Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EIGHT hours of athletics at Bebington on Saturday will go a long way to deciding who goes on a two-day trip to Blackpool next month . |
| 2 | Throughout the meeting he has been observing one student , possibly in his thirties , who sits in a long wheelchair with his legs straight , parallel with the floor . |
| 3 | The kind who sits in a little island in the middle of a highly polished marble floor , looking gorgeous and untouchable , but … ’ |
| 4 | Julie Champagne , 18 , who belongs to a no-sex club in Ontario says : ‘ We think ‘ no sex ’ is better than ‘ safe sex ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ A very important person , who belongs to a royal family , has sent me to ask for your help , ’ he went on . |
| 6 | So the Christian who glories in a non-rational basis for his faith leaves himself vulnerable to a particularly lethal blow which strikes at the very foundation of faith . |
| 7 | The traveller who rides on a local bus can learn a lot : in the mountains of Greece everyone clings on for dear life and makes the sign of the cross at every bend in the road ; in the Thar Desert , Rajasthan , a sense of humour is essential , especially when the giggling driver moves the sheltering bus to reveal squatting passengers answering the call of nature , and in South America it helps if you do n't mind sitting next to a chicken or sharing the floor with a goat . |
| 8 | Tim Curtiz ( David Dukes ) is an ex-pat American who writes about a rose-tinted Britain for a New York literary magazine . |
| 9 | who lives under an old boat , |
| 10 | A TOTALLY PSYCHEDELIC GUY , aged 16 , who lives for a good time is out to see if there are any zany females into Pink Floyd , Cult and The Who . |
| 11 | Once more it is helpful to consider the situation of a two-dimensional being who lives on a spherical surface embedded in our three-dimensional space . |
| 12 | IT 'S THE nightmare that everyone who lives near a big airport dreads . |
| 13 | What , after all , can be said to a child about a man who lives in a mental hospital ? |
| 14 | MRS X , a housewife who lives in a small village in the South-East , became a victim of Brighton-based knockers less than a fortnight after the death of her husband , who was a keen collector of china , silver and oil paintings . |
| 15 | Miss Corinne Day , 27 , a fashion photographer with The Face magazine who lives in a top-floor flat in Brewer Street , said : ‘ I was putting my socks on ready to go out . |
| 16 | Mr Robinson , who lives in a special unit , Wakerley Lodge , at Leicester General Hospital , was injured on November 29 , 1988 when a Ferret scout car crashed . |
| 17 | ‘ They 're probably the best troops that the Philippine army has , ’ said Mr Peter Choynowski , an executive of the Asian Development Bank from Canada , who lives in a high-rise flat shelled by mortars . |
| 18 | A MADCAP millionaire who lives in a run-down cottage has been taken to court over an unpaid poll tax bill — for FIVE PENCE . |
| 19 | Sam , who lives in a modest £70,000 semi in north London , also has a New York apartment and a villa on Spain 's Costa Del Sol . |
| 20 | A DENTAL surgeon who lives in a wooden hut has been lumped into the luxury council tax bracket . |
| 21 | THE BABY WHO LIVES IN AN OLD TOYOTA |
| 22 | who squats by an open drain for hours , sifting shit |
| 23 | Not a light in any of the lounges or offices , not a soul , certainly not a British Committee one , who looks like a welcoming committee . |
| 24 | Executive power is vested in the Governor ( currently Carlos Melancia ) , who is assisted by five Secretaries-Adjunct with executive powers , and who presides over a Superior Council of Security and over a Consultative Council . |
| 25 | She has two sons , both married with families , who live at some distance , and an older sister living in Brighton who cares for a disabled husband . |
| 26 | There is no equivalent to the invalid care allowance which is given to the person who cares for an elderly person . |
| 27 | A salutary cautionary note is sounded by Zillmann who concludes after a painstaking review of experimental evidence that ‘ the amount of relevant data on animal aggression from both laboratory and field investigations is nearly overwhelming . |
| 28 | Judge , then , the surprise of the visitor who arrives on a fine spring day to find the scent of the linden trees on the Bahnhofstrasse filling the air . |
| 29 | R.24(2) confirms , for the avoidance of doubt , that a solicitor or RFL who participates in a recognised body remains personally subject to all the requirements of conduct affecting solicitors . |
| 30 | The following year brought The Miner 's Daughter in which the heroine deserts her working-man husband for the new mine-owner and his lavish apartment ; in time she becomes unhappy but is eventually reclaimed by her husband who storms into a smart reception and virtually throttles the mine-owner . |