Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Doane 1984 , p. 6 ) But this does not mean either that film-viewers are not also active readers of film who can produce their own meanings , or that identification with mainstream fiction film characters means unconditional surrender to bourgeois ideology . |
| 2 | It is the nursing staff more than any other category of employee who will bear the burden of the consequences of fire . |
| 3 | Under these circumstances , rhetorical analysis can aid the practical argument against those enemies of freedom who would destroy the very possibility of open argumentation . |
| 4 | This was still some way from a mathematical science , and chemists continued to look for the Kepler or the Newton of Chemistry who would make it deductive and mathematical . |
| 5 | A new division of labour characterised by a new single level of nurse who will embrace much of the work of the present two levels of nurse . |
| 6 | Words can not describe the kind of person who would do a thing like this . |
| 7 | ‘ I was the kind of person who would sit back and let my manager look after things , ’ he says , ‘ and that 's never a good idea . |
| 8 | When those invited cried off , Jean knew that Minton was the kind of person who would drop everything to help out . |
| 9 | Later , the presence , or even the existence , of the people we care about may not be necessary for their influence to apply , for we may retain the desire to be the kind of person who would have won their affection and approval . |
| 10 | Tim Renton is obviously the kind of person who would turn the volume down on a Johnny Mathis 78 . |
| 11 | cos you could , I mean if if she asked you about it , you know , you could just say well honestly I 'm quite , I did n't think you were the kind of person who 'd go for I know , I know that thing is I mean I can see , I can see that she 's going for him because |
| 12 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 13 | The designer needs to know about the tasks which his new device is intended to aid and also about the kind of person who will use it . |
| 14 | I have never been the kind of person who can dismiss physical appearance , who passes a make-up counter without a glance . |
| 15 | He looked , Toby thought , the kind of boy who might play the passive role in some bent porno film — and , indeed , were he asked , Hilary Frome would certainly have been willing . |
| 16 | She did not , but she wanted to be the kind of wife who would have known all the things it would hurt to know , like the circumstances of his pleasure . |
| 17 | He was also the kind of editor who would ask you to check the spelling of a place name or the age of a politician ( he was born in 1920 ) . |
| 18 | Roy looked much more solid — the kind of man who would sit silently through what she had to say , listen to Purdy 's probing , then corner her with a single , well-informed comment . |
| 19 | Someone would be made to die for the crime ; but for all his reservations , Merymose did not strike him as the kind of man who would fall on just anyone in order to present a solution . |
| 20 | SERAFIN : But then you 're not the kind of man who would wish to arouse painful feelings in other people , so let's find some more plausible circumstance . |
| 21 | Though not an out-and-out cheapskate , he was thought the kind of man who would try to squeeze a shilling into a pound by whatever means . |
| 22 | ‘ You did n't strike me as the kind of man who would put much stock in stereotypes . ’ |
| 23 | Not , in other words , the kind of man who would have taken his own life within hours of writing that letter to ‘ Liz ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ He was the kind of man who would have sold his suspicions for money . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Do you really think I 'm the kind of man who would run from anything ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ She did n't leave him because his star had fallen ; she knew well enough that he was the kind of man who 'd recover . |
| 27 | Corbett could not prove that but he recognised the kind of man who could concoct cunning elixirs which could kill a man or woman and leave no trace . |
| 28 | Obviously he was the kind of man who could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory as if it had never happened , and get on with living in the present . |
| 29 | You see , Rune 's the kind of man who will stop at nothing to get and keep what he wants . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Leonard was at Everton as a youngster and is the kind of forward who can hold the ball up . |