Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board of the National Bank of Yugoslavia consists of the governors of the national banks of the republics and provinces , each of whom has an equal vote . |
| 2 | Prior to the conclusion of the Bensonhurst trial , in the early hours of May 13 a gang in the predominantly black neighbourhood of Brooklyn assaulted three Vietnamese men , one of whom suffered a fractured skull . |
| 3 | True , even with those drawbacks , NATO functions well , but it has had the advantage of 350,000 American service men and ourselves , all of whom speak a common language . |
| 4 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |
| 5 | He will team up with Widnes star John Devereux who agreed a short-term deal with Manly coach Graham Lowe last week . |
| 6 | Each of the sisters who offers an appropriate form of service to the group enables the balance to be held at rest . |
| 7 | The first correct entry drawn out of the hat came from Caroline Fitzgerald from Stamford Brook , London , who wins a Golden Bone Award . |
| 8 | Their leaders — who keep in touch with their friends in the Senate — are Tim Penny , of Minnesota , and Dave McCurdy , of Oklahoma , both members of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council ( which is chaired by Mr Breaux ) together with Charles Stenholm , who represents a great chunk of west Texas . |
| 9 | Therefore , I can assure my hon. Friend , who represents a rural constituency , that we have very much in mind the needs of rural post offices and we shall look with interest at any requests that they make to us for extending their liability to sell other services . |
| 10 | The changes proposed by your correspondent , as well as by Polly Toynbee in her book Lost Children , could well add to the increasing number of children in our society who lack a strong family background provided by two married parents . |
| 11 | Questions are asked by people who lack a particular piece of knowledge , and questions are addressed to people who are assumed to be more knowledgeable about that topic . |
| 12 | THE councillor who attacked a controversial version of Swan Lake is now considering seeing the performance . |
| 13 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 14 | Detectives hunting the rapist who attacked a young woman at a Nottingham f music festival at the weekend , have been interviewing some of the thousands of people who attended the event . |
| 15 | An artist 's impression of a man who attacked a twelve year old girl has been released by police . |
| 16 | Here detectives in Mansfield are hunting a man who attacked a fifteen year old girl near a hospital . |
| 17 | Detectives in Mansfield are hunting a man who attacked a fifteen year old girl near a hospital . |
| 18 | THREE teenage youths who attacked a lone policewoman were being hunted yesterday . |
| 19 | A court has been told that a teenager who attacked a wheelchair-bound pensioner in his own home was high on the drug Ecstasy . |
| 20 | A HAIRDRESSER who asked a teenage employee to push her buttocks against a letterbox so he could fondle them through it was ordered to pay her £1,000 for sexual harassment yesterday . |
| 21 | A CONVICTED sex attacker who kidnapped a six-year-old girl from a playground was jailed for two years yesterday after a top judge said the law forced him to disregard the man 's long criminal record . |
| 22 | Yesterday , two Norfolk men who kidnapped a prime suspect and took him for a ride were sent to prison for five years and apparently the suspect did not even get a police caution . |
| 23 | The first of his correspondents is Lady Amherst who records a stormy love affair with one of Barth 's surrogates , one Ambrose Mensch . |
| 24 | When assessing the needs of a disabled person ( including an elderly person with disabilities ) who receives a substantial amount of care regularly from someone not employed by the local authority , the authority is required to : ‘ have regard to the ability of that person to continue to provide help on a regular basis ’ . |
| 25 | First out of the hat was John Riley of Fribourg , Switzerland , who receives a signed copy of Melvyn 's meisterwork , A Time To Dance . |
| 26 | the extremely dependent elderly person with mental and physical frailty who receives a considerable degree of informal support . |
| 27 | A man who receives an electric shock does not ask himself whether he believes in the form of energy known as electricity . |
| 28 | Jesus was not a social reformer with a social message who produced a socio-economic blueprint for society . |
| 29 | The central hall in the gallery is dedicated to the work of Josef Manés who produced a wide range of subject-matter including fine portraits of the rising bourgeoisie . |
| 30 | SCOT Colin Montgomerie , who produced a disappointing performance in the Moroccan Open , is also facing a possible £1,000 fine for bringing the European PGA Tour into disrepute . |