Example sentences of "who [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference was attended by delegates from 130 countries , who agreed that future talks should concentrate on identifying " appropriate commitments " to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) and other greenhouse gases , and on providing aid to Third-World countries in developing less polluting industries . |
| 2 | The outreach approach has now been successfully attempted by many projects and institutions confirming the view of those who insist that educational institutions must be more open and outgoing if they are to provide a worthwhile community education service . |
| 3 | In the rush to install childcare facilities , there are those who fear that such provisions will be badly planned and hastily constructed , with little thought for the children 's needs . |
| 4 | There were those who argued that such action would alienate world opinion and sabotage the chances of a diplomatic solution . |
| 5 | Against those who advocated the end of any separate provision for the mentally ill were those who argued that some patients could best be helped by care within specialized institutions provided these were not huge , obsolete in design and rigidly organized . |
| 6 | This resource was fully realised by the Home Office who recommended that deaf men should be recruited as Air Raid Wardens ( A.R.P 's ) and firewatchers , and many deaf men did in fact serve in these capacities , and also as stretcher-bearers in air-raid conditions . |
| 7 | Silly literary prig , I thought , and how typical of a man who thinks that good writing can only be learnt from good reading to find spiritual anguish unreal . |
| 8 | The relatively liberal de Graaff had been replaced as Governor-General by de Jonge , a hardliner ( it was he who pronounced that Dutch rule would continue for another 300 years ) , and the Colonial Minister was H. Colijn , whose notorious book , Colonial Problems of Today and Tomorrow ( 1928 ) , had declared that the Indonesians could not expect self-government ‘ in the humanly foreseeable future ’ : indeed , he dismissed the notion that there was any Indonesia : ‘ The islands … are a unity for the reason that they compose the Netherlands Indies and for that reason alone . ’ |
| 9 | On the question of unresolved property claims ( numbering 1,200,000 , of which 10,000 were for businesses ) the Cabinet agreed on March 12 that until the end of 1992 investors who created or sustained jobs should be given priority over previous owners [ for agreement on property rights and ownership regulations in unification treaty see pp. 37536 ; 37661 ] . |
| 10 | To prove wrong those who say that any dieter will have put back the weight ( and more ) 12 months after losing it — 12 months on and 18 lbs ( 8.2 kg ) down , I 'm still a ‘ Hip and Thigh ’ fan . |
| 11 | It is a conclusion that need not worry supporters of inequality but which should cause concern to those who believed that social services could and would create a more equal society . |
| 12 | Anyone who imagined that precise experience would know its full intrinsic nature but they might or might not realize that this was a good experience . |
| 13 | The Vicar , who was a closet gay , and the local solicitor , who reckoned that such development would triple the price of his house , both thought Dancer was splendid . |
| 14 | Applicants who consider that this exception may apply to them should seek detailed advice by writing to the Registry . |
| 15 | Applicants who consider that this exception may apply to them should seek detailed advice by writing to the Registry . |
| 16 | The method of study developed by Leeds can be traced back as early as 1912 in his career ; however the formulation of the theoretical framework was achieved by the prehistorian Gordon Childe who stated that prehistoric archaeology should be ‘ devoted to isolating such cultural groups of peoples , tracing the differentiations , wanderings and interactions ’ ( 1933 p. 417 ) . |
| 17 | The real problems came from studies by people like Tolman ( 1932 ) , Crespi ( 1942 ) , and Lashley ( 1963 ) , who showed that behavioural change can come about too rapidly for incremental learning to explain it and that what animals learn is not a set of reflexes but the location of desirable objects and events . |
| 18 | It 's already competitive for most remote site applications , says Shah , who reckons that distributed integration will be cost-competitive by the end of the decade . |
| 19 | Because of her sympathy with the child 's point of view , and her belief that young children are frequently underestimated , Donaldson is sometimes associated with those educationalists who are opposed to formal education and who maintain that young children will learn all they need to know in informal contexts outside of school . |
| 20 | Students who pass that initial stage will pass on to RAF or RN units for advanced training . |
| 21 | The superimposition of massive conventional forces on what should have been an atomic strategy , made no sense to Churchill , who appreciated that financial pressures would reduce rather than increase the number of divisions that Britain could contribute to Western European defence . |
| 22 | Those who believe that such insistence would ‘ infringe civil liberties ’ should appreciate that this liberty is valueless if wise judgment is so impaired by lack of insight that sufferers from the underlying illness can use this liberty only to their detriment . |
| 23 | The use of such tests is a controversial issue , with on the one hand , anti-abortion lobbies arguing that life begins at conception and that therefore all abortion is wrong , through to womens ' groups who believe that such tests should be available to all pregnant women of all ages , so that those who do not wish to take the risk of giving birth to a mentally handicapped child may take the appropriate actions to prevent it . |
| 24 | His departure now is seen as the result of a power struggle between those who believe that some wildlife can be privately owned and managed for profit , and those who think all wildlife should belong to the state . |
| 25 | It is favoured by all those who believe that institutional practices can be changed by persistence and goodwill , and by those who understand that the best way to defeat feminism is to co-opt its radical and rebellious potential . |
| 26 | In this respect it is in agreement with those theorists who claim that social psychology should be an historical discipline . |
| 27 | Temperament in the recording studio was subject considered by a recording manager , C.L. Ricketts , who felt that artistic temperament could be divided into two kinds , conceit and nervousness . |
| 28 | The trend towards a more nationalistic variety of communism , independent of Moscow and resting on the approach of mass mobilisation advocated by Mao , inspired those Korean communists who felt that this approach could prove valuable for their own party in the future . |
| 29 | Many others , however , agreed with the sole practitioner who felt that unlimited liability ought to be accepted as part of the ‘ burden and responsibility of being a member of a profession ’ . |
| 30 | A referral was received concerning an elderly woman who knew that residential care would be necessary at a future point ; she was assessed in the normal way , and placed on the waiting list . |