Example sentences of "who was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Who was jailed for passing secrets to the Guardian in 1984 ? |
2 | She was married to Dr Neil 's captain who was killed in nasty Africa , as poor Dr Neil nearly was . ’ |
3 | She glanced at Guido who was watching with wry amusement . |
4 | Two of these were from one patient with newly diagnosed and radiologically active terminal ileal Crohn 's disease who was treated with elemental diet for four weeks . |
5 | Although we could not confirm this finding statistically , none of the small number of our patients aged less than 50 ( n=18 ) who was treated with ursodeoxycholic acid , developed recurrence . |
6 | ‘ I remember bursting into tears and blowing my nose and saturating my tiny handkerchief so that it was no use for the rest of the day , ’ writes P. Atkinson , of The Green , West Cornforth , who was revising for mock O-levels at Stand Grammar School for Girls , in Manchester . |
7 | At the end of May 1989 committal proceedings began in respect of PC Cherry who was charged with unlawful wounding . |
8 | It was made available by Harold Wilson , who was to exit in identical fashion in 1970 . |
9 | The collection , besides its dynastic accumulations , does in fact owe a great deal to an ancestor , the aggressive collector Freiherr von Lassberg ( d. 1855 ) who was fired by distant German history and bought widely after the secularisation of religious institutions in the region of Lake Constance . |
10 | If he demanded that an artist was dropped , the artist was dropped , nationwide — until a Texan broadcaster , John Henry Faulk , who was blacklisted by AWARE , brought and won a libel action in which he was awarded the record sum of $3,500,000 after a six-year struggle . |
11 | It was mentioned by many of the Greek philosophers and writers , including Aristotle , Plato , and Seneca , and eventually drove pleasure-loving Epicurus , who was plagued by gonococcal stricture , to suicide . |
12 | A farmer who was convicted of starving and neglecting farm animals has lost his appeal against a six month prison sentence . |
13 | A social worker who was sacked for smoking cannabis while in charge of a group of youngsters , has won his appeal against dismissal . |
14 | The former Cowdenbeath manager , John Brownlie , who was sacked in controversial circumstances last May , will be making his case for unfair dismissal at an industrial tribunal in Edinburgh next week . |
15 | Whilst the Bensonhurst sentences closed a chapter in one of New York City 's most notorious racial crimes , a second was opened on June 13 with the start of the trial of three black youths , aged 15 and 16 , who were accused of attempted murder , and of rape and sodomy arising from an attack upon a 29-year-old white female banker who was jogging in Central Park . |
16 | Anselm himself remembered from his youth , and in old age told his companions , a story of a Roman judge in the time of Pope Leo IX , who was condemned to eternal punishment because he had incurred the hostility of saints Agnes and Laurence by depriving their churches in Rome of a garden and three houses respectively . |
17 | And brave Cheryl , 35 , who was born with major arteries the wrong way round , wept when she read her daughter 's plea . |
18 | He was a thalidomide baby who was born with deformed legs — the right one was later amputated when Geoff was 12 . |
19 | The patient was Bryan Ahlers , an eight day-old boy from New York , who was born with severe physical problems . |
20 | Settis , who was born in Southern Italy in 1941 , is by training a classical archaeologist , but his writings range beyond Antiquity and include a study on the meaning of Giorgione 's ‘ Tempesta ’ , articles on Aby Warburg , the founder of the great library now part of London University , and — very much in the Warburg tradition — an edition of papers on the classical tradition in Italian art , La memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana ( 1984–86 ) . |
21 | Tosi — who was born in nearby Busto Arsizio and died here in Milan — is superb , as is that of Sironi and Carrà . |
22 | One gang , which consisted of four coachmakers and two labourers , prepared and placed all timber , panels and other materials on the spot where it was required , and no man who was engaged on actual repairs was required to leave the job to look up any material . |
23 | A friend of his , who was engaged in Christian colportage work , decided to go to the heart of Brahmin country in Kumbbakoman in Southern India . |
24 | Jack Butler glanced across the table to their host who was listening with rapt attention to a woman dressed as a schoolgirl . |
25 | A second factor must certainly have been the challenge to Alhred from Aethelred , son of Aethelwald Moll , who was crowned in Alhred 's place ‘ with great honour ’ . |
26 | He rejected the authority of President Muawad , who was elected with Syrian backing . |
27 | Mrs Danby , who was dressed in sporty tweeds , as if for a shooting party , gave a superior kind of nod . |
28 | Algernon whistled as he worked , a habit picked up from his father , who was given to musical expression while chopping up meat . |
29 | One woman who was kept in solitary confinement for three days said : ‘ The whole idea is to worry people . ’ |
30 | He said : ‘ He was a kenspeckle figure who was regarded with special affection and respect by all sides on the regional council . |