Example sentences of "who [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tutor-organiser ( or equivalent ) who as a professional employee is susceptible to discipline if he or she proves negligent or misguided , can help to ensure that the voluntary movement lives up to its obligations — through advice and encouragement as far as possible , through seizing the initiative himself if there is no alternative . |
| 2 | McDermott , who as a lower order batsman was a prime target in a ‘ bumper ’ war between the two sides in 1991 , said he had gone public with his allegations after reading Richards ' recent autobiography , ‘ Hitting Across the Line . ’ |
| 3 | His father was a miner who as a young man had started mining in a different coal pit which is closed now . |
| 4 | A retired administrator who as a young man had single-handedly turned the tide of mutiny in his district in the North-West Provinces , he believed that since those Homeric days British administration had become dangerously out of touch with the people . |
| 5 | Sir Andrew Derbyshire , who as a young architect with Sheffield City Council was part of the steering committee 30 years ago , has agreed to serve again , and the chairman will be Frank Duffy of DEGW , who is now the RIBA 's Vice-President for Marketing . |
| 6 | Mrs Bennett ( formerly Miss Green ) told me of her Uncle Alf Monk who as a young apprentice working in London , would , on finishing work on Friday , walk home from London to his home in Essex Road . |
| 7 | The horror of the Strathnaver clearances was eventually exposed by Donald Macleod , who as a young boy had been evicted by Seller from the village of Rossal . |
| 8 | One feminist , Mrs Wolstenholme-Elmy ( who as a young woman determined to follow Mary Wollstonecraft 's example and live with her lover , until on becoming pregnant she took the advice of fellow suffragists and married ) accepted the idea that menstruation was essentially pathological , although she also argued that it was caused by men 's brutality . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a tight-knit community up here , ’ said Major Mike Marks , 69 , who as a young soldier was on anti-invasion duties . |
| 10 | Uncle Vernon , goaded by the presence of the traveller with the skin grafts , had ruined the festive meal with recollections of his march across France and an encounter in a partially demolished farmhouse outside Lille with a white-haired woman of thirty who as a small child had suffered atrocities in the First World War . |
| 11 | The man chosen was Russell Butler , a research student in social history at the University of London , who as a part-time tutor had taken the first course for apprentices at Marconi and had greatly impressed both here and in other courses for the branches in Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans . |
| 12 | It faced growing dissatisfaction with certain members of the royal family , in particular Queen Aishwarya , who as a former commoner considered to have undue influence was more vulnerable to criticism than King Birendra . |
| 13 | Those who were approached would almost certainly have included Trevor Glover of Penguin ( who as a former president of the Australian Book Publishers Association offered unique experience to the post ) , Paula Hahn of Longman ( who , if she had accepted , would have been the first woman president in the PA 's history ) , Simon Masters of Random House , John Clement of Chambers , Philip Sturrock of Cassell , David Young of HarperCollins , and the current treasurer , Philip Kogan of Kogan Page . |
| 14 | All of them , all except the boy , who as a weekly boarder at his school was never at home midweek . |
| 15 | ‘ Only because the French were obliging enough to do a lot of your fighting for you , ’ said Dr Neil , who as an old soldier had a grasp of military history . |
| 16 | The report appeared to confirm rumours which had long circulated to the effect that the CIA had passed on information ( supplied by an informant within the ANC ) which enabled the South African authorities to arrest Mandela , who as an underground activist had evaded arrest for 17 months . |
| 17 | A boy who during the vicious war in Liberia , has seen first his mother and then his father , his two elder brothers and his two elder sisters , savagely assassinated in front of his eyes by the guerrilla troops . |
| 18 | The permanent members of the Security Council , who during the cold war were excluded from some operations , are being looked to more and more . |
| 19 | Hereabouts you are entering the true spa region of the Pyrenees , the sulphurous haunts of the ‘ curists ’ who for a long time were the principal visitors to these mountains . |
| 20 | Some find great benefit in identifying a small group of staff who for a limited period are assigned to a relief pool , for the sole purpose of filling unexpected gaps in staffing or adding strength to a ward team at times of peak workload . |
| 21 | Stella , who for a miserable quarter of an hour had been contemplating going to the ladies ' room and not coming back , was suddenly struck by the curiously fragmented nature of the group about the table . |
| 22 | In Hebrews 2.9 we read : ‘ But we see Jesus , who for a little while was made lower than the angels , crowned with glory and honour because of the suffering of death , so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one . ’ |
| 23 | Unfortunately , there is sometimes resistance among staff on inpatient units to admitting patients who may not be suffering from psychiatric illness , but who for a brief period of time need to hand over responsibility for their well-being to the inpatient clinical team . |
| 24 | The French mercenary leader Bob Denard , who for a brief period had ruled the island with members of the former Presidential Guard following the death of President Abdullah [ see p. 37033 ] , was deported on Dec. 15 , 1989 , initially to South Africa , along with other mercenaries . |
| 25 | Even women , who for a whole variety of familiar reasons , do not call themselves feminists , know that whatever else women 's liberation means , it represents a standpoint that begins with women and with the intention of reconstituting the world for women as a better place . |
| 26 | Sad to say , I had learnt to be suspicious of good-looking young men who for no particular reason seemed to take a sudden interest in me . |
| 27 | Some ministers , like John Stoughton or Henry W. Clark , who for an inexplicable reason named his Harpenden home , ‘ Charisma ’ , became respected historians . |
| 28 | What lies in pieces around them represents , in effect , a unique private exhibition open to a lucky few who for the first time in generations have had the opportunity for hands-on experience of greatness . |
| 29 | These courses were taught by the college librarian , who for the first time in Britain was included on the teaching staff of the college on a teaching scale , and styled " Tutor-Librarian " . |
| 30 | Let's not forget that even if no more children 's books were published at all , each year would still see the arrival of a new cohort of children and their parents and grandparents , who for the first time start to contemplate buying books which are relevant for a child of that age . |