Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Old Shallot 's a brawling man : a born street fighter and a soldier who has seen more battles than many of you have had hot dinners .
2 These were the writers and newspapermen , paid hacks of the propaganda machine and tools of ‘ Anastasie ’ , the censor , who from their comfortable offices in Paris wrote of the nobility of war in the terms of Déroulède ; of the brave boys dying beautifully pour la Patrie ; who described the piling up of ‘ mounds of German dead ’ at each attack at Verdun , to the accompaniment of ‘ negligible ’ French losses ; and who published photographs of the grands mutilés with such captions as ‘ A Soldier Who Has Lost Both Feet , Yet Walks Fairly Well With Clever Substitutes , ’ or ‘ Who Has Lost Both Hands , Yet Can Handle a Cigarette and Salute as Before . ’
3 16 patients with sarcoidosis who had undergone diagnostic biopsy of lung , skin , or lymph node and 16 patients with squamous cell carcinoma or Hodgkin 's disease to act as controls .
4 This Saturday Dundela return to league action with a visit to Queen 's , a side who have recorded impressive wins over RUC and Brantwood so far this season .
5 At the time of writing I am involved , as I mentioned , in some surveys of visitors to the British Museum and I am hoping that we shall be able to get some schools who had had organized visits to the museum , to obtain essays about the visit from the children involved .
6 It means that a defendant who has incurred large costs both at trial and in the Court of Appeal in resisting a claim by a legally aided plaintiff , but who then receives legal aid in the House of Lords where he is finally successful , is ineligible for any award of costs against the board .
7 As readers who have pursued this work from its outset will be aware , our argument is that one of the persistent strengths of pluralism is its capacity to produce consistent and detailed descriptions of particular aspects of reality .
8 We echo your praise of generous Billy and would like to hear from other readers who have experienced similar acts of kindness .
9 It is likely to cause concern among Scottish educationists who have watched English ministers interfere repeatedly in England 's separate national curriculum .
10 A report on Israeli television on June 21 interviewed members of special undercover army units who had infiltrated Palestinian groups in the occupied territories .
11 Colonies have always given scope to adventurers from the metropolis who have enjoyed irresponsible power over the natives , whether as administrators , police officials , soldiers , traders , or settlers ( even if these were of the peasant class ) .
12 Yet Anis stands apart from the host of other small-time importers who have filled Russian city streets with kiosks .
13 Special thanks were due to Chris Markham who had had overall responsibility for organising the day and her band of very efficient and hard-working helpers .
14 The election of Aristide , a 37-year-old left-wing priest who had survived numerous assassination attempts , followed a series of short-lived governments , three of which were military administrations and none of which was the product of free elections .
15 A former Roman Catholic priest who had spent eight years as a missionary in Africa and then seven years in England and Scotland , he arrived in Kingsley four years ago at the start of the project to breathe new life into the empty village school .
16 In the late afternoon of the second of June a courier rode into Aber on a reeking horse , the last of a chain of messengers who had carried urgent news from Cydewain .
17 Yet it had been Eleanor who had started this war of words ; Eleanor who had tried to interfere in something that should have been none of her business .
18 as if to prove that he is in earnest , God immediately afflicts the spies who had caused such panic among the people with the plague .
19 Sponsored by Caterplan Division , CPC ( UK ) Ltd , the awards are presented to 30 young professionals in the catering industry who have displayed exceptional talent in their career before their 30th birthday .
20 I have reported the Military Model first because it is one which will most likely fall soonest into desuetude as there are fewer people around in industry who have had actual experience of the services .
21 The securities scandal , which broke in June [ see p. 38292 ] , centred upon the discovery that the Nomura , Nikko , Daiwa and Yamaichi securities houses had made compensation payments to important clients who had suffered financial losses as a result of taking their investment advice .
22 After the winners were named the pair found it hard to convince some that their glamorous subjects were not professional models but clients who had had new images created for them in Mrs Simmons 's Skinnergate studio .
23 Self-help groups can be developed by interested clients who have completed structured anxiety management courses .
24 The owner , Christian Brisset told us that there was a journalist in Cherbourg who had written five books on the history of the town during the war — Paul Ingouf — who worked on the local newspaper La Presse de la Manche , was an historian and kept extensive records .
25 The new President 's favoured candidate for prime minister , Jan Olszewski , a lawyer who had defended anti-communist dissidents for years , was unable to agree terms with him , however .
26 Among the participants were many noted specialists in English and Linguistics , including ( Puna ) , ( Varanasi ) , ( Delhi ) , ( Indian Institute of Technology , Delhi ) , ( College of Commerce , Delhi University ) , ( CIEFL Hyderabad ) , and ( Trivandrum ) , a well-known poet who had travelled three days by train to get there .
27 The remaining 69 seats were allocated according to votes cast for the national lists of the 27 parties who had collected enough signatures to be eligible .
28 This is closely parallel to what has happened in respect of the serial order of classes of prenominal adjectives , categorized according to their pragmatic domain , thoroughly described by Martin ( 1969 ) or Warren ( 1984 ) , to cite two of the many authors who have studied this topic .
29 Adams showed the authority and leadership you would expect from a defender who has won 17 caps at senior level but in World Cup terms the most significant performance came from Gascoigne , who cut out the asides and showed some of the tactical discipline he has to acquire if he is to make the most of his natural talent in international football .
30 Pairs of syllables carefully synchronised were then presented dichotically to subjects who had to report both syllables on each trial .
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