Example sentences of "who [vb -s] a [noun] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mr Wallace 's shadow lies heavily across the state where he was governor for four terms and where his wife Lurleen ( who has a museum to herself , complete with wax mannequins wearing her clothes ) was governor for one . |
| 2 | I 'm an administrator by background , and I think that 's interesting , because one of the things that we are trying to do in the health service is to open up our management posts to people of all professions , and to recognise that management is not the prerogative of any particular group , but that we 're looking for the right people to manage our services from wherever they might come , and I 'm one of three people who has a responsibility to the senior manager in the community at the top , for the managing on a day-to-day basis the health services in Oxfordshire . |
| 3 | ‘ There is still a lady without , ’ the chamberlain had reminded them respectfully , ‘ who has a petition to your Grace . |
| 4 | PC Dave Fishwick , of Darlington Community Liaison department , said residents should then send police a letter with details of their name , address and telephone number and the same details of anyone else who has a key to the house . |
| 5 | ‘ Green v. Weaver , 1 Sim. 404 is authority for the proposition that an agent or other person who undertakes a duty to the plaintiff waives the privilege against self-incrimination in respect of discovery relating to the performance of that duty . ’ |
| 6 | Without this element , there would be no way of excluding planned revenge killings , and the argument is that they should be excluded from the defence because a person who plans a response to an affront or a wrong ought to ensure that the response conforms with the law . |
| 7 | In the Prose Edda , for instance , Aurvandill is a companion of the god Thórr , who loses a toe to frostbite only to have it thrown into the sky to become a star ; as one might have guessed from Christ , ‘ Earendel ’ is the old name of a star or planet . |
| 8 | Tennyson 's poem , though , is about a woman who lures a man to his doom , a man apparently of another race , so that this allusion in turn provides a further interpretation of the fates of Antony and Burbank . |
| 9 | A forest ranger who uses a chainsaw to fell trees is now using it to sculpt the wood . |
| 10 | It 's the same sort of factor that allows anybody who smokes a lot to not get cancer and not get bronchitis and live , also live a long time . |
| 11 | It stars Victoria Abril as a sexy young widow who rents a room to Paco ( Jorge Sanz ) and despite the fact he is engaged to his virginal girlfriend , he is more than happy to be seduced by his landlady . |
| 12 | The example of Alain Robbe-Grillet , who acknowledges a debt to Joyce as well as to Sartre and Gide , offered from the late 1950s onwards a renewed incentive to experiment , at a moment when British writers might have felt themselves particularly distanced from modernism . |
| 13 | ‘ It is submitted : ( i ) the judge erred in law in his ruling on count 1 ; ( ii ) for an offence to be committed under section 1(1) of the Act there does not have to be the use by the offender of one computer with intent to secure unauthorised access into another computer ; ( iii ) there is no ambiguity in the wording of section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act which clearly refers to an intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( iv ) section 17(2) and ( 3 ) are applicable to the alleged actions of the respondent in this case ; ( v ) the Act has been drafted so as to deal with the person who misuses a computer to which he has direct ( but unauthorised ) access , as well as a computer into which he is able to secure indirect access by operating another computer . ’ |
| 14 | He was a Fellow of New College from 1930 to 1937 , when the Warden was H. A. L. Fisher who had been President of the Board of Education under Lloyd George during and after the First World War ( and who deserves a book to himself ) . |
| 15 | He can honestly claim to have been a righteous servant of God ; in verse 16 he writes of his service being like that of a priest , who bridges the gap between God and man , and who presents a sacrifice to God as part of the priest 's duties and privileges . |
| 16 | Part of the answer is a party leader who has a collegiate , rather than presidential , style — one who signals a willingness to be disagreed with , and to hell with the press . |
| 17 | It is even , on occasion , embarrassing , to anyone who retains a talent to be embarrassed . |