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

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1 This level of activity stands in marked contrast to that of the very few working class women who qualified under local government franchises ( although increasing numbers became Guardians after 1894 , when the property qualification was abolished ) , who squeezed in two or three hours Poor Law work on a Saturday between household chores .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Already , and much publicised , we have the Tanzanian alternative whereby cumulative records of performance and teachers ' reports have been used alongside examination marks to determine who goes to secondary school .
5 A study of child prostitution in Britain , America and West Germany reports that ‘ every runaway child who goes into full-time child prostitution has a history of continual and profound family conflict ’ ( Sereny , 1984 ) .
6 ‘ The military are now occupying the national radio and television networks , and forcibly replacing journalists who insist on editorial independence and objectivity , ’ he writes .
7 He already has a conception of Scarpia , a cunning brute who veers from calculated anger to cool appraisal of Tosca 's bottom while her lover is being tortured .
8 Mention has to be made of Julia Chapman 's singing of ‘ Joshua ’ , of the trio called Full Swing , who entertained with modern jazz in the foyer as the audience arrived and , inevitably , the Petersfield School Dance Band ( another happy family ) who set out feet a-dancing in the Rose Room after the concert .
9 In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment .
10 A great aunt , who was also pious , but who lived in manorial comfort , provides by contrast the most immaculate portrait of respected ageing :
11 Mrs Yaxlee , by no means the eldest of the clan ( there was a great aunt of eighty-seven who lived in independent squalor at Nether Oldfield ) but still a senior member , sat in her parlour surrounded by the trappings of her state .
12 The same payment is given to staff who lived in furnished accommodation at the previous base who move to rented unfurnished property at the new base or who buy their own houses in the new area .
13 The coastal villages were a little bigger , containing many landless peasants , represented by numerous 20s. assessments , who lived by grazing stock on the common saltmarshes .
14 Even so , it did strike me as peculiar that someone who lived by French literature should be so calamitously inadequate at making the basic words of the language sound as they did when her subjects , her heroes ( her paymasters , too , you could say ) first pronounced them .
15 As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers .
16 As noted above , the mortality of children early in their life and the bearing of children who remain in poor health take a toll upon society and family .
17 There are many parents who remain in good health both mentally and physically to the day of their death , even if their physical strength is reduced , and it becomes no longer desirable for them to live alone ; and there are many daughters who share their homes in an atmosphere of personal freedom , happiness and fulfilment , enjoying their companionship right to the end .
18 In March 1886 Joseph Chamberlain , as President of the Local Government Board , responded by issuing a circular to local authorities urging them to schedule necessary public works for periods of depression , and to co-operate with the Poor Law by providing paid , non-pauperizing work for those who applied for poor relief due to temporary unemployment .
19 The offence immediately below is careless driving contrary to section 3 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 , which is committed by anyone who drives without due care and attention .
20 Manager Lenny Jameson said Marvin , who plays in central midfield , was an exciting prospect .
21 It is those who suffer from chronic malnutrition , caused by a poverty to which they can see no end , who are more likely to give evidence of the depressive effects of starvation .
22 No hard and fast line can be drawn between the workers who are and those who are not to be counted amongst ‘ the poor ’ ; there is a constant flux , and besides those who suffer from chronic underpayment , artisans , as well as tradesmen and rustics , are constantly sinking , with or without their own fault , into the depth of misery .
23 OTHERWISE healthy women who suffer from swollen lymph nodes in their armpits may find their deodorant is to blame .
24 Children who suffer from prolonged ill-health inevitably benefit less from education than healthy children .
25 What 's confusing , though is that some of these symptoms are sometimes reported by people who suffer from high blood pressure .
26 Carpal tunnel syndrome mostly affects women in their forties and fifties and is particularly common in those who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis .
27 Undoubtedly , the human contact which shopping provides becomes increasingly important to people who suffer from social isolation .
28 Therefore , people who suffer from intellectual impairment may be unable to acquire adequate knowledge and to respond quickly and appropriately to a threat to safety .
29 So , people who qualify for maximum benefit will still have to pay one fifth of the Community Charge .
30 It is given in translation here as a tribute to a brave man who fought under British leadership for the freedom of his country .
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