Example sentences of "who [modal v] [adv] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others , who may not have had such a happy relationship with their parents in the past , take on care out of a sense of duty . |
| 2 | This solves the common law problem where a particular purpose is made known by a consumer to a dealer who may not have had ostensible or actual authority to receive such communication on the part of the financing institution . |
| 3 | This is an advantage to the consumer , but not necessarily to the manufacturer , who may well have made both ! |
| 4 | Much better news awaits those who may well have dismissed all ideas of Caterham ownership with one thought of the insurance bill . |
| 5 | To the old long-stay patients re-established in community settings and the younger chronic patients who may never have become institutionalized should be added the relatively small but significant number of mentally abnormal offenders whose discharge from special hospitals gave rise to the 1975 Report of the committee on mentally abnormal offenders ( Cmnd. 6244 ) , together with the growing number of elderly people with mental health problems , including dementia ( Health Advisory Service , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | In that case , the only people who may be available to give warranties may be any major shareholders and/or directors , who may then wish to receive some form of indemnity against liability from other shareholders . |
| 7 | And people who might even have voted Labour , or Lib Dem at the general election , at the first opinion poll they 'll say they vote Conservative . |
| 8 | The recently bought simulators will be used to teach pilots from Virgin and other airlines who might otherwise have to spend thousands for training from American companies . |
| 9 | In addition , it should be observed that although the Act of 1988 entered into force on 1 December 1988 , the validity of registrations effected under the former system was extended by section 13 until 31 March 1989 , and hence owners and operators who might not have fulfilled that requirement in the past were given a reasonable transitional period in which to comply therewith . |
| 10 | And let's think about it , there are many people in this county who receive home help service , for instance , who could well afford to pay these charges , and we in the Liberal Democrats see that we can augment the service with the income we get from these charges . |
| 11 | These meetings were originally suggested during the 1860s as a solution for visitors who could not manage to visit individual homes regularly enough . |
| 12 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 13 | The biggest landowners , who could best afford to erect new dwellings with a reasonable standard of construction and sanitation , had the least incentive to do so — indeed , as the principal local ratepayers they might easily penalize themselves by attracting workers who could later apply for poor relief . |
| 14 | I looked around and was excited by it all , and I wondered to myself given the chance , who could possibly want to miss all this ? |
| 15 | Furthermore , evidence was described to support their contention that the events were of formative importance , and were not merely serving to trigger depression in a woman who would shortly have become depressed anyway . |
| 16 | But there was a lo lots of these youngsters who would n't prepared to do this picket business . |
| 17 | ‘ There are many who would not like to see this thing progress . ’ |
| 18 | While the basic aim of a service should be to provide people with ordinary homes of their own , there are many former long-term hospital patients who would not wish to live alone after many years of living in close proximity to other patients ; such people may feel more comfortable living in a three- or four-person flat or house , or perhaps in a sheltered group of flatlets where communal dining rooms and recreational facilities echo the arrangements in ordinary sheltered accommodation for elderly people . |
| 19 | Walkers who would not dare stroll half a mile in inner cities thought nothing of walking 190 miles across the fells , dales and moors from St Bee 's in Cumbria to Robin Hood 's Bay in North Yorkshire . |
| 20 | It is even possible that now and again an extra long detour may have caused us to walk below the windows of Braemar Mansions ( ‘ not mansions , ’ wrote Ivy , ‘ but converted out of houses ’ ) , little knowing that there sat the sibyl who would completely have understood all our troubles . |
| 21 | The result [ of legal advice ] is that in many cases a detainee who would otherwise have answered proper questioning by the police will be advised to remain silent . |
| 22 | On the Government 's own figures , over 30% of those who would otherwise have received legal aid next year would lose it as a result of the proposed changes . |
| 23 | The Libyan Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation Secretary Ibrahim Bashari claimed on April 27 that the air embargo had led to the deaths of " hundreds of children " who would otherwise have received medical treatment abroad or who had been deprived of vaccines which had to be imported . |
| 24 | As it turned out , she would have done better to have stayed on her pillow , for there she might have been found by Maud or Enid who would possibly have put two and two together at the curious sight of a cat and frog nestling on the same bed . |
| 25 | Some girl who would never need to make such explanations , some girl who had been bred in a world which did not admit such dresses . |
| 26 | The artists lived as one extended bickering family and writers and painters who would never have seen each other before the war were thrown together . |
| 27 | The SDP were likely to be a far greater danger to us , as disgruntled ex-Conservative voters who would never have voted Labour in a million years turned to a cosy middle party . |
| 28 | Peasant enclosures , however , were not so likely to do this as those by greater men , whose lands were sufficiently extensive for them to support large flocks and who would therefore have found such a conversion of land usage economically worth while . |
| 29 | The boy who ca n't help falling asleep . |
| 30 | There 's also a market there for people who ca n't afford to buy new product , and obviously still the engine 's still got life in it . |