Example sentences of "who [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The innuendo in this remark proved too much for the petite figure in the front row , who during the last few words was showing signs of unmistakable distress . |
| 2 | What lies in pieces around them represents , in effect , a unique private exhibition open to a lucky few who for the first time in generations have had the opportunity for hands-on experience of greatness . |
| 3 | Naomi Sargant , who for the first eight years of Channel 4 as the Senior Commissioning Editor for Educational Programming , talked to Women about her experience of the television industry . |
| 4 | These courses were taught by the college librarian , who for the first time in Britain was included on the teaching staff of the college on a teaching scale , and styled " Tutor-Librarian " . |
| 5 | Let's not forget that even if no more children 's books were published at all , each year would still see the arrival of a new cohort of children and their parents and grandparents , who for the first time start to contemplate buying books which are relevant for a child of that age . |
| 6 | The Cuban Communists , who for the first six months of 1959 had made policy proclamations which were cautiously but unequivocally more radical than Castro 's , subsequently found that they were fast being outstripped by him in the proposal of anti-capitalist measures . |
| 7 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 8 | Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 . |
| 9 | And remember , they are all products of Pakistan 's domestic cricket competitions , which are competed for by the commercial organisations and regional teams which have always been condemned by Imran — who for the last decade had not played domestic cricket in Pakistan . |
| 10 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 11 | Anita Culley , who for the last six years has co-owned Walworth Castle with her husband , said the new plans could cost around £750,000 . |
| 12 | Power therefore passed to the Radicals , who for the next two years dominated a series of coalition governments of increasingly right-wing complexion . |
| 13 | Who in the ninth century could have foreseen modern France ? |
| 14 | Coleridge had little sympathy with their overheated prose , and his own response to this charged and mysterious place probably had more in common with that of a later visitor , Samuel Palmer , who in the nineteenth century saw Culbone through visionary eyes . |
| 15 | The Oxenhope Straw Race has a long way to go before it reaches its centenary , but the aims of the people who organise it and take part are the same as those who in the nineteenth century began the hospital sings at Holmfirth and Mapplewell . |
| 16 | Situated in a conservation area in the historical town of Lewes , Millers derives its name from the millers who in the 19th century sold their produce from the front parlour ( now the dining room ) . |
| 17 | The origins of Cognitive–Behaviour therapy may be traced back to the philosopher Epictetus , who in the first century AD wrote ‘ People are disturbed not so much by events as by the views which they take of them ’ . |
| 18 | Manjrekar , who in the first Test struggled for 36 minutes for a duck , batted nine minutes short of five hours before India , 31 ahead on first innings , declared at 312–8 . |
| 19 | He is an immensely gifted young man who in the first six months of his course has made more high quality pieces of furniture than any student we have had here before . |
| 20 | My title is intended to bring to your mind H V Morton , Henry Vollam Morton ( 1892–1979 ) , who in the first half of this century wrote one of the most popular series of travel books ever . |
| 21 | Much interest focused on the attitude of interim Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy , who in the first round had supported the veteran nationalist Jacques Rabemananjara rather than Zafy . |
| 22 | Very kind , but international players are supposed to be habitually influential , and it was Hazard who in the second half , with a few incisive passes , gifts from the heavens on a day like this , left a greater mark . |
| 23 | While Robson 's view is , today , largely rejected by academic observers , the agency model is still widely adhered to by many practitioners at local level — both councillors and officers — who in the second half of the 1980s see central controls inhibiting their freedom to act in what they regard as the local interest . |
| 24 | It was J. J. Berzelius in Sweden who in the second decade of the century put atomism on a much more secure footing . |
| 25 | These are the Chukchis , Koryaks and Itelmens of the extreme north-east and the Kamchatka Peninsula , the Yukagirs who in the seventeenth century inhabited a very large territory between Chukotka and the lower Lena , the Ainu of southern Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands , the Nivkhs of the lower Amur and Sakhalin , and the Kets of the Yenisei . |
| 26 | It was a fascinating glimpse of a people who in the sixteenth century had never seen a wheel or a sea-going ship , had never faced an armoured knight on horseback or the fire power of crossbows and guns , but whose roads and lines of communication through the incredible terrain of the Andes , whose methods of agriculture by irrigation and whose whole political set-up , so close to what we know as Communism , was in some ways more advanced than that of their conquerors . |
| 27 | Karlovy Vary was named after Charles IV , Ven told her , who in the fourteenth century came across the scalding waters of the springs through one of his hunting dogs . |
| 28 | … and follow in the footsteps of the thousands of men and women who in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries left Ulster to seek a new life in America . |
| 29 | Labour may also gamble that Scottish Liberal Democrats — who in the last parliament made up almost half Mr Ashdown 's party — will be reluctant to vote down a government which is trying to legislate for a Scottish assembly elected by proportional representation . |
| 30 | Steve McQueen in The Getaway and Bullitt and Paul Newman in The Drowning Pool are the big fashion influences cited at Burro , the people who in the last couple of years have flogged us tank tops as well as the classic ‘ No Alla Violenza ’ Ts in conjunction with Duffer . |