Example sentences of "[was/were] william [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those to be dismissed were William Joyce and John Beckett , Director of Publications . |
| 2 | If I were William Styron , the third speaker , I 'd keep my head down . |
| 3 | Two of the pioneers of X-ray diffraction were William Bragg and his elder son , Lawrence . |
| 4 | Among the first to exploit this property on an industrial scale in the eighteenth century were William Worthington and William Bass , and when trade marks began to be registered under the Trade Marks Act of 1875 , the very first was William Bass 's familiar red triangle . |
| 5 | Other artists making prints of the Lake District who did this were William Westall and Fielding . |
| 6 | Perhaps the classic case of this sort was William Foot Whyte 's study Street Comer Society where he became a quasi-gang member but never lost his status of researcher . |
| 7 | The classic example of this was William Marshal , the fourth son of a Wiltshire baron , the story of whose successful career on the tournament field is told with loving detail in L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal . |
| 8 | Paston names four local men sworn to the duke 's service , of whom the most important was William Calthorpe of Burnham Thorpe ( Norf . ) . |
| 9 | Paston names four local men sworn to the duke 's service , of whom the most important was William Calthorpe of Burnham Thorpe ( Norf . ) . |
| 10 | But the winner by a short head was William Golding . |
| 11 | At Warley the abbot of Halesowen 's rent for the farm of the manor is entered as a separate item , but the identity of the farmer is not revealed ; we may hazard the guess that he was William Hardeley , whose personal estate , amounting to £30 , made him much the wealthiest man in the village . |
| 12 | The only person who could have told them was William Dougal . |
| 13 | Their host at the cottage was William Masters — Captain Flower of the story — coxswain of the first Swanage lifeboat , the Charlotte Mary , launched while they were staying there . |
| 14 | Among the dead , apart from laymen like the mayor of York , were many priests and clerks , both seculars and regulars ; among the captured was William Ayermine , chief clerk of the chancery , who was ransomed subsequently for 2000 marks and lived to become bishop of Norwich in 1325 . |
| 15 | That blacksmiths and the sons of blacksmiths and grooms were admitted is indisputable — perhaps the most famous example was William Dick , founder of the Edinburgh veterinary school . |
| 16 | Her brother was William Tallentire and he became my mother 's grandfather , which meant that my mother and father were akin . |
| 17 | The lord of the manor for South Skirlaugh was Sir F. A. Clifford Constable and for the North it was William Bethell . |
| 18 | Her mother was William Godwin 's second wife , and Clairmont grew up in a free-thinking household with her brother , illegitimate like herself , with Mary Wollstonecraft 's daughter by Godwin — another Mary of Clairmont 's age — and with Fanny , Wollstonecraft 's older illegitimate daughter . |
| 19 | From 1782 to 1786 the headmaster was William Taylor , who seems to have been responsible for directing Wordsworth 's attention to poetry . |
| 20 | His mentor in the early years was William Cobbett [ q.v. ] , and although in his political radicalism Doherty went beyond Cobbett , the attack upon ‘ Old Corruption ’ always remained an essential part of his attack upon contemporary society . |
| 21 | Most reluctantly , for he had no wish to offend Andrew Gardner , a good friend , whose wife was William Weir 's aunt , the Duke of Montrose agreed to James Graham 's proposal for Weir 's removal , but this was done only in order to retain the services of a good man in the office of bailie-substitute , for whom no alternative was in sight . |
| 22 | But it was William Wollaston 's process that rendered ‘ malleable ’ platinum available in quantities large enough for crucibles in which to concentrate lead chamber sulphuric acid , later to be superseded by contact acid made with the aid of a platinum catalyst . |
| 23 | The attorney they instructed to draw up a sales contract was William Repton of Aylsham , the third son of Humphry Repton , the famous landscape architect . |
| 24 | There was William Foreman , a pioneer of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants , Alexander Wilkie , the general secretary of the Associated Society of Shipwrights and former MP for Dundee , and there were John Wilson and William Crawford of the Durham Miners , both Members of Parliament for divisions of the County Palatine in the 1880s , not to mention one of the most respected leaders of his day , Robert Knight of the Boilermakers to whom we owe the present day Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions . |
| 25 | It is worthy of notice that one of the owners of the Van Lead Mines , which gave rise to the railway , was William Lefaux , who later became a director of the BCR . |
| 26 | The Lord Mayor who saved the king and all that he stood for was William Walworth . |
| 27 | The consultant engineer for the canal was William Jessop , and he suggested building flights of locks instead , to carry the canal over the hill , but James Barnes , the resident engineer , argued for starting a new tunnel on a different route , and in due course this was agreed . |
| 28 | The only architect appointed to be a judge was William Burn ( 1789–1870 ) . |
| 29 | The first was William Purser who over twenty-five years had built up the Delta mission , originated work for the blind , organised teacher-training and supervised the small theological school of the diocese . |
| 30 | By 1785 the owner was William Fryer and that year he leased the mill for 21 years to the partnership of Henry Hicks and Edward Sheppard who , in years to come , were to found one of the county 's largest cloth mills in Uley . |