Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was [vb pp] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither named Mr Kelbie but concerned a man of similar name who was listed as an possible health risk , the likely carrier of HIV and hepatitis B. |
| 2 | ‘ When I read somewhere that Simon Cooper 's girlfriend had given birth to a son , I have to admit I was surprised , ’ Vitor said , with a glance at Thomas , who was engrossed in an item-by-item search of his toy box . |
| 3 | The car was started by Ald. Harwood , Mayor of Manchester , who was presented with an inscribed ebony and brass starting lever . |
| 4 | Comparisons with Awful Amy , who yawned throughout her father Jimmy 's victory speech and who was regarded as an electoral liability four years later when he was thrown out of the White House , will be inevitable . |
| 5 | His father , who was descended from an armigerous Cheshire family , was ruined by taking a share in the wine-licensing patent of 1631 . |
| 6 | Among those killed was the prominent politician Sylvio Claude , leader of the Christian Democratic Party ( PDCH ) and consistent critic of Aristide , who was murdered in an apparent backlash by government supporters in the coastal town of Les Cayes , 160 km south-west of Port-au-Prince . |
| 7 | A man who was held in an Indian prison for two years has accused the British Foreign office of failing to help him . |