Example sentences of "[be] a [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am a southerner whose first job was in Leeds , whose second job was in Edinburgh and whose third job was in London . |
| 2 | For 715 years Andorra has been a co-principality whose joint sovereigns are the French president and the bishop of the nearby Spanish town of Seu d'Urgell . |
| 3 | For 715 years Andorra has been a co-principality whose joint sovereigns are the French president and the bishop of the nearby Spanish town of Seu d'Urgell . |
| 4 | The idea that , that human beings are a species whose social interactions are very critical , as we know social interactions are also very important to reproductive success , and so I bring in inside this analytic cooperation the idea about deception and the evolution of the unconscious , that press deceivers do n't know that , deceiving . |
| 5 | In his own time he had been a maverick , and for being a maverick his grateful sovereign had pinned on his chest the gallantry medal of the Military Cross . |
| 6 | There 's a girl my elder brother wants to marry , and my family want it , too , but she likes me better , and I like her , and her parents wo n't force her . |
| 7 | It 's a pity her two husbands left her so well off that she has n't had to worry about money . |
| 8 | Twenty years doing two shows a month , of a tiny range of parts which she has known inside-out for years — it 's a miracle her creative spirit survives at all . |
| 9 | Reading is a skill which many people take for granted . |
| 10 | This is a skill which many pupils bring to the classroom but may have little opportunity to show . |
| 11 | Stachys canata ( " Lambs Ears " ) is a perennial whose flat carpets look attractive in the garden alongside clumps of Helichrysum angustifolium ( the curry plant ) . |
| 12 | Redundancy is a word which many executives dread . |
| 13 | After multiple cycles of amplification , the predominant double stranded DNA species in the sample is a fragment whose two ends are defined by the two primer oligonucleotides — that is , not all the DNA in the original sample is amplified . |
| 14 | This is the " fire which consumes everything that is dark " ( Fire of Love , prologue , p.47 ) ; at this stage of the treatise it is a metaphor whose full implications have not been developed , but it is the goal of this form of living . |
| 15 | In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant . |
| 16 | It is a notion which professional football has always been happy to promote . |
| 17 | This is a dichotomy which other police in Easton recognize , for a senior officer , with an obvious orientation towards crime control , once described the work with young offenders as ‘ the real community work ’ ( FN 10/2/87 , p. 11 ) . |
| 18 | This gives an important role to word-recognition skills , but it is a role which recent studies are tending to support ( see , for instance , Gough , 1984 ) . |
| 19 | On the stability front the new M1001 , is a shoe which New Balance claims is the most consistently stable shoe on the market , but at 410 grams it 's also one of the heaviest . |
| 20 | ‘ I will be brief and to avoid further confusing the issue I intend … ’ — this is a trap which many writers fall into . |
| 21 | However , an explicit consideration of the broader themes of education management as such is a luxury which fewer people will have had the time , or perhaps the inclination , to undertake . |
| 22 | This is a mystery which some people , in every age , have found difficult to accept . |
| 23 | It is a symptom which many women are too embarrassed to consult their doctors about , and which many doctors are too ignorant to do anything about . |
| 24 | A theory is a model whose internal logic we understand together with a claim that reality conforms to the concepts and logic of the model . |
| 25 | The [ Gold Coast ] line is equipped with Webb and Thompson 's instruments , and to explain the electric staff regulations , in a temperature somewhere around 90 degrees , to a native stationmaster who understands about as much of English as the average English railway official does of French , is a task which white officials feelingly affirm requires a considerable amount of patience , to say nothing of linguistic gymnastics . |
| 26 | I thought , it 's an insult my flipping intelligence ! |
| 27 | This selection of an elevated vantage point , which often required much exertion to reach , is an approach which separated Green from many of the earlier painters , but was subsequently followed by many . |
| 28 | This is an issue which Western Governments and unions are only really beginning to grapple with in the context of the Single European market , and for many that is where the debate will stay for some time . |
| 29 | KEEPING out foreigners is an art which European governments continue to refine . |
| 30 | But unlike Chomsky 's ideal linguistic competence , stylistic competence is an ability which different people possess in different measure , so that although there may be a great deal in common between different English speakers " responsiveness to style , allowance must be made for differences of degree and kind . |