Example sentences of "[noun] who [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 2 | That was David who works for Fast Forward . |
| 3 | New tests have been introduced for candidates who apply for top council posts in Sefton . |
| 4 | The reason is that foreign companies want to come here for a highly trained and highly motivated work force who work for good British companies . |
| 5 | In his early days with us Hamilton was one of those attacking centre-halves who made for great excitement , supporting his forwards and ever-ready to have a go at goal . |
| 6 | From the nineteenth-century reformers who pressed for universal schooling to today 's schemes for increasing the numbers of girls studying science , education has been the site of the struggle for equality of opportunity . |
| 7 | A good contemporary example can be seen in the typographers who work for British newspapers . |
| 8 | On May 31 he was quoted as saying that he was satisfied that all prisoners who qualified for political status had been released but that officials were still sifting petitions . |
| 9 | He was Sweeney Todd , the Demon Barber of Fleet Street ; he was Spring-Heel 'd Jack , the Terror of London ; he was Sir Percival Glyde , the Spine-Snapping Baronet ; he was the Wicked Squire who did for poor Maria Marten in the Red Barn ; he was Varney the Vampyre , Wagner the Wehr-Wolf , jaunty Jekyll and madman Hyde , the Oxton Creeper , the Coughing Horror , the Face at the Window … |
| 10 | But the inspectors have exonerated three chartered accountants who worked for Blue Arrow , although some of their actions were also criticised . |
| 11 | Mr Hobbs said the immediate effect would be the loss of 50 jobs , the groundstaff at Stansted who work for American Airlines . |
| 12 | It goes on , correctly , to show how Jack Blum , an investigator who worked for Democratic Senator John Kerry 's subcommittee on terrorism , narcotics and international Relations , played a key role in persuading the New York district attorney , Robert Morgenthau , to take an interest in BCCI and begin his own investigation . |
| 13 | But this harsh action was condemned by Reagan who called for punitive measures against the Eastern bloc , threatened to cut off all talks with Moscow and asked that Western aid be ended for an oil-gas pipeline which was being constructed from Soviet Siberia into Europe . |
| 14 | The aim is that those young people who opt for early leaving would themselves be substantial gainers . |
| 15 | ‘ They are a people who ask for little but who are enormously and genuinely grateful for any help ’ , wrote one official who witnessed a terrible drought in Masailand in the early 1960s : ‘ They live a hard life uncomplainingly . ’ |
| 16 | So , people who qualify for maximum benefit will still have to pay one fifth of the Community Charge . |
| 17 | The government 's being urged to provide more financial support for people who care for sick or disabled relatives . |
| 18 | Later in the day security forces stormed a candlelight protest march , beating young people who called for peaceful change . |
| 19 | Now , there 's nothing new for people who work for Labour Authorities and Local Authorities in general in that story , new at all . |
| 20 | LAST OF THE MOHICANS : Rip-roaring yarn with Daniel Day-Lewis as a native who falls for English Rose Madeline Stowe . |
| 21 | We may notice too that since pleasures tend to fade unless varied at every recurrence it is difficult to distinguish in practice between the man who lives for pleasure and the man who lives for new experiences . |
| 22 | If he were tempted to decide against Mrs. McLoughlin , he would indeed ask himself whether any principled distinction could be drawn between her case and the case of mothers who recover for emotional damage suffered at the scene . |
| 23 | Of course his wife did visit me , but always with her daughters and other ladies who came for regular afternoon visits . |
| 24 | And they gave Peter an ideal grounding in the game 's history : ‘ I was very fortunate in that my county , Notts , were involved in so much — William Clarke , George Parr and the touring XIs , Alfred Shaw , Arthur Shrewsbury and the early tours of Australia — and there were a large number of players who appeared for other counties . |
| 25 | The artisans and cottagers continually plied their trades : chandlers making tallow from pig fat ; skinners , cheesemongers , capmakers , blacksmiths , and at night , when the stalls came down , the raw-boned villains of the underworld who scrounged for easy pickings amongst the brothels and stewsides of the Thames . |
| 26 | Parents of children who qualified for secondary education signed an undertaking that the child would complete the course , and they could be fined if they failed to keep their word . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's a big problem for Girardelli , ’ said Vine as Marc , the big Austrian who skis for little Luxembourg , lost his line and slid off the course . |
| 28 | Finney is at his grumpy best as drink-ravaged constable Brendan Hegarty who falls for beautiful , headstrong mum Tara Maguire ( Robin Wright ) , in the Ireland of 1957 . |
| 29 | The dead king was identified with Osiris , but each individual who hoped for eternal resurrection was henceforth identified with Osiris and might place the title " the Osiris " in front of his or her name in funerary inscriptions . |
| 30 | Many of them pass it on to their wives ; 1% of the women who came for pre-natal tests at the hospital were HIV-positive . |