Example sentences of "[indef pn] who [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These machines are chess-playing calculators ; even the weakest is better than the average chess player ( someone who plays at the median strength of all those who know the rules ) . |
| 2 | Think of the different ways you can transmit a message to another human being : by waving , nodding , banging on the neighbour 's wall , writing a letter , frowning , slamming the door , moving away from someone who sits beside you , pointing , raising your eyebrows . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're so slim that I thought you might be one of those women who are on a perpetual diet , and I dislike intensely dining with someone who eats like a sparrow . ’ |
| 4 | The other sizeable group of offences reported on is where the case involves someone well known ( e.g. Bronski pop man fined for sex offence or more frequently there is either fame by association ( e.g. GAY-SEX SHAME OF ESTHER 'S ‘ BROTHER' , where the inverted commas in the headline indicate the rather more tenuous link with television star Esther Rantzen than the headline immediately suggests ) , or the actor who was said to make £12,000 a year from impersonating Prince Charles , or someone who sounds from the headline to be well known ( e.g. CASTRATE ME SAYS GAY OPERA SINGER : He preyed on children . |
| 5 | Someone who agrees with that is |
| 6 | Someone who agrees with that is Goldie Hawn . |
| 7 | I have the same new-worldliness of someone who emerges to sunlight after a long illness in a darkened room . |
| 8 | As Donnison says , ‘ The crucial needs arise from an unavoidable responsibility for caring for someone who depends on you ’ ; as Fairbairn says , ‘ Dependency is the key to women 's oppression . |
| 9 | The crucial needs arise from an unavoidable responsibility for caring for someone who depends on you . |
| 10 | There 's times I want to talk to someone who belongs to me . |
| 11 | I just wish my mum was here , someone who belongs to me . |
| 12 | They convey to someone who belongs to the same culture a lot of information about the person who is wearing or carrying them . |
| 13 | • Your description is of someone who suffers from an ‘ endogenous mania ’ , though your husband would need to be clinically assessed to confirm this . |
| 14 | A refugee is defined as someone who suffers from a well founded fear of persecution , and the process has to determine whether such a fear is well-founded . |
| 15 | If you are not sure of what you are doing then leave alone to entrust to someone who does as ‘ mixing ’ brake components can have dire consequences . |
| 16 | ‘ I know someone who goes to it , ’ said Owen . |
| 17 | We might think of a pioneer as someone who goes into the wilderness to prepare a home for others . |
| 18 | A comparable version of this is the face made by someone who barges into a room unannounced expeeting to speak to a friend , only to find that this friend is engaged in an intimate professional consultation with another colleague . |
| 19 | Thus the examples of ( 9 ) are acceptable : ( 9 ) your behaviour was barbaric this device is expensive his plan was inspired but impractical Where a prenominal adjective fits equally well with either relationship — ascriptive or associative — to its noun , we find that its occurrence in predicative position is acceptable , but only provided that the relation is taken as being ascriptive ; thus ( 10 ) mentions an individual who either has Greek nationality ( but the nature and region of the business which he or she deals with remain unspecified ) , or is a person who handles affairs connected with Greece ( but who may well be of some quite different nationality , Belgian for example ) ; ( 11 ) however unambiguously tells us that there is someone who falls into the former category : ( 10 ) the Greek representative ( 11 ) the representative is Greek |
| 20 | If you have ever been cornered at a party by someone who insists on standing far too close for comfort while they lurch through their life history , you will know that around each of us there is a space which we like to call our own . |
| 21 | But then , for someone who trades in tricks of the eye , she can be pretty unobservant . |
| 22 | English Heritage is a challenge of quite another order , being a vast multifarious organisation which probably needs to be disassembled , but all the more reason to entrust it to someone who understands at least some of its roles and can respect the quality of the people who work within it and who advise it . |
| 23 | The social gospel is best preached by someone who burns with zeal rather than sexual desire and has espoused God alone . |
| 24 | ‘ This was a one-off incident , a very unfortunate occurence , which appears to have been the result of an error by someone who resides in the hostel , ’ he added . |
| 25 | I was acting like someone who puts on his Sunday best , lifts his nose in the air , and goes to worship feeling superior to those who are watching television or washing the car instead . |
| 26 | They want someone who looks as if he 's been shot at , wounded , and spent the day crawling through minefields to deliver the dispatches . |
| 27 | I believe it 's much better for an audience to know I 'm risking my neck rather than someone who looks like me . |
| 28 | You 'd have to be pretty desperate to want — anything like that with someone who looks like me . ’ |
| 29 | Someone who looks after the youngsters and is co-operative . |
| 30 | It will be necessary for you to seek help and advice from someone who knows about building and plans . |