Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The membership was to include appropriate volunteers who had knowledge of ‘ education and of other conditions affecting young persons ’ , and who were in a position to advise the exchanges . |
| 2 | that the defendant took care to inform himself , from others who were in a position to provide the information , as to whether the deposit would constitute an offence and had no reason to suppose that the information given to him was false or misleading ; |
| 3 | This gave them little time to develop influence where it mattered , but also meant that the Supreme Soviet had a body of deputies holding important jobs who were in a position to be influential ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 177–81 ) . |
| 4 | Being concerned with gentlemen or noble persons , in other words those within the society who were in a position to act , Spenser directs his poem to make them aware both of dangers and responsibilities . |
| 5 | Quantitative limits were also thought to restrict competition as they hampered efficient banks who were in a position to create new deposits . |
| 6 | The NATO Secretary-General , Manfred Wörner , commented that " to see defence ministers who were in a sense at the heart of the Cold War confrontation sitting in a spirit of partnership around the same table is a remarkable and moving event " . |
| 7 | P C Raymond Hall was shot last November in North London when he tried to arrest Kelly and an accomplice who were in a lorry which was found to be packed with more than three tonnes of explosives . |
| 8 | Support staff , who were in a majority , were as a consequence involved in productive and creative dialogue with teachers and governors . |
| 9 | All four of Charles 's children who married were to do so by licence ; that suited two of them — Elizabeth in Frome and then Benjamin in London — who were in a bit of a hurry , but in Sarah 's case there was maybe a hint of Nonconformist protest against having banns read out in a church which she did not attend . |
| 10 | There had been a recent incident involving my younger brother , Russell , who had been at a party and on his way home been accosted by a group of men that he knew , who were in a car . |
| 11 | The Cadders , who were in a hire car with their two young sons , were the only witnesses . |
| 12 | It is difficult enough to identify anyone who was in a vehicle . |
| 13 | Mrs Saramma Sherratt , 38 , died after the accident in St Albans Road , Watford , Herts , in 1988 , but her baby daughter Susan , who was in a pushchair , was unharmed . |
| 14 | He laid each book out neatly on the benches , his new boots echoing and reverberating noisily around him , but the vicar made no comment and carried on talking quite loudly , for someone who was in a church . |
| 15 | She was a single parent and had a nine-year-old son , Darren , who was in a home for mentally handicapped children . |
| 16 | Lillywhite starts today 's final stage 20 seconds ahead of young Norwegian rider Ole Simensen who was in a crash yesterday and taken to hospital for attention to minor injuries . |
| 17 | Candice Riberon who was in a thriller called Le Métro is his favourite so far , but there is a long way to go . |
| 18 | They asked Meehan , who was in a neighbour 's room , about a gas meter and a broken window and Mohammed Mansha told him he would have to pay for the damage . |
| 19 | Mrs Cass , who was in a wheelchair in court and had breaks to be given oxygen , said she had suffered four heart attacks since the RSPCA became involved with her dogs . |
| 20 | The students I talked to here were Bryony Langworth who had designed an attractive coffee and tea service ; Christina Kirk , whose glass I admired ; Steven Keegan who had done a series of animal sculptures , one of which he sold to Dame Mary Soames ; Julie Sellars whose water sculpture for Shaftesbury Avenue 1990 looked most attractive ; Theresa Czyzewicz whose jewellery entailed the finest workmanship and was very pretty ; Clive van Heerden who was in a wheelchair near his exhibition as I arrived . |
| 21 | ‘ Life is going to be stark , elemental , brutal , filthy and miserable ’ for the survivors , admitted Mr Petersen , who was in a position to know . |
| 22 | The relevant passage in the judgment indicated that where a rape was committed by a person who was in a position of trust towards the victim , the starting point for consideration of the appropriate sentence should be eight years . |
| 23 | There were cited to your Lordships a number of cases involving the abstraction of moneys from a limited company by a person who was in a position to give the consent of the company to the abstraction . |
| 24 | Anybody who was in a concentration camp as a guard could use that argument . |
| 25 | For the historic gift was forwarded to Eric by former astronaut Col Bill Phailes , who flew a mission on the shuttle in 1985 and who was in a party of 24 Americans visiting Springfields . |