Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SOLDIER who doomed a teenage girl to a living death with a dose of pure heroin was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 2 | A MUSICIAN who wrote a unique series of music books for physically disabled people has found himself in their shoes after suffering a stroke . |
| 3 | It held that s.47 could be committed indirectly : " A defendant who pours a dangerous substance into a machine just as truly assaults the next user of the machine as if he himself switched the machine on . " |
| 4 | But a malfunction occurs and he comes to believe that he really has been an intelligence agent who made a startling discovery on Mars … |
| 5 | Any applicant for a course of study who has a criminal record should , at the time of application inform the Academic Registrar who will advise the applicant whether or not he or she is likely to be able to satisfy certain eligibility requirements for the course . |
| 6 | Any applicant for a course of study who has a criminal record should at the time of application inform the Academic Registrar who will advise the applicant whether or not he or she is likely to be able to satisfy certain eligibility requirements for the course . |
| 7 | This phrase is proved as at point 5 , but as the case depends on this point , such evidence is best given by a reliable witness who had a good view of the vehicles concerned . |
| 8 | A JILTED lover who drugged a young mother , tortured her with an electric shock gun and raped her in front of her children was jailed for six years yesterday . |
| 9 | Rafael Pardo Ruedas , a former government security adviser who played a key role in negotiating the demobilization and political integration of the left-wing April-19 Movement ( M-19 ) guerrillas in March 1990 [ see pp. 37244 ; 37311 ] , was appointed Defence Minister on Aug. 24 , replacing Gen. Oscar Botero Restrepo . |
| 10 | Johnstone 's defence lawyer was none other than Joe Beltrami , champion of the legal underdog and a lawyer who enjoyed a virtual monopoly on Scotland 's most controversial court-cases . |
| 11 | A MAYOR who criticised a planned output of BBC broadcasts from Stockton has been accused by a colleague of interfering . |
| 12 | Prominent at the moment are the groups Avia , who use Sov-art from 20s and 30s , Pop Mechanics of S. Kurjehin who favour a multi- media show which employs symphonic , rock choiral , folk and live animals , and finally Auction who have a surrealistic cabaret style . |
| 13 | Brian Wood was the strong , solid , ever-dependable central defender who made a tremendous contribution to Palace 's promotion to Division Two under Dick Graham in 1963–64 , but who then had the misfortune to suffer a badly broken leg in a third round FA Cup-tie in January 1965 , from which he never fully recovered while with us . |
| 14 | A FIXED ODDS punter who attempted a huge swindle with a forged coupon was placed on probation yesterday . |
| 15 | Victory for the colt who caught a diminishing view of Cesarewitch favourite Travelling Light at Ayr could see another shuffle in the ante-post market . |
| 16 | Ideal for those considering doing research who need a greater knowledge of Greek or ( if not native English speakers ) who need to learn to write technical exegetical arguments in good English . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're a bit early , Mr Wickham , ’ said the barman who had a fine memory for faces from television screens and newspapers . |
| 18 | Conversely , a carrier who issues a non-negotiable bill in a foreign port naming a United States importer as consignee may be held liable in the United States for refusing to deliver the goods to the United States consignee who does not surrender the bill of lading . |
| 19 | The floor of the north-facing harbour is a mass of mooring chains and , according to the Imray pilot , there 's at least one inhabitant with a glass-bottomed boat who makes a good living from visitors ' misfortunes . |
| 20 | On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit . |
| 21 | He wandered into my office is a chubby Falstaffian figure who smokes a curved pipe |
| 22 | One analogy which might spring to mind is of an archaeologist who reconstructs a fragmented mosaic . |
| 23 | There is far less of the mystification which can be attributed to the account of the troubles in Guerrillas : what we get is the mysterious politics of forest and township as observed by an outsider , by an African Asian who understands a good deal of what is going on . |
| 24 | JUST before Budget Day we told the story of the Brentford Football Club fan who occupies a senior post at the Treasury and we expected a giveaway Budget if Brentford were leading the Third Division table at the time . |
| 25 | One of the first peoples to burst out of Central Asia and into the lands south and west of the Caspian were the Seljuks , a people of Turkish stock who subdued a broad band of territory from Afghanistan across to Syria , occupying Damascus and Jerusalem . |
| 26 | He received but scant attention outside his native land for half a century after his death , but then came to be a major force who made a profound impression on both theology and philosophy . |
| 27 | A dismissed employee who makes a successful claim is eligible for a tax-free cash sum by way of compensation up to £4560 on a basic award and up to £8000 on a compensatory award . |
| 28 | Now it has to be a software engineer who rocks , an operations chief who scuba dives or the bank president who knows a Scandinavian folk song when he hears one . |
| 29 | Col. Sutherland is a Special Forces veteran who enjoyed a distinguished career . |
| 30 | Chester 's Gateway Theatre is looking for a mild-mannered all round good-egg who bears a striking resemblance to the former Everton striker . |