Example sentences of "a [noun] who [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All they had in common , to begin with , was this terrible need : Rich for a mentor who would make him grow , Philip for a pupil who would take on the weight of unspent devotion . |
| 2 | Will the right hon. Gentleman take on board the idea of giving the Prime Minister a mentor who could sit by his side for these last two days to help him out ? |
| 3 | His hero is a stick who would have contributed to The New Statesman . |
| 4 | One man is being questioned , and police want to trace a driver who may have dropped off three men in the area before the attack happened . |
| 5 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 6 | The great novelist , in Nizan 's eyes , should be an " anti-Dostoievsky " , that is to say , a writer who can at one level emulate Dostoievsky 's ability to transpose on to the literary plane the anguish and despair of men and women struggling alone and unaided in the midst of a tragic social situation , and yet who can at another level go beyond Dostoievsky , offer a coherent explanation of the specific historical situation in which men and women are trapped , and focus attention at the same time on the political means of combating the injustices of their social condition . |
| 7 | All in all , it seems a magisterial negligence towards a writer who must , one way and another , have paid a lot of her gas bills . |
| 8 | Was he a great man robbed of political success by his own misjudgement , or a pedant who should have stuck to his texts ? |
| 9 | For example , being kept awake by a sufferer who can not sleep having to be continually watchful of someone who may do dangerous things , and having to cope with continual questioning or aggression may become unbearable . |
| 10 | When FYT was formed in 1964 , the high-energy group which gave rise to it needed a chairman who could mediate between differing views and draw differing visions into workable policies . |
| 11 | We are here to serve the community and to have a vicar who ca n't is a very big embarressment . |
| 12 | Where the petitioner is found not to be entitled to have presented a petition or wished to withdraw his petition or allow it to be dismissed or fails to attend on the hearing , the court may substitute as petitioner any creditor who has given notice of intention to appear , wishes to prosecute the petition and is a creditor who would at the date of presentation of the petition have been in a position himself to present a petition against the debtor ( ie is presently owed more than £750 ) ( r 6.30 ) . |
| 13 | Yet they moulded their own lofty Oxbridge falling-over routines into a highly successful format — a trio of odd-job men on a bike who will do anything , anytime , anywhere — a gift , really . |
| 14 | His response to a Christian who might approach him with the request to convert to Hinduism would be to urge him to try to be a good Christian since the Gītā could offer him no more than the Bible . |
| 15 | However , a court might be prepared to accept ( for instance ) that it would be unreasonable for a manufacturer to exclude liability to a retailer who could not exclude liability vis-ρa-vis its customers . |
| 16 | ‘ Let me see your jewels , I might be able to find you a buyer who will give you a good price . |
| 17 | A woman I know has given me the name of a midwife who will come and otherwise I shall have to engage a nurse for the shortest time possible since I can not be without assistance when my time comes . |
| 18 | The was a photographer who used to say , ‘ Catch a butterfly ’ to the girls to make them smile . |
| 19 | Would there have been anybody like like a baker who would have baked it or |
| 20 | It 's a place you 'd be happy to leave , unless you 're a Garrimpero who must head back to work . |
| 21 | Therefore a fourteen-year-old teenage mother who is at school is in quite a different situation from a nineteen-year-old who may be working and married , and her pregnancy is usually viewed quite differently too . |
| 22 | Choose a horse who will suit your height and weight . |
| 23 | Given that the people had put him there , the Emperor envisaged it as his duty to be seen as the people 's servant — not just in the matter of governing but in his behaviour as a Sovereign who must associate the people with all aspects of his life . |
| 24 | I can not explain this sentiment unless it was that I observed that the members of the household appeared not to have perfectly learned their parts and also that having seen and known the Emperor for so many years in such a totally different position , his present one looked like a dream or a play ; but when each actor becomes acclimatized by time it will be a magnificent Court , with a Sovereign who will command the attention of all Europe . |
| 25 | Especially when she happens to have a half-sister who can provide her with a stable and secure home in London ? ’ |
| 26 | The man 's a fleecer who sha n't get away with it , and you … ’ she pointed a yellow finger at James , ‘ have a duty to inform on him . ’ |
| 27 | In the person of the ( non-academic ) Henry Newbolt , who subsequently was to chair the Departmental Committee , it found a figure who could articulate many of the themes to which both the fledgling discipline and the Association itself adhered . |
| 28 | The daughter of murdered Glasgow pensioner Agnes Law has described the killer as ’ a monster who must be caught . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I am not always a monster who will attack you . ’ |
| 30 | His side were not particularly inept on Saturday they were beaten by a side who would probably survive comfortably in the Second Division . |