Example sentences of "who in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Hastings ' habit of pipe-smoking was clearly taken from Thomas Hood , who in a poem of 1839 wrote : |
| 2 | These losers make up the core of the 74% of Hungarians who in a recent opinion poll said they thought the economic situation had worsened . |
| 3 | After our election victory , Willie Whitelaw moved from the Home Office to become Leader of the House of Lords and his place was taken by Leon Brittan , who in a notable promotion became the youngest Home Secretary since Robert Peel . |
| 4 | Last year the American author Seymour Hersh , who in a book accused Daily Mirror journalists of acting as Israeli spies , admitted he had received information from Flynn . |
| 5 | The sixth book forced Boy to think again about this problem of not knowing who in a story to be . |
| 6 | O also thought , because of the man 's posture , and the huge overcoat in which he was wrapped , that he looked like a queen in a tragedy which O had seen , who in a terrible moment of despair had sat down , not on a throne or on the marble palace steps , but just right there on the floor . |
| 7 | We had tourist visitors of every age and family , and some quaint scenes were witnessed on the upgoing — many of the native children ( and one who in a few years after might be called an old man ) found it a profitable , and I doubt not , too , a pleasurable work , leading the tourists to the top . |
| 8 | Gandhi cites the example of a man who in a fit of madness goes about with a sword in his hand killing indiscriminately . |
| 9 | Actor David Threlfall landed a plum role … playing who in a TV mini-series ? |
| 10 | It was adopted by those abolitionists who in a growing mood of frustration had also developed the agency system . |
| 11 | Thus disputes between brothers and sisters ( who in a formal sense are in the same position in respect of their claims to a parent 's estate ) is one of the situations where serious conflicts do arise . |
| 12 | Then Edgar appears , disguised as a poor knight whose ‘ name is lost ; /By treason 's tooth bare-gnawn , and canker-bit ’ ( 121f. ) , and by defeating him in single combat , completes the exposure of Edmund , the bastard being displayed as a hypocrite and pretender ( 162–74 ) , who in a fair contest — according to Renaissance optimism about the superiority of right — is bound to be defeated by the legitimate . |
| 13 | The Greek revolt was seen by European liberals who in a sense might be having a hard time of it in in , in those years . |
| 14 | The guest turns out to be Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly , " a very great doctor " , who in a role half-priestly and half-analytical reconciles Edward and Lavinia even though their marriage has already been described by him as that of |
| 15 | Lack of data is not a new problem — Burnhill ( 1985 ) cites Moser and Layard ( 1964 ) , who in a paper on planning the scale of HE , stated that ‘ on many important topics there were no data at all ’ , and that ‘ we lacked comprehensive data on the school background and GCE performance of students in different sectors of higher education . ’ |
| 16 | The originator of this research was the maverick James McConnell , at Ann Arbor , Michigan , who in a series of papers during the 1960s , first in conventional scientific journals and then in his own publication , the exotically named Worm-Runners Digest , reported experiments in which flatworms , trained by pairing light with electric shock , were chopped up and other , ‘ naïve ’ ( that is , untrained ) worms allowed to cannibalize them . |
| 17 | A chief executive of a major UK company who in a public speech stressed how far companies in his industry lagged behind the Japanese found , upon analysis , that the shortfall was almost all due to excessive holdings of assets . |
| 18 | A Christian is someone , who in a special sense , belongs to Christ . |
| 19 | In that case the defendant pleaded the defence of mistake , the mistake being that of a shop assistant who in a lapse of concentration put the wrong label on a piece of meat . |
| 20 | We care about the old age pensioners the poor the single parents and all those people who in a winter 's time are going to struggle and some are tragically going to fail to pay seventeen and a half percent V A T on fuel and heating bills . |
| 21 | There is actual evidence that he did do it in his childhood , and th so they 're not erm , they 're kind of building everything on a single sentence like Leo does , you know , amazingly enough , Leo 's book starts with entry of Who 's Who in a single phrase , where she calls herself daughter of , her father . |
| 22 | What has the Prime Minister to say about the comments of the last Conservative leader of Lambeth council , who in a letter published in The Guardian on Saturday said — I want to quote it , and he said , ’ The Government is failing in its treatment of the mentally ill ’ |
| 23 | Will he listen to the pleas of those who have occupied the Waterloo ambulance station , using it for 70 homeless people who in a blaze of publicity over Christmas were helped by the Government ? |
| 24 | In exile in Tripoli , non-reconciled CDR factions were suspected of forming links with Zaghawa rebels in Darfur after the April 1989 coup attempt and seeking Libyan sponsorship for an anti-Habre coalition ; prominent individuals included Adoum Togoi , Moctar Moussa and Rakhis Mananny ( who in a statement on Oct. 7 , 1989 , described himself as CDR secretary-general ) . |
| 25 | The Justice Secretary , César Arias ( appointed on Oct. 5 , 1989 , to replace Julio Oyhanarte ) , later described as a " fantasy " remarks by former President Raúl Alfonsín who in a television interview on March 7 , 1990 , warned that democracy was under threat and alleged that the government was studying the possibility of closing Congress using a 1909 decree . |
| 26 | who in a second |
| 27 | What a week : Batts and Fat-Frank going in the same week , what the fuck is going on — i guess they need the cash to buy someone — guess we will know who in a couple of weeks … the newly in shape Maradona ? |
| 28 | Erm I must confess to doubting whether such a pool of talent exists and I share the views er of the Noble Lord , Lord Motterstone who in a very powerful and commonsense speech made this point an and a number of other ones , but I have to say that what I do think exists is the temptation to create posts for friends of the Government , a process of which has been going for far too long and I mem and I wonder if er members on the other side would defend this position as my Noble Friend Lord Allen said earlier , quite sincerely if , say , another party were in power before when such a time arrives it will then be of little avail for them to run around complaining , for they will have sown the seeds of their own dissatisfaction . |
| 29 | Taking deep breaths he was patted on the back by a man beside him who in a shallow voice said , |