Example sentences of "[indef pn] who [vb mod] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many other jobs get handed out simply because a minister happens to know someone who might fit the bill . |
| 2 | They told us that many customers would be ready to pay £30 more for a washing machine , say , to get it from someone who would have the payments collected weekly from their homes , simply because that fitted into the pattern of their normal use of credit . |
| 3 | Do you know someone who would appreciate the sentiments ? |
| 4 | ‘ He wanted to set out his stall as someone who would balance the books and create a firm financial situation , ’ said Professor Sherer . |
| 5 | ‘ Someone who 'll argue the hind leg off a donkey just for the sake of it . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course there is someone who could confirm the truth of that file , ’ she said . |
| 7 | I always regret that as a youth it never occurred to me to ask why they chose Easingwold and how they knew of a vacancy for someone who could combine the saddlery trade with being the landlord of the Jolly Farmers pub . |
| 8 | After the performance , they felt they might have found someone who could fit the part . |
| 9 | Instead , he gambled on finding someone who could play the last card in the British deck — independence — and then , with nothing further to offer , keep sufficient control of the situation to extricate Britain from India with honour and possibly with glory . |
| 10 | ‘ It is a rewarding job and a good guide is someone who can make the topic fun but at the same time get their facts right . |
| 11 | My relationship with the director is therefore rather different from most producers ; I am looking not for someone to watch and admire but for someone who can deliver the result . |
| 12 | To the company as to the stage-coach manager a person is someone who can pay the fare . |
| 13 | Yet Ormrod J. follows his own logic to conclude that April Ashley , in purely biological terms , is not a woman ; yet biological terms are all that count , because there has to be someone who can perform the essential role of a woman ( remember , the essential role is to be a woman , since marriage is the relationship between a man and a woman ) : therefore , for marriage purposes , April Ashley by law is a man , and there is no marriage.45 No way out of this particular self-made legal thicket is provided , unfortunately , by an amendment to the Nullity of Marriages Act , passed into law as section l(c) . |
| 14 | No one believes the TPLF can take the capital , but their continuing success could persuade senior army officers that President Mengistu should be replaced by someone who can stop the war and negotiate . |
| 15 | It really needs someone who can get the information unofficially . ’ |
| 16 | But he can see from their eyes that they look upon him now as someone who will transcend the collective and desert it . |
| 17 | You need to have somebody who can use the results of the research , and see its practical applications . |
| 18 | but , but that 's , that 's that 's easily remedied if you could get a er a driving licence holder to take them oh a volunteer driving licence holder among one of the parents or somebody who could take the children , er , periodically in the bus to visit the hospital to do this sort of thing . |
| 19 | But that 's that 's perhaps easily remedied , if you could get a er a driving licence holder to take them , who , a volunteer driving licence holder , among one of the parents or somebody who could take the children at periodic intervals to visit the hospital to do this sort of thing . |
| 20 | The benefits would accrue to everyone who would suffer the effects of flooding . |
| 21 | She seemed to accept without question that Alexandra was the one who would handle the crisis , if it was still a crisis by the time she got into the office . |
| 22 | He had left me with the one who would become the most famous . |
| 23 | In the next breath , Jesus adds further information , namely that he , Jesus , is the one who will build the church — comforting news for the church planter ! |
| 24 | She could be bluffing we do n't that do we for certain erm yes we have got one who will accept the salary yes we could take one from outside the field that 's why I wanted this deadline so if we do n't get the increase in salary by this date we can then start planning and take on board the second tier level |
| 25 | And he is the one , and he alone is the one who will take the initiative to call it off . |
| 26 | The irony of police work is that the lowest of the low — the street constable , unlike in other ‘ professional ’ occupations , is the one who can exercise the maximum discretion at work . |
| 27 | Simon confronts the ‘ Lord of the Flies ’ on the pigs head and he battles with evil , he is now the only one who can save the boys from their evil doings . |
| 28 | So few people know first aid ( for some strange reason it 's not taught in most schools ) that you may be the only one who can plug the wound and stop the bleeding . |
| 29 | He had an inkling he was the only one who could decipher the code . |
| 30 | Or , he added privately , when the little Indian gentleman who was the only one who could access the records on the computer returned from sick leave . |