Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] who [adv] [vb base] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have become a prime target for teenage joyriders who often set fire to stolen cars when they have finished with them . |
| 2 | It promises higher top-rate income taxes for individuals and corporations — and on the wealthier retirees who also receive government benefits . |
| 3 | Turning now to the representatives of old age who actually believe age is an automatic disqualifier , let us scrutinise the sorts of replies , among which this was typical : ‘ Capability should be the main criteria ( sic ) , but 70 years of age should be the limit . ’ |
| 4 | Not only clever , but extraordinarily attractive to women — and wealthy , of course , and it 's a sad fact of life that there are people in this world who only see money , only see advantage — and you would n't believe the number of begging letters he receives . |
| 5 | When the conversation turned to sex the interviewer asked , ‘ We 've heard that some women who ordinarily have difficulty achieving orgasm find themselves capable of multiple orgasms under LSD . |
| 6 | I presume there are people with second homes who actually have money which they 've put aside for the right property . |
| 7 | However , it is a staggering fact that 9 out of 10 people who successfully lose weight on a " diet " put the weight back on again afterwards . |
| 8 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 9 | Three winners who always put safety first |
| 10 | A body does n't look like the product of a loose and temporary federation of warring genetic agents who hardly have time to get acquainted before embarking in sperm or egg for the next leg of the great genetic diaspora . |
| 11 | At the Tribute and subsequently in Seville , it must have been great to be surrounded by so many people who openly acknowledge Queen as a huge influence . |
| 12 | The 4,244 members who now have library tickets borrowed 12,087 items in 1992 and the library was used approximately 22,000 times in total . |
| 13 | Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981 ) describe BSL users with over 20 years ' experience of work with deaf people who still describe BSL as a ‘ secret language ’ among the deaf , or ‘ their language ’ , or ‘ low verbal language ’ . |
| 14 | Of those universities who also support Ph D research in Scottish geology , Edinburgh 's students and staff have consulted 100 of the theses in data set C. For the major universities researching in the field , the numbers of thesis borrowers from particular universities are in proportion ( ratio nearly 1:1 ) to the numbers of Ph D theses produced in these universities . |
| 15 | I can see his point of view , and will take the opportunity to express my appreciation of those farmers who cheerfully give permission with no more than the usual reminder to shut the gates . |
| 16 | If we establish a hierarchy of psychological normality , those characters who predominantly speak verse can fall down into prose when they lose their reason : Ophelia , Othello , Lear , Lady Macbeth . |
| 17 | For those critics who still see AI as a white Western organisation , such sights would have stunned their criticisms . |
| 18 | But postmodernist culture is often consumed , though differently ( e.g. a film like Robocop ) , by both those ( 1 ) who use the categories of every-day life , and ( 2 ) those with the specialized classificatory frameworks who then see postmodernism in terms of transgression of modernist conventions . |
| 19 | The basis for this offer is the fact known by the cops and the criminals that the judge in the case has a history of giving reduced sentences and often clemency to guilty criminals who truly show remorse ; the judge also believes that co-operation with the police is proof that a criminal regrets his behaviour . |
| 20 | But the shows triumph has been its appeal not just to the unaddressed , naff masses , but also to a fashionable audience of discerning clubbers who never set foot in the kind of clubs the programme broadcasts from , and to the extremist yuppie subgroup that reads both the Sunday Times and the Sunday Sport . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's so unfair on other ex-prisoners who genuinely need help and who need to be decently dressed in order to try and get a job . ’ |
| 22 | While there may be Arab people who honestly desire peace , the world must realise that Israel only survives by putting fear into its enemies . |
| 23 | erm in , I mean obviously there 's gon na be some of our some of our members I mean if I identify one Ros from , from COHSE , but I daresay other , other unions er have erm have one or two members who actually work night duty . |
| 24 | A return to downland would be popular with walkers , with Britain 's 3 million paid-up members of nature conservation organisations , its 10 or 20 million ‘ green consumers ’ , with local people who now suffer spraydrift , and with consumers of water . |