Example sentences of "who [verb] the rules " in BNC.

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1 Meanwhile , ‘ the earoles ’ are the ‘ respectable ’ students who obey the rules , get the better jobs but remain low down in the schoolchildren 's own counter-culture .
2 And who make the rules ?
3 ‘ The evilness of those in power who change the rules .
4 In the family Shanta married into , the head of the family was her husband 's cousin , and it was he who made the rules :
5 Mark is visibly angry with ‘ them ’ , the faceless bureaucrats who made the rules that nearly lead to his ruin .
6 She was Lady Hardwick 's protégée , and Lady Hardwicke was one of the grande dames who made the rules of that remarkable establishment .
7 How do you measure the contribution of organizations like Canadian University Service Overseas or the Methodist Church , who bent the rules to allow us to mail their supporters with our advertising literature ? .
8 The experts who provided the rules and facts used by the system , the knowledge engineers who formalized the knowledge , the programmers and analysts responsible for designing the inferencing and interface programs could find themselves liable if the advice generated by use of the system is incorrect .
9 He said : ‘ I am proud to be the Minister who changed the rules and delighted to be able to benefit schools in my own constituency .
10 In the main , Henry 's personal objectives were not very different from Anselm 's : he too wanted a well organized church , clergy who obeyed the rules of clerical life , and monasteries which met the needs of a feudal kingdom and baronage .
11 She was one of those people who obeyed the rules , who was cautious , and never irresponsible .
12 But the increasing threat of air pollution and the danger caused by those farmers who ignored the rules have meant a complete ban on stubble-burning .
13 It has always been able to impose penalties on parties who break the rules without permission , by the award of costs against them , but it has not been able to enforce the rules of its own volition .
14 Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear …
15 These machines are chess-playing calculators ; even the weakest is better than the average chess player ( someone who plays at the median strength of all those who know the rules ) .
16 Satisfaction for elderly people comes from being part of a cohesive group who know the rules , the politics and the history .
17 Other literacies make use of different convention and may , for instance , without any loss of clarity for those who know the rules , not mark sentence boundaries at all .
18 The problem is over who administers the rules .
19 Like all play , this drama depended on formal order , without which progress within a game and pleasure from a game are alike impossible : anyone who breaks the rules spoils the game , makes it a poor and foolish thing ( p. 20 ) .
20 Those who formulated the rules for admission to the College , who were afraid they might deter men from coming forward to train for membership of a still infant profession , limited the requirement for admission to an ability to read and write well — quite a severe restriction at the time — plus personal recommendation .
21 Those who operate the rules are not racist , for they merely follow procedures in a colour-blind way .
22 Oh , I 'm not complaining — I 've always made it my business to ensure that the women I meet are the sort who understand the rules and know how to play the game .
23 Equally , however , the constable and marshal of the army had authority delegated to them to try in their courts ( in which the military law was applied ) men such as deserters and those who broke the rules of discipline .
24 And who would say that enough was enough , and would take on the task of punishing those who transgressed the rules of the game ?
25 Mark ended his address by saying , ‘ The European and international trade war is really between those Governments who fix the rules of the game to suit themselves , and those who play the game according to Treaty of Rome rules .
26 These were the people , Anna thought affectionately , who knew the rules of village living , as of old .
27 ‘ If they have minds , ’ said Charles , who knew the rules of the game .
28 And it would be really nice to think that the one who keep the rules are going to get there .
29 Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear …
30 Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear …
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