Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Len 's mop of unruly fair hair always made him stand out in a crowded goalmouth but , even over 30 years later , he continues to stand out in the memories of Palace fans who saw him play for our club . |
| 2 | But it ran into early criticism from disabled shoppers who claim it discriminates against them , and from traders who fear it will hit business . |
| 3 | Most listeners who had something to say about the last-named found them either boring or incomprehensible . |
| 4 | Parents who questioned what appears to be an unwritten regulation have been told in each case that they are the only ones not co-operating … |
| 5 | Young single parents who have themselves learned by bitter experience what a limitation young parenthood can often be should be used imaginatively in schools to get this message across . |
| 6 | Support was evident from small business people whose firms were bankrupt , housewives who found themselves queuing for the basic necessities and civil servants and skilled workers whose salaries had fallen in real terms as a result of the inflation . |
| 7 | Each writer sought to give an overall biblical interpretation of his subject , but to do so in such a way as to be of practical value to modern Christians who found themselves perplexed by controversy on the subject . |
| 8 | Let us now suppose that our government falls under the influence of economists who advise it to treat as a trade off relation in the manner outlined above . |
| 9 | However , it was to the small farmer and small businessman , the very people who had failed to colonise the east , individuals who felt themselves beset by Poles , Jews and communists in ways they could not articulate , that the Nazis were to make their main appeal . |
| 10 | The principle of effective judicial protection is expressed by a provision on the three Sex Equality Directives ( 75/117 on equal pay , 176/207 on equal treatment in employment and 79/7 on equal treatment in social security ) which requires Member States to introduce into their internal legal order such measures as are needed to enable all persons who consider themselves wronged by discrimination ‘ to pursue their claims by judicial process ’ . |
| 11 | Poorly trained managers who found themselves faced with new , rapidly changing technologies developed technophobia out of fear of things they did not understand . |
| 12 | Guidance on the use of overtime is helpful to managers who find themselves faced with an immediate staffing problem . |
| 13 | Marrying again and starting a family had found her coping with a highly-gifted child , and this had led to her founding the National Association for Parents of Gifted Children in order to help families who find themselves thrown by their brilliant off-spring and to encourage local authorities to make provision for them . |
| 14 | Out of all the men who had liked her and wanted her , why did it have to be someone who thought her the most despicable of all cheats who made her yearn for something more ? |
| 15 | You published last week an account of our ordeal at the hands of burglars who left us barricaded for 37 hours in a tiny bathroom . |
| 16 | We found the taxi driver who took him and the girl to the station and witnesses who saw them get on the train . |
| 17 | Er we 're financed by grants from various authorities and by payments of course from the bodies who ask us to put on these talks . |
| 18 | One interesting aspect was that during the war the lines of debate were largely settled by civil servants ; the effective opposition was not a political party , but the Treasury and other departments who saw themselves threatened by a new , upstart Ministry of Town and Country Planning . |
| 19 | Neither the servants nor the king were amused by Pecham 's decree ; nor indeed were some bishops who had themselves risen to the episcopate on a mounting tide of benefices with and without cure of souls , and who were even now rewarding their own diocesan officers with a plurality of cures . |
| 20 | The Communist Party Central Committee complained in February 1932 : The Minority Movement is a small self-absorbed organization of leaders who have nothing to do with the real struggle of the workers and who instead of going to the workers , working among them and fighting against the reformist leaders in the Trade Unions , simply approach the workers with the invitation to take part in a highly elaborate organisational structure . |
| 21 | Alix was mousy , square-faced , healthy of complexion , and , even then , extraordinarily pleasant of expression , with a pleasantness that was at times radiant , and almost always irrefutable : she was wearing , as girls who had them did for their Oxbridge interviews in those days , a two-piece middle-aged suit of an oatmeal mix , with square shoulders and a straight skirt . |
| 22 | It was at Mroueh 's clinic that Waite met a group of Hezbollah members who asked him to go with them in November . |
| 23 | Any existing members who believe they qualify for this new rating category from the 1st May next should contact the Autocover staff at Frank Glennon Limited who will arrange for their premiums to be adjusted from their next renewal date . |
| 24 | Over the same period , Joe has been one of the players who helped it develop from its infamy as the so-called sign of a mis-spent youth to become a symbol of sporting success . |
| 25 | He and Ricky made friends with Captain Peter Blagrove and his wife Alice , wealthy , white Jamaican landowners who invited them to stay at their home . |
| 26 | A moment later the men who watched it explode from the verandah felt their ragged clothes begin to flap and flutter in the blast . |
| 27 | Graduates who attend them seem to be becoming increasingly fatalistic that they will go away empty-handed . |
| 28 | There are indications that the James-type account is the more popular among those few contemporary British philosophers who have anything to say on the subject . |
| 29 | The reservoir behind it , Lake Powell ( or ‘ Lake Foul ’ as it is called by environmentalists , who think it dishonours his name ) flooded 186 miles of Grand Canyon , which Powell and others who saw it described as the most beautiful of all the West 's river canyons . |
| 30 | Let us instead sing the praises of those who get us to smile — the Hundred Funniest ( say we ) People in Britain : those indomitable men and women who help us to cackle through our tears , and who , while they do n't make the bad times any better , certainly make them hurt less . |