Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this , quite a lot of good work was done by the eighty fourth-year " leavers " ( aged I 4-plus ) who were the trial group for the project . |
| 2 | There were leaks everywhere and well-reported battles between the so-called ‘ dries ’ who were the outright supporters of the Government 's economic policies and the ‘ wets ’ who were the sceptics . |
| 3 | ‘ Who were the friends he was with when I was at your house ? ’ |
| 4 | But I was able to tell the House this morning that all the Rule forty-three prisoners , who were the ones who were particularly vulnerable , are now accounted for , and I mean by that that they have all come out of the jail in the last few days and unfortunately one of them , as you know , has died from his injuries . |
| 5 | The archbishop could delay and immensely complicate matters , but his appeal to Rome in August 1297 had been barred , his excommunication of violators was countered by a writ of prohibition , his resolution was isolated by the alarmist fears of some clergy and the divided loyalties of others , especially those who were the king 's servants ; above all , Boniface VIII 's temporizing in France suggested that no archbishop henceforth could rely on papal support . |
| 6 | He demanded to know what she was doing as a kitchen maid , who were the soldiers using their house and where were their parents . |
| 7 | Such standardization and rationalization of diverse local practices was promoted by lawyers who were the agents of change . |
| 8 | Across the room , also having a drink , were two young sergeants who were the rest of the TAS unit . |
| 9 | Erm now in my wisdom I I thought that obviously considering we 're now classed as incident stewards the o the thing to do was to put the certificates up in a prominent place so that everybody who visited the site knew who were the incident stewards were . |
| 10 | ‘ Who were the others , eh ? ’ he hissed . |
| 11 | Who were the others ? |
| 12 | Who were the country gentlemen who were so put out from pursuing their time-honoured pastime ? |
| 13 | Who were the subs ? |
| 14 | Employment and exposure records date from before the occurrence of leukaemia in the children , and the link to industry files was done by industry staff who did not know who were the parents of cases and who were the parents of controls . |
| 15 | Employment and exposure records date from before the occurrence of leukaemia in the children , and the link to industry files was done by industry staff who did not know who were the parents of cases and who were the parents of controls . |
| 16 | Who were the bump-readers ? |
| 17 | The tombs of the Hilton family , who were the lords of the manor , are dated 1393–1431 and can be seen in the church , where there is the Hilton chapel . |
| 18 | Eighteen forty six , eighteen forty eight , or eighteen fifty take a guess ca n't you or you have one in three chances this is one I did n't know , who were the Magi ? |
| 19 | Who were the Magi , what , who where they and I 'll give you an extra mark for each one of their names , I did n't know they had any names . |
| 20 | Number seven , who were the Magi ? |
| 21 | The report gives the statistical data and the quantitative judgements of 410 regular bus travellers who were the Buswatchers . |
| 22 | However , this extension of the welfare state was double-edged , because as well as offering services it also involved a measure of control over those who were the recipients of those services . |
| 23 | But Russell found that although battered wives were frequently raped as well , rape in marriage was by no means confined to women who were the recipients of other forms of domestic violence . |
| 24 | We do not know who were the owners , nor what the objects meant to the owners . |
| 25 | I remember when I was at the Open University , the people who were engaged in implementing Open University programmes in the States , who were the deans in charge of the Open University experiments , were all women and all ‘ marginal ’ to the mainline male career people . |
| 26 | She sought discovery of psychiatric reports held by the defendants who were the education authority . |
| 27 | So who were the Cagots , other , similar allusions to whom you will also come across in the western Pyrenees ? |
| 28 | This appreciation extended beyond the Islands to our officials in other crofting areas on the mainland who were the subject of very favourable comment at the Crofters Dinner . |
| 29 | When crime series started it was quite clear who were the goodies and who were the baddies . |
| 30 | It was they who were the defenders , not the aggressors , the men pushed by fear of extermination into acts which they knew came dangerously close to that disturbance of the social order which was almost as much to be feared . |