Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] has [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Taylor , who only has partial sight in one eye , has spent eight years studying eight hours a day to achieve her degree by using a specially adapted tape recorder . |
| 2 | People can come to expect too much of someone who suddenly has great success . |
| 3 | Even if the desire is never satisfied in any but the fantasy way , the man who constantly has such desires is to be condemned , for he is gaining satisfaction from a person whom he has divested of personhood and turned into a slave . |
| 4 | A mother who is living in an environment where she is very isolated and whose general social contacts with neighbours , relatives , and husband are mostly unhappy or antagonistic is likely to behave differently from a mother who generally has pleasant interactions with most people but occasionally experiences some aggressive reactions from her child . |
| 5 | In January 1989 , he and Carolyn were divorced and , just before Christmas that year , he married Polly , who already has two sons by her previous husband , the property heir , John Bloomfield . |
| 6 | Forty hopefuls replied , but none could match 52-year-old widow Jean Day who already has two grandchildren of her own . |
| 7 | But her boy , who already has one success in the can , would settle for a shiny new toy . |
| 8 | Coopers & Lybrand 's Emma Goodrick , who already has five Institute prizes and one Worshipful Company award to her name ( see ACCOUNTANCY , June 1990 , p 18 , June 1991 , p 16 and June 1992 , p 15 ) , has joined four other accountants to scoop the top six awards in this year 's Institute of Taxation exams . |
| 9 | Their Australian professional Jamie Stewart , who already has 18 league wickets , will get pace and bounce to help his left arm orthodox spin and , if necessary skipper Tony Bell can call on young leg spinner , Paul Davison . |
| 10 | But naturally a person who already has these qualifications starts with an advantage . |
| 11 | Beasant , who still has 18 months of his contract to run , has a chance of playing on Sunday . |
| 12 | And we talk to the Glosters veterans , like 99 year old Norman Edwards , who still has vivid memories of the slaughter on the Somme , nearly 80 years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ A deadly goddess , ’ he said , ‘ who always has other things on her mind . |
| 14 | For example , a supervisor whose principal job is to plan tomorrow 's production assignments and next week 's work schedule but who also has ongoing responsibility for uninterrupted production supplies for the month ahead has a responsibility time span of one month . |
| 15 | Mrs X , who also has other employment , is company secretary . |
| 16 | Yoash Kahn , who has taught in England for many years but who also has strong links with education in Israel , recalls his hostel days with affection , even if he did have problems adjusting to the regime . |
| 17 | ‘ We got the last ring in the shop in my size , ’ said Mrs Williams , who also has fond memories of their wartime honeymoon in Scarborough . |
| 18 | However , this attitude can also represent a response to feelings of rejection by his wife who now has other things to occupy her , or an unwillingness to play a full part in the parental role . |
| 19 | In the south , rebels from another group are pressing the government of President Siad Barre , who now has little authority beyond the capital . |
| 20 | Tadpole did the design for a large customer who reportedly has 88110 samples . |
| 21 | Once a decision is made it must be communicated in writing to the claimant , who then has three months in which to appeal against it to the SSAT . |
| 22 | Thus the examples of ( 9 ) are acceptable : ( 9 ) your behaviour was barbaric this device is expensive his plan was inspired but impractical Where a prenominal adjective fits equally well with either relationship — ascriptive or associative — to its noun , we find that its occurrence in predicative position is acceptable , but only provided that the relation is taken as being ascriptive ; thus ( 10 ) mentions an individual who either has Greek nationality ( but the nature and region of the business which he or she deals with remain unspecified ) , or is a person who handles affairs connected with Greece ( but who may well be of some quite different nationality , Belgian for example ) ; ( 11 ) however unambiguously tells us that there is someone who falls into the former category : ( 10 ) the Greek representative ( 11 ) the representative is Greek |
| 23 | His aim is to do this before Allan Border , who currently has 9532 runs , topples Sunil Gavaskar ( 10,122 ) as Test cricket 's leading runscorer : India would then boast the leading batsman and bowler in Tests . |