Example sentences of "who [vb base] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | REM sleep is thus even more clearly associated with dreaming in so-called " non-dreamers " than regular dreamers , who tend to report dreaming whenever they 're woken up ! |
| 2 | Most of her boyfriends have been collected at a time of crisis in their lives , lame ducks , my father calls them , who tend to move on when they have reorganised their existence , not wanting to be taken over . |
| 3 | Stephen Day , Guinness marketing manager for Kaliber , who witnessed Smithwick 's demise , admits : ‘ Ale drinkers tend to be older and more settled in their habits than the new young trialists who tend to go for lager , so it was more difficult to persuade them . |
| 4 | Intentionality is usually overlooked by causal theorists who tend to see their job as being to sort out the afferent limb . |
| 5 | There will , however , always be those who tend to see the negative side and may well suggest you ‘ do n't lose weight too quickly or you 'll look old ’ or ‘ you 'll only put it back on twice as fast if you lose it quickly ’ . |
| 6 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 7 | We also have the paradox that ( as Posner , 1972 , p. 153 admits ) those same people who tend to argue that the common law promotes efficiency also reject the idea that regulatory law does the same thing . |
| 8 | The corporate approach favours ‘ those less committed to service departments … groups interested more in policy analysis than in professional standards , and … those who tend to emphasise local circumstances rather than national standards . |
| 9 | The only people who tend to disregard this very practical and helpful arrangement are lawyers appointed as commissioners of public inquiries . |
| 10 | These falls have been due in part to straightforward changes in age structure : fewer children — who tend to increase average household size — and more elderly people — who tend to live in smaller households — will both lower the overall average household size . |
| 11 | I leave things like aftershave to my sons , who tend to drink it . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've tried to cross-reference food historians with cookery writers , who tend to brush aside the contribution of black slave cooks . |
| 13 | However , it is sadly the case that it is still true that there are er a number of landlords around who tend to control a lot of property , who er are charging er absurdly and unreasonably high rents in return for an appalling service . |
| 14 | Those who tend to vote against an incumbent government are not those who have become unemployed : rather , they are those who see the government as a weak and incompetent one . |
| 15 | This somewhat anthropocentric , ‘ managerial ’ approach to nature is in sharp contrast to that of the ‘ idealists ’ in the environmental movement who tend to advocate total protection for threatened species and habitats , de-industrialisation , and a return to non-intensive methods of food production . |
| 16 | Since Cisco first appeared in shops last year , local hospitals have reported an unusual number of teenagers ( who tend to like the relatively weak ‘ wine coolers ’ ) checking in with alcohol poisoning after drinking the stuff . |
| 17 | Those who tend to retaliate need to work on ways of coping with the way their immediate strong feelings cause them to behave . |
| 18 | What sorts of people tend to become politically active and who tend to remain relatively inert ? |
| 19 | Eight years on the problems have not decreased but they have increased er , even more so with the present problem of employers who tend to ignore health and safety using fear of unemployment to stop complaints . |
| 20 | ‘ Larks ’ are morning people who tend to wake up and get up early in the day . |
| 21 | Good meadow ha is ideal for sheep , who tend to waste the coarser fibres in ‘ see ’ hay . |
| 22 | It is girls who tend to stay at school longer and in the secondary cycle outnumber boys ( making up 52 per cent of total enrolment in 1985 ) . |
| 23 | These falls have been due in part to straightforward changes in age structure : fewer children — who tend to increase average household size — and more elderly people — who tend to live in smaller households — will both lower the overall average household size . |
| 24 | The home is a hazardous place , and not just if you are elderly , in fact more accidents happen to the young , who tend to rush about more and trip over things or fall down staircases . |
| 25 | Poets and novelists see the situation differently , and so , indeed , do many students , who tend to want something different from what their ablest teachers wish to give them . |
| 26 | In December 1990 Bob Haboldt gave his rationale behind choosing a large gallery as stemming from the different approach of Continental buyers , who like to stroll in and look , as opposed to clients who tend to make an appointment to visit his New York gallery in order to see a specific work . |
| 27 | First of all , they suggest that it may be possible to identify those people at risk of depression , that is , those who tend to make global , stable and internal attributions for failure , before they become depressed . |
| 28 | ( Curiously enough , it is often those who accept a belief system that the majority of the population considers bizarre or incredible who tend to have the most internally consistent systems of belief . ) |
| 29 | It is odd that this abstract term is applied , not to our lives , but to the activities of people who tend to have difficulty with abstract concepts . |
| 30 | One must remember , however , that most of these truisms derive from American ( or Japanese ) businessmen and commentators , who tend to have in mind such American companies as IBM and GE . |