Example sentences of "who [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EIGHT hours of athletics at Bebington on Saturday will go a long way to deciding who goes on a two-day trip to Blackpool next month . |
| 2 | Even those who insist on a modern digital recording , as distinct from digitally remastered analogue sound , will find a remarkably wide choice . |
| 3 | Two other men were targeted by the attackers who swooped on an all-night ‘ rave ’ for teenagers at the Eclipse nightclub in Stockton 's Brunswick Street . |
| 4 | POLICE are hunting a masked attacker who pounced on a young woman on Saturday night . |
| 5 | The traveller who rides on a local bus can learn a lot : in the mountains of Greece everyone clings on for dear life and makes the sign of the cross at every bend in the road ; in the Thar Desert , Rajasthan , a sense of humour is essential , especially when the giggling driver moves the sheltering bus to reveal squatting passengers answering the call of nature , and in South America it helps if you do n't mind sitting next to a chicken or sharing the floor with a goat . |
| 6 | He left the chamber without answer , knowing the fate of those who failed on an imperial mission . |
| 7 | It consisted of a team of people who met on a regular basis and who made themselves available to share their expertise with parents . |
| 8 | The ‘ Branch ’ was initially a rather loose organisation of Salford graduates who met on an irregular , informal basis for social events , such as visits to local restaurants . |
| 9 | Sailors who chanced on a sudden sand blizzard or capsized in the Neck of Mithridates were rarely rescued . |
| 10 | Once more it is helpful to consider the situation of a two-dimensional being who lives on a spherical surface embedded in our three-dimensional space . |
| 11 | Whitby police are looking for thieves who preyed on an elderly woman living alone and made off with family heirlooms worth £15,000 . |
| 12 | There is a distinct rural segment of this class which is made up of small commercial farmers , who depend on a casual labour supply . |
| 13 | Judge , then , the surprise of the visitor who arrives on a fine spring day to find the scent of the linden trees on the Bahnhofstrasse filling the air . |
| 14 | ‘ How 's that ? ’ the girl asked , but then the phone rang and there was no time to worry because they were swinging into action with the RTA , two victims of a car smash who came on a blue light with sirens wailing . |
| 15 | Of course it 's a great challenge , but you can end up losing your own personality , because you 've got to ‘ be ’ somebody else if you 're playing these old songs , or maybe just following someone else who played on a particular album … ’ |
| 16 | An insider ( as defined above ) who deals on a foreign exchange , is not directly covered by the CSA 1985 . |
| 17 | British UN troops shot dead three Croat gunmen who fired on a Muslim aid convoy near Vitez in central Bosnia today after Croat forces had shot and killed eight of the convoy 's drivers . |
| 18 | In New York , UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali informed Alatas that the UN was studying the report of his special envoy , Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako , who arrived on an official visit to Indonesia on Feb. 8 and made a two-day visit to East Timor on Feb. 13-14 . |
| 19 | Nothing further was heard from him on that subject but in the meantime Whitbread had made contact with a Bedford surgeon , Samuel Young , who embarked on an extended trial of the remedy over the course of the following three years . |
| 20 | The Welsh manager , Robert Norster , was , of course , a superb lineout specialist who relied on a good technique cleverly utilised to confound taller opponents . |
| 21 | Ultimately , however , there is still the problem of the individuals who rely on a poor frequency of public transport and this can be the most significant feature of isolation . |
| 22 | Moggridge Associates ' designer Martin Darbyshire , who worked on a small fax machine for a Scandinavian manufacturer , endorses the view that the appeal of fax still lies in what it can do , not what it looks like . |
| 23 | In particular I know of no estimates of the numbers who continue on a part-time basis , undeclared for tax , to sell skills acquired during their working life time . |
| 24 | A writer who went on a police-escorted tour of Los Angeles 's red light districts to help him with an alleged magazine article is now wanted on suspicion of strangling three prostitutes in the city , police said yesterday . |
| 25 | Brown , who went on a one-day course at T IS before coming back and installing the system at Morgan Grenfell , is now teaching colleagues to use it , including unit manager Karen Goate , ‘ Computers used to frighten me , but not now , ’ she says . |
| 26 | A MAN who went on a violent rampage , breaking bottles and glasses in a pub and attacking a woman and a police officer , claimed his drinks had been spiked with drugs . |
| 27 | A NINE-year-old boy who went on a six-month crime spree and carried out more than 50 thefts , went back to school yesterday after police were forced to let him walk free . |
| 28 | On 3 July 1658 Pierre Pérignon entered the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Vanne at Verdun , a congregation founded by Dom Didier de la Cour ( 1550–1623 ) , a strict monk who insisted on a high degree of learning and intellectual activity . |
| 29 | It was Spurgeon who insisted on a classical design by which he meant a rectangular building with portico and six Corinthian columns . |
| 30 | Champion was a friend of two youngsters who died on a stolen police motorbike in July , sparking three nights of rioting in the Hartcliffe area . |