Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh pn] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthew Cooper , for example , got there on only one game , a 23-points feast against Ireland at Athletic Park , and at the expense of his older brother Greg who played the four earlier tests and who had long prospered in Mains ' Otago side . |
| 2 | In the survey , an unemployed person is defined as anyone aged fifteen and over who was not employed during the week before the interview and who had actually looked for full-time or part-time work . |
| 3 | Of the remaining 40 women who did not currently smoke and who had never smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day , only 12 ( 30% ) had oncogenic papillomavirus . |
| 4 | If there is a cancer personality , then I would suggest it is a person who lacked love in infancy , whose sense of inadequacy was high , who harboured their resentments without seeing a way of changing their situation — even in their mind — and who felt badly done by . |
| 5 | F1 You are an experienced dinghy sailor who regularly sails with novice crews and who has also spent at least six days living and sailing as crew on a small sailing cruiser . |
| 6 | Prof Wilkie , who trained with Scottish Widows and who has also worked for Standard Life , is a partner of R Watson & Partners , the firm of consulting actuaries , and is an honorary visiting professor at Heriot-Watt University . |
| 7 | Going straight from state ownership to worker ownership is unlikely to change the company 's culture or management style , believes Mr Laurie Brennan , chief executive of New Bridge Consultants , an arm of the law firm , Clifford Chance , set up to promote employee share ownership , and who has just returned from Poland . |
| 8 | The line-up was impressive , featuring Pops Staples , literally the founding father of the gospel band the Staple Singers and who has recently embarked on a solo career at the tender age of 77 ! |
| 9 | In grateful respect to those who peacefully helped freedom prevail and who have unswervingly adhered to the task of establishing German unity and are achieving it , |
| 10 | The bill identifies much of the blame for the tremendously high rate of deforestation in India as belonging to the adivasis or tribal peoples , who have been systematically marginalised and impoverished for over a thousand years , and who have now retreated into the mountains and remaining forests of central India ( a close-up case study is provided of a tribal group , the Sora , in sect. 7.4 ) . |
| 11 | Sergeant-Major Céar Méléra , a tough adventurer , who had sailed around the world in peacetime and who appeared little affected by the horrors of war , describes his experience of Verdun shell-fire initially with an unemotional economy of words : ‘ Filthy night , shells . ’ |
| 12 | Looking into her great eyes , their blue so dark that it was almost black , he was uncomfortably aware that having Miss Sally-Anne McAllister in the house was a most disturbing influence on a man who had not only denied himself sexually for some years , but who had rarely mixed with young women at all since he had left the army . |
| 13 | Flaherty took a drop more of the giants ' mulled wine than was good for him and very nearly disgraced his fellows by reciting an extremely improper poem , describing the exploits of a fair maiden who had fallen foul of a wicked and lustfully intentioned knight , but who had then escaped by invoking a demon who withered the knight 's passion . |