Example sentences of "who [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scenes like this leading to brief encounters between couples who may scarcely know each other , can some say , cause confusion about sexual etiquette . |
| 2 | It attempts to identify the significant differences between a course designed primarily for users and a course designed for specialists who may also become future developers and implementers . |
| 3 | Training centres are hard-pressed and insufficient in numbers and , with job prospects gloomy for all young people , the now older parents may find it hard to cope with the constant supervision of a young mentally handicapped person who may still exhibit child-like exuberance . |
| 4 | ( He does not even make any special point about the dishonesty which there would seem to be in doing this when acceptance of those claims is not the cause of one 's own attitude — to do so would be , from his point of view , to play the moralist rather than the philosopher who should simply describe ethical discourse . ) |
| 5 | But the charity does aim to offer the chance of life to millions who 'll otherwise become mere statistics of a human tragedy . |
| 6 | I suppose you 're the only one in the Marlowe family who 'll ever attain that status — ’ |
| 7 | And landlords and people of substance , who might normally offer charitable relief of their own , would certainly guard their purses as long as the government declared itself to be the great provider . |
| 8 | ‘ The bright child who might possibly get nine GCSEs is going to be pushed to go in for more and more . |
| 9 | Mark ( who might actually do some work today ! ) |
| 10 | Very few athletes enter sport without the assistance and encouragement of a teacher who might innocently create serious tensions , as with Jackie Jackson , whose PE teacher strengthened her commitment to athletics , a commitment which proved destructive to her educational aims , as she pointed out : ‘ I was spending so much time in athletics that I could n't give enough time to my ‘ A ’ levels . ’ |
| 11 | As the number of jobs in manufacturing has fallen , people who could previously expect full-time work have found themselves excluded from paid employment , often for considerable periods . |
| 12 | On the other hand , why should a successful man , who could doubtless have any woman he fancied , be interested in her — plain Alice Pritchett from a simple working-class background ? |
| 13 | He was a big man in an unbuttoned dinner jacket , someone who could probably shave three times a day and still show a five o'clock shadow . |
| 14 | She turned a furious damp face on Rossendale who could only shrug mute agreement . |
| 15 | I think Dad was the kind of person who could only love one person in his life . |
| 16 | The ICA suggested as a cheaper alternative that firms could simply be required to forward their 5-weekly reconciliations to their reporting accountant , who could then undertake appropriate tests and verify compliance in his or her report . |
| 17 | His and Charles 's lives were to run closely parallel — brothers who could never ignore each other , whether as colleagues , or competitors . |
| 18 | The whole truth of course he had not sussed out , for who could possibly imagine that luck of hers , which had caused the telephone to ring at precisely the right moment . |
| 19 | To hypothesize , it was as if the king of France held the earldom of Cornwall or Lancaster from the king of England , who could therefore exert some degree of control over the foreign policy and behaviour of the king of France . |
| 20 | She was not alone in this , for most of the girls at her school managed to infuse a certain erotic passion into their rendering of various appeals to the Creator , and there was one girl , who fancied herself in love with a naval cadet , who could actually produce real tears during the singing of : |
| 21 | If teachers only got paid for pupils passing their exams , there are some pupils who 'd never get any education at all . |
| 22 | As one informant put it , most are not ‘ hardened criminals ’ but uneducated rural dwellers who would rarely show open disrespect to people of higher caste or to those they perceive as ‘ sahibs ’ . |
| 23 | Buyers on their part will make similar calculations ; and if at any time the price should rise considerably above 36s. they will argue that the supply will be much greater than the demand at that price : therefore even those of them who would rather pay that price than go unserved , wait ; and by waiting they help to bring the price down . |
| 24 | Throughout history you come across stacks of politicians who would rather let any number of people suffer than admit to one lousy mistake of their own — they 're in all parties , not just our current lot . ’ |
| 25 | For those who would rather keep both feet firmly planted on dry land , a National Trust self-catering holiday cottage might be the answer . |
| 26 | Airport passengers who would normally use north-bound trains between Stansted and Cambridge , operated by BR 's Regional Railways division , are advised to use the alternative coach service run by National Express . |
| 27 | Others who would normally have that capacity may be deprived of it or have it reduced by reason of temporary factors , such as unconsciousness or confusion or other effects of shock , severe fatigue , pain or drugs being used in their treatment . |
| 28 | To those who would thoughtlessly dismiss this notion as ‘ silly ’ , Regan cautions that ‘ silly sounding ideas sometimes turn out to be true . |
| 29 | As they are for the most part Gaelic-speaking folk , it is difficult to learn from themselves much of their true circumstances ; but there are friends in Portree who would gladly assist any soul who would like to be helpful to the dwellers on Stormy Hill . |
| 30 | In 1974 , for instance , that mid-Friday afternoon slot was grabbed by workaday pub rockers Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers , an outfit notable only for featuring future Attraction Pete Thomas on drums and a manager in Jake Riviera who would eventually found Stiff Records . |