Example sentences of "who [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | His father was a miner who as a young man had started mining in a different coal pit which is closed now . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a tight-knit community up here , ’ said Major Mike Marks , 69 , who as a young soldier was on anti-invasion duties . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All of them , all except the boy , who as a weekly boarder at his school was never at home midweek . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The permanent members of the Security Council , who during the cold war were excluded from some operations , are being looked to more and more . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Some ministers , like John Stoughton or Henry W. Clark , who for an inexplicable reason named his Harpenden home , ‘ Charisma ’ , became respected historians . |
| 25 | Nick Faldo , who after an outward half of 33 , had closed to within two strokes of the lead , was in with a fine chance but he could not maintain it . |
| 26 | Even more revealing of Baldwin 's personality than The Times letter and the action it announced was the note which he wrote immediately afterwards to John Davidson , who despite a twenty-two-year age gap had become and was to remain one of his closest friends : |
| 27 | Others , who unlike the Combined Operations staff , had expected a second front in Europe that summer , saw what forces would be needed to invade Europe . |
| 28 | Lyall , who like the 42-year-old McGiven had his career cut short by injury at West Ham , groomed McGiven in the way that Ron Greenwood had groomed him on the coaching ladder . |
| 29 | Those who throughout the previous tax year have paid social security contributions as dependent employees ( or , as a consequence of being registered as unemployed , have had these credited for them ) are entitled to draw flat rate Unemployment Benefit for a period of one year . |
| 30 | He turned his attention to the troops , who under the quick thinking extemporisation of their Sergeant were once again in some semblance of order . |