Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 31 | Next to the church are the massive ramparts of the defended manor house of a Lord Ghilo who lived in the 11th Century . |
| 32 | WHAT a difference between my experience and that of a Swindon woman who receives a letter 90 minutes after it was posted . |
| 33 | The director of a haulage company who would like to retire as soon as is practicable and leave much of the management of the firm to his children may take advantage of retirement relief . |
| 34 | It is clear that the directors of a haulage company who are not in the ‘ really wealthy ’ category need very sound tax planning advice on the likely impact of the inheritance tax legislation . |
| 35 | Frances Power Cobbe deplored the approval doctors gave to what she considered to be an essentially unhealthy lifestyle ; she had little faith in medical expertise and liked to recall the case of a women friend who , on deciding to stop seeing her doctor and carry on normally , promptly recovered . |
| 36 | Tina Howe 's Painting Churches shows her in full flight , as the wife of a distinguished Boston poet and the mother of a women painter who has come to do their portrait . |
| 37 | On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved . |
| 38 | He reminded her of a mathematics mistress who had taught her at school . |
| 39 | Not nearly so self-consciously ‘ modern ’ as , say , Slaves Of New York , this disaster-laden story of a Manhatten misfit who 's had enough does n't quite live up to the provocative promise of its title . |
| 40 | Penn 's role was that of a rookie cop who believes that the only way to fight violence is with violence . |
| 41 | Whether this is the true one I would not like to say but in this version the ‘ trains wipe tapes ’ hypothesis was the inspired explanation of a recording engineer who , through an operational error , had failed to record anything in the first place ! |
| 42 | The case of a physics teacher who wanted to become an actor is interesting in showing the kind of problems which accompany a late entry into drama school . |
| 43 | The problem for the draftsman of a partnership agreement who specifies the initial ratio and provides that in future years it shall be as agreed between the partners at the beginning or end of each year is that the equal sharing required under the Partnership Act in default of agreement will always benefit at least one of the partners . |
| 44 | But today , Odessa 's chances looked much brighter thanks to the intervention of a Northamptonshire headmaster who has brought hundreds of Bosnians to Britain . |
| 45 | ( Islip , Long Island in the U.S. , was founded by the son of a Northamptonshire emigrant who became the first mayor of New York City in 1671 . ) |
| 46 | The widow of a security guard who was knocked down and killed during a robbery has appealed for help to track down his killers . |
| 47 | The widow of a security guard who was killed during a robbery has appealed for help to track down his killers . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Police have praised the courage of a shop asssitant who tackled a man threatening her with a knife . |
| 50 | Henry Gunning , a Cambridge don in the eighteenth century , tells of a college fellow who " had Horace at his fingertips " — quite literally , for he committed the Odes to memory by taking the volume to the privy , getting a poem by heart , then tearing out the page for hygienic uses . |
| 51 | The second body seen by Cobbe in 1857 was that of a Miss Johnson who had died of phthisis aged twenty-four at the Lock Hospital in 1774 . |
| 52 | In the Australian bush in the early 1930s , my mother-to-be was the daughter of a locomotive driver who watched her like a hawk and forbade her to go to the crasser ends of town . |
| 53 | There was the case , for example , of a five-year-old boy who was taken to hospital vomiting violently and with a high temperature . |
| 54 | The whole operation is under the control of a production manager who also has responsibility for quality control . |
| 55 | For many years I , along with everyone else who takes an interest in jazz both here and further afield , have read and respected the forthright and honest views of a jazz critic who is without equal in our community . |
| 56 | Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt : |
| 57 | Dublin was the focal point of a Cambridge side who played the ball long , got it forward quickly and were condemned for their tactics . |
| 58 | The second tells of a pearl merchant who discovered a pearl of rare beauty and again realised his capital to buy it . |
| 59 | Portage is a method of working with pre-school children whose development is delayed : parents teach their children at home under the guidance of a Portage worker who visits the family once a week . |
| 60 | We have been approached by the leader of a Youth Club who organises displays by the young girls in flag waving and club swinging . |