Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [Wh pn] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was the daughter of a scientist who was at one time Deputy Master of the Mint . |
| 2 | The Agua Caliente Handicap at Tanforan , Mexico , in March 1932 saw the last racecourse appearance of a horse who was beyond dispute one of the greatest horses that ever raced — Phar Lap . |
| 3 | Henry II of Germany incurred ecclesiastical disapproval by entering into an alliance with heathen Slavs against Christian Poles , while his French contemporary Robert the Pious repudiated his first wife and took a second who was within the forbidden degrees of kinship . |
| 4 | There is no power to make a care or supervision order in respect of a child who is over the age of 17 years , or 16 years if married . |
| 5 | A child who is under the age of 5 and who is likely to have a learning difficulty when s/he reaches that age also has a learning difficulty . |
| 6 | Or perhaps it belonged to a child who was under rubble . |
| 7 | This is a cop who is in therapy because of his habit of shooting innocent bystanders dead . |
| 8 | We 've just spoken to a bloke who 's into us and would be really interested in doing something . ’ |
| 9 | So we would have a queen who is in another relationship and a king who is another relationship . |
| 10 | A fireman who was to be flogged for alcohol offences in Saudi Arabia is back home after winning a last-minute reprieve . |
| 11 | He married a girl who was with a firm who repaired old clothes . |
| 12 | Of course some boys may be asked to perform some or all of these tasks , but I think that ( for historical rather than biological reasons ) the task of substitute-mothering is more likely to devolve upon a girl than upon a boy who is in a similar position within the family . |
| 13 | Similarly , a director who is in charge of the company 's research and development programme would not be able to resist a negligence action by claiming that he or she lacked experience or qualifications in the area concerned . |
| 14 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 15 | And there was a a a a lad who was about a couple of years older than me , he 'd be about twenty three , he 'd been through the War and er he was a real revolutionary , he was re and and he was very intelligent . |
| 16 | The Matrimonial Homes Act 1967 ( as amended by the Matrimonial Homes and Property Act 1981 ) gives a spouse who is in occupation of the matrimonial home , but does not occupy it by virtue of an estate , interest , contract , or statute , protection against eviction from the dwelling without the necessity of obtaining leave of the court . |
| 17 | More likely it was the knowledge that , for all Dysart 's manifest charm and proven ability , he had a wife who was at best an adulteress , at worst a traitor ; either Minter 's dupe or his co-conspirator . |
| 18 | But in another variety of comic crime fiction you can take as a chief character , as indeed your detective , a person who is to a greater or lesser extent a figure of fun , someone prone to fall victim to more or less ridiculous circumstances . |
| 19 | Article 5(1) contains further definitions as follows : " a group of connected individuals " , in relation to the party disposing of shares in the company , means persons each of whom is , or is a close relative of , a director or manager of the company and , in relation to the party acquiring the shares , means persons each of whom is , or is a close relative of , a person who is to be a director or manager of the company ; " close relation " means a person 's spouse , his children ( including , in Northern Ireland , his adopted children ) and step-children , his parents and step-parents , his brothers and sisters , and his step-brothers and step-sisters and includes a person acting in the capacity of trustee or personal representative of any such relative ; and " single individual " includes two or more persons acting in their capacity as the personal representatives of a single individual . |
| 20 | ‘ A person who is without home or friends ; one who lives uncared-for ; an outcast ; an unowned or neglected child ’ . |
| 21 | In what follows the term ‘ infant ’ will be used in its strict sense of a person who is in the condition of infancy as above defined . |
| 22 | A person who is in a street or public place can be solicited by a prostitute who is on a balcony or at a window ( Smith v Hughes [ 1960 ] 2 All ER 859 ) . |
| 23 | A person who is in police detention is entitled to consult a solicitor privately at any time ( s.58 ) . |
| 24 | Repayment can not be claimed from a person who is in receipt of income support or family credit under the social security scheme ( s17(9) ) . |
| 25 | " I would n't mind a beer , " Timothy said , adding that the only trouble was that the Badstoneleigh supermarkets would n't serve a person who was under age . |
| 26 | The relevant passage in the judgment indicated that where a rape was committed by a person who was in a position of trust towards the victim , the starting point for consideration of the appropriate sentence should be eight years . |
| 27 | There were cited to your Lordships a number of cases involving the abstraction of moneys from a limited company by a person who was in a position to give the consent of the company to the abstraction . |
| 28 | The idea was to take a person who was in excellent nutritional shape and consuming a good , better than average diet without taking any vitamin or mineral supplements , who was a non-smoker and moderate consumer of alcohol , sugar , tea , coffee and chocolate ; and to see what effect consuming the national average amount of alcohol , cigarettes , sugar , tea , coffee and chocolate would do to this fine healthy specimen . |
| 29 | I was on my way to the bank with £7,000 when a masked gang , carrying guns , attacked me and a friend who was with me . |
| 30 | ‘ We telephoned the RAF and said we have got a friend who was in the RFC , who transferred to the RAF . |