Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [was/were] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was always hope that the Westward family would see her one day as an elegant lady and be sorry they had n't kept in touch with the child who was after all their own flesh and blood . |
| 2 | As Wayne Gossage has said : " Patricia Knapp was one of the few people in the inner circle of the library-college vanguard who was in any way critical " ( Gossage 1975 : 8 ) and this has been a sad weakness in a movement which , with its enthusiasm and provocative reversal of traditional priorities , has aroused much interest and thought amongst educators , librarians and administrators . |
| 3 | It was not that he had been dilatory in his duty of interviewing all those sent to the camp who were in any way , minor or major , special . |
| 4 | Not quite the poverty of no shoes , of basic and meagre food , no possessions other than the most rudimentary necessities — but too near that for comfort and he knew plenty who were in that condition . |
| 5 | The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place . |
| 6 | If that provision precluded the permanent unit situated offshore from taking instructions from persons connected with the vessel who were in another member state , that would constitute an unjustified restriction on the freedom of establishment , contrary to article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 7 | The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 . |
| 8 | We have at the moment probably one of our most important cases in the RVH , so I was pleased to listen to the shop steward from NUPE , because it is a case that we are funding and doing with NUPE , and the main person who was in that case is here , Rosaleen Davison . |
| 9 | Robbie could scarcely believe this was the same man who was at such pains to keep her at a safe distance , until she reflected that in Fen 's eyes Miss Taylor would present no threat to his reserve . |
| 10 | Rudd 's promotions were probably attempts to remunerate a man who was of more value to the Tudor state as a cartographer than as a cleric . |
| 11 | It was the signature of a man who was to all intents and purposes illiterate . |
| 12 | A man who was in all probability married and with a family . |
| 13 | Ho seems to have remained in Kunming until 1945 where he cultivated the OSS , portraying himself as a Communist who was above all a nationalist . |
| 14 | After six months Pop was asked to return to Simla to help the Burma Governor , Dorman-Smith , as Director of Public Relations , and to help the Administration and the Army who were by this time getting ready to go back into Burma . |
| 15 | I recall vividly one member of the aristocracy who was in such a state about being interviewed on TV that he insisted that I help him go through a half bottle of whisky first . |
| 16 | Present at the Bride Street meeting were Wilson , Tom Mann , Ben Tillett and Charles Lindley , a former sailor out of Sunderland and familiar of Havelock Wilson and his family who was at that time attempting to organise seamen in Sweden . |