Example sentences of "who is [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the threatened status of the rhino , China is still using rhino horn to produce large quantities of traditional medicine , according to Dr Esmond Bradley Martin , a Kenyan-based conservationist who is conducting research on behalf of the World Wide Fund for Nature . |
| 2 | VIRGIN Atlantic 's owner , Richard Branson , who is seeking compensation from British Airways for dirty tricks against his airline , was still waiting for an agreement last night . |
| 3 | But that can be granted only to a refugee who is seeking asylum on the ground that the Government might have administered a case improperly and not followed its own rules for processing refugees under a United Nations Convention . |
| 4 | Allen , who is seeking custody of Dylan and two other children , denies the sex abuse claims . |
| 5 | Coppice worker Bill Foreman , who is harvesting wood for a river stabilisation project , and his dog Meg in the woodland he manages near Sproughton |
| 6 | The person who acts like a chicken or conducts an orchestra for the stage hypnotist may be play acting , or he may genuinely feel that it is the hypnotist , not himself , who is taking responsibility for his actions . |
| 7 | Martin Brundle speaks with the disarming honesty of an F1 driver who is buying lunch in a private room at Au Jardin des Gourmets for a dozen pressmen on the day the Gulf war ended and a week before the F1 season started . |
| 8 | But its anxiety on this occasion surely reflects the worries of Mr Gorbachev himself , who is to take part in this weekend 's celebrations in Berlin of the 40th anniversary of East German statehood . |
| 9 | Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice . |
| 10 | Few things are more infuriating for a woman who is denied comfort for her own tears than to see her partner being sympathetically and sensually attracted to a strange woman who is grieving . |
| 11 | The manager who is given status by her sales team largely due to her expert power will have to adjust her role when she meets informally with a group of other managers from different departments . |
| 12 | The correspondence has even led to romance — the daughter hopes to marry a man who is serving life for shooting his wife.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 13 | Christie will be bridesmaid when Anna Moore , who has served ten years of a life sentence , marries a loyalist killer , Bobby Corry , who is serving life for killing three people in a pub bombing in 1972 . |
| 14 | Tuscan personnel manager Liz Tait , who is acting chairman of the works committee which adopted the air ambulance as an annual charity , said : ‘ We just hope to raise as much money as possible and are planning at least one event a month . ’ |
| 15 | Deprived of her royal privileges , Fergie , — with Beatrice , four , and Eugenie , two — was just another face in the crowd at 6am as she greeted Jane Makim , who is spending Christmas with her . |
| 16 | Then , in an industry that considers two-colour calling cards flashy , it was hard not to notice the earnest young men and women with the L Ron Hubbard given mission to evangelise about Dianetics , or stunt rider Eddie Kidd , who is carrying self-confidence to the point of leap-frogging his motor cycle clear across the Great Wall of China . |
| 17 | Who is researching aerospace in Australia ? |
| 18 | He can identify the participants : the addressor is a young scientist who is being interviewed by the addressee who is doing research on language . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're not the only one who 's had experience or who is having experience with a possessive father ; it happens to boys , too , you know . ’ |
| 20 | This description of " fluency " is hardly helpful to anyone who is having difficulty with English grammar or idioms , however . |
| 21 | Optimal scaffolding is that which promotes the highest level of functioning with the minimal level of support ; a child who is having difficulty in making herself understood may require a great deal of support ; a few minutes later that same child dealing with a different topic may become relatively fluent and require a much lower level of adult participation . |
| 22 | I think that is it is the hon. Gentleman who is talking nonsense on this occasion . |
| 23 | If there is a dispute between people as to where children should live or who is to have contact with the children then magistrates can make the appropriate residence orders or contact orders . |
| 24 | If everyone is screened for genetic disorders , for which there may be no cures , what are those people then to do , and who is to have access to the information — prospective employers , insurers ? |