Example sentences of "who [vb base] in [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The problem is that employers are apt to underestimate the value of direct discussion with executives who figure in their job-cutting plans .
2 Estimates of the proportion of patients with coeliac disease who present in their seventh decade or beyond have increased from 4% in 1960 to 27% in 1980 .
3 The Tories , on the other hand , put oaken boughs in their hats , claiming they did this not merely to commemorate Charles II 's famous escape at Worcester in 1651 ( where he had hidden in an oak tree to avoid the Parliamentary forces ) , but also to show " that with hearts of oak at the bottom , they will stand fast to the old English constitution both in church and state , in opposition to the miscellaneous tribe of atheists , deists , republicans … who triumph in their stolen wool " .
4 A simple expression of the difference between left and right ears or visual fields for each subject can be misleading since the same difference in scores may be obtained by subjects who differ in their overall level of accuracy .
5 How can he reconcile his selective greenness with a recent speech to the construction industry condemning conservationists as ‘ the rich socialists who live in their converted farmhouses ’ ?
6 We all recognise the need for it and recognise how vulnerable people are who live in their own homes . ’
7 The first is to design and construct local services for the majority of mentally disordered people who live in their own homes and who may use mental health services for only a few weeks every few years .
8 On the one hand are those adult educators who see in it exciting possibilities to extend the concept of adult learning , making it more relevant to the issues and problems facing ‘ disadvantaged ’ groups , helping them to participate more effectively in society , gaining more recognition and resources , removing gross inequalities and injustices .
9 the foresters attach to come before them men who work in their own ground , making ‘ hoes ’ to sow corn , although the King had no demesne there : and they say that they have made waste and purpresture if they do not their will for having peace ; from each man holding land they will have the skin of a lamb or a farthing , and they say that is their fee .
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