Example sentences of "[indef pn] who [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These machines are chess-playing calculators ; even the weakest is better than the average chess player ( someone who plays at the median strength of all those who know the rules ) . |
| 2 | It was a warming compliment , from someone who knew about the theatre . |
| 3 | Which did seem to point to someone who knew about the curry soup being prepared for supper . |
| 4 | However , as someone who identified with the student movements of the late 1960s , he was saddened to discover that present economic conditions meant ‘ normal ’ younger students were less willing , or able , to stand up for ‘ issues ’ . |
| 5 | The other sizeable group of offences reported on is where the case involves someone well known ( e.g. Bronski pop man fined for sex offence or more frequently there is either fame by association ( e.g. GAY-SEX SHAME OF ESTHER 'S ‘ BROTHER' , where the inverted commas in the headline indicate the rather more tenuous link with television star Esther Rantzen than the headline immediately suggests ) , or the actor who was said to make £12,000 a year from impersonating Prince Charles , or someone who sounds from the headline to be well known ( e.g. CASTRATE ME SAYS GAY OPERA SINGER : He preyed on children . |
| 6 | As someone who came through the state school system and benefited from the investment that previous taxpayers spent on our schools , I believe that it is vital that today 's children and their parents get value for money from the present state school system . |
| 7 | They convey to someone who belongs to the same culture a lot of information about the person who is wearing or carrying them . |
| 8 | We might think of a pioneer as someone who goes into the wilderness to prepare a home for others . |
| 9 | I actually knew someone who suffered from the ‘ dart syndrome ’ you mention , and he eventually overcame his disability , I believe with the help of a psychologist . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | This term was introduced to describe someone who indulged in the science of ‘ aerostation ’ ( lighter-than-air flight ) using an ‘ aerostatic ’ machine ( balloon ) . |
| 12 | Surely , a full life even for someone who lived to the advance age of 92 . |
| 13 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 14 | Erm a few months back I was interviewing someone who lived in the area all their life and she said that the Sikh temple had distributed some E E C erm butter I think it was . |
| 15 | I think maybe there was someone who died in the war or something . |
| 16 | ‘ This was a one-off incident , a very unfortunate occurence , which appears to have been the result of an error by someone who resides in the hostel , ’ he added . |
| 17 | Someone who looks after the youngsters and is co-operative . |
| 18 | It 's obvious , Sir John , ’ he continued , ‘ our murderer must be someone who has lived in Outremer , someone who knows about the Hashishoni — the flat sesame seed cake , and that awful way of humiliating the corpse of an executed criminal . ’ |
| 19 | Someone who knows about the great act of betrayal so many years ago . |
| 20 | A new face is a new focus of interest , whether it 's someone the client already knows or someone who comes to the Home on a Friday to do movement or dance , drama , music therapy or a slide show . |
| 21 | The picture tries to portray Charles ‘ as he is at the moment — someone who cares about the world around him , somebody who has become a very caring person . |
| 22 | Business Traveller recently published a letter from someone who stayed in the Inter-Continental hotel in Kinshasa . |
| 23 | The heretic was someone who quarrelled with the fundamental teaching of the Christian Church , not someone who criticized the trappings of religion . |
| 24 | To paraphrase Mr Polly , it 's only school that turns the young child from someone who wonders at the marvels around him or her into someone who sees them only in terms of history and geography . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'd have to get hold of someone who worked on the project to tell you the details . |
| 26 | As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book . |
| 27 | In the rural areas , every village had someone who acted as the Party boss and who , in collaboration with the Civil Guard , kept the local populace under observation . |
| 28 | She stared at the people in the pool , who had all seemed to respond to the whistle and were looking at someone who stood at the poolside , someone obscured from Rachel 's vision by the attendant 's tall chair . |
| 29 | A proxy is someone who votes at the polling station for you . |
| 30 | Perhaps the most astonishing fact to emerge was that nobody who lived round the plant , not even farmer Clive Knox , could claim compensation for any accident from their own insurance company . |