Example sentences of "who [verb] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 Such a thing is certainly not to be found on this earth ; yet those who pick to pieces the open texture or verbal infelicities of an international Convention rarely pause to consider how , when legislation prepared in a single legal system is generally so verbose , obscure , and generally badly drafted , one can reasonably expect more of the product of many hands drawn from widely differing legal systems with different cultures , legal structures , and methods of legal reasoning and decision-making , entailing maximum flexibility , co-operation , and compromise .
2 The person who needs to unblock the money is not a member of the Government but Commissioner Millan .
3 Members of the new Cabinet who celebrated over lunch the next day were burdened by no such solemnity .
4 Hussein in The Languages of Love is a Muslim , yet it is he who reveals to Julia the beauty of genuine love expressed in honest language which leads her to convert to Catholicism .
5 Who takes into account the sleepless nights , the missed family time , the frayed marriages , the unending responsibility ?
6 Titmuss was one who called into question the effectiveness of the legislation achieved in the creation of the Welfare State .
7 ‘ Do you remember any other mothers who delivered on April the tenth , Celia ?
8 Lambe emerges as amongst the two or three most accomplished representatives of that generation of composers who brought to maturity the uniquely English manner of late fifteenth-century composition .
9 This prig , a dogmatic fundamentalist cocooned in a wealthy , reactionary , churchy upper-class , was a terrible hypocrite , who preached to others the old Catholic family virtues while being vicious to his wife and selectively hateful to his children .
10 Jam it if you can , but for those who choose to layback the corner crack — be strong ) .
11 It was he , Clasper , who dictated to management the size of the labour force they would require to produce a given number of products , regardless of any figure which management might arrive at by employing accurately measured work standards .
12 The benefactor of the race would be , not a Prometheus who brings a few sparks from above , but he who releases among men the most finished of all forces , an irresistible word . ’
13 It was the time of the Baedeker raids , when German bombers struck cathedral towns , and some of the guests who stayed in York the night before had sleepless hours .
14 John de Neville , an important English baron and a former Chief Justice of the Forest , who held for life the wardenship of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , was convicted of grave offences , amerced in the enormous sum of 2,000 marks , and deprived of his wardenship , which Passelewe in 1246 secured for himself .
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