Example sentences of "who [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when in one class he had taken the register and pronounced their names correctly , there had been some laughter from non-Indian children ( who were a minority in the class ) but floods of embarrassed giggles from Asian children , who seemed to prefer their names to be mispronounced in school . |
| 2 | The cast of Her Benny , the dancers in their beautiful costumes , the steel band , the police and dogs , the schoolboys who were a credit to their schools showing how football used to be played just for the game . |
| 3 | Apart from Nora and the weirdos we 'd get people buying it for their girlfriends , as a laugh Some girls , those who were a bit more out there , would buy the rubber wear for themselves . |
| 4 | The exceptions were in four main areas : in the west during the first onslaughts when the khanate of Kuchum was being eliminated ; in the far north-east against the Chukchis and Karnchatkan Itelmens ( here Russian losses may not have been very severe , but the effects on the aboriginal population were catastrophic ) ; in the south-east in the struggle with the Manchus for domination of the Amur , where the Russians were beaten ; and finally in the south-west against the nomadic horsemen of the steppes who were a thorn in the Russians ' flesh for over a century . |
| 5 | Many thanks to Miss Cameron , who came every day to take the cash , to Kirsty and Pippa who were a delight to have , and to all who helped to make it such a happy week and so worthwhile for Christian Aid ’ . |
| 6 | I spent a while some years ago just improving my chordal knowledge ; I just sat down and learned it , because I was playing with players who were a lot more advanced than I was , and because I was doing a lot of sessions and stuff . |
| 7 | In the traditional hunting communities , those who were a burden — because they had become too old to hunt or to follow the family as it trekked to a new hunting ground — took themselves off to an ice-floe or an isolated rock and waited for death . |
| 8 | And so me brother and I , who was a twin , were put into the choir as probationers , like today 's police force , and after twelve months we 'd passed all the necessary tests for the vicar and became chororists with the choir and graduated through it . |
| 9 | dwarf of ugly appearance , a helpful divinity who was a protector against evil . |
| 10 | From 1887 the land was farmed by E.A. White who was a hop grower and constructed the four magnificent Victorian oast houses which now stand on the site known as Bells 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 . |
| 11 | In Caria in later times there was a Zeus Labrandeus , who was a god wielding a double-axe . |
| 12 | When someone who was a protégé of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna , a close friend of Nikolai Miliutin , and the tutor to the heir to the throne decided to run the risk of going into print , conservatives realized that they were being subjected to a deliberate attempt on the part of reformers to prevent them from treating serfs harshly . |
| 13 | She sat on the hard hall-stool beside the telephone , safe in the semi-darkness and waited for Dorothea and her friend Florence Ames who was a nurse , someone who would recognise her condition instantly , who would be on hand should emergency treatment be required , who was trained and capable . |
| 14 | Eventually , a church member who was a nurse tabulated all the medical information , and helped me to write begging letters to pharmaceutical firms . |
| 15 | On each of these occasions , Freddie was with someone else , a spectacularly good-looking girl who was a nurse at the local hospital . |
| 16 | I know this is a true story , because when my Aunt Peg was a little girl she used to live next door to Mrs Sugar , who was a witch . |
| 17 | I know this is a true story , because when my Aunt Peg was a little girl she used to live next door to Mrs Sugar , who was a witch . |
| 18 | His problems , as ‘ the Scot who was a Frenchman ’ , were considerable . |
| 19 | Thiercelin , who was a Frenchman after all , observed that her breasts were particularly fine , and the rest of her figure in proportion . |
| 20 | Evidently , James Watt , who was a Scotsman himself , did not think that Scotsmen were capable of becoming good mechanics . |
| 21 | One brother of hers , at least , rallied to the cause — Samuel Hasted , younger than his sister , who was a cooper living in Bermuda Street , Stepney , a small row of eight houses just off Commercial Road . |
| 22 | ‘ The old lady who was a matron ? |
| 23 | A decision was also taken , early on , to deal through a middleman who was a fabricator . |
| 24 | Among the first people I met were the bridegroom 's uncle Mr Peter Stormonth-Darling , with his daughter Mrs Justin Cobb with her two-and-a-half year old daughter Zoë who was a bridesmaid . |
| 25 | Let us , however , confine our attention for a while to Polybius who was a specialist in constitutional and military history and who for four centuries conditioned modern thinking about Republican Rome . |
| 26 | Mr Hopkins , who was a baker , saved rations and made Christmas cakes for the two men 's bereaved families in America . |
| 27 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |
| 28 | This may have been due to the support of Steel-Maitland who was a founder member before he became Party Chairman and who later served on its committee on mental health . |
| 29 | Mr Stanley Keyse , who was a founder member of the Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion Railway Society , died recently following an operation . |
| 30 | Over the next two days , Harry cycled through Zutphen and Arnhem to Eindhoven , where a cafe owner gave him coffee and rolls , and a priest , who was a friend of the cafe proprietor advised Harry who was now headed for the Dutch/Belgian border . |