Example sentences of "who [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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Maggie glanced over at the Lawlers who were about a dozen feet from her .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 The people who were once a minority in the Labour party now represent the views of the majority .
12 He allowed her more freedom of choice than many of his clients who were perhaps a better advertisement for his dressmaking skills .
13 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 .
14 In 1975 she met and married her husband Richard La Plante , an American thriller writer , who 's also a black belt in karate .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 But this Oxford University doctor , who 's also a mountaineer , thinks Harry Taylor is an exceptional case .
18 The local MP who 's also a lawyer wants magistrates to have tougher powers
19 The vicar conducting the service , who 's also a family friend , read out part of the coroner 's judgement .
20 Erm , and then , and then you get erm , Rivers , who 's also a horrible character , although in a different way .
21 A surgeon and his wife who 's also a doctor have been jailed for nine and three months respectively for repeatedly assaulting their housemaid .
22 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 .
23 " Well , she 's gone to talk things over with Aunt Louise , who 's also an attractive woman for her years , but a good bit older , and quite different .
24 Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive
25 But do you know , me cousin Eric , who 's quite a lot older than me , was at Scarborough with me Uncle and and his mother and dad and he was only a little one and he was stood in that narrow street that goes off , off the
26 I used to go on these escapades with a mate of mine who 's now a milkman , and we 'd go to Soho , and I remember walking along Wardour Street and hearing this music coming out the basement .
27 The pressing of a gentleman , though no doubt a poor gentleman in worldly goods , was not uncommon , and in 1741 Lord Panmure got a very similar request from another of his constituents on behalf of Mr. Charles Duncan , ‘ a son of Ardownie 's , who 's now a foremasthand aboard the Royal Sovereign his Majesty 's Ship lying at Chatham … ’
28 Chris , who 's now a psychiatric nurse , says he 's no hero .
29 So , having D'Arcy in the band has been an education , not only from playing with someone who 's obviously a girl , but seeing how people perceive that and seeing the kind of shit she takes because she 's a girl .
30 So the reason I put Jasper Carrott up here is just to think for a moment , here 's somebody who 's obviously a really effective and great communicator .
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