Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Control is exercised by the chairman of the establishment committee who needs to be convinced of the value of each and every application ’ … |
| 2 | I stress that any person wishing to operate buses must have a PSV operator 's licence issued by the traffic commissioner , who has to be satisfied that the person is of good repute and financial standing and has adequate facilities to maintain the vehicles in a roadworthy condition . |
| 3 | Who wants to be normal ? |
| 4 | Indian English has developed a syntax and vocabulary of its own : the Bombayite who wants to be sure that ‘ You live in Colaba , do n't you ? ’ is likelier to ask , ‘ You are staying Colaba-side , is n't it ? ’ |
| 5 | Who wants to be involved with a boring organisation ? |
| 6 | If you are a Windows user who wants to be able to use your dBASE format files ( and applications ) under Windows , you will not find it very easy . |
| 7 | They range variously from Fokine 's Pierrot in Le Carnaval who only wants ‘ one kiss ’ and his puppet Petrushka who wants to be free to Ashton 's Alain mentioned above and MacMillan 's Bratfisch in Mayerling . |
| 8 | ‘ You play the outside of a guy who wants to be hip and happening . |
| 9 | ‘ Who cares about being nice ? ’ she asked . |
| 10 | Reddy acknowledges objections that rewarded gifting might delay the development of a cadaver transplant programme , but argues that as ‘ the medical , legal , economic , technological , and logistic infrastructure required to set up such a programme in India simply does not exist … is the payment of money to a willing , informed adult , who happens to be poor and needy , so unethical or immoral that it alone determines whether people should be allowed to live or die ? ’ |
| 11 | Where once Hammett and Chandler bestrode the world of Californian crime and corruption like colossuses , now private-eyes like Joseph Hansen 's Dave Brandstetter ( who happens to be homosexual but is otherwise completely in the classic pattern ) an Robert B. Parker 's Spenser ( who happens to work in Boston and be a gourmet cook ) work their contemporary beats in almost exactly the old way . |
| 12 | This , therefore , results in a child who tends to be fair-haired and blue-eyed . |
| 13 | He is normally an individual who prefers to be convinced rather than compelled , to be motivated rather than threatened . |
| 14 | Such is 67 : The detail in much of this poem remains enigmatic , but here as in 68 I can not think that the references to false ornament and cosmetics ( including wigs made of hair taken from the scalp of corpses ) are favourable to the Friend , who seems to be encouraging corruption by his own example or presence in this milieu . |
| 15 | Erm then you know that would be something whereas if they say well the recession 's so bad we have n't taken anybody for the last five years and your researches ca n't unearth anybody who seems to be prepared to er give you even half a chance then I mean |
| 16 | The best example of that type of person is the liberal who professes to be anti-war and anti-violence and then goes to the boxing matches or watches the football game and screams his head off . |
| 17 | The only member of the surrogacy team who appears to be unscathed by financial considerations is the obstetrician . |
| 18 | According to John Landon , senior lecturer in multicultural education at Edinburgh 's Moray House College , a child who appears to be fluent in English in spite of its not being his or her first language may still be unable to cope with testing in English . |
| 19 | You are merely a woman who pretends to be fierce and , after all , you have been manoeuvred by men in spite of your supposed ability to take on all comers . |
| 20 | Nigel Bloom , who hopes to be fit to resume tomorrow , remains the clear leader in the County Linen Service area men 's championship . |
| 21 | What is the lesson of all this , according to Richard Newstat the lesson is that techniques of persuasion are really the essential armoury of any president , any president who wishes to be successful . |
| 22 | My informant ( who wishes to be anonymous but nevertheless truthful ) had spent a short time in his early days as a signalman at OA & GB Junction Signal box . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm an artist who likes to be honest and confront . |
| 24 | For someone who claims to be insecure about his appearance , he seems pretty well informed on the subject of fashion . |
| 25 | I 've encountered Arena -reading Young Conservatives who get off on The Smiths and Sex Pistols : I knew a girl whose favourite group is The Jam but who claims to be apolitical and whose one great desire in life is a Mercedes . |
| 26 | Quantum mechanics puts me in the position of a canny bookmaker who can calculate the odds that a horse may win in the course of the season but not in the position of Our Newmarket Correspondent who claims to be able to forecast the outcome of a particular race . |