Example sentences of "who [is] [adj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 No one here likes you , the way you sit off by yourself at meals half the time as if you 're waiting for someone who 's good enough for you .
2 ‘ I married a woman who 's old enough to be my mum ’
3 Having a boyfriend or husband who is young enough to be your son can still raise a few eyebrows and set tongues wagging but , as these couples prove , love conquers all — even a 30-year age gap
4 Who is , who is this on in , on guarantee
5 The growing demand for genuine , organically-produced vegetables and fruit offers a profit to the skilled gardener who is near enough to his market .
6 Similar analyses which place values and sentiments at the centre of family change are offered by Shorter ( 1975 ) , Flandrin ( 1979 ) and also by Aries ( 1972 ) , who is concerned mainly with the changing nature of childhood .
7 ‘ Mind the swings , ’ shrieks Preston as his charges finally reach their goal and narrowly escape decapitation by one , propelled through the air by a boy who is old enough to be banned , or , if he is not , should be .
8 You sound as though you feel as though there is something morally wrong in loving a woman who is old enough to be your mother .
9 Any applicant who is aggrieved either by a refusal or a condition on a permission can appeal to the Secretary of State who , in effect , considers the whole application afresh .
10 ‘ I am a brave woman who is frightened only of the dark and her husband . ’
11 Raconteur and raisonneur , in his art as in his personal life , he is a concealed author who is evident enough in his hotly opinionated fiction : he is not given to expounding his own passionate opinions there , but can be recognised without difficulty in almost every aspect of every one of his novels , including the speech assigned to his often disputatious characters .
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