Example sentences of "[vb mod] be a [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scriptwriters Peter Lewis and Peter Dobereiner decided there should be a character who could put into words what young people were thinking . |
| 2 | It is almost obligatory that the private-eye should be a person who looks at society from below , as contrasted with the Great Detective who certainly hovered over the world of murder from high above . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's ironic that it should be a colleague who caused the wound , because I have now toured New Zealand three times and watched their style of rucking . |
| 4 | Section 230(2) of the Act of 1986 provides that , where an administrative receiver of a company is appointed , he must be a person who is qualified to act as an insolvency practitioner in relation to that company . |
| 5 | If a class is to lay plans there must be a strategist who assesses the circumstances , evaluates possible outcomes and decides what to do ; and while these properties can be attributed to groups as well as individuals , an agent ( what Poulantzas would call a subject ) is needed in both cases . |
| 6 | ‘ Or she might be a part-timer who 's free on Tuesdays anyway . ’ |
| 7 | The plaintiff might be an author who is prevented by his injuries from writing or completing a book or there might have been high unemployment in the area and large redundancies in the company that had employed the plaintiff . |
| 8 | He says it could be a person who 's removing animal parts to make up a potion . |
| 9 | I suppose it could be a burglar who was surprised on the job ? ’ |
| 10 | In other words , she could be a girl who led a somewhat itinerant life in the habit of taking jobs in various parts of the country or moving about to live with different men . |
| 11 | It could be a roadmaker who has to fill a depression in order to continue with the road . |
| 12 | You see now if anything happened er it could be a provost who 'd the district who has n't anything to do with the Galashiels you see , the next one in every probability . |
| 13 | The source of infection may be a person who is incubating an infectious disease , or actually suffering from an infection , or recovering from one , or a carrier who is personally not affected but is harbouring pathogens which can infect others . |
| 14 | An example may be a traveller who has on previous occasions caused annoyance to other guests or in some way disrupted the inn . |
| 15 | He may be a grandfather who has survived heart surgery and likes nothing better than spending time with his family but , like a retired gunslinger who can only be pushed so far , he gives the impression of still being capable of strapping on a Colt 45 and facing up to a gaggle of tobacco-stained desperadoes . |
| 16 | An example of this would be a secretary who angrily snatches a piece of paper from the typewriter while shooting a glance at the manager who is standing too near for comfort . |
| 17 | On the strength of this exchange , Lewis realized that Havard would be a man who would enjoy meeting some of the people who had taken to dropping into his rooms at Magdalen on Thursday evenings . |
| 18 | And he would be a man who would not try to trample on her . |
| 19 | Chairman 's the person that can sit in with the group of people and is good in terms of receiving information from people and disseminating information and giving it back out again making sure that everybody 's being brought in so he 's a person really not not so much a leader but he will be a person who can keep the group together and can make sure that all the information flows around the group and that everybody 's getting a fair say a fair crack of the whip in terms of what 's going on in terms of orienting towards a task , so everything 's towards a task you need towards a task . |
| 20 | Other inhabitants of the new tank will be a plec who is outgrowing his community tank , and some young home-bred Leiocassis stenomus — sometimes called the false Bumble-bee Cat . |
| 21 | One can imagine the development of protest movements among those who have decided not to reveal their genetic identity , and there will be a fundamentalists who will never have themselves tested because they themselves do not want to know . |
| 22 | This point is proved by a prosecution witness who is usually a police officer , but sometimes can be a pedestrian who was not accorded precedence . |