Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a very affected couple , Erwin and Pam , who were expert at creaming off the best for themselves — and as they were in their mid-thirties , they had had time for some practice . |
| 2 | Techs who were expert in the Machine Mysteries , autonomous-minded slaves , administrators , ship crews — all the host of support staff for the Marine chapter — slept in modestly comfortable dormitories … assuming that they needed , or could avail themselves of modest comfort during sleep-time . |
| 3 | The NUCPS also warned if the move to Glasgow went ahead , staff who were expert in dealing with the army officers ' pay system would leave . |
| 4 | People who were housegroup leaders may no longer have a group to lead . |
| 5 | ( ii ) Several patients who were Child 's grade C on or shortly after admission improved with medical treatment to grade A or B , thereby ultimately becoming eligible for inclusion int he study . |
| 6 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 7 | Those who were kind now would remember him in future — if for nothing else than the thank-you letters . |
| 8 | The decision was opposed by many , including some who were pro-choice ( in favour of women deciding for themselves ) , on the grounds that the court 's decision was apparently based more on a balancing of policy interests than on specifically legal argument , and it had the effect of stimulating the anti-abortion movement which in turn became a major part of the New Right . |
| 9 | And er the things that we had , we had a or two when they used to be , when all the cars most of them were open of course in the early days and except for the , the limousines who were chauffeur driven . |
| 10 | with one exception , all [ scholars ] contacted have expressed strongly that the service did not appear to see the practical relevance of university training , did not know how to exploit the benefits gained by the individual and in many cases showed noticeable coolness to those who were part of it . |
| 11 | The good ones were those like the Gurkhas and Queen Salote who were part of the Empire and the baddies were nasty little creatures like the Japs or Koreans — or Germans . |
| 12 | However , all the ATB instructors who were part of the survey identified safety as one of the benefits . |
| 13 | The farm itself housed twenty-five Czechoslovaks who were part of the overspill from Whittingham . |
| 14 | ‘ And obviously , it would be nice if we could start our first game with 11 players who were part of that championship success . ’ |
| 15 | The SFA will , 20 minutes before today 's kick-off , make a presentation to those players who were part of that commendable run . |
| 16 | We fought as one nation during the war and of course those Englishmen here today old enough to remember the period will recall , I 'm sure , the young American G Is who were part of our community . |
| 17 | A higher proportion also had only one child , but that is primarily due to the very high proportion of divorced women in this tenure ( in the 1946 birth cohort , 32 per cent of women who were council tenants were divorced by age 36 ) . |
| 18 | The railway and the quarries were the property of two brothers called McConnel , who were mill owners from Lancashire . |
| 19 | In this setting the qualitative was constantly under evaluation at the expense of the quantitative measure , for the ‘ wise ’ amongst us who were present knew that the statistical return often gives a skewed version of complex social events , although it speaks volumes about the way our systems of control are generated and maintained . |
| 20 | Lord Rothermere and the Daily Mail withdrew their support , Conservative MPs who were present vied in their condemnation of the actions of the fascist stewards , the government considered the need to take steps to improve public order , and the public were persuaded to perceive the BUF as an extension of the fascist danger in Europe . |
| 21 | The other radicals who were present argued that they should join with the eleven newly elected people , ‘ reasoning that since we held the initiative we would be able to force the pace , drag some of them along in our wake and force the others quickly to resign ’ . |
| 22 | Others who were present held that the altar could be used again without any reconsecration , after a simple ceremony of reconciliation . |
| 23 | This was no understatement : the problem went back at least a century to the ‘ Black Assize ’ at Oxford where ‘ all who were present died in 40 hours ; the Lord Chief Baron , the Sheriff and about 300 more ’ ( Pettifer 1939 : 17 ) . |
| 24 | The two-thirds majority of only those who were present meant that the views of legates and those absent from the curia on business at the time of the death of a pope carried no weight in the election of a successor . |
| 25 | However those who were present did their best to entertain and possibly tried a little too hard in some cases . |
| 26 | She praised Nigel and Becky Hobday , who were treasurer and membership secretary respectively , and have now moved to Romsey , for their contribution to the association . |
| 27 | Although the distribution of patients who were stone free for > or |
| 28 | The 119 people who were wheelchairbound had their wheelchairs assessed for defects . |
| 29 | Of the 119 subjects who were wheelchairbound , 12 ( 10.1% ) had remediable defects in their wheelchairs . |
| 30 | One old couple who were village publicans used their house as a shelter for ‘ a very composite family ’ which included a daughter who did the pub cooking , a brother , and a son who used two rooms as his tailor 's shop . |