Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] who [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this was the source of the visitors ' continuing jurisdiction in disciplinary appeals , then it was accepted that they would be amenable to judicial review , their situation being in certain respects comparable to that of a visitor to a university or college who holds that position by virtue of his office , cp the Queen as visitor of the University of Hull : see the Page case [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 , 1279 . |
| 2 | Rather , they recognise that such ‘ nonstandard dialects are highly structured systems ’ and that ‘ the adult or child who uses these rules must have formed at some level of psychological organisation clear concepts of ‘ tense marker ’ , ‘ verb phrase ’ , ‘ rule ordering ’ , ‘ sentence embedding ’ , ‘ pronoun ’ and many other grammatical categories which are essential parts of any logical system ’ ( ibid. p. 45 ) . |
| 3 | He said he had received five calls from angry parents or grandparents who had similar problems to the child portrayed on television . |
| 4 | Most land fell to the peasants who had tilled it for decades and the landlords or rentiers who held large amounts of land , renting it out or tilling it by hired labour . |
| 5 | Few , if any , of them had sons or relatives who took any part in it . |
| 6 | Star performers included Bill Holland of KPMG Peat Marwick who scored 95 of the Institute 's 250 for five wickets declared , and captain Feroze Dada of Freeman & Partners who took four wickets for 70 . |
| 7 | Singer Sebastien Bach , at No. 22 with Youth Gone Wild , says : ‘ I wanted kids to know it was n't just junkies or gays who get that disease . |
| 8 | You could have a family of maybe erm an older carer with a mentally handicapped son or daughter who receives various allowances , but whom the total income for that family is such that it is so low because of special circumstances , maybe the mother has to have special heating , or special diets , or whatever , as to be logical that we waive some or all of the charge . |
| 9 | If you can trust yourself to me in a cab we can travel back to Vetch Street in style , and if Matey is up try to think of an explanation that will not involve Rose , or men who trap young girls in alleys , or how I , fortunately for you , became separated from Stair and rescued you . |
| 10 | Few of the rulers or ministers who attempted far-reaching reform in these areas were much influenced by the Enlightenment and none advertised his adherence to its ideas as Frederick II and Catherine II did . |
| 11 | ( 5 ) Informational resources , so that the group or individual who has these resources is in a powerful position . |
| 12 | A parent or grandparent who has sexual contact with a child or grandchild may well be guilty of one of the offences already considered — rape , if there is sexual intercourse without consent ; indecent assault , if there is sexual contact with a child under 16 ; and even gross indecency with or towards a child , if the child is under 14 . |
| 13 | To provide a vehicle for self-help or consumerism ; that is , groups of families , dependants or sufferers who seek mutual support or a means of articulating their concerns . |
| 14 | Thus , in the sense that jewellers who keep valuable items in their shop-windows cause smash-and-grab raids and women who walk alone cause rapes , it may be said that the police do , in a sense , cause riots and lawbreaking merely by existing . |
| 15 | It has long been accepted that people make jokes about what frightens them and that groups who feel oppressed use humour as a way of releasing negative feelings to those in power . |
| 16 | Even at their most sophisticated these are based on the observation that individuals who hold senior government posts and individuals who run major businesses often have certain things in common . |
| 17 | The expectations hypothesis may be a good starting point , but it assumes that individuals who take unhedged positions in futures markets ( i.e. speculators ) expect on average to earn only the risk-free rate . |
| 18 | The CAP reforms also affect non-farmers and it has been proposed that an annual premium of 150 ECU per hectare would be payable for a period of 20 years to private individuals rather than farmers who afforest agricultural land . |
| 19 | The former solicitor general said that woman who bring false charges should be named . |
| 20 | In using this term I am not making the simplistic assumption that people who hold this position are sick . |
| 21 | Both states were regarded as not only undesirable but criminal : after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 , police prosecutions against homosexuals reached a peak in 1953/4 , while the scare headlines accorded by the press to the Clapham Common murder in the summer of 1953 lodged in the public 's heads the equation that people who wore Edwardian clothes would knife you at the drop of a hat . |
| 22 | It can not be too strongly stressed that people who use public parks enjoy seeing the building that was once its raison d'être . |
| 23 | There 's no situation so dire that people who love each other ca n't see it through . |
| 24 | It seems quite bizarre that people who play other people 's records for a living can reach these dizzy heights of stardom . |
| 25 | I myself take the view that the criminal justice process generally is the appropriate way to deal with criminal offending and I 'm not too happy with the idea that people who commit criminal offences should be dealt with outside the courts . |
| 26 | And the marketing shown that people who buy this product are mainly the young women in socio and ec economic groups A and B and er a lot of er women like to be like Yorkshire women |
| 27 | One interesting finding was that people who reported personal contact with suicide attempters were more likely to have hostile attitudes towards attempted suicide . |
| 28 | The originators of this stress-rating scale estimate that people who score 150 points have a 50 per cent likelihood , and those who score 300 have a 90 per cent likelihood , of developing a stress-related illness . |
| 29 | If name badges are worn , nurses need to remember that people who wear bifocal spectacles have difficulty in reading at that level , and any cues regarding inadequate vision should be noted . |
| 30 | We found that patients who developed abdominal pain had significantly higher median serum amylase and lipase values than asymptomatic patients , a finding that tends to validate abdominal pain as a marker of ‘ subclinical ’ pancreatitis . |