Example sentences of "[noun sg] who have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he would be pressing for the expulsion of several members of the local association who had privately aired derogatory views about a black candidate while publicly supporting him . |
| 2 | There is no champion tennis player who has never served a double fault ; no professional musician who had never played a wrong note ; and no doctor or nurse who has not made an error of diagnosis . |
| 3 | It was then Aberdeen 's turn to stare elimination in the face , and expulsion of the most embarrassing sort for a side who had earlier enjoyed a supposedly comfortable lead over the team from the lower league . |
| 4 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 5 | As Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit , Elizabeth Renihan and Jenna Russell battle entertainingly for Macheath 's dark heart , and there 's strong support from Susan Jane-Tanner as an entertainingly sour Mrs Peachum , Anthony O'Donnell as a rotund Lockit , Nick Holder as a hilarious Brummie highwayman and from Alan Cox as the beggar who has supposedly written the opera . |
| 6 | In 1847 Richard Sheepshanks wrote of John Couch Adams , a Cambridge mathematician who had just predicted the new planet Neptune : ‘ I think there is a hope that Mr Adams will continue his astronomical career . |
| 7 | The two subjects in the eight-month restriction study who had already limited themselves to 6 hours did not benefit from the regime , and reverted to their own established norms . |
| 8 | An analogy is the need to serve a notice of intention to adduce additional evidence of a witness who has already given evidence in the committal proceedings . |
| 9 | Each defendant calls a witness who has also submitted a statement with the facts of his or her life , particularly where that life crosses that of the defendant . |
| 10 | She turned to the stranger who had just finished talking to a mechanic who was now giving her car the once-over . |
| 11 | He waits a long time before seizing her , getting to know her habits and other information about her , but she is really a complete stranger who has never met or loved him , unlike Daisy and Gatsby who at least know each other before the book begins . |
| 12 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 13 | ‘ I do not presume to counsel my sovereign on the choice of her advisers , ’ he once grandly told a journalist who had rashly asked him how he was going to vote in a parliamentary election . |
| 14 | Every secretary whose word processor refuses to talk to its printer , every technologically-challenged hotel receptionist , every journalist who has ever seen his scoop disappear forever through the hole in the ozone layer can walk a little taller . |
| 15 | Too many so-called experts in business schools are drop-outs from industry who 've never succeeded in making any profit in their life : hardly a qualification for teaching business success . |
| 16 | Yet outside the computing industry who has ever heard of Intel ? |
| 17 | By 1030 hours the Wall patrol has completed its escort task and is free to assist an Engineer Corporal who has just had a collision in his car with an East German in the Soviet Sector . |
| 18 | Mandy was peering through the binoculars with the intensity of an army scout who had just discovered the enemy , and with a defeated sigh Charity let her own gaze drift in the same direction . |
| 19 | Emile Verhaeren , the Belgian poet who had vividly chronicled the impact of the railways on the countryside , was killed in an accident at Rouen Station in 1916 . |
| 20 | It means another big question mark against the Ireland future of Moran , the 37-year-old Blackburn Rovers defender who has twice made comebacks after announcing his retirement from the international arena . |
| 21 | ‘ Madam , I confess myself deeply grieved that you should judge one an enemy who has ever served you and yours faithfully and to the utmost of his ability , ’ he said sorrowfully — and the prince , watching the scene with avid interest , expected to see tears well from his eyes . |
| 22 | She thought of the agency folding , of having to give up her flat , of Sebastian , who had devoted his life to his business , paying with divorce as the price of his involvement , of Jenny in Media Research who had just got married and was struggling with a mortgage , or Ben , one of the account executives , whose wife was in hospital awaiting a kidney transplant . |
| 23 | Bishop Bell , who commissioned the play , was an influential British churchman who had consistently supported the German Confessing Church in its opposition to National Socialism . |
| 24 | It relates to the chef who has just left you . |
| 25 | McMenemy might have been thinking of Steve Williams , another promising talent who 'd already won six England caps when he moved from Southampton to Arsenal in December l984 . |
| 26 | Biopsy specimens were also obtained from five patients ( mean age 38 years , range 35–40 years ) with familial adenomatous polyposis who had previously undergone total abdominal colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis and were attending regularly for follow up . |
| 27 | I ventured to express exactly the opposite opinion and was stared at as if I were a hawker of ladies ’ underwear who had accidentally strayed into a monastery . ’ |
| 28 | The system ensures that those who might seem most deserving receive perhaps an Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) — or a British Empire Medal ( BEM ) for those ‘ who do not qualify by rank for the higher awards ’ — while a bureaucrat who has successfully worked his way to the top of the civil service without putting a foot wrong will get a knighthood in the Order of the Bath . |
| 29 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 30 | The magistrate said that though he acknowledged that Dad was a peaceful , law-abiding citizen who had never had any trouble with the police and who held strong religious beliefs , there were nevertheless times ‘ when people do get angry and tell lies . ’ |