Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parity expects to sell to end users and have the boxes rebranded by an integrator who sells into the petrochemical industry . |
| 2 | The film is about a murdered rock musician who returns from the dead and , quoting lines from Edgar Allan Poe , seeks revenge . |
| 3 | But woe betide the culprit who trespasses on the wrong side of 50 . |
| 4 | Four Quartets offers an image of that " entity " , and the figure who appears in the Dantesque passage is a " familiar compound ghost " in whom Eliot suggested we might recognize Yeats , Mallarmé , Swift and Poe . |
| 5 | You must have a co-ordinator who liaises between the different people , takes the overall view , is good at detail and is ultimately the person with whom ‘ the buck stops ’ . |
| 6 | I 've fallen for a boy who goes to the same school as me , but is two years younger than I am . |
| 7 | But tell me , the English lady who sits with the peculiar gloves drinking sherry wine with your colleague . |
| 8 | To George 's annoyance , everyone seems to be conspiring against his grandiose plans — especially the old lady who arrives on the same day as Tony Madoc . |
| 9 | ‘ who is that fierce old lady who lives in the white cottage ? ’ |
| 10 | Well unfortunately , the lady who lives in the top cottage is now in erm hospital |
| 11 | We 're looking for a Mrs Puddephat , lady who lives in the big red house down the road . |
| 12 | Certainly ‘ The Finest Story in the World ’ with its hero who emerges as the unlikely reincarnation of a Norseman from Greenland and a galley slave was to have considerable repercussions . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ said Helen , ‘ I do know a girl who works in the outer office there , and we do sometimes meet up for lunch and I could try to put her on to it … |
| 15 | It is this being , the power behind the throne who acts as the unifying force of all the ‘ lesser ’ deities , who would more appropriately be described as the God of Hinduism . |
| 16 | Yet more importantly , the upper levels of the program have no access to the levels below them : the programmer who writes at the topmost , or accessible , level has no need to know how his program is being translated , even though for certain purposes he might wish to find out . |
| 17 | Charlie Swan rides Novello Allegro and also Castlina , a recent Navan winner who goes for the three miles handicap hurdle on the opening day . |
| 18 | He played Alan Crabbe , a nineteen-year-old who falls for the older Eileen — played by Nyree Dawn Porter — and is later beaten up by her fiancé . |
| 19 | She was not the whore who lurks under the demure exterior of even the most respectable wife and mother . |
| 20 | It was noted above that these accounts are audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General who reports to the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't know Alex well but you ca n't not know a lad who lives in the same street . ’ |
| 23 | I was just after some informal advice from a friend who works in the main office , really . ’ |
| 24 | Several weeks later I was talking to a friend who lives in the next town . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Patrice Haguellar , who used to coach Noah and Leconte in a private capacity , and who is now France 's National Coach , is a realist who looks upon the 1992 campaign as ‘ … a new challenge ’ |
| 27 | However in the light of the subsequent prosecution appeal to the House of Lords and the doubt discussed above concerning whether the non-certified points of appeal could have been raised there , B's position was tantamount to a person who loses on the one point of appeal judicially addressed and who is given no answer to his remaining points of appeal . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Leader catechist — the person who presents to the whole group the symbol , the teaching ( catechesis ) of the session , the sacred experience and the Word of God . |
| 30 | A person who knows about the different audio-visual and programmed formats , how they work , how they can be repaired , or what in general they are capable of . |