Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [vb base] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A blend of grass seed , fertiliser and cellulose glue , it was being spread over the paths as a last ditch attempt to save an area the size of four football pitches from irreversible soil erosion caused by the 250,000 walkers who tramp around the area every year . |
| 2 | Thus , the study emphasises the role of social attitudes in second language learning , ie. attitudes towards learning the second language itself and towards the native speakers who make up the second language community . |
| 3 | It may however , be questioned , whether this role should be performed by a mixture of hereditary and life peers who make up the Lords ' membership or , indeed , whether there is an important role here at all . |
| 4 | Though 130,000 passports represent only about a quarter of Macao 's population , most recipients are the professionals and businessmen who make up the backbone of the enclave economy . |
| 5 | Two more world champions are in action tonight ; Swindon 's Bob Anderson lines up with John Lowe at the Super Marine Club in South Marston to take on a handful of local challengers who make up the best in the west . |
| 6 | THE biggest sporting deal in history might be good news for the football clubs who kick off the new Premier League but will it be good for soccer and its followers ? |
| 7 | The new heroes are bright young CIA-types who clean up the baddies in the Establishment , or journalists who oppose the abuse of political power , or expose nuclear power Policy . |
| 8 | The market is further enhanced by live performers who act out the varied timeless arts . |
| 9 | Peter McEnery and Dorothy Tutin ( above ) play the middle-aged ex-lovers who iron out the wrinkles and get together just in time for the final curtain . |
| 10 | It is these highly-skilled experts who make up the 85-year-old association and exclusive club over which Mr Smythe now presides . |
| 11 | In the writing of inspection reports it will be essential to express findings in a positive manner and in a language and style that address the concerns of the many non-specialists who make up the audience for the reports . |
| 12 | ‘ It would be no trouble for us , maybe , but it 'd trouble those gorgios who pass along the road and they 'd start complaining about us . |
| 13 | Modern sack artists are n't languid Creoles who loll around the boudoir eating chocolates all day , licking their lips and purring , their whiskers flecked with come and cream . |
| 14 | We need to look for opportunities to tell stories about American business from the perspective of all the workers who make up the team , rather than solely from the perspective of top managers . |
| 15 | Natural selection gives the responsibility for progress to the individuals who make up the population ; in seeking to do the best for themselves , they help to guarantee the future of their species . |
| 16 | But of course they each depend upon the existence of individuals who carry out the tasks necessary for the survival and perpetuation of society . |
| 17 | Many positions of great influence in British society are filled by individuals who carry out the duties of their office for no monetary reward at all . |
| 18 | As stated earlier these strategies are defined as ‘ activating forces within the system to alter the system ’ , and they involve either improving the problem-solving capabilities of the system , or releasing and fostering growth in the persons who make up the system to be changed . |
| 19 | Brazil 's best known green congressman , Fabio Feldmann , warned that several state governors in the Amazon have recently been elected on an anti-ecology ticket , promising to protect farmers who burn down the rain forest . |
| 20 | Teams who take up the challenge , in the Upper Derwent Valley on Sunday October 20 will be joined by LEPRA 's President , celebrated mountaineer Chris Bonington . |
| 21 | A NEW awards ceremony in Middlesbrough will reward gardeners , allotment holders and businesses who brighten up the town . |
| 22 | It is the Night Goblin shamans who brew up the Mad Cap mushroom brew which sends the Goblin Fanatics drink into a whirling frenzy . |
| 23 | It was followed by the deprivations of greedy Swiss , repressive Austrians , revolutionary French , barbaric Germans and the huge , unpaid army of tourists and expatriates who live off the land and commit their own atrocities . |
| 24 | It was also feared that the market maker system might be by-passed by large powerful institutional investors doing negotiated deals with member firms who carry out the trades in-house rather than through market-makers . |
| 25 | Eliot drew attention to the view that cars , gramophones , and central heating are inessential to civilization , but pointed to a more subtle fallacy which equated art with civilization and so saw ‘ Alaskan or Solomon Island wood carvers were more ‘ civilized ’ than the workmen and workwomen who turn out the bibelots of Woolworth 's . ’ |
| 26 | They can advertise themselves in the truest and most direct way possible : the experience of friends , colleagues or neighbours who make up the union . |
| 27 | Depictions of the nativity meanwhile show her with her son , with Joseph , the angels , the ox and the ass , the shepherds and the magi : with all the characters who make up the Christmas story . |
| 28 | In these circumstances it necessitated ‘ the employment of commercial wage-workers who make up the actual office staff ’ . |
| 29 | Some gangs tour America , staying in motels and stalking the Vietnamese with a torn-out copy of the ‘ Nguyen ’ page in the local telephone book or with the help of local fixers who point out the rich pickings in each city . |
| 30 | The second method is for central planning to make the master plan and then to hand over the outlines of a sub-plan to the departments who fill in the details of their own sub-plan . |