Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] who have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 2 | Amongst those detained was a Belgian Member of the European Parliament who had earlier disclosed to the newspapers plans for a 3 km-wide ‘ waste island ’ off Zeebrugge . |
| 3 | He waits a long time before seizing her , getting to know her habits and other information about her , but she is really a complete stranger who has never met or loved him , unlike Daisy and Gatsby who at least know each other before the book begins . |
| 4 | There is no champion tennis player who has never served a double fault ; no professional musician who had never played a wrong note ; and no doctor or nurse who has not made an error of diagnosis . |
| 5 | Just for once , the headstrong Duchess who had so often flouted royal convention was asking for help and guidance . |
| 6 | Whatever , Carmody is an unassailable optimist who has never been seen in anything other than sprayed-on black jeans , winkle-pickered Chelsea boots , leather jacket and cap . |
| 7 | To this day it is nearly impossible to find a Canadian movie screened ; in any of our cities , or investment capital which would allow a cutting edge industry to develop in Saskatchewan rather than Idaho , or a cultural figure who has not had to make it in the US ( Bryan Adams ) or the UK ( Conrad Black ) before the person is taken seriously at home . |
| 8 | Bishop Bell , who commissioned the play , was an influential British churchman who had consistently supported the German Confessing Church in its opposition to National Socialism . |
| 9 | ‘ She was a normal , sensible girl who had not gone off before and when she was reported missing we always feared this could be the outcome . ’ |
| 10 | The Scottish stand-off , who was among the Lions replacements , was forced to parade , bouquet in hand , from behind one set of posts to the red carpet on the half-wayline as chaperone to Mireille Mathieu , the French songstress who had just rendered all three verses of the Marseillaise ( with the chorus repeated each time ) . |
| 11 | ‘ What nonsense , Jane , rushing off to visit an old lady who has never loved you ! |
| 12 | He now has two gardeners working full time : Dennis , a grand old boy who has scarcely been out of Gloucestershire in his life — and has been looking after foxhounds for the Duke of Beaufort for most of it ; and Trevor Jacobs , a younger and professionally qualified horticulturist . |
| 13 | An unsettled child who had already lost a father , I was not ready for such a drastic break at so young an age . |
| 14 | A selection of commonly used naming words which incorporated consonants in the appropriate contexts was tried out with 130 normal children and 57 children of average or above-average intelligence who had already been identified as having retarded phonology . |
| 15 | These implied that one of her younger brothers , an immature boy who had n't reached puberty , had been sexually abusing both herself and a younger sister . |
| 16 | Hindenburg , who had taken part in the victorious campaigns of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 , was now built up into a father figure : the old general who had again thrown back the invaders of the Fatherland . |
| 17 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 18 | My old inspector who 's now been and gone , came from Newark , and he said that there was far more trouble within the public houses in Newark , er than ever there was here and he came here , imagining the problem to be a lot worse . |
| 19 | She was a scrawny flabby woman who had once been stout . |
| 20 | Under section 265 the English court has jurisdiction , for example , over a debtor who is a foreign national who has never lived or been here so long as , at a time within the last three years , he was a member of a firm which carried on business in this country . |
| 21 | ‘ You must think what that means to a German composer who has just become an American citizen in the aftermath of the war , ’ Bamert says . |
| 22 | There were some dancers from Morocco in two of the first-floor rooms and a lady on the top floor who had once sung in an opera-house in Paris , France . |
| 23 | Her father had been a tight-lipped rather unloving man who had apparently taken little interest in Doreen . |
| 24 | He was reduced to a short old man who had once been the great painter Marius Durance . |
| 25 | So the evil monster had brought unhappiness and death to a dear old man who had never hurt anybody . |
| 26 | He wrote also of an old man who had supposedly been snowed in , in pitch darkness , inside his stone hut , for thirty hours . |
| 27 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 28 | He and Packford had to work under appallingly difficult circumstances , with a skeleton staff and a jobbing printer who had never done anything like it before , and the actual paper was printed on cheap newsprint . |
| 29 | And he was the only man in the British Legion who 'd ever bought |
| 30 | He continued his studies in France at the Royal Garden of Plants in Paris under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort , a French botanist who had already made expeditions to Spain , Greece and Asia Minor , and later produced a new classification of plants , accompanied by descriptions of the genera . |