Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ISAAC ASIMOV , the writer who believed science fiction frequently preceded reality , died in New York yesterday of heart and kidney failure . |
| 2 | The genius who turned life on Earth into a virtual-reality computer game for the Gods . |
| 3 | Tunisian sources revealed on April 5 that Hamzah Abu Zayd , the Palestinian who assassinated Abu Iyad and two other PLO leaders in mid-January [ see pp. 37975-76 ] , had recently been sentenced to death at a Palestinian military tribunal in Yemen . |
| 4 | Milarepa , the macho trickster , the hermit of Mount Kailas , the monk who brought Buddhism to Tibet , with his karate kicks and his song battles with the priests of the old Bon religion . |
| 5 | With no time to wait for an ambulance , Colin , 27 , rang the midwife who issued instructions as he dashed up and down the stairs between the phone and the bathroom . |
| 6 | The individuals who comprised the Chaloner family varied as greatly in their characters as did the members of the parish gentry , from Alan Chaloner ( 1603–84 ) , the blacksmith who took pride in his work , to his elder brother Richard , whom Gough described as ‘ an untowardly liver , very idle and extravagant , endeavouring to supply his neccssytyes rather by stealeing than by his honest labour ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ How can I , when the brute who killed Angy is still free ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It is rather like copying the squirrel who collects nuts all through the summer when he can and then has a good store for the lean winter months . ’ |
| 9 | For him it was a time to remember the brave who risked life and limb for adventure ; for knowledge and for Britain . |
| 10 | For him it was a time to remember the brave who risked life and limb for adventure ; for knowledge and for Britain . |
| 11 | During the coming weeks , as I told you in our last programme , we are going to talk with people from outside the university who have contacts with us . |
| 12 | William Penn , a son of the admiral who captured Jamaica , was a friend of the Duke of York and had become a Quaker of the quieter second generation that followed George Fox in his beliefs but not in his attacks on all symbols of the established order . |
| 13 | His conclusion was to turn the tables on those in the West who defended Mr Rushdie . |
| 14 | The running started because of my father , he was the kind who expected results from his children . |
| 15 | Not the kind who write letters to the editor to complain about injustice . |
| 16 | Maybe she was the kind who trails havoc behind her wherever she goes . ’ |
| 17 | Nobody has responded more positively to Newcastle United 's desperate plight than the striker who drew blanks on the big stage with West Ham and huffed-and-puffed little more than powder puff stuff at Leicester . |
| 18 | The man most likely to cause problems for the French is Maurice Johnston , the striker who joined Rangers from Nantes during the summer . |
| 19 | Applications for Associateship should be supported by two Fellows of the association who have knowledge of the candidate for at least two years immediately preceding the application . |
| 20 | There they gathered , the employee who lacks employment , the faithless priest , the investor about to hang himself in the expectation of plenty , the physician who will not be able to heal herself , the director who lacks all direction , the historian who denies the existence of history , the Jewish scholar of early Renaissance Christian iconography , the deaf man who hears voices , the woman about to be taken in adultery . |
| 21 | Nature in our garden seems to stretch about as far as our three Indian runner ducks , whose sole interests in life are lettuce , bread and little things which wriggle ; and the frogs in the pond who spend summer days sunning themselves on the warm cement slabs surrounding the off-green water . |
| 22 | If the judgments in that case are looked at , it will be found that Willes J. said , in explaining the grounds of his judgment that under circumstances like those of the present case , the debt is gone , because it would be a fraud upon the stranger who pays part of a debt in discharge of the whole , that an action should be brought for the debt . |
| 23 | It was the second marriage for the chef who runs Harveys restaurant on Wandsworth Common and The Canteen at Chelsea Harbour in partnership with actor Michael Caine . |
| 24 | In this respect , the discourse analyst is not in the apparently secure position of the formal linguist who has ‘ rules ’ of the language which are or are not satisfied , but rather , is in the position of the hearer who has interpretations of the discourse which do , or do not , make sense . |
| 25 | This was symbolized in 1908 when the World Sunday School Association held its sixth conference in Washington , under the presidency of F. B. Meyer , the Baptist who succeeded Newman Hall as minister of Christ Church , Westminster Bridge Road . |
| 26 | It was Edward the Confessor who founded Westminster Abbey in 1065 . |
| 27 | As it happened , it was the enemy who opened fire first , the leading ship suddenly letting off a ragged salvo from its starboard guns , in flame and smoke , as demonstration and warning presumably . |
| 28 | Mind you , rumours also link Wahl to Northern Transvaal , although Transvaal , the side who ditched Wahl in 1989 , will make a strong bid for the flanker 's services . |
| 29 | Levein is , co-incidentally , a survivor from the side who defeated Argentina during their reign as world champions . |
| 30 | A team with recharged batteries will therefore face Dundee , the side who beat Rangers in August , at Ibrox tomorrow as Smith 's players concentrate on securing the championship and removing Hearts from the Scottish Cup before they go to the south of France . |