Example sentences of "who [vb past] [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a view was challenged in the middle of this century by Robert Walcott , who argued for a more sophisticated understanding of the nature of the party structure under William and Anne . |
| 2 | Annie paints a picture of a man who rejoiced in the power of being called ‘ My Lord ’ , who swept through his diocese in a fast car , who behaved in a more cavalier way than any English feudal landlord . |
| 3 | Those of you who trained under a very autocratic system , dominated by a strictly imposed hierarchy where nurses came somewhere close to the bottom of the pyramid , are likely to find the concept of accountability quite daunting . |
| 4 | Matthew married a woman who came from a highly volatile family . |
| 5 | Later , at Oxford , Robert ( 'Tim ’ ) Hardy , who came from an extremely well-connected family , talked , emphatically , about Richard as a ‘ natural aristocrat : born to command ’ . |
| 6 | In an effort to prepare nursing for meeting society 's needs in the future , policy makers have challenged many of the traditional views and approaches of nurses who evolved in a very different social milieu , and instead identified a much broader role for the new practitioner aimed at improving standards of care available to the public . |
| 7 | There were those , however , who decided by a quite conscious effort of will to involve themselves in the day-to-day life of such humble if not squalid areas of London ; one such man was Rev. William Quekett , about whom Dickens was here writing in his article , ‘ What a London curate can do if he tries ’ . |
| 8 | There was a boy called Rooke who worked in a strangely primitive style ( I have some of it still ) . |
| 9 | I was one of those people who went through an incredibly unfortunate period called puberty — basically , my face exploded . |
| 10 | Peter Bourne reveals that on 16 October 1959 Camilo Cienfuegos ( who disappeared in a still unexplained air accident only ten days later ) was interviewed at the Havana Riviera Hotel by Alexander Alekseev , a KGB official who quickly developed an excellent rapport with Castro and played an extremely important role in the development of relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | LONDON Region staff who performed to an exceptionally high standard last year were guests of Local Director John Bell at an awards dinner at The Dorchester . |
| 12 | It was a conclusion reinforced by a subsequent telephone conversation with Mr Fairfax-Vane , who convinced me an appointment had indeed been made for him to come here — by a woman clearly younger than me , who spoke with a faintly American accent . |
| 13 | However , many thanks to my MP , Derek Foster , and all others who voted for a more civilised society and thanks on behalf of the unfortunate foxes , stags and hares , still running for their innocent , tormented lives and still relying on humanity to get moving . |
| 14 | The tone and innuendo are strikingly similar to that of Sir Almroth Wright , who opposed women 's suffrage in 1913 and who wrote within an entirely different scientific discourse . |