Example sentences of "who own the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In the summer of 1976 , for example , a dispute between members of the group Gong over who owned the rights to the name resulted in the Virgin offices being ‘ occupied ’ by the group 's followers — a motley congregation of men , women , children and animals , with the appearance of refugees from Gandalf 's Garden .
2 The reality of such choice depended on whether a reader cared who owned the papers .
3 The trustees who owned the papers were not too sure .
4 One of the main problems here was lack of water for washing the ore , and by the early nineteenth century the Duke of Devonshire , who owned the workings , had built a watercourse and an underground drainage channel to allow deeper shafts to be sunk .
5 He was no longer a farmer , just an ordinary man who owned the clothes he was wearing and nothing more .
6 In the case of oil , for example , the raw material was in one republic , the petrochemical plants were in another , the scientific research was conducted in a third and the extracting equipment was in a fourth ; and who owned the pipelines that passed from one republic to another ?
7 Behind the drivers lay the real power-brokers , the people who owned the drivers .
8 POLITICIANS MAY BE squabbling over who owns the bombs and ordinary Russians and Ukrainians may be queuing for three hours for a sausage , then three more for a potato , but some good news is coming out of what was once the Soviet Union .
9 There will be occasions where there is no indication with the title deeds as to who owns the boundaries and in that case custom and practice will prevail .
10 But with 500 officers of the KGB Foreign Veterans Association all with stories to tell , as well as offshoots from the KGB making their files available to the highest bidders , it is not clear who owns the rights to which stories .
11 Producer Cubby Broccoli , who owns the rights to the 007 character , has finally settled a long-running legal battle with movie company Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer .
12 Former pop star Dave Clark , who owns the rights to the Sixties music show , said yesterday he had clinched a deal with Channel 4 to screen 13 of the original episodes next year .
13 Ask just who legally owns the land in Israel — who owns the deeds to the houses and orchards and blocks of property parcelled out under the British mandate — and the irritation turns to open annoyance .
14 If it is external , who owns the designs ?
15 I 'm not sure who owns the dogs , I 'll come back to you later on that .
16 Do you think this er really goes back to the fundamental issue which the Good Committee did n't really address which was the issue of ownership of the pension funds and assets and that whilst pensioners and to an extent employers these days regard the pension fund as deferred pay and pensions payments as deferred pay , the ownership of those funds is still left erm neither still er an argument about wh wh who owns the funds and er a lot of this follows on from that .
17 The Red Pepper bar is full of a lot of rowdy helicopter pilots who work for much richer men who own the helicopters they pilot .
18 Like Marx , Weber argues that the major class division is between those who own the forces of production and those who do not .
19 ‘ Now , the white people who own the plantations are much too lazy to do the work themselves and that is why they buy black slaves from Africa to do it for them .
20 Could I draw this one to a close by suggesting that the procedure owners , who own the procedures identified in the take on board the need to make a minor adjustment to set the principle in place and the .
21 These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood .
22 It would not work because it assumes compliance by those who own the assets and resources , other than labour , of industry ; and that assumption ignores that there inheres in ownership an inalienable right to determine whether , and if so how , to use those assets and resources .
23 Erm throughout this you know since we 've since we 've been talking you you very clearly have given me erm picture of the people who own the quarries and own the and have the erm of the directories .
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