Example sentences of "who is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who is spearheading the government 's breastfeeding policy ? |
| 2 | I see , she thought , he is to be the one who is rejected ; that is how it is to be . |
| 3 | Now mum Nicola , who is fed up with 20-month-old Jasmin saying ‘ ayup ’ , wants to move from her housing association home in Buckland , Portsmouth . |
| 4 | The baby who is picked up or fed whenever he cries soon becomes a veritable tyrant , and gives his mother no peace when awake ; while , on the other hand , the infant who is fed regularly , put to sleep , and played with at definite times soon finds that appeals bring no response , and so learns that most useful of all lessons , self-control , and the recognition of an authority other than his own wishes . |
| 5 | ‘ I shall be taking along my wife and her step-mother , Lady Potter , who is flying in from Australia , ’ says Parker Bowles . |
| 6 | Let us suppose a less hurried traveller who is flying to Bali with the intention of staying who wants the life he expects in Bali not for some business or educational purpose but for its own sake , as his vision of the Good Life . |
| 7 | Joining them will be their daughters Kate , 29 , and 31-year-old Bara — short for Barbara — who is flying in from Los Angeles . |
| 8 | Shadow aid Minister Michael Meacher , who is flying to Somalia next week , said : ‘ This famine , which is worse than the Ethiopia one of 1985 , has been brewing for two or three years . |
| 9 | But Lady Thatcher , who is flying back to Britain from the United States , is apparently unaware yet that she will also be invited to give evidence about the affair which , according to one MP , ‘ went right to the heart of Government ’ when she was in power . |
| 10 | ‘ It seems my nephew is so besotted with your sister that he 's treated his parents with arrant discourtesy , walking away from the opportunity of meeting his father 's cousin who is flying in from the States — a man who could be influential in his future career . |
| 11 | Alison , who is flying back to Britain in two weeks , told her mother : ‘ I am alive , I am fit . ’ |
| 12 | Firstly , a defendant who is remanded in custody is likely to find it much more difficult to prepare an adequate defence than one who is free on bail . |
| 13 | It is to be observed that a proceeding under section 7(5) in no way precludes a defendant who is remanded in custody from making an application for bail either to the justices , or to the Crown Court , or to a judge in chambers , whichever tribunal is appropriate . |
| 14 | They give nothing away , and it 's Jensen in his rock-solid role as ball-winner and organiser who is providing a base for the ones in front of him to play . |
| 15 | Introduced in 1975 , ICA is intended to replace the earnings lost or forgone by a working-age carer who is providing full-time ( at least thirty-five hours a week ) care to a severely disabled person . |
| 16 | But Oxford match secretary Steve Pipkin , who is pegging the length , reckons the team who can best sort out a method for the small fish will win on the day . |
| 17 | Sometimes it helps if the person who is holding the horse , pats the horse on the neck in exact time to the farrier hammering on its foot — especially if it is the actual hammering that worries the horse the most . |
| 18 | On the count of ten , the chosen child opens his eyes and has three chances to guess who is holding the bell behind his back . |
| 19 | ( Have you ever tried having a conversation with someone who is holding a hanky over their face ? ) |
| 20 | It no longer matters who is holding the rope . |
| 21 | [ to PAMELA , who is holding back slightly ] Why so strange here , Pamela , where you were once so familiar ? |
| 22 | news on ronny johnsen is that he probably will not be offered a contract with spurs — he was tried out as a central marking defender ( the style most teams play — each central defender marks one attacker ) and as such he was no succes — norway play what we call a zone defence ; ‘ marking ’ their zones instead of players — journalists from Holland were laughing as Norway 's coach Drillo Olsen was asked ‘ who is to mark van Basten ? ’ before our home game against Holland and he answered ‘ No one is ’ — they did not laugh afterwards ( we won 2–1 ) . |
| 23 | But anyone who is tempted to affect an Old World condescension to the New ( ‘ a young nation ’ , and similar self-servings ) should consider again the date at which Canto 7 was written . |
| 24 | But an RUC spokesman warned : ‘ The motorist who is tempted to buy one of these will be discovered at some stage , whether it is presented at a police station in relation to an accident or submitted by a new owner to an MOT centre for a test . ’ |
| 25 | This knowledge is perhaps too great for a small hobbit such as Pippin , one of Frodo 's companions , who is tempted and looks in a Palantir where he sees Sauron . |
| 26 | It provides a family doctor service with access to specialist and hospital facilities for each student who is registered with the University physicians . |
| 27 | It provides a family doctor service with access to specialist and hospital facilities for each student who is registered with the University physicians . |
| 28 | It is the person , not the business , who is registered for VAT . |
| 29 | Suppose , say , that A , who is registered and is entitled to be registered , loses his certificate , obtains a duplicate from the company and transfers to B who is registered by the company . |
| 30 | Suppose , say , that A , who is registered and is entitled to be registered , loses his certificate , obtains a duplicate from the company and transfers to B who is registered by the company . |