Example sentences of "[was/were] george [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among his pupils were George Cranmer , great-nephew of the Archbishop , and Edwin Sandys , son of the Archbishop of York , with both of whom he formed a lasting friendship . |
| 2 | It was idealistic and austere ; its classic authors were George Orwell , who died in January 1950 , and his friend Arthur Koestler ; its spirit was resolutely decent and fiercely anti-totalitarian , its chosen mode a polemical prose that lost nothing of its edge by being cast , at times , into argumentative fictions like Animal Farm ( 1945 ) , though its true forte was the article ; and its best poet , Dylan Thomas , was manifestly a survivor from an earlier age . |
| 3 | The investigators were George Bowes and Francis Nedham son of a shareholder in the mines . |
| 4 | The other ‘ five mile ’ walkers from Douglas Reyburn were George Campbell , Adrian Scott , Graham Richmond , Sandra McWhinnie and Wendy Little . |
| 5 | Two of his brothers were George W. Rendel and ( Sir ) Alexander Rendel [ qq.v . ] . |
| 6 | The most remarkable member of this family was George Poděbrady who was first regent , then king of Bohemia ( see p. 6 ) . |
| 7 | It was George Brown , the vigorous allrounder , who led the rearguard action with a hard-hitting 172 , helped in a goodish partnership with the amateur , W.R. Shirley . |
| 8 | His first acquaintance was George Padmore , the veteran opponent of colonialism from Trinidad . |
| 9 | In 1928 a new world-wide trade union organisation , the Profintern , had been established by the Sixth International Conference of the Communist International and in charge of its Negro department was George Padmore . |
| 10 | In 1847 the owner was George Lunnan and by 1860 , Aron Goold . |
| 11 | The second critical comment I came across in the Scrapbook was George Steiner 's statement from the Sunday Times in 1967 . |
| 12 | The only one who was less than whole-hearted in his support was George Birkitt , whose mind seemed to be on something else ( no doubt whether his billing would be affected by Michael Banks 's demise , and whether it was really appropriate for him to stay -in the show and play a smaller part than Charles Paris ) . |
| 13 | Reagan 's opponent in the primary was George Christopher , a Republican moderate and former mayor of San Francisco . |
| 14 | One of Hodge 's advisers was George Z. Williams , born in Korea and the son of a missionary ; Williams was strongly anti-communist and well connected with the rightists in Korea . |
| 15 | Another forward signed by the new manager was George Fenwick , 20 , an outside-left who , since the start of the season , had scored 17 goals for Shildon , County Durham . |
| 16 | Always there was George Hunt , keeping everything safe . |
| 17 | The one author whom everyone remembered best was George Bernard Shaw , popular editions of whose plays were running off the presses in the early years of the century . |
| 18 | It was George Bernard Shaw who claimed that Britain was an island consisting of coal and iron-ore , surrounded by a sea full of fish : It took the British to create a shortage of all three at the same time ! |
| 19 | ‘ There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves ’ was George Bernard Shaw 's picturesque way of stating the obvious , but in a messy company liquidation the police may be very interested in the information that is being extracted by the liquidators from sometimes unwilling directors and others . |
| 20 | The prime mover was George Dodson . |
| 21 | Oh , where was George Smiley now ? |
| 22 | One of the most successful British hunters of the Victorian era was George Yule of the Bengal Civil Service . |
| 23 | This was George Alexander Troup ( later knighted ) . |
| 24 | It was George Wallace , Mr Hunt 's predecessor , who put the Confederate flag on the capitol in 1963 to show his contempt for federal plans to desegregate the University of Alabama . |
| 25 | One of his converts was George Combe , a young Scottish lawyer . |
| 26 | Perhaps the shrewdest of them all was George Combe . |
| 27 | A sadly suitable accompaniment for the last , delirious moments of what Wells , in a chillingly unsympathetic phrase , calls ‘ all that flimsy inordinate stir of grey matter that was George Gissing ’ . |
| 28 | WHEN Al Haig 's brief and troubled spell at the State Department came to a sudden end in June 1982 , Ronald Reagan 's inspired choice to replace him was George Shultz . |
| 29 | The Met 's first choice for Bean 's successor was George Goldner , the curator of drawings and paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum . |
| 30 | Another dynamic cricketer was George Lohmann , an essentially attacking bowler . |