Example sentences of "[n mass] who [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with environmental legislation of every kind is that , while we all applaud the intentions , we know automatically that the large-scale offenders have their own scientists , barristers , public-relations campaigns and representation in the House of Lords , that government inspectorates are hopelessly understaffed , and that consequently , at a local level , the enforcers concentrate their attention on the small fry who lack the time and resources to answer back . |
| 2 | This led to insubordination amongst the Seventh Infantry who attacked the Governor and wounded one of the officers who accompanied him . |
| 3 | The Colonel , trained in the proper management of war , diagnosed the General 's crude enthusiasm as excitement and gently tried to calm the old man by explaining that the sensible course was to wait until the artillery reached the town , and only then to mount an attack on the infantry who guarded the barricaded bridge . |
| 4 | Sir Allan , 56 , is one of hundreds of famous folk who reveal the secrets of their schooldays in Old School Ties , published today . |
| 5 | There can be no simple or single explanation either of the great armies of more or less organized knights or of the rabble of thoroughly disorganized folk who followed the popular leader Peter the Hermit . |
| 6 | It is not closely related to those fish who pioneered the land , so any comparisons with them have to be made with caution , but even so it can give us a hint about how that momentous move was accomplished . |
| 7 | The plot is frustrated , ironically , by a colonel in the US Marine Corps who alerts the president and his advisers just in time . |
| 8 | For the Australia media corps who covered the recent Wallaby tour of South Africa , the everlasting memory of Australian Rugby Football Union president Joe French will be his conducting an impromptu 11.00 pm press conference followed by another at 2.30 am in his hotel room dressed in a pair of shorts and a singlet . |
| 9 | He owned a savage wolfhound called Wolfhead and a herd of swine who roamed the forest and fields below Penhill . |
| 10 | Townspeople who form the Loftus Development Trust under the chairmanship of Barbara Welford have now taken over the work of the Civic Trust Project . |
| 11 | According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better . |
| 12 | He glared at the people who surrounded the tent , and they glared back , wanting action . |
| 13 | And I think when we talk in terms in getting around to spending the money we have got then we need to look quite clearly about how you make a place more inviting and it 's also about when people come into the building how they 're met what the receptionists like , when they ring up can they get through and I mean I 'm I 'm surprised that 's said about the tickets that I think that our reception ticket areas an excellent area the people working there are first class are very friendly very helpful so it 's trying to get that sort of concept through the building I thin k we work on that I think the building 's kept very clean people who clean the building are very good but I hear what you 're saying and I thinks it 's been said earlier by the lady here by the foyer downstairs she feels threatened when she goes into that bar because I think the whole decor and the way it is is a threatening place I think we need to look at those so that was an old and . |
| 14 | Some people who ate the fish died in nasty ways . |
| 15 | This apparently innocuous theory ran into trouble in a French village on an occasion when wheat was grown in a normal way , converted into bread in a normal way and yet most people who ate the bread became seriously ill and many died . |
| 16 | The giant Unilever company has found a link between dishwasher sales and people who attend the opera and theatre . |
| 17 | Basically everything we all agree at the Institute the question of improving the lot of the Third World is the responsibility of Third Worlders , and in fact a number of us would add that in very many cases , certainly not in all , it would not be achieved through slow incremental technical change , but would require in some cases very major social structural changes that in some cases erm will only be brought about very major social upheaval erm and there all we can do is add to perhaps the element of increasing consciousness and awareness of the problems , which furthermore is a two way street , I mean when we have this study activities we learn as much from the people who attend the seminars as we tell them . |
| 18 | I would have liked to see the bungalow demolished on TV so that people who violate the laws will know in future what can happen . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ People who show the drive and the energy to put in a great deal of their own personal time in pursuit of professional qualifications quite frankly deserve all the company support they can get , ’ says Jill Fulton , senior personnel officer , recruitment and training . |
| 20 | The financial advisers of those days were probably the people who taught the ones who have been professional schemes . |
| 21 | Sumner was unhappy that WordPerfect was n't invited to take part in the exercise and was critical of the relatively small sample of 51 people who evaluated the products . |
| 22 | And th and then we have Mr Lilley saying that there were lots of people at the Tory Party Conference , remember , he had his little list that he was going to go through and and erm chop out all the , the social security scroungers and people who abused the system . |
| 23 | I it 's only , th the attacks were against those people who abused the system not the system . |
| 24 | I wish you two lots over there would get your act together so that people who chair the meetings were of the right calibre for a chairman and not just because it was their turn . |
| 25 | If they had to be responsible for choosing the leaders of the Church , they needed information and their secretaries should be able to talk to people who had the information . |
| 26 | The ATB did not have its own instructor force but employed people who had the relevant skills and knowledge in the particular course subject . |
| 27 | In fact , when the bonds were redeemed in 1983 the 280 bonds issued in 1907 were in the hands of only 47 people who had the power to elect two-thirds of the committee to run a club with over 600 members ! |
| 28 | Until William Green 's death in 1823 there were not many options open to those people who had the leisure to travel even if they could resist the siren songs of the ‘ Lakes ’ poets . |
| 29 | All this is culled from letters from people who had the forethought to record the event . |
| 30 | It matters not that these natives were the people who had the original rights , and Thomson 's own humanity would never let his reader forget that fact ; all he lamented , as he always did , was the passing of an old way , especially when the future replacing it felt less sound . |