Example sentences of "who [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view seems to have rubbed off on foreign , non-Marxist interpreters of the passage of NEP , who as a whole are inclined to think that a cultural policy of laissez-faire was pursued throughout NEP . |
| 2 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 3 | In the early hours of yesterday morning they were beaten in four sets by Patrick McEnroe and Jim Grabb , and then some 13 hours later they fell 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to the Australians Darren Cahill and Mark Kratzman , who as a result qualified for the semi-finals . |
| 4 | In the early hours of yesterday morning they were beaten in four sets by Patrick McEnroe and Jim Grabb , and then some 13 hours later they fell 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to the Australians Darren Cahill and Mark Kratzman , who as a result qualified for the semi-finals . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a tight-knit community up here , ’ said Major Mike Marks , 69 , who as a young soldier was on anti-invasion duties . |
| 6 | ‘ But I feel dismay , sorrow , for so many people in our country who do not share this personal good fortune and who as a result of further years of Tory government will experience further disadvantage . |
| 7 | A tutor-organiser ( or equivalent ) who as a professional employee is susceptible to discipline if he or she proves negligent or misguided , can help to ensure that the voluntary movement lives up to its obligations — through advice and encouragement as far as possible , through seizing the initiative himself if there is no alternative . |
| 8 | The man chosen was Russell Butler , a research student in social history at the University of London , who as a part-time tutor had taken the first course for apprentices at Marconi and had greatly impressed both here and in other courses for the branches in Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans . |
| 9 | We phoned a good , dear friend who as a midwife had gone to much trouble and arranged to deliver the baby . |
| 10 | One great-grandfather had been an inventor , ‘ socially in a higher class ’ , while another family claimed ‘ a good background somewhere ’ through a great-grandmother who as a maid had eloped with a young aristocratic gambler . |
| 11 | Sir Andrew Derbyshire , who as a young architect with Sheffield City Council was part of the steering committee 30 years ago , has agreed to serve again , and the chairman will be Frank Duffy of DEGW , who is now the RIBA 's Vice-President for Marketing . |
| 12 | The horror of the Strathnaver clearances was eventually exposed by Donald Macleod , who as a young boy had been evicted by Seller from the village of Rossal . |
| 13 | President Kennedy , who as a young competitive swimmer had learned the Kahanamoku Kick , asked to meet him . |
| 14 | Sir Matt Busby , who as a Manchester City player often appeared against what he calls ‘ the magnificent Arsenal of the early Thirties ’ , describes the key role played by Alex James ( whom he knew and idolized as a boy in the Glasgow suburbs of their youth ) : ‘ James was the great creator from the middle . |
| 15 | Derby 's Government in the Commons was led by the Leader of the House and Chancellor of the Exchequer , Benjamin Disraeli , who as a member of the Select Committee which examined the 1855 Act and Hall 's Committee of 1856 was well aware of the need for a new Foreign Office . |
| 16 | His father was a miner who as a young man had started mining in a different coal pit which is closed now . |
| 17 | A retired administrator who as a young man had single-handedly turned the tide of mutiny in his district in the North-West Provinces , he believed that since those Homeric days British administration had become dangerously out of touch with the people . |
| 18 | But rugby maverick , 34-year-old Tim Wilby , now guesting with his eighth club and who describes himself in rugby 's who 's who as a ‘ socialite ’ , lends his distinctive skills and experience to the pack . |
| 19 | Lord Teviot is listed in Who 's Who as a genealogist ( one who studies family pedigrees ) . |
| 20 | why were the Neanderthals , who as a species of human being had had a much longer pedigree , vulnerable to the Cro-Magnons ? |
| 21 | These were the remaining items from the collection of Major David Summonsby , who as a bomb disposal specialist acquired an amazing collection of World War Two German aircraft relics , such as werke nummer plates , a Bf 109 control column , a fragment of a tail fin from a ‘ 109 , a rare camera-gun liberated from a Do 17 , and , interestingly , a pennant flown from a JU188 shot down over Combe Hill , Dorset , in 1944 . |
| 22 | And who as a result has acquired a rather topsy-turvy view of her own importance . |
| 23 | The Irish star , who as a child was battered by her mother , revealed that she went to a psychiatrist to sort out her problems . |
| 24 | He had already admired Animal Farm which , as he tells in his diary ( 31 August 1945 ) , he read promptly on its first appearance to spite his cousin Claud Cockburn , who as a loyal Communist Party man had warned him against reading Trotskyite literature . |
| 25 | He was notably more libertarian than Tolkien , for all that , who as a Catholic had supported Franco during the Spanish Civil War . |
| 26 | This involves combined action by hospital providers , who have fulfilled their contracts with a quarter of the year remaining , and general practitioners , who as a consequence are unable to obtain hospital treatment for their patients , to put pressure on health authorities to increase the resources available to acute services . |
| 27 | State peasants , who as a percentage of the rural population grew to about 54 per cent by the time of the Crimean War , fared little better . |
| 28 | Among the earl 's possessions there was the lordship of Spofforth , the home of the Middletons of Stokeld , who as a result naturally looked to the Percies for lordship . |
| 29 | Subsequent correspondence revealed that the Registrar of Walkato is none other than Mr Jeremy J Callaghan , who as a member of Salford Registrar 's Department was responsible for Convocation affairs in the early 1970s . |
| 30 | Those who were approached would almost certainly have included Trevor Glover of Penguin ( who as a former president of the Australian Book Publishers Association offered unique experience to the post ) , Paula Hahn of Longman ( who , if she had accepted , would have been the first woman president in the PA 's history ) , Simon Masters of Random House , John Clement of Chambers , Philip Sturrock of Cassell , David Young of HarperCollins , and the current treasurer , Philip Kogan of Kogan Page . |