Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | One performer was a deaf flute player who had the habit of playing long after the others had finished . |
| 2 | Somewhere up in the clouds there is a faceless organization man who menaces people with punitive restrictions , stifling rule-books , unyielding systems and incomprehensible decisions . |
| 3 | I was going to finish there without saying any more because i cant be arsed writing , but basically there is a rich business man who has remained in the background because he dislikes Howard.Once Howard leaves , the money should come rolling in , or so the story goes . |
| 4 | You only have yourself to fall back on , unless , of course , you count a friendly bank manager who might lend you some money , or a friend or relative who might do the same . |
| 5 | ‘ Most of the fun lies in the capable hands of Michael Crawford as a witless bank cashier who is deputed to de-porn the flat , ’ wrote the London Evening News . |
| 6 | Barry Stewart , prosecuting , said Sinclair , who was born with only one arm , was a persistent confidence trickster who had served a sentence of 18 months imprisonment for deception in 1990 . |
| 7 | Portillo , in whom Nigel Lawson saw ‘ something quite out of the ordinary ’ , is the son of a Spanish law professor who fought for the republicans in the Spanish civil war and a left of centre Scottish school teacher . |
| 8 | Lord Howe is being tipped along with Lord Whitelaw as a possible heavyweight figure who could be brought in to help John Major with the government 's presentation of policies . |
| 9 | A HARD-UP Middlesbrough man who travelled to London in search of work but ended up plastering sex-for-sale stickers in the capital 's call-boxes to raise some quick cash , was going straight back to his parents as soon as he could , Marylebone Magistreates Court heard . |
| 10 | Ballymena worked hard but it still was n't enough against a low-key Portadown side who only clicked into gear at the finish . |
| 11 | For a prestigious London client who requested anonymity , this close-up of a carpet border shows the details on one corner of the carpet laid within a large reception area . |
| 12 | Both were boys of 8 years old and had their imaginations fired by Perry Mason , a fictional TV lawyer who helped the poor . |
| 13 | It has a Vietnamese cast and is about a timid servant girl who influences the lives of a large household . |
| 14 | Dustin played a timid bank clerk who dreams of being a ladies ' man , although he does not seem to be short of girlfriends . |
| 15 | Co-ordination with the other flyers through a schedule of figures can only be achieved with full understanding , and a strong team leader who acts as a caller to signal all the changes of movement . |
| 16 | Nicolas Solvetiov , the second choice , had no known family ties but was known to be a strong party man who toed the line . |
| 17 | Rod said : ‘ Anybody with a normal car licence who has driven a van before would do . |
| 18 | It showed an elderly couple being given their meal by a uniformed WRVS woman who was asking them if the food had been all right the last time . |
| 19 | At the same event one of the MCs , a massive New York drag queen , hurled abuse at a tardy Naomi Campbell who took her time reaching the stage to collect her award for best model of the season . |
| 20 | The 31-year-old ex-paratrooper 's prize for retaining his title at Wembley on Saturday night was £10,000 , which does not go far for a full-time body builder who downs half a dozen eggs after his breakfast cereal and eight to 10 chicken breasts a day when ‘ bulking up ’ . |
| 21 | ( Someone , probably a junior malai officer who knew the jungle , had stolen his impermeable paper earlier . ) |
| 22 | Any tendency to replace a PGA Pro with a junior shop boy who simply sells balls , clubs , clothes and chocolates would be counterproductive , believes Ray Burniston , the National Secretary of the Association of Golf Club Secretaries . |
| 23 | If the right hon. Gentleman wants to swap quotes , perhaps he will listen to what Dr. David Colin Thorne , a Labour party member who stood for Parliament , said on fundholding . |
| 24 | Another was a Scots upholsterer who kept on his business because ‘ that was his life ; ’ a third , a retired London stevedore who ‘ had a pub in Rotherhithe . ’ |
| 25 | He was thinking instead of the twenty minutes he had spent at home between a difficult hour persuading the voluntary organist at New End ( a retired primary-school headmistress who felt she was being taken for granted ) to continue , at least temporarily , and this service of compline at Quindale . |
| 26 | The defendants to proceedings begun in New York by the families and personal representatives of persons killed in an air crash in Scotland in 1988 applied for an order under the Act of 1975 for the examination of a retired Crown servant who during his period of employment as a senior forensic scientist had conducted an investigation into the crash . |
| 27 | Matthew McIllvanney was not the real boss of Cutwater Yacht Charters ( Bahamas ) Limited , which belonged to a retired theatre owner who now lived in Bermuda and was a long-time friend of my father , a friendship that had secured me the job of skippering Wavebreaker when Masquerade was wrecked , but McIllvanney actually looked after the day-to-day running of the charter business . |
| 28 | He was Con Fenton , a retired farm worker who did a bit of jobbing gardening and spent an average of three days a week at The Laurels . |
| 29 | PATRIOT GAMES Latest post- Die Hard middle-aged action pic stars Harrison Ford as heroic executive Jack Ryan , a retired CIA man who starts working late at the office again to rescue his family from vengeful IRA man Sean Bean . |
| 30 | Such studies are of patients in a tertiary care setting who are unlikely to be representative of all persons experiencing IBS symptoms . |