Example sentences of "[Wh pn] is [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the threatened status of the rhino , China is still using rhino horn to produce large quantities of traditional medicine , according to Dr Esmond Bradley Martin , a Kenyan-based conservationist who is conducting research on behalf of the World Wide Fund for Nature . |
| 2 | VIRGIN Atlantic 's owner , Richard Branson , who is seeking compensation from British Airways for dirty tricks against his airline , was still waiting for an agreement last night . |
| 3 | But that can be granted only to a refugee who is seeking asylum on the ground that the Government might have administered a case improperly and not followed its own rules for processing refugees under a United Nations Convention . |
| 4 | The Vatican spokesman , Mr Joacquin Novarro-Vallas , in Rome yesterday denounced the US siege tactics , and said ‘ an occupying power can not interfere with the work of a diplomatic mission or demand that a person who is seeking asylum there be handed over to it ’ . |
| 5 | Allen , who is seeking custody of Dylan and two other children , denies the sex abuse claims . |
| 6 | You read CVs relating to head chefs who have only ever worked in pubs ; CVs of head chefs well experienced in take-aways ; you read the CV of the head chef of a 350 room hotel in an inner city who is seeking employment overseas ; and you have a CV which looks quite familiar . |
| 7 | For example , a pupil who is mastering literacy and numeracy with few difficulties will spend a considerable amount of time in the ordinary classroom , but another may need a good deal of specialised help and be at a stage of going to only one or two lessons daily in the fully integrated situation . |
| 8 | ADOLESCENT — A person who is entering adolescence , the age following childhood , which is marked with puberty and followed by young adult age . |
| 9 | Coppice worker Bill Foreman , who is harvesting wood for a river stabilisation project , and his dog Meg in the woodland he manages near Sproughton |
| 10 | For example , a child who is experiencing language difficulties brought about by severe environmental deprivation will be saved from further harm if removed to another , more stimulating , environment . |
| 11 | The person who acts like a chicken or conducts an orchestra for the stage hypnotist may be play acting , or he may genuinely feel that it is the hypnotist , not himself , who is taking responsibility for his actions . |
| 12 | When Italian voters go the polls today they will have a bewildering array of 116 parties to choose from , including the Movement in Defence of Motorists , the League of Housewives and Pensioners and , of course , the Party of Love , headed by Italy 's self-styled porno star , Moana Pozzi — who has recently taken over the mantle from her screen colleague and Member of Parliament , Ilona Staller , La Cicciolina , who is taking time off from politics to have a baby . |
| 13 | That is not to say that someone who is using word processing or a similar application will not be able to make the best of a desktop publishing package but rather to point out that new skills will need to be learned , new concepts understood . |
| 14 | you have all heard rumours about who is using clenbuteriol and when someone is caught farmers will say : ‘ It 's about time the Department caught up with him ’ . |
| 15 | Martin Brundle speaks with the disarming honesty of an F1 driver who is buying lunch in a private room at Au Jardin des Gourmets for a dozen pressmen on the day the Gulf war ended and a week before the F1 season started . |
| 16 | But its anxiety on this occasion surely reflects the worries of Mr Gorbachev himself , who is to take part in this weekend 's celebrations in Berlin of the 40th anniversary of East German statehood . |
| 17 | Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice . |
| 18 | Few things are more infuriating for a woman who is denied comfort for her own tears than to see her partner being sympathetically and sensually attracted to a strange woman who is grieving . |
| 19 | Finally , a person who is given permission to enter for a particular purpose will be a trespasser if he enters for a different purpose . |
| 20 | The manager who is given status by her sales team largely due to her expert power will have to adjust her role when she meets informally with a group of other managers from different departments . |
| 21 | One need make no reference to a male human person who is proclaimed Lord . |
| 22 | Furthermore , a manufacturer can now be liable to his immediate purchaser or to anyone else who is caused injury ( or private property damage ) by a defective product . |
| 23 | Coetzer , who is ranked No 1 by the World Boxing Association and No 2 in the International Boxing Federation list , would probably fight at Wembley . |
| 24 | McDonald 's recruitment officer Christina Pellini , who is hiring trainee managers for the 50 units the company plans to open this year , uses Springboard once or twice a month because ‘ it provides good quality people ’ , she said . |
| 25 | ’ So , after appearing to settle for third-person narrative , he doubles back on himself and leaves us to make what we can of an omniscient author who is bound hand and foot to a far from omniscient protagonist . |
| 26 | The correspondence has even led to romance — the daughter hopes to marry a man who is serving life for shooting his wife.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 27 | Christie will be bridesmaid when Anna Moore , who has served ten years of a life sentence , marries a loyalist killer , Bobby Corry , who is serving life for killing three people in a pub bombing in 1972 . |
| 28 | Tuscan personnel manager Liz Tait , who is acting chairman of the works committee which adopted the air ambulance as an annual charity , said : ‘ We just hope to raise as much money as possible and are planning at least one event a month . ’ |
| 29 | It has meant an ascetic existence for Wilson , who is to protest politics what the Hackney cab is to public transport . |
| 30 | Tell a child , preferably anyone who is giving grief , that you will stick a twenty-pence piece on their head . |