Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , even with those drawbacks , NATO functions well , but it has had the advantage of 350,000 American service men and ourselves , all of whom speak a common language . |
| 2 | The changes proposed by your correspondent , as well as by Polly Toynbee in her book Lost Children , could well add to the increasing number of children in our society who lack a strong family background provided by two married parents . |
| 3 | Questions are asked by people who lack a particular piece of knowledge , and questions are addressed to people who are assumed to be more knowledgeable about that topic . |
| 4 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 5 | The centrist sector , who favour a middle way , is opposed to repression and violence whether it is from right or left . |
| 6 | Prominent at the moment are the groups Avia , who use Sov-art from 20s and 30s , Pop Mechanics of S. Kurjehin who favour a multi- media show which employs symphonic , rock choiral , folk and live animals , and finally Auction who have a surrealistic cabaret style . |
| 7 | As to the rest of the disc , it 's perhaps fair to state that Klemperer 's Johann Strauss will not please those who favour a relaxed ‘ Wienerisch ’ approach to such music , but there can surely be few complaints about the Mendelssohn . |
| 8 | They come together much less frequently , from distinct and different settings , and they know much less about each other than do the members of a hospital team , who gain a natural and unforced understanding of each other 's roles and characteristics , and adapt accordingly . |
| 9 | Patients who suffer a myocardial infarction may not have widely distributed coronary disease . |
| 10 | In my experience most people who suffer a myocardial infarct have been under pressure with associated exhaustion and fatigue for a prolonged period . |
| 11 | While the familial basis of women 's oppression remains for all classes , upper class women have more chance for freedom than their working-class sisters who suffer a double oppression . |
| 12 | She asks how it can be made easier for abusers , who suffer a compulsive behavioural disorder , to say ‘ doctor I 've got this problem and I need help ? ’ . |
| 13 | Patients who suffer a cardiac arrest are treated by skilled practitioners . |
| 14 | PREGNANT women who eat a light snack shortly before giving birth can shorten labour and produce a stronger heartbeat in their baby , a study carried out in Belfast shows . |
| 15 | Those who postulate a non-sexual mode of transmission refer to documented infection in pre-pubertal virgins , the low rate of isolation in males , the occasional finding of the organism in swimming pools and spa waters , and the fact that infection could be acquired from lavatories . |
| 16 | Yet in most countries there is continuing concern about the number of patients who develop a hospital-acquired infection quite unrelated to the reason for their admission ; about the accidents which happen to patients while they are in hospital ; about the perennial danger of fire in hospitals ; and about the dangers associated with the use of prescribed drugs in hospital . |
| 17 | This opinion is held by those who advocate a cognitive approach to learning . |
| 18 | I am sure that it will be fully appreciated by the people of Scotland when they assess the parties ' policies at the election , including the policies of those who advocate a lesser or greater degree of Scotland 's separation from the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | He to me was an example of one of the few untrained journalists who make a real success of TV news . |
| 20 | THE majority of farmers have done so much to ensure quality food , a healthy environment , a beautiful countryside and the welfare of their animals , yet too often , they are still viewed as the people who make a handsome profit producing food mountains and destroying the environment . |
| 21 | T is for Trimm Industries who make a huge range of PC cases |
| 22 | Knocking On The Dour Matthew Parris looks at parliamentary candidates who make a rosette-coloured spectacle of themselves as they learn the art of doorstep canvassing |
| 23 | It therefore creates something of a paradox which ensures that those who make a marginal move are inevitably referred back ‘ to the centre ’ , as being the realm of ‘ real policing ’ . |
| 24 | It is people fulfilling their role obligations to other people at work in the enterprise with its technology who make a social organization . |
| 25 | The idea behind the Package Travel , Package Holiday and Package Tours Regulations 1992 is good — it is to protect holiday-makers who book a packaged holiday . |
| 26 | In the middle are figures such as Godfrey Bradman and Stuart Lipton who build a great deal . |
| 27 | In The Hitch-hiker 's Guide to the Galaxy the author , Douglas Adams , describes a planet inhabited by a race of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings who build a hyperintelligent computer to help them come up with the answer to Life , the Universe and Everything . |
| 28 | Organised at state level , the Guard is composed of part-timers who undergo a statutory period of training with the regular Army . |
| 29 | In order to earn her keep Diana joined the ranks of what she now dismissively refers to as the ‘ velvet hairband ’ brigade , the upper-class ladies who fit a loose template of values , fashions , breeding and attitudes and are commonly known as ‘ Sloane Rangers ’ . |
| 30 | The third example is a young man who falls into the rare category of those who pose a serious threat to public safety , a threat which in some instances exists for only weeks or months , although occasionally a person may remain potentially dangerous for some years . |