Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE condition of an RIR soldier who lost both legs in a booby trap bomb blast in Lurgan is described as ‘ stable ’ . |
| 2 | Yet the mega-buck manager of Ewood could have had little complaint — Rovers lost to a side who played revivalist football of a kind manager Howard Kendall has waited 22 months to see . |
| 3 | The speech was welcomed by the opposition who saw these developments in sharp contrast to the more cautious approach to change signalled by Iliescu during the election campaign . |
| 4 | Thus , a litigant who claimed any form of injunction had an unfettered right of appeal . |
| 5 | These requirements were not satisfied in Schroeder because the contract was imposed on the plaintiff by a defendant who had greater bargaining power which he used oppressively . |
| 6 | that of robbing the victim , a defendant who has sexual intercourse with her whilst she is insensible will not be guilty of rape . |
| 7 | Freda Gray was a pioneer who spent 40 years teaching and working with mentally handicapped young people , many of whom had been abandoned by society . |
| 8 | The legendary Jon the Postman , ( the ultimate fan of seventies punk who achieved minor fame by clambering on to the stage and reciting ‘ Louie Louie ’ at the finish of every Buzzcocks gig ) : ‘ The Smiths are a great rock 'n' roll band . |
| 9 | As well might I have risen and said , ‘ I will tell you what really happened , for this trial and the real issues involved will one day become the subject of a great novel , and I am a man from two centuries into your future who read that book as a lad … ’ |
| 10 | Maeve could be Kali , or even Mammy Water the lake goddess of Nigeria 's Ibo-land who makes beautiful women mad so she can possess their boyfriends . |
| 11 | What makes the situation especially difficult in the case of homosexuality is that there are those who arm their homophobia by ignoring the first dimension described above — an exile which generates critique — insisting only on the second — the exile who flees one kind of discrimination only to reproduce others , and who is seen to do so in virtue of the alleged ‘ predatory ’ nature of the homosexual desire , now quintessentially defined as a desire to exploit the disadvantaged . |
| 12 | ‘ One of the cruellest had a girlfriend who had many friends involved in the struggle against the regime and he would go with her to cafes , where they would sing songs against the dictatorship . ’ |
| 13 | He matured into a distinguished mathematician who enriched many branches of the science before he died at the age of only 44 from a ruptured appendix . |
| 14 | Ellen , usually so quick with a scornful reply , just stood and stared at the elegant stranger who stopped one pace away from her , took her hand , then bowed above her fingers . |
| 15 | We have a number of technicians in the environmental health department who do some sterling work , and I know that no one here would want you to suppose that they are a kind of second-string person . |
| 16 | In a hill village to the south-west , the guide delivered her to the house of an Armenian priest who spoke passable French . |
| 17 | Indeed , it seems that a hearer who interpreted this utterance as conveying a specific proposition or set of propositions would miss out on much of its intended relevance . |
| 18 | The British Medical Journal ( June '90 ) reports that Miss Pauline Bousquet , an Obstetrician who supports natural childbirth at St. Thomas ' Hospital , London has won her 11 year battle to clear her name on charges of professional incompetence brought by male colleagues . |
| 19 | David Jansen played a liberal journalist who criticizes American involvement in Vietnam until he witnesses the aftermath of Viet Cong atrocities . |
| 20 | In recent years , the growth in commerce and industry has brought about the ‘ in-house ’ legal adviser who provides legal advice to the company . |
| 21 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 22 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 23 | However it is expected that it will also be attractive to people currently employed in the industry who require formal qualifications and desire to enhance their career prospects . |
| 24 | Sections of the pensions industry who advise such schemes have already started to protest . |
| 25 | My father in the garden at home with my first dog Nip who tore poor Bess to pieces . |
| 26 | Next comes grandson William Gylby , wealthy London lawyer who made great strides , increasing the size of the island to over 1,500 acres by his death in 1744 , and having the dubious distinction of attempting to reduce the troublesome rat population by having them killed , dressed and offered up to his tenants and workmen to eat . |
| 27 | He was a Protestant lawyer who had enormous prestige among Derry Catholics for his work in combating injustices against them in the courts . |
| 28 | And then of course he gives classical precedence for this Tireseus , Orpheus , those poets who had magical powers , Homer , who suggests not only frugal diet , but chastity will be the best preparation for the poet who has this task in hand . |
| 29 | A Chinese gangster who ran vice rings and protection rackets used a Chinese restaurant in the region as his weekday base , according to a television documentary . |
| 30 | If this was the source of the visitors ' continuing jurisdiction in disciplinary appeals , then it was accepted that they would be amenable to judicial review , their situation being in certain respects comparable to that of a visitor to a university or college who holds that position by virtue of his office , cp the Queen as visitor of the University of Hull : see the Page case [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 , 1279 . |