Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] who [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the Annual Report published in July , Hugh Laughland , Chairman of Stoddard Sekers International PLC , praised the efforts of all who worked for the company .
2 In a study of the association between family size and university education , each member of a random sample of all who graduated from a certain university in the last 20 years is asked for information on the number of brothers and sisters he or she has .
3 In the north transept of Polebrook 's Church of All Saints is a Memorial Book containing the names of those who served on the airfield and other memorabilia .
4 Some of those who served with the Forces on the continent were brought close to areas where their families had lived , or where friends and relatives had last been heard of .
5 Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages .
6 Without insider trading , however , the position of those who sell during the time required for the price to rise from $50 to $60 is radically altered .
7 The mixture of reactionary conservatism and political anti-semitism in the main represented a response of those who asked for a stable hierarchical society based on paternalistic deference .
8 He left the chamber without answer , knowing the fate of those who failed on an imperial mission .
9 Next morning , 19th July , all is quiet , and after breakfast I decided to pay a visit to the other Commando units ; 4 Commando and 3 Commando , lots of new faces , not many of those who landed on the 6th June are left .
10 ‘ There was too much emphasis on how fast we could grow , ’ he says , but adds that the company is still turning down about 70 per cent of those who apply for an Amex card .
11 He spoke of the state as mother , of the history of those who clung to the state as mother , of the psychology of those who wished to orphan themselves from the mother , of the novel oddity of a woman prime minister who was in fact a mother but was not nevertheless thereby motherly .
12 Some of those who stuck with the rebellion had to force their way through the Tory crowd and shake off the intimidation .
13 Other costs include the payment of sickness or invalidity benefits to those suffering from diseases caused by smoking and the payment of widow 's pension and other family social security benefits to the dependant 's of those who die as a result of their smoking .
14 A further trend could be for increasing numbers of small transactions with individual investors becoming involved , providing both management expertise and money , as some of those who benefited from the earlier buyout boom recycle their profits .
15 It was not too surprising , therefore , that one of the King , s former ministers , the Count of Lezay-Marnésia , should allow his daughter to become one of the Empress 's ladies , though he could not have known that his gesture would be immortalized , for she is one of those who figure in the famous painting by Winterhalter ( now in the Musée National du Chateau de Compiègne ) .
16 At the most general level , we can say that the electorate has not lived up to the hopes of those who looked to an active and informed public involvement in policies and elections .
17 Two films made by James Williamson , for example , deal with the hardships endured by the families of those who fought in the Boer War .
18 The founder of a support group for families of those who fought in the Gulf War has had his court appearance on theft charges adjourned for two weeks .
19 The introduction to the book states : ‘ The artist shows us two ongoing tragedies in the life of our Indo-African-America : the internal divisions and the existence of those who collaborate with the invaders .
20 The introduction to the book states : ‘ The artist shows us two ongoing tragedies in the life of our Indo-African-America : the internal divisions and the existence of those who collaborate with the invaders .
21 This development is particularly important in the study of those who wrote in the vernacular for laymen who were cut off from the richness of recollected prayer in the practice of the liturgy and in search of modes by which they could realise the substance of their faith .
22 That reconciliation was not Franco 's guiding principle was clear from the decree he had issued on 1 April 1939 ( the same day he had signed the final war bulletin ) , ordering that a monument be built " to perpetuate the memory of those who fell in the Crusade of Liberation " and to honour " those who gave their lives for God and the Fatherland " .
23 Of those who responded to a questionnaire , 83 per cent of women subscribers supported the principle of full membership for women .
24 The outlook is not entirely bleak and it is reckoned that of those who enrol at a clinic , for whatever reason , about 40 per cent will be drug-free within ten years , although within that time , too , 15 per cent of opiate addicts may well be dead .
25 Sir Adrian Cadbury is not one of those who subscribes to the popular theory that a truly professional manager can take over the helm of any type of business with only a superficial knowledge of the nuts and bolts .
26 This is certainly true of Mrs Wood and Things Past & Present ; of Scott Anderson and the stamps ; of Arthur Crawford and the plants ; and of those who help at the winter work-parties in the cellars where the books are stored .
27 Many young men were attracted to the profession of arms for its own sake , and the excitement and glory of successful war were reasons in themselves for service , but some at least of those who engaged with a captain may have been responding to pressures at home and in the local economy rather than to the material incentives that war offered .
28 Wasters , as old Sam once said , ‘ are their own worst enemies , though they are generally found amongst the ranks of those who rail at the injustices of the world . ’
29 About twenty per cent of those who went to the revival ( now to become an annual event ) remembered the tradition from prewar days .
30 Nearly a fifth of those who listened to the announcement , however , still believed the Martians had landed .
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