Example sentences of "who has [vb pp] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy enough to see how someone , especially someone who has suffered a childhood of poverty , can be led to a fear of emptiness , of not getting enough to eat , of starvation itself , and so in later life to stave off or compensate for such a fear . |
| 2 | WARWICK Wilson is a 36-year-old Alness farmer who has suffered a loss of sensation in his hands and feet . |
| 3 | An industrial relations expert , who has written a history of cotton unions , has remarked that whereas general historians of the labour movement report only sporadic trade unionism in that industry in the eigh-teenth century , historians of the district or of the industry tend to assume a continuous collective labour presence . |
| 4 | Its main ideologist is Boris Kagarlitsky , a young Marxist who has written a number of books that have been published abroad but not yet in the USSR . |
| 5 | Robert Weiss , who has conducted a number of intensive studies of adult relationships , has set out to identify the provisions of different kinds of social ties . |
| 6 | This duty of an innkeeper is owed not to travellers but only to guests ; a guest is a person who has engaged a minimum of one night 's accommodation at the inn . |
| 7 | It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’ |
| 8 | There 's the milkman who , hurricane or high-water , always gets the pintas through , the postman ditto , and the chap at the other end of the village addicted to bottled beer who has collected a ton of metal tops and may get into the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 9 | One narrator who temporarily takes over from Stencil is Fausto Maijstral , a Maltese poet who has kept a record of the German siege of the island during the last world war . |
| 10 | Anyone who has visited a number of medieval castles will know how admirable their sites often are : how they command distant views , or river crossings , or are placed in situations of great natural strength . |
| 11 | Anyone who has met a crosssection of ‘ new Britons ’ can identify people worthy of respect . |
| 12 | The solution is not to abolish honorary degrees for this would remove the one means in the gift of the University of recognising a debt to a person who has made a contribution of time and service to the well being of the University . |
| 13 | DAVID Mellor , who has made a variety of television and radio appearances since his resignation as Minister for Fun , is about to take a major step in his broadcasting career . |
| 14 | If your vet is n't up to date with this problem , I suggest you write to Peter Neville , the animal behaviourist who has made a study of pica . |
| 15 | In and around Bond Street , there is Marlborough 's exhibition of new watercolours by Paula Rego , who has created a portfolio of fifteen coloured etchings for a new publication of J.M. Barrie 's Peter Pan ( to 30 January ) and is prominently featured in the Tate Gallery 's new arrangement with an important autobiographical painting of ‘ The Dance ’ ; twenty coloured drawings , captioned with humorous texts , by Glenn Baxter at Thomas Gibson ( to 22 January ) ; and a series of new sand pictures by Michael Young at Turske-Hue-Williams ( 18 January-27 February ) . |
| 16 | I have a friend who has created a set of rune stones using natural flints found on a foreshore . |
| 17 | This latest development is another blow for Flashman , who has received a number of crushing setbacks recently . |
| 18 | Simmo , who has become a favourite of pupils of Hurworth Primary School , near Darlington , described the slow build up to the conflict and the dangers they encountered as they came within four miles of the Kuwaiti coast . |
| 19 | Ellis was succeeded by Beto , who has become a man of considerable controversy , both with supporters and detractors , in writings about the history of prisons . |
| 20 | The lines of a-poem were written on a plaque at the end of our corridor , ( He who has become a son of France , not through blood received , but by blood spilt . ) |
| 21 | The form of the on-loan Arsenal forward John Bacon , who has scored a couple of crucial goals in recent weeks , and Stuart Gauld 's uncanny accuracy from penalties and free kicks , are potentially lethal weapons in the Derry armoury . |
| 22 | ‘ I got the work through the musical director Dave Clayton , who has done a lot of work with people like George Michael . |
| 23 | Now Charlie who has set a host of records in recent months is heading for another one — the highest number of winners in the newly formed Irish jump season . |
| 24 | The second exhibition gives carte blanche to the film director Peter Greenaway who has chosen a series of works on the theme of flight , presented in a highly spectacular way . |
| 25 | Anyone who has read a selection of cases concerned with jurisdiction will have come across the distinction drawn between want of jurisdiction and excess of jurisdiction . |
| 26 | Photography meets Kev Dutton , who has produced a series of unconventional portraits of British comedians . |
| 27 | He is a man who has edited a book of satirical verse . |
| 28 | An adventurer who has had a chunk of his person ripped off by a Skeleton takes 3 Wounds from the blow , in addition to normal damage . |
| 29 | Since 1977 no one starting work or who has had a gap of two complete consecutive tax years in employment has been allowed to pay the small stamp . |
| 30 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |