Example sentences of "who [verb] [vb pp] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will not examine all of them but we will take random samples and check to see if anyone who has registered for gross interest also has a file at one of our tax offices — which they should not normally have as only non-taxpayers should be registered for gross interest . |
| 2 | Glamorgan have also given a trial to Stewart Taylor , 20 , a left-arm spinner from Dublin who has played for Irish Schools . |
| 3 | Those who advise students say the pressures on those who seem destined for great things is enormous . |
| 4 | No , I , I , I 've only got this company to compare with you see , so there are others who 've worked for other companies in , in the industry . |
| 5 | The crisis-ridden years of 1961–2 had dampened the optimism of those who had hoped for new initiatives to end the Cold War . |
| 6 | The pumping was said to be done by Germans , faultlessly disguised as British officers , or even , it had been whispered , by genuine British officers who had fallen for German propaganda . |
| 7 | This last-minute addition went some way to satisfying the psychiatric lobby who had pressed for continuing health authority control . |
| 8 | Arafat 's stance of " positive neutrality " had been criticized by more militant leaders , who had pressed for military support for Iraq and the opening of a " second front " against Israel in Lebanon or the occupied territories . |
| 9 | UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , who had appealed for international aid on May 3 , made a subsequent emergency appeal on May 17 for $168,000,000 . |
| 10 | They worked steadily , dealing first with patients who had come for audio testing , an important part of the health screening programmes that were regularly carried out on members of the workforce . |
| 11 | But when it arose in the 16th Century , it simply denoted a man who had opted for worldly pleasure by marrying , in contrast to a cleric who stayed celibate . |
| 12 | Many of the most committed Calvinists , who had wrestled for lengthy periods with the doctrine of predestination before finally convincing themselves of the assuredness of their salvation , reacted with fury and outrage to Arminius 's teachings , and in the United Provinces the resulting theological controversy provoked a major political crisis , culminating in the defeat of the Arminians at the Synod of Dort in 1618 . |
| 13 | On March 21 it was announced that members of the armed forces who had left for political reasons after June 1978 were to be reinstated . |
| 14 | But unless she is lucky she will also meet others who have opted for different solutions to the problem of how to be a teacher . |
| 15 | Buyers who have paid high prices do not discover that they could have obtained the same goods at lower prices ; sellers who have sold for low prices do not discover that they could have obtained higher prices . |