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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | While there may be Arab people who honestly desire peace , the world must realise that Israel only survives by putting fear into its enemies . |
| 11 | 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 . |