Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warning follows a case involving a member of the British Epilepsy Association who had a seizure during hospital tests involving a two day fast . |
| 2 | A different answer , however , might be given to a soldier who followed a leader of his own choosing — for pay ; he could not plead obedience if his conscience left him uneasy . |
| 3 | Take the soldier who shoots a man to prevent an explosion . |
| 4 | A SOLDIER who doomed a teenage girl to a living death with a dose of pure heroin was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 5 | Professor Giovanni Caletti , a dermato-venereologist who runs a centre for sex education near Venice , strongly believes that the way to combat the rising incidence of sexually transmitted diseases is by improved education rather than by improving the medical service available to an at-risk population . |
| 6 | We also once had a not so young horse who took a while to understand the requirements of turn on the forehand . |
| 7 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 8 | For a horse who has a fairly relaxed outlook on life , Milton has a surprising number of phobias . |
| 9 | He played Bobby Dupea with explosive sensitivity , as a promising musician who rejects a career to become an oil-rigger ; a rebel who , like Nicholson himself , had the chance of taking a particular course in life which would have provided him with comfort and stability , but chose a different route to that which might have been expected of him . |
| 10 | A MUSICIAN who wrote a unique series of music books for physically disabled people has found himself in their shoes after suffering a stroke . |
| 11 | I am confident we will end their three-match winning run in England , but only a fool would underestimate a side who shared a Test series in France . |
| 12 | The scoreline was cruel to a Welsh side who shaded a tight , tough first half in which they shook Australia in line-out and scrum , taking the lead with a Colin Stephens penalty after 32 minutes . |
| 13 | His friend , actor Bill Pertwee , said : ‘ He was a card who had a lot of witty charm . ’ |
| 14 | He or she may be a member of an organization involved with harmonization — the EC Commission , Unidroit , UNCITRAL , for example — or an academic or other outsider who sends a proposal in to such an organization for consideration . |
| 15 | In practice , they are effective , hardworking groups of professionals and laypeople who have a commitment to education . |
| 16 | It came to be accepted however , that a defendant who procured a woman by the means proscribed in order to have sexual intercourse with her himself was equally within their scope . |
| 17 | It held that s.47 could be committed indirectly : " A defendant who pours a dangerous substance into a machine just as truly assaults the next user of the machine as if he himself switched the machine on . " |
| 18 | Thus , whilst their Lordships entirely understand why both Barnett J. and the Court of Appeal should have felt , in the light of the passage cited from Reg. v. Bow Street Stipendiary Magistrate , Ex parte Director of Public Prosecutions , 91 Cr.App.R. 283 , 296–297 , that the district judge had paid insufficient regard to the task undertaken by the prosecution , they consider that the district judge was in fact correct to take into account all the factors together , without reference to any burden of proof other than the heavy burden which always rests on a defendant who seeks a stay on the grounds of delay . |
| 19 | In Musgrove v. Pandelis , the plaintiff occupied rooms over a garage and let part of the garage to the defendant who kept a car there . |
| 20 | Where payment is made into court by a defendant who makes a counterclaim , it must be accompanied by a notice to show how the counterclaim has been taken into account ( Ord 11 , r 1(9) ) . |
| 21 | The defendant who has a belief in consent will be acquitted no matter how he came by this belief and whether or not he considered the possibility of non-consent . |
| 22 | THE trainer who made a living as the ghostly architect of big race success has finally etched his own name in the record books . |
| 23 | Each dog is allocated to a guide dog trainer who has a ‘ pack ’ of dogs , all at various stages of training . |
| 24 | They range from the lone back-packer who stuffs a volume of Descartes into the pocket of her shorts and forgets to take spare socks , to the package holiday-maker who packs a change of silk shirt for every evening he is going to be away . |
| 25 | Pesci plays a shifty real estate agent who becomes a thorn in the flesh of Mel Gibson and Danny Glover … and manages to steal every scene he is in . |
| 26 | But a malfunction occurs and he comes to believe that he really has been an intelligence agent who made a startling discovery on Mars … |
| 27 | Then there was the ship 's agent who made a run for it in his car , guessing we would search his house after picking him up with some uncustomed goods . |
| 28 | Pay attention to the Travel Agent who returns a proportion of the cancellation payment to the Tour Operator but retains his full commission . |
| 29 | The bid attracted intense media attention , most of it critical of Mr Knighton , an Isle of Man tax exile who became a millionaire through property dealings in Yorkshire and Scotland . |
| 30 | And this is a boy who used to smoke marijuana and lived in a squat with a girlfriend who had a tattoo on her backside and two kids by somebody else , if you please … ’ |