Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How would you apply the principles of horizontal and vertical equity in deciding how much to tax two people , each capable of doing the same work , but one of whom chooses to devote more time to sun-bathing and therefore has a lower income ? |
| 2 | Moreover , it is the doctor-counsellor as much as anyone else who needs to ask these questions , for often spending time considering these aspects of ill-health might be more helpful than a prescription for drugs . |
| 3 | However , the real doubt cast upon the question of whether Herdman v IRC is good law comes from the case of Pepper v Hart [ 1992 ] STC 898 where the Financial Secretary to the Treasury — W S Morrison — stated : The hon. and learned friend asked us to imagine the case of a foreigner ordinarily resident overseas who has transferred foreign securities to a foreign company . |
| 4 | Whether Evans , now 54 , and who has suffered serious heart problems , is of an age and whether he has the constitution to undertake such a demanding task is another matter . |
| 5 | Public law remedies are not of much use to the citizen who has suffered actual injury ( whether physical or economic ) as opposed to one who has an intangible grievance . |
| 6 | It will depend on the particular circumstances of each case as to whether a solicitor who has suffered financial loss as a result of having to comply with an undertaking given in the course of his acting for a client can look to the latter for reimbursement . |
| 7 | Some of the older cases suggest that there should be no recovery by a person who has suffered prenatal injuries because of the difficulties of proof and of the opening it gives for perjury and speculation . |
| 8 | Any private individual who has suffered particular damage as a result of the nuisance ( i.e. damage over and above that suffered by the public as a whole ) may bring a civil action in tort to seek the abatement of the nuisance and recover damages for loss already sustained . |
| 9 | As someone who has suffered several heart attacks , I eat polyunsaturates , although I prefer butter , but I can not convince myself that it really matters . |
| 10 | A young mother living in a damp flat with unheated bedrooms where the mould appears in charcoal blots across the wall , has a child who has suffered several bouts of pneumonia and now has chest convulsions . |
| 11 | Bannister , who has hit five goals in eight games , said : ‘ If I get 20 this season then I could earn myself an extension of the contract . ’ |
| 12 | Dervla Murphy , the Irish traveller , who has written several books about her travels with a bicycle across India and Asia , travels purely to enjoy herself , and her books about her adventures give enjoyment and inspiration to armchair travellers . |
| 13 | Another Pocket original superlead , out in March 1995 , is a ‘ breakthrough novel ’ by Debbie Fowler , who has written three novels for Sphere and a romance for Century/Arrow , as well as a non-fiction account of her adoption of a Romanian orphan . |
| 14 | However , a student with this award who has achieved better performance by taking additional , more demanding modules can be distinguished by looking at this or her Record of Education and Training . |
| 15 | A Quiche Indian woman from Guatemala who has achieved worldwide recognition by speaking out against the oppression of her people has been awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 16 | Much practical work in agriculture is of an empirical type and the ‘ practical ’ farmer is often characterized by an empirical approach as contrasted with perhaps the more theoretically-based approach of his son who has attended agricultural college or university and who understands some of the theory underlying a more scientific approach to agriculture . |
| 17 | Another is Ryszard Kapuscinski , an expert in what he calls ‘ confusion ’ , who has attended twenty-seven revolutions in the Third World . |
| 18 | This may seem like an impossible demand to make on someone who has smoked 20–60 cigarettes a day , but psychologically it works better for most people than attempting the ‘ slowly does it ’ campaign of a cigarette less every day . |
| 19 | You do n't look like a girl who has tasted any sort of deprivation ; neither did your mother . |
| 20 | Only two outsiders are permitted to eat from the kitchen — the governor , who has to sample one meal every day to be able to answer any complaints the following day , and the doctor , who tastes the food two or three times a week to ensure that it is balanced and nutritious . |
| 21 | He 's a man who has crushed all softness in himself , so why should his son be indulged , be allowed to cry and display his grief , be stroked and cuddled and consoled when he never was ? |
| 22 | The project was overseen and produced by Ramuntcho Matta , who has studied classical composition , Indian vocal techniques and the tango , and who met Gysin at the age of 15 . |
| 23 | Sandy Spence of the DUP , who has served 16 years as Mayor of Ballymena . |
| 24 | Sandy Spence of the DUP , who has served 16 years as Mayor of Ballymena . |
| 25 | Reformed junkie Davies , who has served two prison sentences , met stunning Fiona Brown , 28 , when he was given a two-year probation order for theft . |
| 26 | Christie will be bridesmaid when Anna Moore , who has served ten years of a life sentence , marries a loyalist killer , Bobby Corry , who is serving life for killing three people in a pub bombing in 1972 . |
| 27 | Bach speaks of such things with the passion of a self-made man who has beaten personal adversity . |
| 28 | One gifted person is the 37-year-old Irishman Finbarr Nolan who has featured several times in the Scot-tish press as a result of his ‘ clinics ’ in Ayrshire and Edinburgh . |
| 29 | Dave , 45 , who has run 42 marathons , will wear top hat , tails … and shorts . |
| 30 | Sandra Bates is a trained caterer who has run three restaurants . |