Example sentences of "an [noun sg] who [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should an individual wish to take an S/NVQ who already has a qualification relating to the funeral service , that qualification will not give direct credit exemption but can count as evidence of competence . |
| 2 | Meryl Streep is wonderfully comic as an actress who really wants to be a singer , while Shirley Maclaine shows her versatility and talent as she defiantly crashes through ‘ I 'm Still Here ’ . |
| 3 | During her three days working in the Toronto Skydome she made friends with an athlete who now writes to her in Chinese . |
| 4 | And , although Bratfisch in MacMillan 's Mayerling is a dancing role , he , too , is an onlooker who only shows his real self during his final entrance and last gesture as he throws his flower into Mary Vetsera 's grave . |
| 5 | Although he felt under pressure — Dustin is an actor who always commits himself totally to what he is doing — he enjoyed having to make the adjustment from Jimmy to John and back again . |
| 6 | It is most important that the pupil , especially if he has difficulty with spelling , should see you as a sympathetic helper who wants him to learn , and not as an examiner who only tells him he 's wrong . |
| 7 | My husband — an American who also works for the commission — and I went to bed after an uneventful evening . |
| 8 | Too many stereotypes an American who only eats hamburgers , a fat feminist comic , a Scotsman called Haggis , a smooth , fast-talking agent and a series of unlikely events was its downfall . |
| 9 | Too many stereotypes an American who only eats hamburgers , a fat feminist comic , a Scotsman called Haggis , a smooth , fast-talking agent and a series of unlikely events was its downfall . |
| 10 | Too many stereotypes an American who only eats hamburgers , a fat feminist comic , a Scotsman called Haggis , a smooth , fast-talking agent and a series of unlikely events was its downfall . |
| 11 | In their preface , ( who has previously written several excellent books ) and ( an astrophysicist who now directs the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Illinois ) invoke the image of a global ‘ cyberspace ’ , a construct of pure information , parallel to , but distinct from , physical reality . |
| 12 | Thus the examples of ( 9 ) are acceptable : ( 9 ) your behaviour was barbaric this device is expensive his plan was inspired but impractical Where a prenominal adjective fits equally well with either relationship — ascriptive or associative — to its noun , we find that its occurrence in predicative position is acceptable , but only provided that the relation is taken as being ascriptive ; thus ( 10 ) mentions an individual who either has Greek nationality ( but the nature and region of the business which he or she deals with remain unspecified ) , or is a person who handles affairs connected with Greece ( but who may well be of some quite different nationality , Belgian for example ) ; ( 11 ) however unambiguously tells us that there is someone who falls into the former category : ( 10 ) the Greek representative ( 11 ) the representative is Greek |
| 13 | The belief that men alone represent humanity , whereas a woman is an individual who only represents herself , never absolute , does not wash any longer . |
| 14 | It is true that this is qualified by the North western Utilities case , but that decision does not apply to an occupier who neither knows nor could reasonably have discovered the existence of a danger created by his predecessor . |