Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For 22 years , North Down has been the personal bailliwick of James Kilfedder , the former speaker of the ill-starred Northern Ireland Assembly and an independent Unionist who sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Commons but without the party whip . |
| 2 | Amer Midani , the wealthy Lebanese businessman who sits on the United board , is still favourite to eventually take over the club , and to install Bobby Charlton as chairman . |
| 3 | But tell me , the English lady who sits with the peculiar gloves drinking sherry wine with your colleague . |
| 4 | Steve Powell , who plays for the away team said : ‘ Obviously , the prison team can only play at home but they are anxious to play more friendly matches . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Former Coventry boss John Sillett spotted the Ndlovus — along with a third brother who plays in the German league — when City played Zimbabwe on tour a year ago . |
| 7 | Matthew Truskett , who plays in the national youth orchestra , hopes to study music in a big way and become a violinist ; Janine Peacock , who was principal cellist in the national children 's orchestra , recently played solo in a concert at Stockton Parish Church ; and many others have won singing prizes . |
| 8 | " It 's just a matter of remaining possessed by Arjuna , who belongs to the Upper World , " he told us . |
| 9 | Tord Haraldsson from Alingsas , who belongs to the investigating task force , said that similar assaults in Denmark and the US have turned out to be sectarian rituals , where fanatics have been drinking horses ' blood to gain strength . |
| 10 | As the story of a white woman who rides into the Mexican mountains to be sacrificed , naked and unprotesting , to the god of the Indians in order to maintain for them ‘ The mastery that man must hold , and that passes from race to race ’ , this piece , particularly when contrasted with Sweeney Agonistes , makes clear the essential difference between Eliot 's interest in the savage and that of Lawrence . |
| 11 | ‘ One is the maid , who sleeps on the other side of the house . |
| 12 | Alternative approaches are reviewed by Franco Bianchini , who points to the potential role of an adequately funded arts programme in fostering civic pride and countering alienation , and Doreen Massey who emphasized the need for a combination of progressive national and local economic strategies . |
| 13 | JON RONSON , who writes about The Secret World of Sex ( page 76 ) , lives in Manchester and specializes in life 's stranger corners . |
| 14 | She is a mother of two who writes for the official Football Association magazine 90 Minutes . |
| 15 | Everyone who lives across the northern part of this land . |
| 16 | The meeting 's in the Roker Park lounge at 1 30pm ; membership details are available from Jimmy Wright ( 091–528–0353 ) who lives opposite the near-legendary Bobby Gurney in East Herrington . |
| 17 | The Masai say that Engai Narok ( the black god ) , who lives in the dark storm clouds , has fed the earth with life-giving rain . |
| 18 | There is a strong contrast between Stuart Graham 's wet and weedy Alec , who lives in the big house , with Peter O'Meara 's boyish Jerry , who comes from more humble stock . |
| 19 | ‘ who is that fierce old lady who lives in the white cottage ? ’ |
| 20 | During his campaign this personable single man , who lives in the very heart of the constituency in Guisborough , has appealed to Dr. Kumar and Mr Bates to stop ‘ the negative mudslinging ’ and take part in constructive political debate . |
| 21 | Well unfortunately , the lady who lives in the top cottage is now in erm hospital |
| 22 | But nothing will more unite MPs of all parties than outrage over a Minister who lies in the sacred Commons chamber . |
| 23 | And we now have the final symbolism of Ross Perot , the white knight set to storm Washington , who has in the not-so-distant past said that it might be necessary to suspend the constitution and cordon off black neighbourhoods and place them under martial law . |
| 24 | For a long time Cindy 's only competition was a sad show called Style With Elsa Klensch , a yapping Aussie who looks like the missing link between Morticia and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family . |
| 25 | At the worst the plaintiff who starts in the wrong division will be removed to another division , and may have to pay the expenses , if any , incurred by his mistake ; but he can not fail altogether for his mistake . |
| 26 | But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name . |
| 27 | Who cares about the possible queue a week next putative Saturday at the Gatwick guichet ? |
| 28 | Open to anyone who cares about the environment- Reply guaranteed . |
| 29 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 30 | The Doctor realises that there is no way the two teachers could have achieved all this , but it is Barbara who arrives at the real solution . |