Example sentences of "[indef pn] who have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 2 | They went into the living-room and Lee turned off the television and they ate scrambled eggs in silence , Lee sitting on her resentment and Philippa thinking how impossible it was to talk to someone who had a blind spot , a crazy gap , a fatal flaw . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a sad thing to see someone who had an important job in the navy becoming such an irresponsible old soak . ’ |
| 4 | Weight loss is common , as are the obvious physical signs of needle track marks ( and wearing long sleeves to hide them ) , and the perpetually sore , running nose of someone who has a sniffing habit . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 're not technical , it 's very impotant to buy through someone who has a vested interest in supporting you , ’ says managing director Tony Gamble . |
| 6 | On polling day , it is the responsibility of the polling officer to decide whether someone who is under the influence of drink or drugs , or someone who has a severe learning disability , should or should not vote . |
| 7 | Most people ‘ in the street ’ recognise what a teacher is ; most would accord a teacher of ( say ) French a certain status ( though perhaps not as much as the deserve ) as being someone who has a special skill or expertise . |
| 8 | ‘ Everyone who had a possible interest in your brother 's death must expect to be thoroughly investigated . ’ |
| 9 | Just as Wunis Abdulhadi was able to opt out among friends , but knew that in a conflict he could not walk down the street without danger of attack from Zuwaya , so ‘ the obligation to fight ’ arose from people 's perception that their opponents would assume the worst possible case — — that everyone who had a theoretical obligation to fight would do so . |
| 10 | You have always got to be ready to smile and joke back with everyone who has a friendly jibe at you . ’ |
| 11 | After all , it 's not everyone who has a private view of paintings worth £100,000 — a lot of money in those pre-war , pre-inflation days — but which have never been on public view . |
| 12 | Whether his survival was that of a cynical trimmer or one who had a paramount belief in the idea of the royal supremacy is impossible to determine , but he can not have been a good parochial pastor because of his persistent plurality . |
| 13 | Had she , she wondered , been enjoying Guido 's company a little too much for one who had a steady boyfriend back home ? |
| 14 | For one who has a strenuous life it is necessary , absolutely necessary in order to keep sane and well . |
| 15 | I have got erm a crazy mixed up erm if you like , combination ; erm one who has a precarious reputation for doing some strange things on the track , Andrea , and it 's ironical really because erm when at the end of erm my racing days , which seventy eight , seventy nine with the erm Malborough team , erm Andrea was a young kid coming through . |
| 16 | He is an eloquent man , and one who has a clear idea about his role as an artist , ‘ I am aware of belonging to a tradition , I look to Picasso , Giotto , Goya , Beckmann , Chagall . |
| 17 | YOUNG Jason Ennis is a superb illustrator and one who has a considerable number of strings to his artistic bow . |
| 18 | Public law remedies are not of much use to the citizen who has suffered actual injury ( whether physical or economic ) as opposed to one who has an intangible grievance . |
| 19 | A curfew was imposed after nightfall , but it was ill-observed , and almost anyone who had a reasonable excuse was permitted to walk the streets without hindrance . |
| 20 | We never found anyone who had a bad word to say against Tony . ’ |
| 21 | How can anyone who has a genuine concern for the people they are trying to help or any genuine concern for the taxpayers who provide the funds have any well founded objection to producing such evidence ? |
| 22 | Now here is another extremely simple little dish , a dish which anyone who has a helpful butcher can make with very little trouble or expense . |
| 23 | Anyone who has a German shepherd they would like to offer to the police is asked to telephone Sandon dog section on ( 0245 ) 223616 . |
| 24 | They are designed to be quick to prepare and even quicker to eat and as a result are highly desirable to anyone who has a busy lifestyle . |
| 25 | We are also interested in hearing from anyone who has a musical background or who is interested in stage management . ’ |
| 26 | In broad terms , because soft systems thinking represents a unique way of encouraging an observer to learn about a situation , it should appeal to virtually anyone who has an enquiring mind , a notion reflected in the closing paragraphs of Systems Thinking , Systems practice ; as I have made frequent reference to this work throughout , it seems appropriate to finish my book with the following quote from Professor Peter Checkland , who says about soft systems thinking : |
| 27 | We 'd like to hear from anyone who has an interesting story or tip to pass on to other readers . |
| 28 | Anyone who has an historical interest in the topic of readability will be familiar with its dramatic vacillations in popularity . |