Example sentences of "[pron] who [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Martell 's studies of the behaviour of radon decay products show that someone who smokes 20 cigarettes per day for 40 years has received a cumulative dose of about 100 rads at tissue sites in the lungs — a dose powerful enough to spark cancer . |
2 | I might then ask him to look at his hands and see whether they are those of someone who does manual work or whether they seem to belong to a well-to-do person . |
3 | Well , sex mainly , and the mistaken male view that women dream of having a wild and torrid fling in the afore-mentioned potting shed with someone who spends more time with mulch and manure than Gillette shower gel . |
4 | As someone who likes musical comedies to be comedies , the frivolity of this piece proved irresistible . |
5 | Exhilarating stuff , but a lot of the excitement comes , I suspect , from the sense of sitting alongside someone who understands such ideas rather than really grasping them yourself . |
6 | Take your word for it … but from someone who takes 5 mins to find a toilet when being told and it being right in front of them ; - ) ) ) ) |
7 | On the whole for someone who takes some interest in serious music it was a worthwhile and memorable experience . |
8 | Someone who gives this answer clearly takes it that in some cases it works , and we must not beg the question against him . |
9 | ‘ Crumble Hall ’ must be read not as a repudiation of established social and economic relations , but as the statement of someone who finds those relations violated or betrayed . |
10 | It is in the initial anticipation that the middle class will show respect that the bias lies , for where this deference is lacking , even from someone who appears middle class , a variant of the gouger typification comes into force . |
11 | What can family members and others do to help someone who has addictive diseases ? |
12 | No minor of whatever age has power by refusing consent to treatment to override a consent to treatment by someone who has parental responsibility for the minor and a fortiori a consent by the court . |
13 | The argument that W. , or any other 16- or 17-year-old , can by refusing to consent to treatment veto the treatment notwithstanding that the doctor has the consent of someone who has parental responsibilities , involves the proposition that section 8 has the further effect of depriving such a person of the power to consent . |
14 | Silvio is a very complex and tormented personality , someone who has great difficulty in coming to terms with the demands of life . |
15 | You can start to regard yourself as someone who has great potential for change and self-fulfilment . |
16 | So I can recommend this book only to someone who has little knowledge of green issues and the science involved . |
17 | The person who graduates from television 's school , then , is someone who has little imagination and few skills in logical analysis and critical discussion ; they have a marked preference for images rather than reality ; and a deep and increasing commitment to just one activity : watching television . |
18 | While I have friends who would probably help me a great deal , there is no legal arrangement to deal with someone who has declining health because of AIDS . |
19 | It has always been my belief that casuals were just beer-swilling animals with the intelligence of donkeys , but the letter you published was clearly written by someone who has enough intelligence to put his radically extremist views into practice and cause a lot of harm . |
20 | Someone who wishes to obtain some food in return for some clothes , not only has to find someone who has some food , but who is also seeking some clothes . |
21 | At the youngest age , your friend may be the winner of a running race or someone who has beautiful hair ! |
22 | You are not necessarily at any more risk of malignant melanoma than someone who has fewer moles . |
23 | A shadow , as the name implies , is someone who follows another person about all day as he goes about his normal work . |
24 | I am someone who needs other people all the time |
25 | As someone who enjoys all forms of the arts , I should like to know what reasoning was entered into before the distribution of grants was made ? |
26 | All one may own are such rights as the law confers upon someone who holds confidential information . |
27 | And as someone who buys 80 tonnes of live lobsters from Canada and 75 tonnes of prawns from Thailand every year , lunch is a decidedly unglamorous affair . |
28 | It is not easy to engage in discussion with someone who regards other opinions as no more than symptomatic of the way a bourgeois intellectual thinks under late capitalism . |
29 | Nobody who seeks political asylum does it lightly . |
30 | ‘ Somebody who has some taste at least , ’ Constance replied . |