Example sentences of "who is [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who is spearheading the government 's breastfeeding policy ? |
| 2 | They give nothing away , and it 's Jensen in his rock-solid role as ball-winner and organiser who is providing a base for the ones in front of him to play . |
| 3 | But Oxford match secretary Steve Pipkin , who is pegging the length , reckons the team who can best sort out a method for the small fish will win on the day . |
| 4 | ( Have you ever tried having a conversation with someone who is holding a hanky over their face ? ) |
| 5 | Sometimes it helps if the person who is holding the horse , pats the horse on the neck in exact time to the farrier hammering on its foot — especially if it is the actual hammering that worries the horse the most . |
| 6 | On the count of ten , the chosen child opens his eyes and has three chances to guess who is holding the bell behind his back . |
| 7 | It no longer matters who is holding the rope . |
| 8 | The School teaches an MSc in ‘ Scottish Fiction 1814–1940 ’ , and several of its staff members are actively researching Scottish literature of the field , including Professor R.D.S. Jack who is conducting a major revaluation of J.M.Barrie . |
| 9 | In addition to information about who is conducting the case and as to complaints procedures the Law Society 's guide suggests further information that should be given to the client at appropriate times . |
| 10 | Dr Malcolm Chase , who is conducting the day school , highlighted the importance of Middlesbrough as an industrial area . |
| 11 | In our view it 's reasonable to expect an individual who is conducting an audit , to consider information relevant to an audit which is obtained in the course of other work for the same client . |
| 12 | Who is to judge the effect ? |
| 13 | Prepared in only a few weeks to satisfy an urgent need for cash on the part of Steinitz , who is building an auction house complex at Saint Ouen in the suburbs of Paris , the auction did have a catalogue covering 352 major items but without printed estimates . |
| 14 | The audience file in to discover three actors sitting ragged and disconsolate under the eye of a fourth who is reading the Bible and shouting ‘ Shut up ! ’ at intervals . |
| 15 | For example , at the outset of All My Sons , the central figure , Joe Keller , asks his son , who is reading the book-review section of a newspaper , ‘ Every week a new book comes out ? |
| 16 | Note:If appropriate an estimate of fees may be provided couched with suitable caveats , and the person who is to settle the fees specified . |
| 17 | The latest massacre coincided with the ending of a four-day visit to Burma by Mr Jan K Eliasson , Secretary General of the United Nations , who is seeking a solution to the refugee problem . |
| 18 | One useful analogy for understanding Piaget 's theory is to view the child as a scientist who is seeking a ‘ theory ’ to explain complex phenomena ; like the scientist , the child at play carries out practical ‘ experiments ’ by acting on the environment and observing the outcomes . |
| 19 | Please do not consider this as a score-board of who is bringing the most into the marriage . |
| 20 | Short of Mrs Thatcher releasing the ‘ club ’ minutes for 4 and 5 December 1985 , of which there was no sign at the time of writing , it will be impossible to ascertain who is telling the truth about the tides of opinion within those gatherings . |
| 21 | Prof David Carter of Edinburgh University 's department of surgery , who is supervising the project , said that hopes were high that good results produced in laboratory studies could be repeated in patients . |
| 22 | Chas Conklin , who is supervising the campaign , said the advertisements were aimed both at raising awareness of the World Cup and at promoting the 18 international corporate sponsors who are backing the event . |
| 23 | person who is incubating an infection |
| 24 | The source of infection may be a person who is incubating an infectious disease , or actually suffering from an infection , or recovering from one , or a carrier who is personally not affected but is harbouring pathogens which can infect others . |
| 25 | Who is nicknamed The Rottweiler ? |
| 26 | ‘ On the pendulum of self-exposure that oscillates between aggressively exhibitionistic Mailerism and sequestered Salingerism , I 'd say that I occupy a midway position ’ , explains Roth in The Facts — in a prefatory letter to his alter ego of earlier books , the novelist Nathan Zuckerman , who is granted a letter of reply at the end of this one and a perusal of the intervening narrative . |
| 27 | But Mr Ashdown , who is demanding a full-scale coalition , has so far rejected anything that Labour has offered , threatening to vote against a Queen 's Speech that does not include a commitment to electoral reform ; and Mr Kinnock has said that he has made no overtures — not even played the ‘ opening chords ’ — which would lead to a post-election pact . |
| 28 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 29 | To sum up , if examples such as those in ( 28 ) and that in ( 29 ) are all ungrammatical , as we can readily agree , it is for different reasons : ( 28 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere ( 29 ) the man is very The adjectives in ( 28 ) lead to incoherence because , as already observed , they are specialized to qualify a property , and so they are incoherent in the predicative construction , which assigns the adjective property to the entity of the subject , not to its sense . |
| 30 | With the chronic shortage of donor organs a dilemma faces the physician who is referred a patient with terminal heart failure with or without secondary end organ damage who requires intensive support in hospital . |