Example sentences of "[Wh pn] be [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others were high school graduates who are keen to become religious affairs correspondents or religious broadcasters . |
| 2 | The eggs can be swallowed by children who are apt to put dirty fingers into their mouths ; the larvae may then migrate from the gut around the body . |
| 3 | The apparent drift from manufacturing and transport within the LDDC will have a particular impact on local women , who are unlikely to obtain worthwhile jobs in financial services . |
| 4 | The only people who are likely to experience extended periods of spontaneous regression are those who have been practising deep meditation over a prolonged period of time and have reached a high degree of competence in this field . |
| 5 | Last night , he told colleagues at a meeting of the economic and domestic policy sub-committee that he remained locked in a game of brinkmanship with the electricity generating firms who are reluctant to sign firm contracts on coal purchases until after seeing the white paper . |
| 6 | It is estimated that there are six million people in the UK who are able to use existing designs of bus only with great difficulty or not at all . |
| 7 | That is why they ca n't understand other people who are able to experience supernatural events . |
| 8 | The first sift has to be based on the written application , hence the need for a good form and experienced people who are able to make suitable assessments of candidates ' experience , and strengths and weaknesses against the requirements of the job . |
| 9 | Assistance is only available to those who are able to bring relevant proceedings to court in their own right . |
| 10 | There can be nothing really ‘ clinching ’ in philosophy : ‘ proofs ’ and ‘ disproofs ’ hold only for those who adopt certain premisses ‘ who are willing to follow certain rules of argument , and who use their terms in certain definite ways . |
| 11 | Standardisation needs to take place at another level as well ; this time amongst computer-using historians who are willing to attempt collective decisions about what information should be encoded in a machine-readable document and about how encoding decisions should be recorded for posterity and secondary analyses . |
| 12 | Shane may now be shorn of groping groupies and desperate sports hacks who ring him at five o'clock in the morning , but there 's certainly no shortage of England batsmen who are prepared to play dazzled rabbits to his Mack truck headlights . |
| 13 | There was a new management , who were eager to use top-class athletes for publicity purposes but appeared to want to give nothing in return . |
| 14 | Herbert who were concerned to protect civil liberties , outweighed any advantages to be gained from such legislation . |
| 15 | Ironically , it was the imperial British who were able to create syncretic styles which became distinctively Indian . |
| 16 | The essence of Hollywood was that it used actors who became real before the camera ; they were not ciphers there to be manipulated by an all-powerful director but they were actors who were able to combine natural qualities and varied skills and techniques in such a way as to create an on-camera identity . |
| 17 | This was especially so with people who were likely to borrow large sums of money , if they borrowed at all . |
| 18 | the same again , and who 's this whispering filthy suggestions |
| 19 | It is enough to mount a convincing argument , in this instance by someone who is prepared to get dirty hands for her convictions ; which is not to say that she must convince everyone . |
| 20 | This test ( Fenn 1979 ) was designed to determine whether a child who is able to understand single words can also understand the relationships which are expressed by different forms of word order . |
| 21 | The guidelines say that there should be no treatment given to cause death , at the request of a patient who is unable to make rational decisions for himself . |
| 22 | Few , however , go quite as far as Dickens , who is apt to bum great houses down . |
| 23 | It is not always the missionary who is reluctant to change outward forms . |
| 24 | Indeed , the only politician to emerge from the strike with his credibility strengthened has been the president of Kazakhstan , Nursultan Nazarbaev , who was able to persuade local miners to return to work , promising better conditions and his support for their demands . |
| 25 | In the summer of 1943 , the commander passed on his desk work at COHQ to Surgeon-Commander Murray Levick RN , an authority on endurance who was able to make major improvements in the COPPists ' diet with more meat , fresh fruit , and other foods not readily available in the ration allowances for most units . |
| 26 | She was not even able to read : though the family possessed an extensive library , Dona Marguerita had it kept locked and the key lodged with Padre Jorge , who was prepared to issue devotional books only , and that grudgingly . |
| 27 | The supreme importance of communications , in every sense , put a premium upon the man who was prepared to handle great sheaves of paper , the man at the desk , the bureaucrat . |