Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] " 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 | Each of the sisters who offers an appropriate form of service to the group enables the balance to be held at rest . |
| 3 | The first correct entry drawn out of the hat came from Caroline Fitzgerald from Stamford Brook , London , who wins a Golden Bone Award . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The first of his correspondents is Lady Amherst who records a stormy love affair with one of Barth 's surrogates , one Ambrose Mensch . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | First out of the hat was John Riley of Fribourg , Switzerland , who receives a signed copy of Melvyn 's meisterwork , A Time To Dance . |
| 9 | the extremely dependent elderly person with mental and physical frailty who receives a considerable degree of informal support . |
| 10 | A man who receives an electric shock does not ask himself whether he believes in the form of energy known as electricity . |
| 11 | I seem to remember an American thesis writer who crashed to the ground over this contorted problem , and I am sure that both Worsley and Sir John Summerson ( who contributes an elegant introduction to Mansbridge 's book ) would concur that mystery still surrounds the problem of Nash the draughtsman . |
| 12 | There is extra prestige for a child who produces a new word the others do not know . |
| 13 | Similes may be dangerous , but it can be suggested that the man who produces a well-made brick makes a better contribution to housing than does the man who builds a large mansion on insecure foundations . |
| 14 | But this time it went wrong and Ms Kennedy , who plays a republican activist in the drama , had to receive treatment for an eye injury . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's not as aggressive as he might be but that could come , and he has more skill and speed than someone like John Fashanu , who plays an intimidating game . |
| 16 | In one scene Lysette — who plays an air-headed aerobics teacher — and her middle-aged boy-friend were supposed to have an amusing tiff after a party . |
| 17 | When East Germany celebrated its own equally joyless 40th birthday party last weekend , Peking sent a delegation led by Yao Yilin , a senior Politburo member and veteran central planner who appreciates a well-regimented society . |
| 18 | ANYONE who appreciates a good ale is enjoying a fruity complexity of flavours . |
| 19 | Stanley Kubrick 's gripping story of a brilliantly conceived and executed robbery stars Sterling Hayden as ex-convict Johnny Clay who devises a daring plan to steal two million dollars from a heavily guarded racetrack . |
| 20 | Similes may be dangerous , but it can be suggested that the man who produces a well-made brick makes a better contribution to housing than does the man who builds a large mansion on insecure foundations . |
| 21 | Woe to anyone who crosses a potential reviewer . |
| 22 | Each inventoried object is the direct responsibility of a named curator , the collecting officer , who signs a formal declaration of responsibility for each object when it is acquired . |
| 23 | Once everything is in order , you sign a contract , which is exchanged with the seller who signs an identical contract . |
| 24 | There is far less of the mystification which can be attributed to the account of the troubles in Guerrillas : what we get is the mysterious politics of forest and township as observed by an outsider , by an African Asian who understands a good deal of what is going on . |
| 25 | Editor Richard Felton , who writes a large proportion of the magazine himself , flew out to report on Shell Brazil 's initiative to fund sport and dance programmes for the street kids . |
| 26 | Do you think a multi-millionaire who needs a heart-lung transplant ever goes without ? ’ |
| 27 | The Club on the other hand has been stripped of the non-essentials — who needs a luxury interior in a training environment ? |
| 28 | VANDALS have wrecked the home and medical supplies of a three-year-old boy who needs a life-saving transplant operation . |
| 29 | VANDALS have wrecked the home and medical equipment of a three-year-old boy who needs a life-saving transplant operation . |
| 30 | ‘ The Art Pack is a folding stool combination , designed for the artist who needs a comfortable travelling seat , with a carrier for materials . |