Example sentences of "who has [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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31 When the first-preference votes are counted any candidate who has secured a quota is declared elected .
32 To understand the importance of mobility , just think of someone who has broken a leg and has had to endure a plaster cast for several weeks .
33 To understand the importance of mobility , just think of someone who has broken a leg and has had to endure a plaster cast for several weeks .
34 But the Eagles will be without midfielder Gareth Southgate , who has broken a bone in his right foot .
35 And there is a sniper they call the Serb On The Hill , who has built a bunker in his back garden and has a nice line of sight straight down the street towards them .
36 Now , in Housesitter , he plays the part of a jilted architect who has built a house for the girlfriend who no longer wants to marry him .
37 Robert Weiss , who has conducted a number of intensive studies of adult relationships , has set out to identify the provisions of different kinds of social ties .
38 Where a mortgagee claims possession a person who has registered a land charge , notice or caution under s 2(7) of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1967 or a notice under s 2(8) of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 must be served with a copy of the particulars of claim ( Ord 6 , r 5(1A) ) .
39 FRANCIS AMPOFO , who has waited a year to reclaim the British flyweight title , tonight challenges Scotland 's James Drummond in London .
40 These results caused Jonah Barrington , the former world No. 1 who has waited an age for signs of Englishmen who might become world beaters in the way that he did , to make an interesting boast .
41 This duty of an innkeeper is owed not to travellers but only to guests ; a guest is a person who has engaged a minimum of one night 's accommodation at the inn .
42 This is emphasized by Coleman ( 1969 ) , who has advocated a departure from the traditional classifications of agricultural land , forestry and so on , and instead produced a concentric ring model radiating out from townscape to urban fringe , to farmscape , to marginal fringe , and finally to wildscape .
43 It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’
44 It was answered , here was a local visitor , who has given a sentence ; and be it right , or be it wrong , the party is concluded by it ; and you must submit to such laws as the founder is pleased to put upon you .
45 It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … .
46 There 's the milkman who , hurricane or high-water , always gets the pintas through , the postman ditto , and the chap at the other end of the village addicted to bottled beer who has collected a ton of metal tops and may get into the Guinness Book of Records .
47 One narrator who temporarily takes over from Stencil is Fausto Maijstral , a Maltese poet who has kept a record of the German siege of the island during the last world war .
48 Anyone who has kept a dog or cat will know how accurate this rhythm can be .
49 Anyone who has visited a newspaper office in the last five years with expectations from cinematic memories of Citizen Kane or who has struggled back from the newsagent on a Sunday morning with a sample of what is laughably offered as a ‘ leisurely read ’ will know that much has changed .
50 Anyone who has visited a number of medieval castles will know how admirable their sites often are : how they command distant views , or river crossings , or are placed in situations of great natural strength .
51 Anyone who has met a crosssection of ‘ new Britons ’ can identify people worthy of respect .
52 The solution is not to abolish honorary degrees for this would remove the one means in the gift of the University of recognising a debt to a person who has made a contribution of time and service to the well being of the University .
53 Fifthly , a member who is adjudged bankrupt or who has made a composition with his creditors ceases to be a member .
54 I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ?
55 DAVID Mellor , who has made a variety of television and radio appearances since his resignation as Minister for Fun , is about to take a major step in his broadcasting career .
56 Until now the Magistrate had been in the position of a scientist who has made a discovery which he knows to be true but is unable to prove .
57 When you meet the likes of Mabel Brigge , you quickly recognise someone who has made a pact with Satan and acquired occult powers !
58 Stephen Czerkas is an amateur American paleontologist who has made a name for himself by reconstructing lifelike models of dinosaurs .
59 Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop , who has made a lifetime study of the British Constitution , spelled out the constitutional realities as he saw them .
60 If your vet is n't up to date with this problem , I suggest you write to Peter Neville , the animal behaviourist who has made a study of pica .
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