previously the county 's economic development officer . |