Example sentences of "who in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I won the Indoor Championships 200 metres , beating John Regis , who in the following month beat Ade Mafe 's record in Budapest during a match against Hungary , with 20.85 seconds . |
| 2 | Someone around her — she could n't see who in the dark forest of heads and frame-bags — was talking a different language . |
| 3 | In particular , who in the nine months has been in charge of this section and shown great dedication and commitment . |
| 4 | Opposition parties face an uphill struggle in their battle to depose long-standing Tory member Michael Mates , who in the 1987 general election polled the largest Tory vote in the country . |
| 5 | Thus a seller who in the normal way has accepted a cheque which is later dishonoured , is an unpaid seller . |
| 6 | For the purpose of the Acts a dealer is ‘ a person who in the normal course of his business attends sales by auction for the purpose of purchasing goods with a view to reselling them . ’ |
| 7 | No mention of the fact that between them , Newcastle and Swindon had 34 shots at goal ; not even a reference to the one and only Glen Hoddle , who in the entire match misplaced only one pass . |
| 8 | Who in the ninth century could have foreseen modern France ? |
| 9 | They alighted on Saddam Hussein of Iraq , who in the late 1970s was beginning to portray himself as a man of moderation who might be able to make himself useful to the West , not least by acting as a counter to now-revolutionary Iran . |
| 10 | As already discussed in the chapter ‘ Retiring on your own ’ there are women who in the real sense have never left home , but have spent all their spare time outside work living with , and later looking after , their parents . |
| 11 | And so it was reasonable for Crane and Winters , who in the twenties was reaching for this style in his own poems , to call such writing ‘ imagist ’ . |
| 12 | It was perhaps a coincidence that chairman of the IEE meeting was RS Sandell who in the 1970s , with SM Edwardson , developed the BBC 's medium-wave Carfax system that was later aborted . |
| 13 | Ovation 's founder and chief executive is cable pioneer Harold E. Morse , who in the 1970s established an educational network called The Learning Channel that he recently sold . |
| 14 | Given time , Boulestin could perhaps with his book of menus have opened the door to organized cooking for thousands of young women who in the thirties were finding themselves on their own in flats and bed-sitting rooms knowing nothing more about how to make a meal than that it ought to taste nice and should not be a bore . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One researcher was Ignaty Steletsky , who in the 1920s was able to take advantage of the fact that the Moscow Underground was being built . |
| 24 | As Ellen Wilkinson ( who in the 1920s had been among the first women in the Labour Party to support family allowances ) wrote in 1938 : ‘ what the Amery type want is to feed the existing and potential cannon-fodder with the greatest economy and lack of waste . |
| 25 | Nell Shipman was a Canadian actress turned script-writer , who in the 1920s started producing , directing and starring in her own films . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was J. J. Berzelius in Sweden who in the second decade of the century put atomism on a much more secure footing . |
| 29 | It was Robert 's son , also a banker and MP , who in the early 1830s set about dressing up the newly named Bridehead , making a lake beside it and a complete ‘ model village ’ at Little Bredy . |
| 30 | That it did not do so may in part be due to the late H.H. Mayberry , from Marshall County , Tennessee , who in the early 1880s paid a stranger from Nova Scotia $36 ( about $800 in today 's money ) for four of the goats on the strength of their ‘ strange fits or fainting spells , the like of which had never been seen before ’ . |