Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , some studies suggested that the crucial floating voters were not characterised by a high degree of interest , involvement , and knowledge , but by ignorance and indifference , and they were less involved in following the election campaign than were those who were keenly attached to a party . |
| 2 | Any retrospective rule change would place a question mark over the reselections of Mr George Galloway in Glasgow Hillhead and Mr Ron Brown in Edinburgh Leith , who were both nominated on a majority of trade union votes . |
| 3 | The government of Prime Minister Jim Bolger , he said , had been captured by the extreme right and its budget measures were " a tragedy for many good New Zealanders " ; he accused the government of failing to keep a pre-election promise not to hurt pensioners , who were previously protected by a guaranteed retirement income scheme . |
| 4 | We 've also in London , the London Region took , took tribunal for caretakers who were , who were not transferred from a school and we won that tribunal . |
| 5 | As always in such an undertaking , the art of organization lay in the avoidance of offending those who were not asked at a particular moment and in the ability to remember enmities and jealousies which could cause friction and poison the atmosphere if the wrong people found themselves together . |
| 6 | Reading between the lines , it was evident that de Gaulle was seeking to encourage those individuals in the political establishment — such as President Coty and the deputy prime minister , Guy Mollet — who were already moving towards a Gaullist solution , but that he was not yet willing to negotiate with the collective leadership of the Republic . |
| 7 | Material did come to me at EMI Publishing from EMI Records , and if we were interested in an act who were also looking for a record deal , we would pass the information through to EMI Records . |
| 8 | As a result of more able children taking up integrated placements or moving into school , the Beacon was now catering for a very small number of multiply disabled children , who were highly segregated as a result . |
| 9 | The majority of the incomers who settled in these localities were young couples who were still committed to a strategy of occupational and residential mobility in order to further their career interests ; they were ‘ spiralists ’ , and with only a few exceptions , their residence does not seem to be permanent . |
| 10 | Ireland missed a hatful of opportunities yesterday , as did the French , who were constantly foiled by a magnificent display of goalkeeping from Cork Harlequins player Ivan Bateman . |
| 11 | This figure is identified as a demon , but it could be a deity or semi-divine hero , who were often shown with a horned head-dress ( see below p. 146 and fig. 14.28 ) . |
| 12 | McCann 's speech , with its suggestion that the police lines ought to be charged , while refusing to actually call for such action , seems to have typified the confused militancy of the radicals , who were suddenly precipitated into a conflict for which they were quite unprepared . |
| 13 | The driver , who was normally employed as a fitter , but had some driving experience with the Corporation , was acting as a relief driver and was found to be principally to blame for the accident , because of his lack of experience , which resulted in his letting the car take the curve at too great a speed and the conductor for applying the hand brake at his end so as to lock the wheels ; he had received no instruction on the proper procedure . |
| 14 | Nobody who was not born in a manor house should aspire to one , for if he gets his wish , what a mess that manor house soon will be ! |
| 15 | The Court of Appeal allowed an appeal by the appellant , who was not named as a party to the action , against an order that he was liable to pay £861 with costs . |
| 16 | Well no , we got two in the sidelines , we got this Indian guy who was not coming for a second interview until we can say we 'll pay him |
| 17 | Among the successful opposition candidates was Hitoshi Motoshima , who was narrowly elected to a fourth term as mayor of Nagasaki . |
| 18 | He was a tall thin man with a stoop , who was rarely seen without a pipe clenched between his teeth . |
| 19 | Mr Tarrant — kindly portrayed in The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans as Mr Stodham — later introduced Edward to Mr Noble ( the father of his future wife ) who was slowly dying of a malignant , tubercular throat disease but was still actively engaged as ‘ Paul Pelican ’ , an influential journalist and critic . |
| 20 | The family of the entertainer Leslie Crowther , who was critically injured in a car crash three months ago , says he 's slowly getting back to normal . |
| 21 | Instead , under an amiable leader , Michael Foot , who was savagely pilloried by a largely right-wing press , it was compelled by constituency pressures to have a far-left programme hostile to NATO , to membership of the Common Market , and to a system of national nuclear defence ; it would also be committed to mass nationalization , reinforcing further the power of the unions , and a variety of other proposals unlikely to have much popular appeal . |
| 22 | One was occupied by a plump woman in her forties , who was briskly sorting through a pile of letters . |
| 23 | POLICE were yesterday still waiting to interview a man who was badly burnt in a fire which swept through his first floor flat in the early hours of Sunday morning . |
| 24 | Also drawn from the party 's senior ranks were Boldin , the head of the CPSU central committee 's general department , and Revenko , the Ukrainian CP committee first secretary in Kiev , who was generally regarded as a conservative . |
| 25 | The former Labour Party leader , Prime Minister and Defence Minister Itzhak Rabin , who was generally regarded as a hardliner , surprised delegates with his affirmation that Israel would have to give up " some kilometres of land in exchange for peace " . |
| 26 | Paragraph 5 of the rule was directed not only at enforcement of a judgment in favour of a claimant who had obtained judgment in his favour but also at preventing , by means of the principle of res judicata , relitigation of the same case by a person who was properly represented by a claimant against whom judgment had been given dismissing the claim , whether that person tried to pursue his claim against a named defendant sued in his own right only , or against a named defendant sued both personally and as a representative of a class , or against a member of that class . |
| 27 | Jim Lester , a portly Tory MP , who was partly hidden by a pilaff , could not take his eyes off her . |
| 28 | John Hoskyns , who was later knighted by a grateful Prime Minister for his work in running her Policy Unit , talked of the Churchill/Eden/Macmillan/Home period as ‘ the thirteen wasted years ’ , a phrase borrowed from a Labour campaign slogan . |
| 29 | This will not affect anyone who was already contributing to a pension plan prior to July 1988 unless , that is , they actually wish to change . |
| 30 | But she also had alliances with people nearer her own age , notably with a wild young postgraduate architect , a hard-drinking , reckless , one-off character called Colin Lindsey , who was already provided with a wife and a baby , but who would nevertheless take his turn to sit on Esther 's beaded rug . |