Example sentences of "[noun] who [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
2 | These are the Chukchis , Koryaks and Itelmens of the extreme north-east and the Kamchatka Peninsula , the Yukagirs who in the seventeenth century inhabited a very large territory between Chukotka and the lower Lena , the Ainu of southern Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands , the Nivkhs of the lower Amur and Sakhalin , and the Kets of the Yenisei . |
3 | Office workers who on the first day possible in the early year had rushed out in their lunch hour to cover any patch of grass with bare legs and arms , floral patterns and jackets , as if some strange immediate growth had been brought out by the sun , to die back in the early afternoon , had by now got the habit of staying in the dark bowels of buildings when they could . |
4 | It was J. J. Berzelius in Sweden who in the second decade of the century put atomism on a much more secure footing . |
5 | Steve McQueen in The Getaway and Bullitt and Paul Newman in The Drowning Pool are the big fashion influences cited at Burro , the people who in the last couple of years have flogged us tank tops as well as the classic ‘ No Alla Violenza ’ Ts in conjunction with Duffer . |
6 | It was a fascinating glimpse of a people who in the sixteenth century had never seen a wheel or a sea-going ship , had never faced an armoured knight on horseback or the fire power of crossbows and guns , but whose roads and lines of communication through the incredible terrain of the Andes , whose methods of agriculture by irrigation and whose whole political set-up , so close to what we know as Communism , was in some ways more advanced than that of their conquerors . |
7 | Situated in a conservation area in the historical town of Lewes , Millers derives its name from the millers who in the 19th century sold their produce from the front parlour ( now the dining room ) . |
8 | Very kind , but international players are supposed to be habitually influential , and it was Hazard who in the second half , with a few incisive passes , gifts from the heavens on a day like this , left a greater mark . |
9 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
10 | My main opposition in the final was Phil Brown from Birmingham , already an established international and the man who over the next decade or so was to be a team-mate of mine and to be the British anchorman in some very fine 4 × 400 metres relay performances . |
11 | He is an immensely gifted young man who in the first six months of his course has made more high quality pieces of furniture than any student we have had here before . |
12 | Indeed , their first trip to Scotland since 1981 would not have been possible without the assistance of four British-based companies trading in Eastern Europe who at the eleventh hour put up a total of £10,000 . |
13 | … and follow in the footsteps of the thousands of men and women who in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries left Ulster to seek a new life in America . |
14 | It has particular significance for those churches who over the last decade , aided by the enthusiasm which stemmed from the Archbishop of Canterbury 's report ‘ Faith in the City ’ ( December , 1985 ) and the subsequently established Church Urban Fund , have tried to put their buildings , their membership and above all their local networks at the service of the wider community . |