Example sentences of "[noun] who [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I must confess to doubting whether such a pool of talent exists and I share the views er of the Noble Lord , Lord Motterstone who in a very powerful and commonsense speech made this point an and a number of other ones , but I have to say that what I do think exists is the temptation to create posts for friends of the Government , a process of which has been going for far too long and I mem and I wonder if er members on the other side would defend this position as my Noble Friend Lord Allen said earlier , quite sincerely if , say , another party were in power before when such a time arrives it will then be of little avail for them to run around complaining , for they will have sown the seeds of their own dissatisfaction . |
| 2 | The door was opened by the gipsy girl who with a decisive movement turned the handle and pulled it wide . |
| 3 | The first pilots to send Luftwaffe bombers spiralling down to crash into the sea were boys , auxiliary pilots who until a few months before had been flying antiquated Gloster Gladiators . |
| 4 | One great-grandfather had been an inventor , ‘ socially in a higher class ’ , while another family claimed ‘ a good background somewhere ’ through a great-grandmother who as a maid had eloped with a young aristocratic gambler . |
| 5 | These losers make up the core of the 74% of Hungarians who in a recent opinion poll said they thought the economic situation had worsened . |
| 6 | They , too , will owe a lot to the boycotters and sanctioners , including one in particular that I used to revile and later was honoured to be able to call friend — also a keen cricketer , a left-hand bat who as a schoolboy in Pretoria was thought promising enough to be headed for a higher grade of cricket one day . |
| 7 | We phoned a good , dear friend who as a midwife had gone to much trouble and arranged to deliver the baby . |
| 8 | Nearly all the canine members of the police dog section are former unwanted pets donated by families who for a variety of reasons found the could no longer offer a home to man 's best friend . |
| 9 | ‘ ( 1 ) Any person who at a lawful public meeting acts in a disorderly manner for the purpose of preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting was called together shall be guilty of an offence … ( 2 ) Any person who incites others to commit an offence under this section shall be guilty of a like offence . |
| 10 | His father was a miner who as a young man had started mining in a different coal pit which is closed now . |
| 11 | It was adopted by those abolitionists who in a growing mood of frustration had also developed the agency system . |
| 12 | She also has an aunt who as a girl in Oxford knew several famous philosophers . |
| 13 | Go and see the reaction of the people who witnessed him cure the blind man Blind Bartiamaus or Bethsiedum Go and check out what the woman who with a haemorrhage had to say about him . |
| 14 | The Highways Department is not a building — it is a collection of people who as a team ( or some would say various teams ) have exhibited innovation and ingenuity . |
| 15 | We care about the old age pensioners the poor the single parents and all those people who in a winter 's time are going to struggle and some are tragically going to fail to pay seventeen and a half percent V A T on fuel and heating bills . |
| 16 | Will he listen to the pleas of those who have occupied the Waterloo ambulance station , using it for 70 homeless people who in a blaze of publicity over Christmas were helped by the Government ? |
| 17 | Yet they included gifted men , not only the Florentine pioneers of opera who for a time were still active as monodists — Peri 's Le varie musiche ( Florence , 1609 ) , Caccini 's posthumously published Nuove Musiche e nuova maniera di scriverle ( Florence , 1614 ) , Gagliano 's Musiche ( Venice , 1615 ) but younger composers : Sigismondo d'India ( c. 1580–1629 ) , Claudio Saracini ( 1586–after 1649 ) , and Domenico Belli ( fl. c. 1616 ) in the Florentine-Mantuan orbit . |
| 18 | Some find great benefit in identifying a small group of staff who for a limited period are assigned to a relief pool , for the sole purpose of filling unexpected gaps in staffing or adding strength to a ward team at times of peak workload . |
| 19 | In that case the defendant pleaded the defence of mistake , the mistake being that of a shop assistant who in a lapse of concentration put the wrong label on a piece of meat . |
| 20 | Gandhi cites the example of a man who in a fit of madness goes about with a sword in his hand killing indiscriminately . |
| 21 | The Justice Secretary , César Arias ( appointed on Oct. 5 , 1989 , to replace Julio Oyhanarte ) , later described as a " fantasy " remarks by former President Raúl Alfonsín who in a television interview on March 7 , 1990 , warned that democracy was under threat and alleged that the government was studying the possibility of closing Congress using a 1909 decree . |
| 22 | The Greek revolt was seen by European liberals who in a sense might be having a hard time of it in in , in those years . |
| 23 | They had four sons ( the eldest of whom died in 1895 ) and by the second , Charles , came the five grandsons who as a team continued the family firm until it was sold in 1965 to the Hawker Siddeley Group . |
| 24 | A desperately sad aspect of the modern family is the way in which so much lavish attention is spent on the ( small number of ) children who after a life of smothering contact with their parents grow up and become almost strangers . |
| 25 | A retired administrator who as a young man had single-handedly turned the tide of mutiny in his district in the North-West Provinces , he believed that since those Homeric days British administration had become dangerously out of touch with the people . |
| 26 | A chief executive of a major UK company who in a public speech stressed how far companies in his industry lagged behind the Japanese found , upon analysis , that the shortfall was almost all due to excessive holdings of assets . |
| 27 | But the curious pair who for a time were so well-known simply for being rich vanished from the public eye — towards a tax haven in Jersey . |
| 28 | But all our speakers are chosen by the Pre-retirement Council and by your employers by the way who over a period of time have selected the Oh well we do n't want him again or that firm again . |
| 29 | Sure , the anatomy is easy , and there are plenty of women who with a straight face will describe their own post-workout shininess as delicate perspiration and mine as rough sweat . |
| 30 | The " mothers " , as they are generally referred to , are women who until a few years ago had never spoken in public , never organized a campaign . |