Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] [adv] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully most of these people wash in the morning and use a shower ( those who do n't are probably compensated for by those who take baths ) … 5.3 billion showers equals an annual consumption of something like 160 billion gallons of water a year . |
| 2 | Those who make the right guesses early on are often seen as ‘ good ’ or intelligent students ; those who do not are often labelled slow or stupid . |
| 3 | People who think negatively are often proved right . |
| 4 | ‘ The Brazilians who come over are generally backed by food companies . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ People who drink heavily are probably knocking twenty years off their lives . ’ |
| 6 | They 're not interested in waiters really , especially waiters who have n't been badly hurt . |
| 7 | who have n't been promptly served |
| 8 | ‘ But that is a quite separate issue from the Alternative Services book which is an alternative way of enabling congregations who have not been well versed in Cranmerian language nevertheless to use a language which does reflect their longings and their prayers and can speak to them of God . ’ |
| 9 | In terms of the typology presented in Chapter 3 , it is the gentlemen farmers — the traditional village squires — who have probably been most affected and who have watched the newcomers add to the general decline of squirearchal power and influence . |
| 10 | Property owners , who have now been involuntarily joined by the banks , will need a tonic first , but I shall have already provided it — for what better tonic could that market have than cheaper money ? |
| 11 | She studied law , was called to the Bar in 1974 , and — falling within the top 5 per cent of all people who have ever been psychometrically tested for verbal critical reasoning skills — would have made a marvellous lawyer . |