Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nor is it an effective method of notifying the members , creditors or the general public , few of whom read the Gazette . |
2 | Others present included the Earl of Swinton , and his wife Baroness Masham ; all the other judges and their wives ; and some of those who judge the Laurent-Perrier awards in France , including Monsieur Bernard Magniny , and Monsieur Hervé Nagelmackers , and their wives . |
3 | There are those who feel , for instance , that a revolution did take place but not one which achieved positive effects ; or others who dispute the existence of an English revolution but who do not adhere to a neo-conservative interpretation of English history . |
4 | So perhaps it is no wonder that we are not the only ones who perceive the system as unjust , and that it finds itself with a crisis of legitimacy on its hands . |
5 | This relationship has been a concern , however , of those who perceive the growth of central government financing as a threat to the independence of local government . |
6 | Contacts are the people who borrow the books and a ‘ want ’ can be logged against a contact . |
7 | Yet the workers who tend the machine and keep open its food supplies must also eat . |
8 | Who 's Who in the kitchen also includes the five washing up ladies who tend the machine and conveyor belt full of dishes on a rota system and Peace Studies student Bong Soo from Korea who is in charge of the pots and pans at lunchtimes . |
9 | The success of the campaign is almost entirely due to the input of volunteers , with a core committee of organisers who co-ordinate the programme , planning it throughout the year . |
10 | Part of the problem is that Americans are so used to seeing slick TV presenters on the small screen that they take exception to watching badly-dressed businessmen who lack the skills of professional performers . |
11 | The aim of the fund will be to award discretionary grants to young people who lack the resources to develop their interest in the outdoors . |
12 | There are without doubt residents in higher value properties who lack the funds to meet the more realistic charges that should apply to the F to H bands , but this should not mean that those with adequate funds should escape paying their fair share of the local tax burden . |
13 | But that is not a view held by those who lack the imagination to enter into the hearts and minds of others , and to do to them as they would be done by ; among them the then Home Secretary and the then Lord Chief Justice . |
14 | At the least , Dr Mathew 's computer-instrument will put music within the grasp of would-be musicians who lack the time or inclination to learn how to play . |
15 | For the absolute beginner and those who lack the time or enthusiasm , the selection of a remedy can take place by considering primarily the very important symptoms of the remedies which have been printed in bold type , ignoring all the information in ordinary type . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | For this the clients , mostly professional people and businessmen who lack the time to organise their own expeditions , but who have some impressive climbing pedigrees , will get full sherpa support , oxygen and a well-stocked chain of camps along the standard South Col route from Nepal . |
18 | The burden of this increasing sense of isolation has fallen particularly heavily upon those members of the rural population who lack the means of personal mobility to maintain a more dispersed network of social contacts . |
19 | There are those that fulfil their childhood dreams , those that are talented and reach their goals early in life and are penalized because of their youth , as well as those who lack the courage to make their dreams a reality . |
20 | The workforce therefore becomes increasingly polarised and fragmented , between the skilled and unskilled , core and periphery , and between the knowledge workers and those who lack the qualifications to join their ranks . |
21 | But three of them — Ciskei , Kwazulu , and Bophuthatswana — are ruled by men who hate the ANC and have no intention of giving up their power . |
22 | But those who hate the nostalgia of the elderly should remember that one of the reasons why they want to talk so much about the past may be that , for them , the present is unbearable , and the future unthinkable . |
23 | Unite with all those who hate the French and revolt against their despotic rule . |
24 | He seemed relieved when I told him I was reading anthropology and , looking somewhat apprehensively over his shoulder at the sociology building , he muttered ‘ well thank goodness you 're not taking bloody sociology , with all those left wing bastards who hate the polis ’ . |
25 | Old people , perhaps mentally infirm , who spit out food when it is given , or who lose the capacity to eat tidily and whose bowel and bladder functioning is impaired , may rouse deep feelings of revulsion in carers , of which they were quite unaware until confronted with the behaviour . |
26 | I can not believe this minor revolution has actually come about in response to the frustration of woodworkers worldwide who lose the chuck key in the sawdust on the workshop floor ! |
27 | Those who bemoan the weakening of the governmental role of parliaments are not only failing to bear English history in mind where Parliament never had that role , they are forgetting continental history as well . |
28 | Let's not forget , these are the same people who bemoan the fact that the house scene has been lost on the high street , that a ‘ nation of lilac clad youths ’ , have taken its energy ( i-D ) . |
29 | He seems to be cashing in on the goodwill of those who regret the party 's ‘ new start ’ last month when it renamed itself the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) . |
30 | If you happen to know that it is the Prime Minister personally who advises the Queen to dissolve Parliament , you will realise that this gives him the whip hand over other members of the Cabinet — who fear the cataclysm of an untimely election as much as back-benchers do . |