Example sentences of "that [pron] be a [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 2 | Prosecutor : Do you appreciate that she is a person who has the right to refuse ? |
| 3 | At 18 she went to East Anglia University in Norwich to study English and American Studies but there was little sign then that she was a girl who would go far . |
| 4 | The Lodge also said that her reasoning was ‘ inaccurate and biased ’ , and went on to imply that she was a Fascist who could not be trusted . |
| 5 | If I remind you that you are a person who is aware , receptive to new ideas and willing to give them a try , then my suggestion that you buy Ecover is likely to be well received . |
| 6 | Exercise 2 : Pretend that you are a witness who is going to have to give a description to the police . |
| 7 | heavy horse , a land horse such as a Suffolk , as most of them were , erm but times were so tight that there was a farmer who used to send his horse with his horseman right past here and go another mile down the road to , to the next village to Kettleborough where there was ano , there were two farriers there |
| 8 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 9 | John , 42 , of Ellesmere Port , said : ‘ I was on the phone taking a 999 call when someone came in screaming that there was a baby who could not breathe . |
| 10 | He forbids divorce , but implicitly accepts that it is a man who initiates divorce , ‘ the man who divorces his wife … |
| 11 | In much of the discussion it has been assumed that it is a parent who seeks the information . |
| 12 | Someone must plough the fields or milk the cows , but much of this endeavour takes place hidden from public view and when a tractor is glimpsed across a field it is often assumed that it is a farmer who is in the cab . |
| 13 | Wordsworth worked from observation — ‘ The incident occurred in the village of Holford , close by Alfoxden ’ , — but in a letter of 1836 he makes it clear that it was a friend who actually saw the man . |
| 14 | The fact that it was a woman who delivered the doubly-sexist utterance makes it no more PC . |
| 15 | But I have often asked myself what it is that drew me to Sibelius 's music and I think it is that he is a composer who can not really be compared to anyone else . |
| 16 | It might be that this season will be his last chance , that he is a manager who can win Cups with short sprints but not the silverware that goes with marathons . |
| 17 | Athelstan studied the notice posted above the prisoner 's head and gathered that he was a butcher who had sold putrid meat . |
| 18 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 19 | They already knew that he was a man who could not be trusted to preserve the Union and to safeguard the social superiority of Protestant culture . |
| 20 | His action could simply be explained by ambition : his career in the north had shown that he was a man who liked and understood power . |
| 21 | It had been enough for her that he was a man who thought his house a good point of departure for the Piero della Francesca trail . |
| 22 | The impression I got of him was that he was the world 's most cautious man ( which squares ill with his later reckless behaviour ) ; that he was a man who said nothing ; who had carefully devised a plan of life which rendered the use of words unnecessary except in an emergency such as fire or accident . |
| 23 | His action could simply be explained by ambition : his career in the north had shown that he was a man who liked and understood power . |
| 24 | To put the man in his place , Nigel said that he was a writer who got his best ideas in the small hours . |
| 25 | It felt as though the tree he was sitting in and the green leaves all around him belonged to another world altogether and that he was a trespasser who had no right to be where he was . |
| 26 | Then he told himself that he was a nut who had written a book in her garage , and that he had no right to intrude . |
| 27 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 28 | They accepted his assurance that he was a gynaecologist who wanted to help women and that his Harley Street-based Courtney Foundation was doing just that . |