Example sentences of "a [noun] who be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new book of unusual views of Oxfordshire has been published , featuring the work of a photographer who 's made the county his adopted home . |
| 2 | The story is told of a professor who was giving the first lecture of the year to a group of new medical students . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll manage , ’ Tamar replied airily , as she collared a boy who was crossing the yard and slipped him a penny . |
| 4 | A visit by a group of engineers , whose main aim was to look at drilling operations , study environmental issues and research the infrastructure , was closely followed by a team who were investigating the commercial aspects of producing and marketing Russian oil . |
| 5 | RVS was a master printer and an amateur pianist , the latter facility enabling him to help out a friend who was touring the Glasgow districts before the First World War with a projector and a bag full of short silent films . |
| 6 | While I was gazing at the chamber a schoolgirl who was touring the gallery with her father came up and asked me how it worked . |
| 7 | At one level it may be expressed by a Commander-in-Chief who is determining the strategic objectives of the military and has to convince the generals . |
| 8 | An award to a man who 's taken the future of the world into his own hands . |
| 9 | A visiting minister performed the burial service , a man who was lending the chapel a helping hand during the interregnum which came between the departure of Samuel Saunders and the arrival of Thomas Fox Newman . |
| 10 | He stopped above a man who was painting the superstructure of his boat and asked him how far it was to the sea . |
| 11 | For a man who was leading the campaign for sanctions against South Africa , when that was still a hopeless liberal cause , he has been notably diffident about such things as collective punishment and detention without trial in the Israeli-occupied territories . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the best and most subtle way to prevent such attacks is to ensure that the British people know that they have a Government who are taking the steps necessary to keep firm control of immigration and particularly to prevent people from abusing our immigration rules by entering this country under the bogus concept of being political refugees ? |
| 13 | Tomorrow in the final part of the series , a farmer who 's spent the last ten years converting his farm puts the case for organic farming . |
| 14 | A councillor who 's advising the Department of Transport on the road insists it wo n't be a motorway . |
| 15 | He said that Dougal was a researcher who was investigating the Devenish case . |
| 16 | La Meije loomed above , but I failed to find a party who were doing the Grand Pic and returning . |
| 17 | So he wrote to George Thurstan , an ex-marine who was running the Drake Fellowship ; this was a scheme set up by the Prince in the wake of the inner-city riots , to give young people from those areas adventure training . |
| 18 | Shriver 's recent long term absence from the tour , following shoulder surgery , and her lack of match practice were shown up by an opponent who was playing the women 's game of today , powerful and merciless . |
| 19 | One of the letters from the King was to the Pope , introducing an emissary who was to commit the King to abolish penal laws against Roman Catholics in England , to appoint a Roman Catholic Governor-General of Ireland and to admit Roman Catholic bishops to its Parliament . |
| 20 | John Hutt , Governor of Western Australia , was thrilled that it was to be an Englishman who was to dispel the mists of ornithological obscurity from the continent . |
| 21 | He has not learned how to love properly , how to relate with a woman in a caring sense but , above all , he has not learned how to differentiate between an adolescent who is feeling the first stirring of her hormones and a fully-grown woman who is properly able to make her own emotional and sexual choices . |
| 22 | It was n't that she had anything against him personally ; he was a charming and clever man , dedicated to his school , an entrepreneur who was using the fruits of his success to fulfil a lifetime 's dream — and good luck to him , she thought . |