Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 2 | While the paths b 1 and b 2 are the focus of our attention , it is also important to remember the other causes which lead to people attending selective secondary schools : class membership is not a complete determinant of who goes to these schools , since some working class children do attend . |
| 3 | Who goes to orchestral concerts , who goes to opera , to ballet , to the cinema ? |
| 4 | The priest who is thought of as a man who goes into poor areas and preaches and helps the needy and the poor as Saint Francis did , is showing rich tourists paintings . |
| 5 | I thought I would like to write about north and south , rich and poor , working-class and middle-class , so I had the idea of a working-class character , not from the south-east , who goes into different backgrounds . ’ |
| 6 | Mark Nicholson , who plays for Scottish Students next month against the English Students , ran from his own 22 to put Gareth Williams over for the first of the visitors ' seven tries . |
| 7 | The claim that " The eye either functions as a whole , or not at all " turns out to be , not merely false but self-evidently false to anybody who thinks for 2 seconds about his own familiar experience . |
| 8 | The charge that higher education has over a longer period contributed to an anti-industrial ethos among the educated classes in Britain has been laid by Wiener ( 1981 ) and countered in different ways by Sanderson ( 1972 ) who points to manifold examples of involvement with industry , and Shattock ( 1987 ) who tends to lay the blame elsewhere , at the door of government and industry itself . |
| 9 | Mr Morrison is not a man who shirks from controversial issues . |
| 10 | We may notice too that since pleasures tend to fade unless varied at every recurrence it is difficult to distinguish in practice between the man who lives for pleasure and the man who lives for new experiences . |
| 11 | Although Sir John Chester ( who lives in sumptuous lodgings in London ) is his prototype of the cold-hearted aristocrat in Barnaby Rudge ( 1841 ) , while the brother he persecutes is both principled and humane , the family house the latter inhabits ( significantly named ‘ The Warren ’ ) is ripe for destruction , ‘ the very ghost of a house , haunting the old spot in its old outward form , and that was all ’ . |
| 12 | An example may be a traveller who has on previous occasions caused annoyance to other guests or in some way disrupted the inn . |
| 13 | Party Politics , who stands at 18 hands , has had a history of wind problems and before and after last year 's National he had two operations to improve his breathing . |
| 14 | And no solution is possible as long as men are proud of their will to govern and are not themselves governed by the God Who cares for all races and all men . |
| 15 | I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman , who cares about these things , would welcome that . |
| 16 | Shooting can be effective and sporting too , but I think it vital that everyone who shoots in these situations should be a very capable gun and able to kill a very large proportion of what he fires at . |
| 17 | In broad terms , because soft systems thinking represents a unique way of encouraging an observer to learn about a situation , it should appeal to virtually anyone who has an enquiring mind , a notion reflected in the closing paragraphs of Systems Thinking , Systems practice ; as I have made frequent reference to this work throughout , it seems appropriate to finish my book with the following quote from Professor Peter Checkland , who says about soft systems thinking : |
| 18 | To encourage the breeder who shows at local events only , there are 11 regional contests , with points counting towards Premier Breeder awards within that region . |
| 19 | For the field man who deals with real problems , paper work is incidental , after the fact . |
| 20 | Anyone who deals with Ottoman institutions will know how perilous is the task of trying to define terms , since a number are possessed of multiple significations , often changing over a period of time , and the particular sense intended in any given case is not always clear from the context : will serve as one example , another , and , in the learned profession , which has the limited sense of a student at the Sahn and the wider sense of any student in " higher " education , that is , at a 20-akce medrese or above . |
| 21 | Your hospital has a specially appointed officer who deals with all complaints . |
| 22 | Find out who the personnel are and , in particular , who deals with conservation matters or listed building applications . |
| 23 | A monograph on an artist who practises in several fields can be unusually interesting , since the writer 's brief is to write with equal competence on different topics . |
| 24 | He is a man whose emotions are close to the surface , and who plunges into profound troughs . |
| 25 | A general name for the familiar demon or mischievous spirit who dwells in private houses or in the chinks of trees . |
| 26 | Unlike Van der Ven , London dealer Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz , who specializes in Continental Ceramics and Works of Art , has elected to exhibit only at the Grosvenor House Fair this year . |
| 27 | There is now a major question mark in policy-making over the meaning of ‘ regeneration ’ and particularly over who benefits from regenerative policies . |
| 28 | If it is easy for a man — it is usually the man who suffers from such fears — to hit difficulty due to his own self-doubt , it is doubly easy for his partner to support or feed that doubt by her own expectation of his failure or overt recognition of it . |
| 29 | Pellerin , the artist among Frédéric 's companions , a man who specialises in complete theories and incomplete sketches , produces one of his rare finished paintings . |
| 30 | According to a senior and influential backbencher who specialises in financial affairs , the great bulk of the parliamentary party is behind Mr Lawson . |