Example sentences of "a [noun] who [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A driver who towed another car at a hundred miles an hour on a motorway has admitted reckless driving . |
| 2 | Persons of at least 21 years of age at the date of entry to a course who have useful experience to bring to university studies but who do not satisfy the entry requirements may apply for admission to an undergraduate course . |
| 3 | Not only was he one of the very rare examples of a writer who produced great work in more than one genre , but in a career which spanned nearly 60 years , his talent had developed from traditional Victorian fiction to innovative 20th century poetry . |
| 4 | It is difficult to believe that a writer who writes such drivel as does Paul Gallico could be so unpleasantly deluded with grandeur . |
| 5 | The Church of England is expected to discipline a vicar who removed wooden crosses from a grave , despite the distress of the family involved . |
| 6 | The little deer was seen staggering in a distressed and bloated condition , captured with difficulty and taken to a vet who pumped fermented corn from the stomach — presumably the fawn had gorged herself on pheasant feed . |
| 7 | Ask any manager what it would be like if they lost a striker who scores 20-25 goals a season . |
| 8 | Odo 's biography was written by a monk who had little interest in the miraculous and much in practical virtues . |
| 9 | A MIDWIFE who delivered 42 babies and was present at other births was found to be HIV positive , a health chief confirmed yesterday . |
| 10 | A PENSIONER who kept 84 dogs in her house told a court yesterday she had no reason to live if her ‘ bairns ’ were taken away . |
| 11 | A pensioner who pulled two people from a burning car has received an award for heroism . |
| 12 | An independent source in the West Country in 1739 thought it " rare " to find a clothier who paid ready cash unless he also obliged his workers to lay it out again with himself or his friends . |
| 13 | She is suing a hunter who chased wild boar on to her land and taking legal action over articles about her love life with Bernard , a close friend of extreme right-wing politician Jean-Marie le Pen . |
| 14 | Yet the mega-buck manager of Ewood could have had little complaint — Rovers lost to a side who played revivalist football of a kind manager Howard Kendall has waited 22 months to see . |
| 15 | Freda Gray was a pioneer who spent 40 years teaching and working with mentally handicapped young people , many of whom had been abandoned by society . |
| 16 | Indeed , it seems that a hearer who interpreted this utterance as conveying a specific proposition or set of propositions would miss out on much of its intended relevance . |
| 17 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 18 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 19 | This is a critic who uses sliding scales , not one fixed Procrustean rule . |
| 20 | A motorcyclist who served six weeks in jail for killing a policeman will know tomorrow if he 'll have to go back to prison . |
| 21 | The autocratic style of a president who regarded state-controlled radio and television as a transmission service for the government , who felt free to interpret his constitution as he saw fit and regularly to circumvent parliament or his own ministers teetered perpetually on the verge of excess . |
| 22 | There is pride in a president who has moral integrity , who visits towns and factories around the country and yet is also able to have an impact on the international scene . |
| 23 | These requirements were not satisfied in Schroeder because the contract was imposed on the plaintiff by a defendant who had greater bargaining power which he used oppressively . |
| 24 | that of robbing the victim , a defendant who has sexual intercourse with her whilst she is insensible will not be guilty of rape . |
| 25 | Thus , a litigant who claimed any form of injunction had an unfettered right of appeal . |
| 26 | ‘ One of the cruellest had a girlfriend who had many friends involved in the struggle against the regime and he would go with her to cafes , where they would sing songs against the dictatorship . ’ |
| 27 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 28 | In my judgment , Parliament intended to and did provide a simple and expeditious method of dealing with a person arrested without warrant by a constable who had reasonable grounds for believing that that person had broken a condition of his bail , or was likely to break a condition of his bail , or was likely to fail to surrender to custody . |
| 29 | A constable who gives inadequate reasons for conducting a search that he would otherwise be entitled to undertake is also acting outside the scope of his duty . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a lady who called two weeks ago crying because her tortoise had died . |