Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a number of horror stars looking for work who would not want the earth in salaries , and he assembled a notable team of players which included Vincent Price , Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre . |
| 2 | Perhaps Ken 's one failing was that he belonged to a breed of footballer who would later include Charlie George , Rodney Marsh and Emlyn Hughes — big heads . |
| 3 | Alan was the sort of driver who would have gone out on an ice-skating rink . |
| 4 | Under these circumstances , rhetorical analysis can aid the practical argument against those enemies of freedom who would destroy the very possibility of open argumentation . |
| 5 | Success required dogged determination , academic ability , money , plenty of patience for dealing with the state bureaucracy and some useful contacts or ‘ guanxi ’ , i.e. connections with people in positions of responsibility who could help , which was becoming an increasingly important way of getting things done in China . |
| 6 | They decided that the undercover plotters would be most afraid of publicity and political pressure and that their best hope would be to find an influential member of parliament who would believe their story . |
| 7 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 8 | The House will be interested to hear from another Scottish Labour Member of Parliament who will not tell us about the Labour party 's policy on Ravenscraig . |
| 9 | Clearly , a member of parliament who could take the foul-mouthed uncle William far from the laird of Craigie 's children might legitimately expect the memory of such a favour to persist for an election or two . |
| 10 | ‘ Leonard was at Everton as a youngster and is the kind of forward who can hold the ball up . |
| 11 | Erm , I 've also received information from the Region , erm with lots of events that 's coming up in the East Anglian Region , erm , just run through those quickly , er , there is a workshop on this Thursday at the Courts , erm , there is on Thursday twelfth of March there is er , somebody from the Columbian committee for human rights speaking at an open meeting , that 's the fifth er , Wednesday first of April there is er somebody called Duncan , he 's a paediatric surgeon who works part time as a volunteer at the Medical Foundation for the Care and Victims of Torture who will be speaking at St. Mary 's and St. Edmunds group , and that , that 's Bury St. Edmunds , and then the next East Anglia Regional Meeting is on Saturday May the twenty third at Bury St. Edmunds again . |
| 12 | It is the nursing staff more than any other category of employee who will bear the burden of the consequences of fire . |
| 13 | who should make the announcement — this may involve briefing a team of management who may not to date have been informed of the transaction ; |
| 14 | Thus it would be necessary to maintain and enhance the skill and ability of a range of craftspeople who would work in parallel with the system . |
| 15 | She missed her friends but she did n't envy them — though she thought Albert Sandwich probably did : he was the sort of boy who would prefer to be taught in a proper school . |
| 16 | He looked , Toby thought , the kind of boy who might play the passive role in some bent porno film — and , indeed , were he asked , Hilary Frome would certainly have been willing . |
| 17 | However , his candidature in 1911 had been aided by three factors : he was a Conservative rather than a Liberal Unionist , but he was the sort of Conservative who would be acceptable to Liberal Unionists as well ; he was a diehard in opinion , but he had remained loyal to Balfour 's policy throughout the recent twists and turns ; and he had staked a claim by his abandonment of his safe London seat to fight North-West Manchester in December 1910 ( at no real risk , for an alternative safe seat was always available to him if and when he lost ) . |
| 18 | She anticipated that fir from being deluged with relatively less serious complaints , it would only be those women ‘ most traumatised by the experience ’ of rape who would report it . |
| 19 | Fisher , who had gone to Melbourne briefly in 1897 with high hopes of being selected for Australia , was determined to see Otago cricket prosper , and convinced the local authorities that Crawford would be the type of coach who could bring on the young Otago players . |
| 20 | He was also the kind of editor who would ask you to check the spelling of a place name or the age of a politician ( he was born in 1920 ) . |
| 21 | Though if you ask me he 's a nasty piece of work who would n't bat an eyelid whatever she might do … |
| 22 | She did n't appear to be at all like the kind of lady who would be engaging a maid . |
| 23 | You have received the anointing of God 's holy spirit , he is your teacher , the spirit of truth who will guide you into all truth . |
| 24 | This was still some way from a mathematical science , and chemists continued to look for the Kepler or the Newton of Chemistry who would make it deductive and mathematical . |
| 25 | RAZORBLADE SMILE are masters of juxtaposition — both angelic and sinister — they 're the kind of band who would baptise a newborn child in pig 's blood . |
| 26 | Breed are the kind of band who will begin to write a tormented love song and watch it develop into a bloody massacre . |
| 27 | In addition to the 35,000 UK personnel already in the Gulf area by the outbreak of hostilities — comprising the main 1st Armoured Division and support , naval and air units — extra servicemen and servicewomen and equipment were deployed to the area during the latter half of January ( including three battalions to guard Iraqi prisoners of war who might be taken ) , bringing the total , when all such forces were in place , to about 42,000 ; there were also another 7,500 in the Mediterranean and in the near east . |
| 28 | This is revealed today by the appeal of Mrs Cairns of 21 Thirlestane Road , Edinburgh , wife of Lieutenant L. G. Cairns , to repatriated prisoners of war who may have information . |
| 29 | A defence motion filed on the same day , however , caused consternation with the claim that Noriega was a US prisoner of war who should be transferred to a neutral third country for trial . |
| 30 | The lighting cameraman may have been going through a bad patch , or simply been driven crazy by the sort of director who ca n't make up their mind about anything . |