Example sentences of "[n mass] who [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But none of the assiduous folk who compiled these guides to English usage was prepared to contemplate the opinion that research is typified by the act of locating a person 's telephone number . |
| 2 | Drama must , perforce , have an ultimate target and destination and that was always the Clarion call to the earlier distinguished folk who trod these boards . |
| 3 | The characteristic of a chattel slave is that he(she) has no recognized kin who have continuing rights and obligations by virtue of their kinship . |
| 4 | The 58% who identified less dependence on farm income as a benefit represented those for whom the farm provided a considerable proportion of total income but which could not provide a living income on its own . |
| 5 | Odd , is n't it ? ’ says 52-year-old Cleese who met new wife Alyce-Faye Eichelberger two years ago . |
| 6 | We have asked the people who constructed this building to take over the theatre in January until March . |
| 7 | I do n't think the people who advocate these policies understand that you have every wish to put the decision off . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the people who voiced such sentiments were " less bewitched by the magic of the Caudillo " than the previous generation of regime supporters . |
| 9 | The researchers selected 35 people who ate spicy food regularly and gave 19 of them 32 solutions containing different amounts of capsaicin and sugar . |
| 10 | Attention is restricted to the non-base category of the response variable ; in this example , it is the proportion of people who attend selective school that is at issue , and the shadow proportion who do not attend is ignored . |
| 11 | The people who attend those centres can still live in their own homes because of the support staff who work from those resource centres . |
| 12 | He and Valerie looked at each other as cordially as two people who loathe each other can . |
| 13 | Heavily illustrated with photos of the aircraft and people who inhabited this airfield , it is worthy of inclusion on any aviation historian 's bookshelf . |
| 14 | This could account for the weather sensitivity of some people who show either depression before a storm , or pains in joints and injuries . |
| 15 | ‘ Rockist ’ was the term invented to describe people who played rude guitars and were noisy , ie U2 , Echo And The Bunnymen and Motorhead . |
| 16 | The guide would be particularly useful to people who lived some distance away and who needed to find out if a visit to the record office would be helpful . |
| 17 | The original idea behind Compacts was to redress the balance , to provide access to quality jobs for the people who lived next door . |
| 18 | I do n't still have it , no , no it had got knocked about a bit , you know , being moved hither and thither and the other people have had it a bit as well as us , because we bought it from the people who lived next door when they left you see , cos when we started in here , we did n't have any carpets on these floors or under here it 's brown Marley tiling and I can still show you that |
| 19 | They are usually the ghosts of people who lived evil lives during their time on earth , and are undeserving of entry to Heaven . |
| 20 | The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives . |
| 21 | Both states were regarded as not only undesirable but criminal : after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 , police prosecutions against homosexuals reached a peak in 1953/4 , while the scare headlines accorded by the press to the Clapham Common murder in the summer of 1953 lodged in the public 's heads the equation that people who wore Edwardian clothes would knife you at the drop of a hat . |
| 22 | Actually , it just happened because I found I was engaging with people who had similar interests to myself . |
| 23 | ‘ And people who had nervous breakdowns about Robert Smith ! ’ shouts Niall . |
| 24 | There were also cutbacks in the numbers of beds provided and , as a result , some people who had major operations had been released from hospital after only three days . |
| 25 | He was a senior , dedicated member , and it did n't at first appear that he had committed any atrocities , but we later found out that he was responsible for denouncing people who had anti-Fascist sympathies , and that it was because of him that we had been taken to Tabiano . |
| 26 | People who had psychosomatic complaints were probably malingering ( if male ) and hysterical ( if female ) , and the appropriate treatment was a stiff talking-to , designed to exhort or scare them into ‘ stopping all this nonsense ’ and ‘ pulling themselves together ’ . |
| 27 | People who had low growth rates during fetal life and infancy have high death rates from ischaemic heart disease . |
| 28 | There were a few people who had private laboratories , and who were like Lavoisier amateurs of fully professional competence ; and there were those who lived by consultancy . |
| 29 | The aim was to confine attention to people who had frequent contact with the dementia sufferer , rather than interviewing all nearest relatives , who might or might not have contact with him or her . |
| 30 | We have lost capacity , skills and people who had some faith in the Government 's processes . |