Example sentences of "who [vb -s] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When roles become more segregated , as they do after the birth of a baby , even when both parents continue to go out to work , people are less able to avoid their envy of the opposite sex and of the baby who receives so much care and attention . |
| 2 | For a magazine feature , Kim , who drives about 30,000 miles a year , was asked to test drive the 1.1-litre version of the new Polo . |
| 3 | ‘ I think we both sensed almost immediately this could be it , ’ said Chris , who lives nearly 200 miles away in Peterborough . |
| 4 | ‘ They think she 's broken her back , ’ said Mr Harrison , who lives just 100 yards away from Paula 's home with the Hutchinsons . |
| 5 | Who needs this many mountains ? |
| 6 | Craig Davis is an international photographer/journalist , who has over 20 years experience in yacht racing , most recently with the entry of his one ton Top Gun in the 1987 US Admiral 's Cup trials |
| 7 | ‘ I have to get the staff down to sensible proportions , ’ said the Newcastle boss , who has over 30 professionals on the books . |
| 8 | The head of state is the President of the Republic ( currently Konstantinos Karamanlis , who has largely ceremonial functions and is elected by Parliament for a five-year term . |
| 9 | Coventry and Oldham are also in the hunt for Knight , who has just four League games under his belt . |
| 10 | They ran out of patience with £2.1 million record signing Fleck , who has just three goals all season , and sang ‘ What a load of rubbish ’ . |
| 11 | The chef in question , who has perhaps first-hand knowledge of Normandy , and obtains his supplies of fish from the Norman coast , calls his creation sole à la normande . |
| 12 | For a very large female patient , or one who has extremely poor balance , a wraparound skirt may be more practical . |
| 13 | This will usually be someone who has relatively little experience as an account executive ( but may well have been in the agency for some time , as a progress controller or planner , for example ) . |
| 14 | Cardioselective β-blocking drugs appear the drugs of choice in the hypertensive diabetic in whom dietary therapy has failed or who has more severe hypertension , although there may be an important role for the calcium antagonists . |
| 15 | Blackburn Rovers ' Scottish defender , who has only one B cap to his name , has already been pencilled in as replacement for Richard Gough who was sent off in Switzerland this week . |
| 16 | Mr Taylor , who has only six cattle , was clearly delighted with his triumph and he said afterwards that his ambition was to go on to win the Aberdeen Fatstock Show at the end of this year . |
| 17 | I 'm someone who has very little concern with any kind of social problems , someone who 's very much concerned with their own particular plight . |
| 18 | Using it inappropriately with someone who has very strong feelings on a subject may lead you to be regarded as insensitively self-opinionated . |
| 19 | As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book . |
| 20 | She has Emma 's passion for matchmaking and continues to try to marry Kit 's sister Meg to a novelist , Patrick Barlow — who is the type of homosexual who has very agreeable woman friends , but is in love with an odious , common boy with ginger hair . |
| 21 | This whole question of housework behaviour raises an interesting issue : in what sense can a housewife who has very high standards and extremely repetitive routines be considered ‘ pathologically ’ obsessed with housework ? |
| 22 | Dr Houston , who has recently beaten breast cancer , said she was continuing with plans to appeal . |
| 23 | We are dealing with Earl Harold Godwinsson of Wessex , who has quite different ambitions . ’ |
| 24 | But Olivia 's seriousness is in direct contrast to the meddlesome Maria ( Tracey Mitchell ) , Olivia 's waiting woman , who has as much fun as Olivia has soul-searching . |
| 25 | He is obliged to work in great haste , and so achieves nothing worthwhile , but nevertheless there is no one who has as much ability as he . ’ |
| 26 | Luciano Pavarotti who has abnormally large lungs as has |
| 27 | His reputation was such , however , that a photographer from the New York Times arrived and another member of the audience was so overwhelmed by the occasion that she described Eliot 's face as " that of an archangel who has too much work to do , and so does only half of it leaving the rest to the North Wind " . |
| 28 | ‘ I do not like to see fear in a woman 's eyes , especially a woman who places so much value in equality . |
| 29 | Standing a magnificent 12 inches high , Action Man looks set to see off Ken — Barbie 's beau — who stands just 11½ inches tall . |
| 30 | As someone who stands nearly five feet eleven in my bare size 7½ feet , I have suffered a cruel life . |