Example sentences of "[noun prp] who [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Widely seen as a sop to Bush 's conservative Republican critics , the directive was publicly disavowed on Nov. 21 by presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater who avowed that Bush had not seen it before it was sent out . |
| 2 | Yet personal encounters , first as Cripps 's deputy in the Treasury and later as chancellor of the exchequer , persuaded Gaitskell that there were some people in Washington who appreciated that Britain must be granted some safeguards for her economy . |
| 3 | For a gentle corrective one could do worse than go back to H.L. Mencken who opined that Alexander Graham Bell — the progenitor of the institution in which Penzias holds sway — and Thomas Alva Edison had done more than any of their contemporaries to add to the sum of life 's damned nuisances . |
| 4 | We concur with the DCSLs who felt that Major award schools had put more thinking into their documentation and that the larger funding had made a greater impact on provision , management and the physical organisation and appearance of the library . |
| 5 | Mike Benton 's ideas are reminiscent of those of Tony Swain and Gillian Cooper-Driver who proposed that dinosaurs became extinct through their dietary requirements They suggested that the development of alkaloidal synthesis of cyanogenic glycoside precursors in the early angiosperms made them unpalatable to the dinosaurs , effectively starving them into extinction . |
| 6 | It was a Romantic notion that there were resonances in the natural world and art ; and it was Schiller who argued that music , the visual arts and poetry ‘ always become … similar in their action on the mind ’ . |
| 7 | It was Charles Caleb Colton who said that man is an embodied paradox , a bundle of contradictions . |
| 8 | It was Mary Donovan who suggested that Eileen 's younger brother might slip in to see his nephew before he left for America . |
| 9 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 10 | Consider the argument of Nicos Poulantzas who asserts that nations are as old as or older than class society ( as if the two modes of analysis are not mutually reinforcing ) , will persist after the State disappears , and possess a ‘ transhistorical irreducibility ’ . |
| 11 | She was reprimanded by an indignant Jacques Delors who said that fraud is a ‘ phony controversy ’ and a ‘ distraction ’ from important matters , like the ‘ real ’ issue of economic and monetary union . |
| 12 | ‘ The whole thing seems to be mushrooming , ’ said Mr Rankin who feels that riders are exceeding the spirit of the planning permission , if not the letter of it . ’ |
| 13 | IT WAS Richard Nixon who said that wilderness preservation was a sign of the self-restraint that marked a mature society . |
| 14 | Ethology 's assertion that male aggression has an instinctive basis to it has a close parallel with those radical feminists such as Dworkin who argue that males are inherently and innately violent . |
| 15 | It was Marriott who suggested that Stirling should make himself scarce for a while and recommended him to Brigadier Denys Reid . |
| 16 | That report from the Mayo clinic was mirrored to some extent by the study of Pescatori and Mattana who reported that 45% of patients over the age of 45 experienced faecal soiling , whereas only 24% of patients under 45 years of age did so . |
| 17 | It was George Bernard Shaw who claimed that Britain was an island consisting of coal and iron-ore , surrounded by a sea full of fish : It took the British to create a shortage of all three at the same time ! |
| 18 | His evident need to be in constant pursuit spoke frustration to Wishart who suspected that Minton was never sexually fulfilled . |