Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [be] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ex-Yugoslav Macedonians , who are ethnically a combination of Albanians with Bulgarians and Serbs , take issue with only part of the Greek version of their region 's history . |
| 2 | About 120 people attended , including many retired employees who are also an important part of the assembly . |
| 3 | The men in the bush are watched by gods who are barely a jump above their heads : these white gods are more remote . |
| 4 | This option enables you to grant ( or cancel ) access to modules , under your managership , to LIFESPAN users who are not related to you ( i.e. users who are not an ascendant or descendant ) . |
| 5 | In cases where women ( and the children they directly control ) collect forest products of one type or another , it is they who are most aware of any deterioration in resource availability , but who are often an inaccessible but important target group in agricultural extension efforts to get conservation methods accepted . |
| 6 | The same applies to anyone , tall or short , who has been dieting for a lengthy period already , and generally to those who are only a few pounds overweight . |
| 7 | Of the ‘ scholar patriots ’ perhaps one can say that , instead , they helped to awaken the national consciousness ; and in the evening of his life Phan Boi Chau , in a moving analogy in which Vietnam was likened to an orphan child which by this time should have learned to walk and France to a tutor who felt that the child was easier to control when he was unable to run , talked of a people whose traditional values had been destroyed and who were thus a generation of uprooted people on their own soil . |
| 8 | Also , in several European countries legislation had been passed to ‘ extend ’ agreements to employers who were not a party to the negotiations ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 9 | The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority . |
| 10 | A very rich lady called Eleanor de Clare married into the Despenser family who were not a particularly saintly lot . |
| 11 | The dancing was to good old rock and roll music , and even those who were just a twinkle in their father 's eye in the 6Os joined in with the jiving fun . |
| 12 | Maggie glanced over at the Lawlers who were about a dozen feet from her . |
| 13 | Because although that war did n't have conscription in nineteen fourteen or nineteen fifteen , I believe it started in nineteen sixteen , back end , and er we we 'd got all women teachers who were quite a different problem from a school of that nature . |
| 14 | Soon after midday Tom Poole and his brother Richard decided to take their interesting visitors on a short walk to the farmhouse called Marshmills in Over Stowey , home of a large tribe of Poole cousins who were almost a second family to Tom and Richard : among them were Penelope Poole , ‘ a beautiful , dark-eyed girl ’ who would never return Tom Poole 's love for her ( he died unmarried ) , and John Poole , an Oxford fellow and later the rector of Enmore , who was Tom Poole 's friend and companion from childhood . |
| 15 | The people who were once a minority in the Labour party now represent the views of the majority . |
| 16 | He allowed her more freedom of choice than many of his clients who were perhaps a better advertisement for his dressmaking skills . |
| 17 | In the latter I was shocked to find letters from contenders for the distinction of Nottingham 's oldest graduate who were only a year or two older than I. Maybe I ought to record some of my own recollections as a student in the Physics Department of University College Nottingham during the academic years 1928 to 1932 . |
| 18 | I do n't mind you at all , but the boys they 'd be suspicious of anyone who 's not a member of the police force , and that 's how people will see you : you 're not a member of the force ’ ( FN 23/10/87 , p. 20 ) . |
| 19 | Anybody who 's not a shrink ( or my wife ) only sees an ink blot when they look at one . |
| 20 | Everybody who 's not a fan of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar 's films , that is . |
| 21 | who 's not a part , yeah |
| 22 | In 1975 she met and married her husband Richard La Plante , an American thriller writer , who 's also a black belt in karate . |
| 23 | But the heart of the scene is still in live performance , where there 's a diverse range of performers including ‘ womanist ’ comic Angie Le Mar , iconoclastic quintet They Would n't , and Leo Chester , the comedian who 's also a member of black Muslim organisation , the Nation of Islam . |
| 24 | The local MP Robert Jackson who 's also a Minister in the employment department admits the Government has made mistakes , but says they ca n't take all the blame . |
| 25 | But this Oxford University doctor , who 's also a mountaineer , thinks Harry Taylor is an exceptional case . |
| 26 | The local MP who 's also a lawyer wants magistrates to have tougher powers |
| 27 | The vicar conducting the service , who 's also a family friend , read out part of the coroner 's judgement . |
| 28 | Erm , and then , and then you get erm , Rivers , who 's also a horrible character , although in a different way . |
| 29 | A surgeon and his wife who 's also a doctor have been jailed for nine and three months respectively for repeatedly assaulting their housemaid . |
| 30 | My father , who 's also an actor , once wanted me to be in a play that he was in , and just being asked made me cry . |