Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun sg] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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1 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
2 | Workmates of a computer technician who 's thought to have have killed his wife and children before committing suicide have held a memorial service to pay their last respects . |
3 | Indeed in all the contexts examined to date have suggests that the disposition of the " subordinate " ( denoted by its direct object ) to comply can be assumed or taken for granted : a sentence such as I had him cry , for example , would sound rather strange , unless imagined in a situation where someone is disposed to cry on request ( as in the context of a film director who is referring to an actor working under his orders ) . |
4 | But now she raised her eyes and did look , differently , at Alice , the housemate of a Council official who worked at the main office for this area . |
5 | Union leaders and business experts say they 're shocked by the sacking of a council executive who brought thousands of new jobs to an unemployment blackspot . |
6 | In R v Love the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction of a director of a printing company who had been absent at the time a print order for obscene books was accepted , and who had no personal knowledge of the contents of those books . |
7 | ( S. ) 468 , where a sentence of four years imprisonment was upheld for robbery of a taxi driver who was threatened with a lighted cigarette and a knife , although he did not suffer injuries comparable with those suffered by the victim in this case . |
8 | ( 9 ) A member of a licensing board who has ceased to be a member of the authority by whom he was appointed by reason of an ordinary election to the council of that authority shall continue to be a member of the board until the first meeting of the council after the election . |
9 | ( 2 ) A member of a licensing board who holds a disqualifying interest in a company shall not take part in any proceedings before the board in which that company is an applicant or an objector , and in this subsection " disqualifying interest " means a beneficial interest in shares or stocks of a close company within the meaning of section 282 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 which have a total nominal value exceeding £ 50 or which amount to more than one hundredth part of the nominal value of the issued share capital , or stock , as the case may be , of the company or any class of such capital or stock . |
10 | Another day I observed the antics of a sea bird who had found a small crab in one of those rock pools on the beach below the house . |
11 | The most significant difference at the search and investigation stage is that the national press will retain interest in a case only if there is scope for the construction of a sex fiend who continues to wreak havoc on a community . |
12 | THE ATTORNEY General Sir Nicholas Lyell is to review the sentence of a sex offender who was spared jail after a judge said his eight-year-old victim was ‘ not entirely an angel . ’ |
13 | This is borne out by the court 's judgment in Lopes da Veiga v. Staatssecretaris van Justitie ( Case 9/88 ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 2989 , from which it appears that in order for a national of a member state who is permanently employed on board a ship flying the flag of another member state to have the status of a worker/national of a member state who is employed in the territory of another member state , the relationship of employment must exhibit a sufficiently close link with that territory . |
14 | This is borne out by the court 's judgment in Lopes da Veiga v. Staatssecretaris van Justitie ( Case 9/88 ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 2989 , from which it appears that in order for a national of a member state who is permanently employed on board a ship flying the flag of another member state to have the status of a worker/national of a member state who is employed in the territory of another member state , the relationship of employment must exhibit a sufficiently close link with that territory . |
15 | Most headhunters originally left their positions in industry at the behest of a headhunting firm who needed more consultants and saw them as fitting the bill . |
16 | A story is told of a water bull who valiantly fought an Each-Uisge to the death in order to save the life of a servant girl who tended the needs of fairy cattle . |
17 | wife of a London goldsmith who became mistress to King Edward IV about 1470 . |
18 | , John ( 1814–1897 ) , mechanical engineer and inventor , was born at Todmorden , Lancashire , 11 September 1814 , the son of a cotton spinner who owned the only steam-driven mill in the area . |
19 | The book was intended as the unpretentious account of a Devon lad who has just kept on writing and then reading the news . |
20 | The numbers were swelled with the arrival of a back-up group who marched from the centre of Oxford . |
21 | Blufton gave a puzzled smile — the expression of a bachelor uncle who discovers an everyday object in his pocket that makes his nieces and nephews scream with laughter . |
22 | The proposed amendments also made provision for the appointment of a Deputy Governor who would replace the Permanent Secretary for Finance as a member of the Executive Council and of the House of Assembly . |
23 | Later generations were frequently reminded that they were once members of a slave community whom the Lord had mercifully redeemed from bondage . |
24 | His most touching moment came after Dreamflight a couple of years ago when he was asked to rush to the bedside of a leukaemia victim who wanted to see the photos of the trip that she had just enjoyed so much . |
25 | There is little difference , for example , between the position of a child trespasser whom the occupier knows to be present and a child visitor . |
26 | Perhaps the most important difference between the ordinary and duty solicitor is illustrated by the following statement of a Cardiff solicitor who discussed the purpose of vocational training through articles and experience : |
27 | It also took her a step nearer to Douglas Fairbanks , a former student of a mining school who had strong views of his own on how the movies should depict American society . |
28 | The widow of a Melbourne barman who died of lung cancer has been awarded A$20,000 from the man 's employers because he suffered from the adverse effects of passive smoking , despite the fact that he himself smoked 10 cigarettes a day . |
29 | BBC Radio Kent is fortunate to have the services of a gardening expert who is also such a broadcasting professional — a producer , editor , presenter rolled into one . |
30 | A story is told of a water bull who valiantly fought an Each-Uisge to the death in order to save the life of a servant girl who tended the needs of fairy cattle . |