Example sentences of "who have spent their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among politicians who have spent their lives working within the seemingly fixed assumptions of the Cold War came a sobering recognition of the speed and scale of events , which even prompted Mrs Thatcher to stress that talk of a reunited Germany was ‘ going much too fast . |
| 2 | Invitations to royal garden parties are despatched each year to worthies across the land who have spent their lives raising money for charity or supervising the work of the council sewers and drains committee . |
| 3 | Those who have to make the decision whether to keep or discard are often people who have spent their lives among books . |
| 4 | Westermarck ( 1891 ) believed that satisfying sexual relationships are not formed between people who have spent their childhood together . |
| 5 | Mike Stein demonstrates that this is another area of child care in which there has been no large-scale research , but the numbers of small studies available show that the ‘ crude stereotype ’ of care leavers being 18-year olds without families , who have spent their lives in large institutions , must be abandoned . |
| 6 | Students , she says , fall into two categories : those who have spent their school-days having fun and now risk getting useless grades , and those with high-grade offers from universities who are scared that they might miss their target . |
| 7 | We see something of this sort in France , where large companies are often run by men who have spent their entire previous careers in government service . |
| 8 | Many people who have spent their holidays in that country , as I have , shake their heads in disbelief as they watch what is happening . |