Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Four patients have developed recurrent stones , one of whom has had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy , a second who is about to have a laparoscopic procedure , and two who are free of symptoms . |
2 | An officer who neglects to take a statutory sample which hindsight shows was necessary will find that his omission is more visible to senior staff than his taking a formal sample which is subsequently used in a prosecution by the authority . |
3 | This may involve special categories of trader , such as the market maker , who is under an obligation ( by the exchange rules ) to quote a price in a given contract whenever asked ; the designated broker , who agrees to promote a particular contract without giving a binding commitment to deal ; and the " local " , who trades his personal account on the exchange floor . |
4 | An investor who needs to hold a particular asset in his portfolio for trading purposes may wish to exchange some of its expected return for a reduced variance in its return . |
5 | ‘ And anyway , ’ whispered another voice , and one that was rather more matter-of-fact because it was her own , ‘ there 's a young eagle out there called Creggan who needs to know a few things if he 's going to survive and be free . ’ |
6 | It 's a handy program for anyone who needs to send a large variety of business letters and who does n't want to faff about thinking of the right thing to say . |
7 | If this is your first experience in the role of main helper to someone close to you who has suffered a major loss , and if you have not yet suffered one yourself , you may find the strange variety and intensity of her emotions and her need for long-term support rather daunting . |
8 | There are many people , though , who can not bear to delve too deeply into this vast and painful subject , although they are anxious to know enough about it to enable them to act wisely when called upon to support and console a relative who has suffered a major loss . |
9 | Firstly , the woman or girl who has suffered a sexual assault is made to suffer again by having sensationalist accounts of their ordeal blazoned to the entire nation , defeating attempts to forget . |
10 | Whereupon Johnson observed that it did not necessarily follow ‘ that a man who has written a good poem on an art , has practised it ’ , citing excellently instructive verses on cider by a man never known to have made any . |
11 | People always knock someone who has achieved a great deal in a short time . |
12 | It is difficult for us today to enter fully into the power that those ancient rituals must have generated , but anyone who has attended a religious revival meeting with its emphasis on repentance , tears and rebirth is in touch with the same forces . |
13 | Anyone who has attended a local event will have seen the Red Cross carrying out first aid duties but its work is far wider than most people realise . |
14 | The Queen as Head of State gives overall stability to the political system and the Prime Minister as Head of Government is one who has served a long apprenticeship in parliament in high office of state and who is the elected leader of a party which has the confidence of the nation . |
15 | Also in the squad is assistant manager Mick Tait , who has served a four-match suspension following his sending off against Chester last month . |
16 | For their size , they can be quite quick , as anyone who has followed a lively one across a garden or road will testify . |
17 | ‘ What 's this ? ’ said Piggy-wig , straddling a chair with the triumph of one who has mistressed a Zanussi automatic . |
18 | I thought it the gesture of someone who has noticed a fellow human being about to step in something horrible but who is too polite to draw attention to the fact by seeming sorry for her . |
19 | Even more tragically for the vicar is the fact that for many unchurched families he is simply a cog–in the death machine ; an impersonal professional who has to mumble a few words before the curtains swish and the coffin descends to the fires below . |
20 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
21 | It will be the first time bosses have been allowed to officially join in the celebrations and it marks a victory for Lawrie McMenemy , who has conducted a 15-year campaign on behalf of fellow managers . |
22 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
23 | Any human being who has eaten a bad oyster , spent a night in agony , and vowed never to touch oysters again , will understand this . |
24 | He glanced over at the mirror every time she came near , longing to speak , and he drank in her loveliness like a man who has crossed a barren desert . |
25 | ‘ I 'll bring her , ’ said Caspar , and sat back and regarded them with the plump pleasure of a person who has reached a final decision . |
26 | ‘ Monumental Reputation ’ , arranged and researched by Iain Brown of the National Library ( following a suggestion by Alastair Rowan who has contributed a tape-slide presentation on Adam ) , is among the first attempts to explore in detail the making of an archaeological folio which changed the face of contemporary design . |
27 | Anyone who has seen a recent Konitz performance wo n't argue with this ; taste , attention to tonal delicacy and a striving after melodic inventiveness are his hallmarks . |
28 | Anyone who has seen a busy barrister at work will bear out the truth of the picture . |
29 | The possibility of such a merger has now been discounted by the Minister , who has given a solid commitment that no Government of his persuasion would attempt such a merger . |
30 | The issue in this case is whether an original lessee , or an intermediate assignee of a lease , who has given a direct covenant to pay the rent and observe the covenants , is released from liability following an agreement between the lessor and the occupying assignee of the lease under which the lessor takes a surrender of the lease and some of the assignee 's goods in return for releasing the assignee from all claims under the lease ? |