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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ And anyway , ’ whispered another voice , and one that was rather more matter-of-fact because it was her own , ‘ there 's a young eagle out there called Creggan who needs to know a few things if he 's going to survive and be free . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | People always knock someone who has achieved a great deal in a short time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Also in the squad is assistant manager Mick Tait , who has served a four-match suspension following his sending off against Chester last month . |
| 24 | ‘ What 's this ? ’ said Piggy-wig , straddling a chair with the triumph of one who has mistressed a Zanussi automatic . |
| 25 | Even more tragically for the vicar is the fact that for many unchurched families he is simply a cog–in the death machine ; an impersonal professional who has to mumble a few words before the curtains swish and the coffin descends to the fires below . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 28 | Any human being who has eaten a bad oyster , spent a night in agony , and vowed never to touch oysters again , will understand this . |
| 29 | He glanced over at the mirror every time she came near , longing to speak , and he drank in her loveliness like a man who has crossed a barren desert . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll bring her , ’ said Caspar , and sat back and regarded them with the plump pleasure of a person who has reached a final decision . |