Example sentences of "who [was/were] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such standardization and rationalization of diverse local practices was promoted by lawyers who were the agents of change . |
| 2 | Across the room , also having a drink , were two young sergeants who were the rest of the TAS unit . |
| 3 | Employment and exposure records date from before the occurrence of leukaemia in the children , and the link to industry files was done by industry staff who did not know who were the parents of cases and who were the parents of controls . |
| 4 | Employment and exposure records date from before the occurrence of leukaemia in the children , and the link to industry files was done by industry staff who did not know who were the parents of cases and who were the parents of controls . |
| 5 | The tombs of the Hilton family , who were the lords of the manor , are dated 1393–1431 and can be seen in the church , where there is the Hilton chapel . |
| 6 | However , this extension of the welfare state was double-edged , because as well as offering services it also involved a measure of control over those who were the recipients of those services . |
| 7 | But Russell found that although battered wives were frequently raped as well , rape in marriage was by no means confined to women who were the recipients of other forms of domestic violence . |
| 8 | This appreciation extended beyond the Islands to our officials in other crofting areas on the mainland who were the subject of very favourable comment at the Crofters Dinner . |
| 9 | The most important element was the difficulty that reformers had in distinguishing between their desire to protect the young girls who were the objects of their concern and their desire to control them . |
| 10 | It was the apothecaries who were the originators of what , today , we call the family doctor , or the general practitioner , and the dentist . |
| 11 | In Liverpool , all seafarers — seamen , firemen , donkeymen , greasers and similar grades who were the backbone of the NSFU and catering staff and shore gangs who were joining Cotter 's union — received 105 a week increase , abolition of the medical examination and the right to wear the button of the appropriate recognised union . |
| 12 | It was men who were the cause of racial decay . |
| 13 | HAVE you heard the one about the Irish band who were the talk of New York BEFORE they were even formed ? |
| 14 | The Ptolemies , being the neighbours of the Carthaginians who were the allies of the Romans , were the first Hellenistic kings to try to make friends with the unexpected new power . |
| 15 | Jane and Ann Taylor , who were the daughters of a Dissenting Minister , had published in 1806 what was the first volume of poetry primarily designed for children . |
| 16 | Along the evolutionary path that led to humans there were , three million or more years ago , creatures which were also the ancestors of today 's apes ; earlier , those who were the ancestors of all modern mammals ; earlier still , of all today 's vertebrates ; yet earlier , of all multicellular animals ; and so on . |
| 17 | The unions , who were the beneficiaries of these monopolies , were accomplices to the most scandalous inefficiencies , and had to be stripped of their power . |
| 18 | As two econometric historians have succinctly expressed it : " Those who were the beneficiaries of the uncaptured social gains were the residents of the geographical area served by a particular canal … and the same groups constituted the main recipients of private returns . " |
| 19 | When things were at this interesting stage , to my irritation the senior of the two Waaf officers who were the bane of our lives developed an interest in ‘ my ’ Corporal . |
| 20 | But at a time like that when i it 's devoted to the fallen in a war and men who were the heroes of the war say it was disgusting , you know , and and how they , they expressed themselves I thought was was a very very significant thing , it made a very very strong impression . |
| 21 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 22 | And so it was that a man who had tried his hand at a whole variety of working-class jobs but who was no friend of the labour unions could , as part of his episodic film Intolerance , quite effortlessly recreate a clash between workers and police that is so lifelike as to seem like a newsreel and to suggest that perhaps every subsequent labour riot followed its pattern . |
| 23 | Isambard would make little ado about hanging a marauding boy who had attempted his life , especially one who was no business of the county justices or the crown , and had no one in England to take his part . |
| 24 | When someone who was a protégé of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna , a close friend of Nikolai Miliutin , and the tutor to the heir to the throne decided to run the risk of going into print , conservatives realized that they were being subjected to a deliberate attempt on the part of reformers to prevent them from treating serfs harshly . |
| 25 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |
| 26 | Over the next two days , Harry cycled through Zutphen and Arnhem to Eindhoven , where a cafe owner gave him coffee and rolls , and a priest , who was a friend of the cafe proprietor advised Harry who was now headed for the Dutch/Belgian border . |
| 27 | There was Emil Brunner one of the two leading Christian thinkers on the Continent of Europe ; there was Reinhold Niebuhr , one of the two leading Christian thinkers from the United States ; there was Visser t'Hooft , the Dutchman who built up the World Council of Churches ; there was J. H. Oldham , at that moment the leading thinker about Christian society in the British Isles ; and there was Bernard Manning , the Congregationalist historian who was a friend of the Ramsey family in Cambridge . |
| 28 | Christopher , who was a friend of my father 's , had the kiln brought here from my father 's workplace miles away , and said he 'd buy whatever I produced . |
| 29 | He got her in to see an agent who was a friend of Jock Lennox , and he had arranged an appointment with a producer who was sending out a show with the American Ragtime Octette and Cissie Loftus the impressionist , as well as The Ramblers , a famous juggling act , and an Australian called Pansy Montague , who toured as La Milo , an exponent of the art of living statues . |
| 30 | But while this was happening another student , who was a friend of both the dying man and myself , became convinced that God was going to heal the clergyman of his cancer . |