Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These machines are chess-playing calculators ; even the weakest is better than the average chess player ( someone who plays at the median strength of all those who know the rules ) . |
| 2 | They convey to someone who belongs to the same culture a lot of information about the person who is wearing or carrying them . |
| 3 | Thus the examples of ( 9 ) are acceptable : ( 9 ) your behaviour was barbaric this device is expensive his plan was inspired but impractical Where a prenominal adjective fits equally well with either relationship — ascriptive or associative — to its noun , we find that its occurrence in predicative position is acceptable , but only provided that the relation is taken as being ascriptive ; thus ( 10 ) mentions an individual who either has Greek nationality ( but the nature and region of the business which he or she deals with remain unspecified ) , or is a person who handles affairs connected with Greece ( but who may well be of some quite different nationality , Belgian for example ) ; ( 11 ) however unambiguously tells us that there is someone who falls into the former category : ( 10 ) the Greek representative ( 11 ) the representative is Greek |
| 4 | Someone who knows about the great act of betrayal so many years ago . |
| 5 | He explained that what makes the document confidential is the fact that the creator of the document has used his brain and thus arrived at a result which can only be produced by somebody who goes through the same process . |
| 6 | It is quite staggering to everyone who listens to the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) how terrified he and his party are of tax cuts . |
| 7 | Something about the gondola itself which is , after all , only Venice made manifest in the craft of the shipwright metamorphoses almost everyone who travels in it ; especially everyone who sits in the posher seat , the one with its back to the gondolier . |
| 8 | Everyone who lives across the northern part of this land . |
| 9 | The children come from East and West Sussex , although to my astonishment there 's one who comes from the far reaches of West Sussex , right away over erm the other side of Chichester . |
| 10 | I would emphasize first , here speaking as one who has in the past given evidence on behalf of the Government , that the value of the scrutiny process is in part that it forces those with more direct power to consider their positions and their arguments carefully and to defend them in the face of public questioning by a Committee whose members may have long experience of the subject-matter involved . |
| 11 | I think anybody who teaches in the creative arts has this [ rapport ] with kids , because it 's emotionally based … whereas if you 're dealing with a factual subject , a scientific subject , you 're dealing more with things and objects and reactions . |
| 12 | Anyone who wanders into the fissured terrain of energy economics will before long encounter Keepin and Kats , from the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado . |
| 13 | Anyone who researches in the Public Record Office , the BBC archives or any other great collection , can not fail to notice the impact of the telephone in reducing general literacy , particularly at levels just below the most senior . |
| 14 | ‘ And let me assure you of something else — anyone who interferes with the smooth running of this place can pack their bags and get down the road right away . ’ |
| 15 | The inside of the church of Sainte-Marie is oppressively ornate , and it is hard to imagine anyone who responds to the simple exterior of the building responding to the interior as well . |
| 16 | The players can be anyone who plays in the English premier league , including foreigners . |
| 17 | Yet it is perfectly obvious to anyone who mixes in the real world that they are wicked people who have exercised a choice in favour of the nasty option . |
| 18 | However , we can not stress enough how unusual it is to find anyone who conforms to the stereotyped Ms or Mr Trim image . |
| 19 | Anything or anyone who falls into the black hole through the event horizon will come to an end of time at the singularity . |
| 20 | His violations of truth and trust make him , for anyone who conceives of the human community as being based on mutual help , guilty of ingratitude , of breaking those bonds of reciprocity which make life possible . |
| 21 | Open to anyone who cares about the environment- Reply guaranteed . |
| 22 | With regard to the vote in the House of Commons on the proposed European committee of the regions , although I can have no sympathy for anyone who votes with the Tory Government I can understand the SNP 's attempts at embracing reality and moving towards the concept of Europe of the regions . |
| 23 | Anyone who earns below the lower earnings limit does not pay national insurance contributions , and builds up no record within the national insurance system . |
| 24 | Anyone who switches from the existing bus service to the new service must therefore value time saved by at least 36 pence per hour saved . |