Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] who [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They identified two distinct social problems : the ‘ low , loafing class ’ , the ‘ residuum ’ at the bottom of society , the very poor and irregularly employed who constituted a permanent problem ; and the élite of respectable labourers who suffered occasional problems of poverty due to unemployment , sickness and old age . |
| 2 | The wheel is more aerodynamic than traditional spoked wheels and avoids the problem that dogs many professional cyclists who use solid disc wheels — that of being blown sidewards by crosswinds . |
| 3 | The ‘ lobby ’ is the shorthand term for the club of political journalists who attend off-the-record briefings with the prime minister 's press secretary . |
| 4 | For the same reasons that the female is more likely to acquire infection in the throat than her male sexual partner , the homosexual male who practises oral sex is more likely to be infected in the throat than his heterosexual equivalent . |
| 5 | Belonging to a generation of British artists who make biomorphic compositions , MacIlraith has not made paintings for six years , although he exhibited his drawings with Anthony Brown in 1991 . |
| 6 | Laura , for instance , had two younger brothers , who were not settling very well into the stockbrokers ' firm in which they had been placed , and numerous uncles , one of them an old horror who obtained Scandinavian au pairs through advertisements in The Lady , and then , of course , her Norfolk cousins . |
| 7 | Few researchers who use this method regularly will not have doubted , at one time or other , that these assumptions are not always met . |
| 8 | Dark ages ; but there are a few performers who take these pieces seriously , and their beacons light the path for others to follow . |
| 9 | The means-tested payment for home helps meant that some clients who needed such help were refusing it because they had to pay for it . |
| 10 | The few Marxists who devoted serious attention to the problem of nationality and nationalism — above all , Otto Bauer and Karl Renner — also approached it from a class standpoint . |
| 11 | Thirdly , we 're trying to make sure that children who can best benefit by foster care , er do get foster parents , and we 've had a big er initiative this last twelve months , you probably know about , and that 's paying off , and we hope in the future only children going into residential homes who need residential care will get there . |
| 12 | He matured into a distinguished mathematician who enriched many branches of the science before he died at the age of only 44 from a ruptured appendix . |
| 13 | Our college 's initial provision for ‘ students with special needs ’ was established in 1978 — a ‘ discrete ’ course for students with moderate learning difficulties or , in some instances , school leavers from high schools who needed extra support before joining training schemes . |
| 14 | ‘ This boy who lived next door to me taught me how to shoplift for him . |
| 15 | There were some engineers who wanted more experimentation and more rapid adoption of larger sizes or re-heat , arguing that , while Britain had at last caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency in 1938 , she was now again falling behind . |
| 16 | Drama must , perforce , have an ultimate target and destination and that was always the Clarion call to the earlier distinguished folk who trod these boards . |
| 17 | A three year old girl who fell twenty feet from a window and survived is back at home . |
| 18 | In my own school , the nursery teacher drew attention to a four year old girl who showed remarkable judgement in handling quantities of water . |
| 19 | He 's handsome , he 's fit , he 's a self-made millionaire and he 's the strident enigma who spent five years dragging Glasgow Rangers into the twentieth century . |
| 20 | Over at Hill Gill Farm there was another lady who had musical talent — Mrs Annie Bainbridge . |
| 21 | Baguley , who works for Manchester City council , is the national Class Two champion while runner-up Woffinden was a member of the British team who won silver medals in the 1991 World Cup in Portugal . |
| 22 | Members of a social group who share similar circumstances and a common subculture will be likely to develop a group identity . |
| 23 | Exploitation for Marx is the process by which a group of people are deprived of the full value of their labour so that what they have lost becomes a surplus for another group who obtain this element . |
| 24 | The poor standard of some marine retailers who sell difficult-to-keep fish and inverts to beginners and do not care for their stock properly |
| 25 | They may well be as overjoyed as all the erstwhile opponents in high places who brought such pressure to bear on the republic while apartheid existed . |
| 26 | Do the mindless individuals who use unspeakable language in the streets and hurl vile insults at Her Majesty 's representatives and other dignatories ever pause to reflect that our standard of living , our Welfare State services … our economic health all depend on our links with Great Britain ? |
| 27 | But , in the Jewishness stakes , sweetheart , the kosher ayatollahs who run this neighbourhood would place you somewhere between a Tibetan lama and the fairy on top of the Christmas tree . |
| 28 | The object of the Act was to protect the minority of unwary consumers from possible exploitation by the minority of unscrupulous lenders who took unfair advantage for their own gain of their ‘ victims ’ ignorance . |
| 29 | The egocentric and performative aspects of mental and speech acts by historical individuals who use such expressions to make statements , ask questions , etc. , naturally enough , often have a direct bearing on the meaning of what is said on a given occasion , and this points to an area of phenomenological problems that needs to be carefully explored if the complexity of the problem of meaning is to be fully understood . |
| 30 | Although by the turn of the century most of the food adulteration that had characterised the nineteenth century grocery trade had disappeared , customers were still cheated by unscrupulous retailers who gave short weight by including an excessive amount of packaging around products such as tea . |