Example sentences of "[noun prp] [Wh pn] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the brainwave of Julie Spencer who is seen here updating the chart watched by Rona Allison , Tracy Fergusson and Mark McCafferty . |
| 2 | It was Thomas Paine who is said to have suggested United States of America as the name for the new country but he is perhaps best known for abolishing slavery in Pennsylvania 1780 and for his important written works including ‘ The Rights of Man ’ . |
| 3 | Unmarried , his heir is his second cousin , once removed , Mr. Alfred Blacker who is believed to live in Hobart , Tasmania , where he was last heard of working as a Real Tennis professional . ’ ’ |
| 4 | Simon Burrowes , from junior side Cooke , partners Mark Wylie in the centre , while Darren Wady steps in for Keith Crossan who is playing for an international side in Donegal . |
| 5 | Star spotters on the other hand were only to happy to see Sir DAvid who 's filming a new TV series aptly enough on plants . |
| 6 | Erm , Maisie who 's doing the vote of thanks ? |
| 7 | John Peacock has designed the gown , of course , and he took me to meet Martin Adams who is making the crown . |
| 8 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 9 | John at teatime is talking to veteran D J Paul about the best records of all time and musician Edward who 's playing at the Old Vic tonight , he 's on as well . |
| 10 | But there is a more immediate aim for striker Ian Wright who is fighting a fitness battle to return in the live Sky TV game against the club which sold him to Highbury less than a year ago and show he is still the man England need . |
| 11 | Now on with the show , and let's join Ann who 's enjoying a particularly good view of the proceedings . |
| 12 | Let's move now to Lilian who 's calling from Oxford — whereabouts in Oxford are you Lilian ? |
| 13 | It tells the story of the rise of Charlie Trumper who is born in the East End at the turn of the century . |
| 14 | Mr Pincher , though , is only the ghost writer and it 's Dido who 's grabbing the headlines . |
| 15 | And his loss would come as a big blow to new boss Crosby who is bidding to take the club into the Premier League next season . |
| 16 | Rex who is assisted by his wife Cath , matched the winner 's increased margin over concentrate and recorded a 1p per litre improvement in the margin over concentrate . |
| 17 | The Sultan who 's thought to be the richest man in the world , is on a state visit to Britain . |
| 18 | The man given the task of bringing the legend to life is Chelmsford-born Alex Bourne who is relishing this unabashed , foot-stomping , hand-clapping piece of rock and roll history . |
| 19 | Those wishing to use the river should first contact Janice Hearne who is acting as the liason officer with the NRA . |
| 20 | Then there is Test no.8 Tim Gavin who is making slow progress after being ruled out of last year 's World Cup because of damaged knee ligaments . |
| 21 | Nick 's mother , Marilyn who 's campaigned vigourously for his release , says her son has now moved to a neighbouring state in Western India because he 's fearful of repercussions . |
| 22 | Introduce Brenda who 's going to speak to us on Make do and Mend and she 's asked me to say that she 'd be very pleased if people break in or erm sort of form some sort of dialogue with her as she goes along . |
| 23 | She will take over from Bryan Barker who is retiring in July . |
| 24 | Mr David Heathcoat-Amory , a former junior Energy Minister , has been appointed deputy chief whip by Mr Major , succeeding Mr Alastair Goodlad who is going to the Foreign Office . |
| 25 | And now for something completely different we go over to our roving reporter in the North East of England who is interviewing a member of The Marauders . |
| 26 | There 's been universal praise for Gloucestershire 's Emily Bond who 's reached tomorrow 's finals after an aggressive 6-3 6-1 win over Spaniard Eva Borras . |
| 27 | SIMON WILLIS is the new director of Motability , succeeding KEN KEEN who is to retire in June . |
| 28 | " What if I 'd told him that the Avignon was carrying a young man named Charles Sherman who 's destined one day maybe to become the President of the United States ? " |
| 29 | Standing beside the water tank , on top of the caravan 's portable step , Pa looks as tall as a Zulu in his red stole ( brown , for me ) with the black umbrella held over his head at full stretch by Ma who is standing behind in the mud and wet with a white towel draped over her arm and her hair flat and all dark with water . |
| 30 | Nineteenth-century specialist François Perreau-Saussine of Galerie du Carrousel has dropped in , together with Nicolas Joly from Galerie Yves Mikaeloff who is presenting ten pre-cubist and cubist drawings by Andre Mare alongside seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works , including an early La Hyre and one of the few Nicolas Mignards still to be found outside the Louvre . |