Example sentences of "[pron] who have [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might therefore wonder whether its appearance in Foucault , far from being the result of theoretical ineptitude , does not involve simulacra , or ghostly bad copies , similarly designed to undermine the claims of theoretical mastery , and to produce in his texts surface-effects of the kind of heterogeneity we might expect from someone who had contested the unifying function of ‘ the author ’ . |
| 2 | Klein had played an important role under Wharton-Tigar , who had described him as ‘ completely reliable , someone who had performed an important service for the British ’ . |
| 3 | She was angry , for sure , but a closer look would have revealed a heaviness in the mouth , a darkness under her eyes : the face of someone who had cried a good deal recently , and had some crying yet to do . |
| 4 | It was amazing that someone who had won the British Open three times and come second once over the past four years should have to qualify , but the boss just got on with the job . |
| 5 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |
| 6 | Akinwande , 27 , said defiantly : ‘ They can shout at me as a foreigner but in Mickey , the best manager anyone could have , I 've got someone who 's got a good voice too . ’ |
| 7 | People always knock someone who has achieved a great deal in a short time . |
| 8 | I thought it the gesture of someone who has noticed a fellow human being about to step in something horrible but who is too polite to draw attention to the fact by seeming sorry for her . |
| 9 | Time has moved on since you first started dealing with someone who has become a major influence in your life and now you need to re-work your thoughts and opinions . |
| 10 | Scott looks back at it as someone who has learned a great deal and contributed to shifting opinion about private and statutory sector relationships . |
| 11 | Other provisions enable police officers to enter private property forcibly without a search warrant if they deem such action necessary to prevent a breach of the peace , reach someone who has committed an arrestable offence or search for evidence of an offence by someone they have already arrested . |
| 12 | Mr Sloan believes the thieves were probably working for someone who has bought a similar Mercedes which has been badly damaged or written off . |
| 13 | Taking this kind of argument it might be more desirable to improve the lot of someone who has had a considerable amount of resources , but now in old age has very little . |
| 14 | So we sought wiser men than ourselves who have trodden the same path he proposes to take . |
| 15 | For the long-lived alien , it will seem less of a miracle than a golf hole-in-one seems to us — and most of us probably know somebody who knows somebody who has scored a hole-in-one . |
| 16 | " What I look like , " Slater said , coming forward and taking Graham by the elbow to continue walking , " is somebody who has discovered an old pair of RAF pilot 's boots at a market stall in Camden . " |
| 17 | It is good to be able to talk to somebody who has experienced the whole spectrum of drugs because then they know what the hell you 're talking about , y'know . |
| 18 | I mean this is the kind of comment we will get from somebody who has spent the past five years on the village hall management committee . |
| 19 | We 've got somebody who 's got a living assurance policy with us , it 's going to pay out er , on diagnosis of any of those serious illnesses , and then they contract H I V , which if they had originally , we obviously would n't give it to them , but they contract it after the policy is enforced . |
| 20 | Everyone who has watched a loved one go through the experience of a major and dangerous operation will understand what the next few weeks were like . |
| 21 | Its , it 's a different process for each person you see , because everyone who 's had a mental illness is , is going to be different from another person ; a different history . |
| 22 | He looked at her as though it was she who had made the unusual suggestion . |
| 23 | If this is your first experience in the role of main helper to someone close to you who has suffered a major loss , and if you have not yet suffered one yourself , you may find the strange variety and intensity of her emotions and her need for long-term support rather daunting . |
| 24 | He opposed the Arminians and gave evidence to the Lords as one who had heard the notorious sermon at St Giles by the king 's chaplain , Roger Manwaring [ q.v. ] ( 1628–9 ) . |
| 25 | To one who had made a special study of refraction , the answer was obvious . |
| 26 | Her ring at the doorbell was answered by the woman she had seen on her first visit — the one who had spoken a little English . |
| 27 | When you run out of money you know the one who 's got the most when you run out of money |
| 28 | The Queen as Head of State gives overall stability to the political system and the Prime Minister as Head of Government is one who has served a long apprenticeship in parliament in high office of state and who is the elected leader of a party which has the confidence of the nation . |
| 29 | ‘ It was , perhaps , appropriate that the bereaved fiancee and husband should find mutual consolation although no one who has seen the beautiful Barbara Berowne could suppose that the marriage was merely a matter of fraternal duty . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ What 's this ? ’ said Piggy-wig , straddling a chair with the triumph of one who has mistressed a Zanussi automatic . |