Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The RUC have now issued a description of the man who had black hair , balding at the front and sides , and was wearing glasses . |
| 2 | Oh , I know the prince is n't a fascist , he 's got nothing but contempt for Musso ; Constanza says her father was never the man who had much faith in any trains running on time ; but he is a man who can still get favours from the regime . |
| 3 | Unlike Dönitz , he was a highly cultivated man who had much charm , spoke fluent , conversational English and was quite at home with the microphone . |
| 4 | Dr Kemp himself ! — the man who had one day been deprived of a jewel which he himself had traced to an American collector , a jewel for which he had been negotiating , a jewel that had been found in the waters below the bridge at Wolvercote in 1873 , a jewel which once united with its mate would doubtless be the subject of some considerable historical interest , and bring some short-term celebrity , possibly some long-term preferment , to himself — to Kemp . |
| 5 | This from a man who had little interest in the event when he went up to Magdalene College last autumn to study transport and marketing — and the Boat Race is a triumph of both these days . |
| 6 | Like every man who had direct contact with the Chairman , Dr Tariq had a most sincere fear of his master . |
| 7 | Eventually he met a rather feckless man who had seven children . |
| 8 | This is not therefore the work of an out-and-out Comtean positivist , but of a man who had some sensitivity to the nuances of primitive worldviews , as he did for the problems of children and of his patients . |
| 9 | A rich man who had three loves — women , books , and the satisfaction of having made an unexpectedly canny deal , in that order . |
| 10 | Ward 's payment was agreed with Saunders ‘ a man who had huge authority in that company because he had picked it up by the scruff of the neck and transformed it . ’ |
| 11 | Spenser 's Irenius is presented as the voice of experience , the man who has front-line knowledge of the Irish and who , as the dialogue tries to show , has a firm grasp of the Irish situation past and present . |
| 12 | The offence of incest is committed by a man who has sexual intercourse with a person whom he knows to be his granddaughter , daughter , sister or mother , and by a woman aged 16 or over who permits her grandfather , father , brother , or son to have sexual intercourse with her . |
| 13 | There are , there are other ways to come by children , erm I have a relationship with a man who has three children erm he 's been married , he 's divorced , separated , and I do n't feel that I 'm replacing the children 's own mother , I feel like I 'm not even stepmother , I 'm just their friend , get on very well with them , and we we share I share mothering , if you like , with their own mother whom they see . |
| 14 | Even if unemployment is only part of the problem , it seems to me that the man who can busy himself cutting peats , or growing crops , or handling stock , is less likely to be depressed , less likely to feel that his life has no meaning , than a man who has empty days to fill in the back streets of an industrial town |
| 15 | Despite these hints , it is more likely that those magnates of Childebert who encouraged Gundovald in 582 were men who had strong reservations about the king and his mother . |
| 16 | Perhaps these really were ‘ men who had high purposes ’ , as North described McFarlane and Poindexter , men who ‘ were trying their level best to make this world a better place . ’ |
| 17 | In 1677 Sir William Petty , an English scientist-scholar of distinction , declared that " of man itself there seems to be several species to say nothing of Gyants and Pigmyes or of that sort of small men who have little speech and feed chiefly on fish " , which is all of a piece with Sir John Mandeville 's wholly fictional fourteenth-century quest for " diversities of folkys and diverse shap of man and beistis " . |
| 18 | The outcome is that men who have few resources other than physical ones are more likely to commit legally defined rape , whilst those men who possess a whole range of resources from economic patronage to cultural charm are likely to be viewed by the law as ‘ real men ’ practising their primeval arts-and that is something the majesty of the law should leave alone ! |