Example sentences of "[was/were] dr [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I 'd say it were Dr Hilary Jones . |
| 2 | The three founding members of the Roll of Benefactors Roll of Benefactors were Dr Bob Woodward , on behalf of the Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood Trust , Mr Andrew Reid , for the Society of Merchant Venturers , and Mr Haydn Harrison on behalf of the Special Trustees of the United Bristol Hospitals . |
| 3 | So well known were Dr Hannes Kaufmann 's left-of-centre views that when the Nazis seized power he immediately lost his job as a civil law court judge in Hamburg — because , as Hitler said : ‘ The Liberals are more dangerous than the Communists : they can think ! ’ |
| 4 | In reality , Spiro 's main contact was Dr Adnan Mroueh , a Shia Moslem gynaecologist who had also served as a junior minister in the Lebanese Cabinet . |
| 5 | It was Dr O'Connor who Dustin Hoffman turned to when he was researching his Oscar-winning role as autistic savant Raymond Babbitt in Rain Man . |
| 6 | I think your difficulty arises from the fact that if you choose someone who 's alive , they 'll deny it , and if you indicate that it was Dr Wetherby , whose bedroom on my plan is next door to yours , you immediately establish a connection with him which will interest us . |
| 7 | Next door to you was Dr Wetherby , and beyond him Norman Pinder . |
| 8 | It was Dr Lacey , professor of microbiology at Leeds University , who explained the transmission of salmonella in eggs and defended assertions by Mrs Edwina Currie , the sacked junior health minister , that the infection had spread throughout the British laying flock . |
| 9 | This was Dr William Silverberg who , unlike many of his colleagues of the day , did not look upon alcoholism as a form of weakness . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps you only thought it was Dr Kemp , sir ? ’ continued Morse . |
| 11 | It was Dr Kemp who rang — please believe that ! |
| 12 | From 1962 until his death he was Dr Lee 's professor of anatomy in Oxford and honorary director of the Medical Research Council 's neuroendocrinology unit in the university . |
| 13 | This morning I was Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 14 | My name was Dr Hate . |
| 15 | Principal speaker at the lunch was Dr Elizabeth Laws who was born in Horden and moved to Middlesbrough where her parents ran a newsagents ‘ I 've sold plenty of Northern Echoes in my time , ’ she says . |
| 16 | All the same it was Dr Kate Ash who was waiting for him in her small flat , dressed in one of her smart business suits , two matching cases ready by her side . |
| 17 | So was Dr Carrington exerting a right — some would say a fundamental right — to self-determination , or was he capitulating under the weight of an intolerable burden ? |
| 18 | Was Dr Carrington in considerable pain when he was in intensive care ? |
| 19 | The ANNUAL DINNER was held on 13 July 1992 when the guest speaker was Dr Alan Leadbetter , the Director of the SERC Laboratory at Daresbury , Cheshire . |
| 20 | Among them was Dr Hubertus Van Mook , destined to be the head of the post-war administration . |
| 21 | Among the clerics who swept through the courtyard was Dr Ahmad Najafi , a 33-year-old scholar and trained doctor who served at the front during the war against Iraq . |
| 22 | Opposite him , sitting well down in his chair , staring hard at the carpet , was Dr Ali . |
| 23 | ‘ Now I know what else it was Dr Iverson did when he went through to see to the claret before dinner . ’ |
| 24 | After coffee our final speaker was Dr Findlater who kept us all enthralled by his expertise and enthusiastic approach to the history of human anatomy . |
| 25 | What did reach them , over Malawi radio , was Dr Banda 's assertion that ‘ what you should know about the bishops is this : to be fair to the bishops , they have apologised . |
| 26 | ‘ Was Dr Tate here the night Francis was killed ? ’ |
| 27 | And this was Dr Malan of Geneva ! ’ |
| 28 | On my right was Dr Adbul Haidar , a rather gloomy assistant lecturer from the Hamdard University in New Delhi ; beyond him sat Mr Swaroop Singh , a clerk at the Jawaharlal Nehru University . |
| 29 | Two other organizations were now formed : the Iraqi Kurdestan Front , a grouping of several existing Iraqi parties with a largely Kurdish flavour ; and the London-based Organization for Human Rights in Iraq , whose secretary-general was Dr Saheb al-Hakim , again a member of this well-known opposition family . |
| 30 | But Dr McNab had at least one attentive listener and that was Dr Dunstaple . |