Example sentences of "who was [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of this awareness , it seems extraordinary that the candidate in Madrid favoured by Prim and his government was one who was bound to be unacceptable to Napoleon III for the simple reason that he was a son of King Louis-Philippe and so represented the Orléanist dynasty . |
| 2 | His knowledge of Paris was confined to the underworld , but he did know that the bandit , Chicot , had a mistress who was said to be British . |
| 3 | In the case of carers who have their own children this is easier to see than for the classic ( and disappearing ) case of the single daughter who was presumed to be childless ; although in that case the assumption in the past was that the single daughter would be rewarded in material terms through being the major beneficiary of her parents ' will , if they had money or property to bequeath . |
| 4 | Apart from a daughter who was believed to be barren he had no other near kin living and in a state of acute depression he determined to sell up and go to the Holy Land . |
| 5 | ‘ I think you 'll have to , ’ said Fenella , who found the idea completely appalling , but who was trying to be practical and sensible and make it sound safe for them to go so that they could get Nuadu . |
| 6 | A great man in those days who was trying to be encouraging told me I had a terrific eye for English weather . |
| 7 | He sounded like a man who was trying to be brave after his marriage had just fallen apart . |
| 8 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |
| 9 | Less than three months after his appointment Chaovalit resigned after a Cabinet colleague , Chalerm Yubamrung ( who was thought to be close to Chatichai ) , accused him of corruption . |
| 10 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |
| 11 | The impasse between the Army and Bhutto increased speculation that President Ghulam Ishaq Khan , who was thought to be sympathetic to the Army 's demands , might dismiss the central and provincial governments and call a fresh general election . |
| 12 | This was a woman in her twenties who was considered to be schizophrenic . |
| 13 | Moves to resolve differences on the CFE treaty were said also to have been encouraged by Soviet President Gorbachev who was reported to be keen to clear remaining obstacles in the way of a US-Soviet summit meeting [ see pp. 37945 ; 37979 ] . |
| 14 | His successor was named as Kerim Aydin Erdem , who was reported to be sympathetic to the Islamic faction . |
| 15 | In a recent large UK search the company in question called on five of the major search firms , and invited them all in to make a competitive pitch to decide who was going to be successful at finding them a group chief executive . |
| 16 | A meeting held on Sept. 4 in Santo Domingo , the capital of the Dominican Republic , between Bazin and President Joaquín Balaguer ( who was known to be eager to mediate a solution to the Haitian crisis ) , was also attended by the US ambassador to the Dominican Republic , Robert Pastorino . |
| 17 | On Oct. 29 , however , Kim declared that he would not enter the contest , leading to speculation that he had bowed to pressure from Roh , whose administration had worked closely with Daewoo and who was known to be concerned that Kim 's intervention could split the conservative vote and thereby allow Kim Dae Jung to win the election . |
| 18 | Reportedly stung by media criticism that he had appointed a mediocre Cabinet , Franco personally contacted PMDB leader Orestes Quércia , the former governor of the state of Sao Paulo who was known to be wary of involvement in the interim government in case it affected his chances in the 1994 presidential elections . |
| 19 | That old woman across the landing who was judged to be clear thinking ; so much so , even at her age , that she visited the factory every Friday and went over the books with Henry . |