Example sentences of "someone with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your policy should draw a clear distinction between this sort of rule and a supportive policy to help someone with a drink problem . |
| 2 | Someone with a sense of humour had painted beneath the HD ‘ D+ ? ’ |
| 3 | A house that cost £5500 to build typically cost a council tenant £3.18 a week , a mortgage payer £6.37 a week and someone with a private landlord £10.09 a week . |
| 4 | Any problems within the platoon are dealt with ; my door is always open for a chat , and there is always someone with a problem . |
| 5 | For someone with a good reading knowledge of German and Anglo-Saxon , the coguate tongue of Norse offered few difficulties . |
| 6 | Much as he admired schoolgirls , flouting the law was too much of a risk for someone with a public image . |
| 7 | Living alone with an Aunt Louise who was acting someone with a grievance might , I thought , be rather difficult . ) |
| 8 | ‘ Are you sure , ’ said Simon , speaking slowly as if to someone with a poor knowledge of English , ‘ that Gazzer has n't already got the money ? |
| 9 | ‘ Now , ’ said Picon a few years ago , ‘ when you read an obituary of someone with a Jewish name you know you have lost another member of the audience . ’ |
| 10 | Earlier , he had been reunited with someone with a substantial claim to fame . |
| 11 | Recognizing his potential ability — not as a dancer , but someone with a great deal to offer to theatre — I obtained permission from the Senate and the Dean of the Faculty of Music ( of which the ballet school was a part ) for John to be a registered student on the three-year Ballet Certificate course . |
| 12 | It is as if there existed a right to free speech , but that , before exercising it , one must submit to someone with a practically unchallengeable power of censorship a copy of one 's proposed speech for approval . |
| 13 | For instance someone with a sore throat may well also have a fever and you will get a fuller picture by looking at the remedies in both sections . |
| 14 | On the other hand too , the successful teacher can sometimes be someone with a very slight grasp of subject , because then they understand more closely the problems of many children . |
| 15 | Since the individual risks are multiplied together ( so that someone with a double risk on each factor has an overall eight-fold increased risk ) the trial could be done on a much smaller number of volunteers . |
| 16 | Growing your own vegetables is much the cheapest way of avoiding pesticides in the long run , but in the short term it may be possible to get unsprayed produce from someone with a large garden or allotment . |
| 17 | To some people , this is a confirmation of the old idea that there is something inherently wicked in the feline personality , and that the animal deliberately selects someone with a cat phobia and then sets out to cause them embarrassment . |
| 18 | Someone with a vested interest in training or a personal commitment to it |
| 19 | Then , one fine day , at one of these parties , someone with a big nose and a wide pinstripe will stumble up to you , notice your tie , and say : ‘ Wair-you-a' schoo' ? ’ |
| 20 | Someone with a draughty door would love Peter Rabbit to stop the wind whistling in . |
| 21 | Someone with a grudge . |
| 22 | However , within minutes of starting the meeting ( or so it seemed ) I had invited someone with a severe pain in the head to come forward . |
| 23 | If you lecture someone with a series of reminders , his defences will be in place . |
| 24 | BASS player wanted for versatile band , we need someone with a bit of groove . |
| 25 | Ideally , someone with a terminal illness should at least have the right to work part-time as long as they are able . |
| 26 | It is surprising how many people go through life breathing inadequately and , although in many instances this does not prove to be too great a problem , in the case of someone with a stammer it can increase their difficulties enormously . |
| 27 | It was then replayed almost nightly by someone with a grudge against the Royals so that amateur scanners would pick it up and make it public . |
| 28 | If that is true , why does someone with a lavish lifestyle have a right to have that maintained while families who have defaulted on £20,000 mortgages have their homes repossessed ? |
| 29 | ‘ The job he offered me was a sort of general factotum , a personal troubleshooter , but he wanted someone with a financial background . |
| 30 | At first the hotel had been unwilling to employ someone with a young daughter . |