Example sentences of "who is [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They give nothing away , and it 's Jensen in his rock-solid role as ball-winner and organiser who is providing a base for the ones in front of him to play . |
| 2 | ( Have you ever tried having a conversation with someone who is holding a hanky over their face ? ) |
| 3 | The latest massacre coincided with the ending of a four-day visit to Burma by Mr Jan K Eliasson , Secretary General of the United Nations , who is seeking a solution to the refugee problem . |
| 4 | ‘ On the pendulum of self-exposure that oscillates between aggressively exhibitionistic Mailerism and sequestered Salingerism , I 'd say that I occupy a midway position ’ , explains Roth in The Facts — in a prefatory letter to his alter ego of earlier books , the novelist Nathan Zuckerman , who is granted a letter of reply at the end of this one and a perusal of the intervening narrative . |
| 5 | With the chronic shortage of donor organs a dilemma faces the physician who is referred a patient with terminal heart failure with or without secondary end organ damage who requires intensive support in hospital . |
| 6 | Anyone who is appraising a school will take account of the socio-economic backgrounds of different schools , for example . |
| 7 | One newly-qualified accountant , who is considering a trip to the Far East for a few months , said winter was traditionally a busy time for accountants because companies are preparing for their financial year-ends but the last few months had been very quiet . |
| 8 | ‘ Senior Valuer Peter Ferguson and I will be very happy to talk to anyone from the Finaghy area who is considering a move in the near future and , of course , we offer a free valuation service at a time to suit any potential vendor . |
| 9 | Nigel Short , who is taking a break in Greece , has already expressed his support for the contest 's being held in Manchester . |
| 10 | Most of the problems in this area have now been resolved by the requirement that undertakings by a company not to create subsequent charges having priority to an existing charge have to be registered in the company 's register of charges and this will constitute notice to any person who is taking a charge which also has to be registered . |
| 11 | The name of the existing LIFESPAN user who is to receive a copy of the marked messages . |
| 12 | In one of his writings , Lord Milner endeavoured to define patriotism , which he expressed as being the desire to ensure that everybody who is born a citizen of one 's country should rejoice in the birthright of being a citizen of that country . |
| 13 | Everyone who is made a priest is set the following ‘ weighty Office and Charge ’ at his Ordination Service : |
| 14 | When suing a debtor who is using a trade name without disclosing the names of the partners or proprietors of the firm , the LBA could usefully contain an extra paragraph : |
| 15 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 16 | An arrangement whereby a limited partner invests a capital sum in the business which he is not permitted to withdraw until dissolution of the partnership ( which will not automatically occur on death or bankruptcy etc ) and which represents his maximum liability in respect of the firm 's debts and obligations , who is given a profit share but who is excluded from the management of the firm , is doubtless seen as too restrictive . |
| 17 | If this is correct , any patient in hospital who is given a blood transfusion could be at risk if one of the donors of the blood carries the virus . |
| 18 | Two of the main characters are Julian , who is writing a thesis on ‘ neopostdeconstructionism ’ , and Decibel , a voice he hears inside his head when he is recovering in hospital from an accident . |
| 19 | Ms Kennedy , who is writing a book on women in the criminal justice system , said it had become common practice in rape trials to employ women lawyers for the defence . |
| 20 | Howard 's wife is having an affair with an exiled Hungarian student called Zoltan Torday who is writing a book on the adamantly nationalist Hungarian poet Arpad Szendrey . |
| 21 | from New York University 's Institute of Fine Arts , has been appointed Assistant Curator in the museum 's Medieval Department , while Daniel Kletke , who is writing a dissertation on liturgical combs in ivory for the Frei Universität in Berlin , has been appointed Curatorial Assistant at the Cloisters . |
| 22 | Milan , who faltered at the weekend with a 3-0 defeat at the hands of the current league leaders , Napoli , have slipped to seventh place , partly because of the absence of van Basten and his compatriot , Ruud Gullit , who is seeing a doctor on Monday about his cartilage injury . |
| 23 | Frederick , who is developing a sideline in composing , plans to stay at school until after A-levels before going to a musical academy . |
| 24 | Tony , who is sporting a formula 1 haircut this season , is leaving everyone in his slipstream in the region 's version of the drivers championship , the Sponsor Tee Northern Amateur Masters League table . |
| 25 | Ironically one of those who could n't make it was the Conservatives ' first Asian Tory MP Nirj Deva , who is serving a life ban at the restaurant for becoming ‘ too exuberant ’ there seven years ago . |
| 26 | The third man who escaped last night was John , known as Joe , Steele ( 31 ) , who is serving a life sentence for murder for his part in Glasgow 's ice-cream wars in which a family of six , including an 18-month-old baby , were killed in a petrol bomb attack . |
| 27 | The Northern Echo has obtained copies of letters written by the Thornaby man , who is serving a life sentence for murder . |
| 28 | A number of Conservative MPs have criticised the pit closure plans , two , Winston and Elizabeth Churchill , were banned from entering a pit to visit Roy Lynk of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers who is staging a protest . |
| 29 | For example , the historian who is studying a parish in the Sussex Weald might get more enlightenment from an analysis of the economy and social structure of a wood-pasture community in the Forest of Arden than from a comparable study of a nearby parish on the South Downs , which might offer some rewarding contrasts but few points of similarity . |
| 30 | ‘ It was terribly embarrassing , ’ said Tom , who is to attempt a memory record for Britain to get into the Guinness Book of Records . |