Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] who " in BNC.
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1 | A few Labour Councillors , a Labour M P , two or three Trade Union representatives , a G P a G P who happens to be a Councillors , Labour Councillor 's wife and one or two others |
2 | In R v Love the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction of a director of a printing company who had been absent at the time a print order for obscene books was accepted , and who had no personal knowledge of the contents of those books . |
3 | WHAT a difference between my experience and that of a Swindon woman who receives a letter 90 minutes after it was posted . |
4 | But this was a warrior king who had all the trappings but little of the reality of war . |
5 | A racehorse trainer who appealed against a cruelty conviction has had his fines and costs more than doubled . |
6 | Perhaps the most important difference between the ordinary and duty solicitor is illustrated by the following statement of a Cardiff solicitor who discussed the purpose of vocational training through articles and experience : |
7 | The case of a physics teacher who wanted to become an actor is interesting in showing the kind of problems which accompany a late entry into drama school . |
8 | As a kitchen maid who had regularly to dress fowls , and probably to wring their necks , it is again doubtful that Leapor would be squeamish about hares . |
9 | The metal crowd were really quite ancient but now we 've got a mum monitor who answers the phone and reassures all the mums that their little ones are going to be OK . ’ |
10 | His most touching moment came after Dreamflight a couple of years ago when he was asked to rush to the bedside of a leukaemia victim who wanted to see the photos of the trip that she had just enjoyed so much . |
11 | Instead the myths developed , and the media 's idea of ‘ a Militant ’ became a youth in a shell suit who had two heads and ate babies . |
12 | The bailie apparently also read the correspondence which passed through his hands , perhaps as part of his own political activities , or he would not have learned of the contents of the letter in question , but in any event his adherence to the Duke of Argyll 's friend , Sir Peter Halkett , did him no harm and he was still postmaster of Stirling in 1755 , when his ill-health and reported nearness to death induced Lord John Murray to seek the post , in the event of Maiben 's death , for a Stirling surgeon who was a son of James Graham of Bowhaple , a Perthshire freeholder . |
13 | The video provided a realistic and immediate means of conveying the child 's needs to a teaching staff who had little previous knowledge of this condition , apart from sub-conscious ‘ prejudice ’ . |
14 | Ironically , it was a sentence linguist who both coined the term ‘ discourse analysis ’ and initiated a search for language rules which would explain how sentences were connected within a text by a kind of extended grammar . |
15 | Elizabeth , who met her fiance on holiday five years ago , was described last night as a kind person who ‘ would not see evil in anyone ’ . |
16 | If he was normally quite a kind person who 'd taken up robbing banks because he was short of cash they could put jam on his bread and vodka in his water , and if he was a horror they could empty the potato peelings over him whenever they felt like it . ’ |
17 | ‘ And his old nurse and governess is his housekeeper , a kind dragon who kept me in order . |
18 | ‘ But when they meet me , they may not see a kind creature who has helped them . |
19 | I 'm a Sunderland supporter who lives down here , I 've only had a day 's notice . |
20 | But they were gifted the points by a Sunderland side who failed to take the chances on offer . |
21 | Alfred Yu , a university lecturer who had openly criticised that government , has remained in Australia , where he was teaching , too nervous to return . |
22 | She is not smiling like a university lecturer who has just got off the train from Oxford , but like a peasant woman who has just arrived in a hard-class compartment from Saratov . |
23 | One of those experts — John Kremer , a university lecturer who is currently writing a book on ‘ Psychology in Sport ’ — believes that mental training is as vital as physical training if talent is to excel . |
24 | Frances Young was a university lecturer who later went into the Methodist Ministry . |
25 | Almost from the start he has been a university teacher who has , so to speak , a ‘ hard hat and a pair of stout wellington boots constantly in his car ’ . |
26 | As Lester Korn — never at a loss for a quote — told Fortune , ‘ Business has become too complicated , and the stakes have become too high , for a board chairman who needs executive talent to rely on his friends or his friends ’ recommendations . |
27 | A crowd of angry demonstrators were given the slip today by a building expert who 'll decide the fate of a hotel facing demolition . |
28 | Perchance I was speaking by telephone this afternoon to a building contractor who specialises in this type of work . |
29 | A Democrat representing Wisconsin , he served in Congress for 22 years , during which time he built a reputation as a defence expert who was particularly resistant to Defence Department waste . |
30 | The Tasmanian Law Reform Commission expressed the matter even more forcefully : ‘ The present focus on consent virtually demands that a defence counsel who is doing his job properly must challenge the sexual conduct and personal integrity of the complainant and attempt to present her in the most unfavourable light . ’ |