Example sentences of "who [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They got in touch with the Northern Ireland Livestock Marketing Commission who agreed to become a joint sponsor , allowing our butchers to compete , ’ he said . |
| 2 | An officer who neglects to take a statutory sample which hindsight shows was necessary will find that his omission is more visible to senior staff than his taking a formal sample which is subsequently used in a prosecution by the authority . |
| 3 | They were supposed to leave the guns and the car to be collected by gunmen who planned to attack a nearby bar used regularly by soldiers . |
| 4 | Those who lived had a stark choice , submit , or … flee into exile . |
| 5 | If physical integrity is so highly valued , would it be inappropriate to make it clear that an offence would be committed by any normal adult who failed to see an obvious risk of physical harm to another ? |
| 6 | This may involve special categories of trader , such as the market maker , who is under an obligation ( by the exchange rules ) to quote a price in a given contract whenever asked ; the designated broker , who agrees to promote a particular contract without giving a binding commitment to deal ; and the " local " , who trades his personal account on the exchange floor . |
| 7 | Although these methods are fairly simple , very thorough and no doubt excellent for those who make interviewing a large part of their life 's work they are not particularly useful for those who may not need to exercise interviewing skills often but who want to use the interview to good effect when they do . |
| 8 | A prime minister who sought to push an unpopular agreement through was assassinated but a religious nationalist in March 1951 . |
| 9 | Cromwell returned from Ireland in 1650 to lead the English resistance to the threat from the Scots , and by his subsequent victories at the battles of Dunbar and Worcester he thwarted not only those who wished to see the return of the house of Stuart , but also those who sought to impose a Presbyterian church on the English people . |
| 10 | Although the Nursery is only a small unit , it is very much a part of the whole School and can therefore give to those pupils in the upper Senior School , who intend to pursue a child-orientated career , the opportunity of contact with young children by assisting in the nursery on a regular timetabled basis , while the Nursery children can benefit from their contact with their older ‘ brothers and sisters ’ within the Heriot 's Community . |
| 11 | Typically , this will benefit builders and developers who intend to make a taxable supply of property , but who , in a troubled property market , make short-term exempt lettings before making the taxable supply . |
| 12 | Having said that , there are other reinsurers both in Lloyd 's and in the commercial markets who have and who intend to run a profitable book of political risk reinsurance . |
| 13 | The new modules have been developed for two groups of students : those returning to S5 for a limited period of time , and those who intend to complete a full year 's programme of study in S5 or S6 . |
| 14 | An investor who needs to hold a particular asset in his portfolio for trading purposes may wish to exchange some of its expected return for a reduced variance in its return . |
| 15 | It 's a handy program for anyone who needs to send a large variety of business letters and who does n't want to faff about thinking of the right thing to say . |
| 16 | If this is your first experience in the role of main helper to someone close to you who has suffered a major loss , and if you have not yet suffered one yourself , you may find the strange variety and intensity of her emotions and her need for long-term support rather daunting . |
| 17 | There are many people , though , who can not bear to delve too deeply into this vast and painful subject , although they are anxious to know enough about it to enable them to act wisely when called upon to support and console a relative who has suffered a major loss . |
| 18 | Firstly , the woman or girl who has suffered a sexual assault is made to suffer again by having sensationalist accounts of their ordeal blazoned to the entire nation , defeating attempts to forget . |
| 19 | Whereupon Johnson observed that it did not necessarily follow ‘ that a man who has written a good poem on an art , has practised it ’ , citing excellently instructive verses on cider by a man never known to have made any . |
| 20 | The MoMA show will be the first sizeable examination of this subject in North America and has been curated by Riva Castleman who has written an accompanying brochure . |
| 21 | People always knock someone who has achieved a great deal in a short time . |
| 22 | It is difficult for us today to enter fully into the power that those ancient rituals must have generated , but anyone who has attended a religious revival meeting with its emphasis on repentance , tears and rebirth is in touch with the same forces . |
| 23 | Anyone who has attended a local event will have seen the Red Cross carrying out first aid duties but its work is far wider than most people realise . |
| 24 | Behind her attention-demanding façade lay the insecurity of a person who has endured an unhappy childhood , as the poet , Dom Moraes , later to become her third husband , discerned . |
| 25 | The Queen as Head of State gives overall stability to the political system and the Prime Minister as Head of Government is one who has served a long apprenticeship in parliament in high office of state and who is the elected leader of a party which has the confidence of the nation . |
| 26 | Also in the squad is assistant manager Mick Tait , who has served a four-match suspension following his sending off against Chester last month . |
| 27 | ‘ People might have though it was a stupid statement at the time — now they know I was right , ’ added Keegan who has named an unchanged team . |
| 28 | Champion child of courage Christopher Coyne , who has overcome an horrific illness Picture : FRANK LOUGHLIN |
| 29 | ‘ What 's this ? ’ said Piggy-wig , straddling a chair with the triumph of one who has mistressed a Zanussi automatic . |
| 30 | It will be the first time bosses have been allowed to officially join in the celebrations and it marks a victory for Lawrie McMenemy , who has conducted a 15-year campaign on behalf of fellow managers . |