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

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1	A boy who during the vicious war in Liberia , has seen first his mother and then his father , his two elder brothers and his two elder sisters , savagely assassinated in front of his eyes by the guerrilla troops .
2	The permanent members of the Security Council , who during the cold war were excluded from some operations , are being looked to more and more .
3	What lies in pieces around them represents , in effect , a unique private exhibition open to a lucky few who for the first time in generations have had the opportunity for hands-on experience of greatness .
4	These courses were taught by the college librarian , who for the first time in Britain was included on the teaching staff of the college on a teaching scale , and styled " Tutor-Librarian " .
5	Let's not forget that even if no more children 's books were published at all , each year would still see the arrival of a new cohort of children and their parents and grandparents , who for the first time start to contemplate buying books which are relevant for a child of that age .
6	The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego .
7	And remember , they are all products of Pakistan 's domestic cricket competitions , which are competed for by the commercial organisations and regional teams which have always been condemned by Imran — who for the last decade had not played domestic cricket in Pakistan .
8	Others , who unlike the Combined Operations staff , had expected a second front in Europe that summer , saw what forces would be needed to invade Europe .
9	Lyall , who like the 42-year-old McGiven had his career cut short by injury at West Ham , groomed McGiven in the way that Ron Greenwood had groomed him on the coaching ladder .
10	The French , who throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century had used investment in Russian railways as a way of discomforting German industry , now provided the Poles with capital to continue the work the Russians had started .
11	Those who throughout the previous tax year have paid social security contributions as dependent employees ( or , as a consequence of being registered as unemployed , have had these credited for them ) are entitled to draw flat rate Unemployment Benefit for a period of one year .
12	He turned his attention to the troops , who under the quick thinking extemporisation of their Sergeant were once again in some semblance of order .
13	There were simultaneous elections for 27 departmental governors , who under the old constitution had been directly appointed , of which the PL won 18 .
14	There are farmers who with the existing lack of any political support are looking at different avenues to improve their profits or even make a profit .
15	The Pattyndennes were of the newly emerging class of yeomanry , who with the gradual acquisition of land in the fertile valleys of the Weald were one step ahead of the rest of agricultural England during the mid-fifteenth century .
16	The most familiar representative of this type of person is the public benefactor , who with the utmost aggressiveness and energy demands money from one set of people in order to give it to another .
17	I won the Indoor Championships 200 metres , beating John Regis , who in the following month beat Ade Mafe 's record in Budapest during a match against Hungary , with 20.85 seconds .
18	Someone around her — she could n't see who in the dark forest of heads and frame-bags — was talking a different language .
19	In particular , who in the nine months has been in charge of this section and shown great dedication and commitment .
20	Thus a seller who in the normal way has accepted a cheque which is later dishonoured , is an unpaid seller .
21	For the purpose of the Acts a dealer is ‘ a person who in the normal course of his business attends sales by auction for the purpose of purchasing goods with a view to reselling them . ’
22	No mention of the fact that between them , Newcastle and Swindon had 34 shots at goal ; not even a reference to the one and only Glen Hoddle , who in the entire match misplaced only one pass .
23	Who in the ninth century could have foreseen modern France ?
24	As already discussed in the chapter ‘ Retiring on your own ’ there are women who in the real sense have never left home , but have spent all their spare time outside work living with , and later looking after , their parents .
25	Coleridge had little sympathy with their overheated prose , and his own response to this charged and mysterious place probably had more in common with that of a later visitor , Samuel Palmer , who in the nineteenth century saw Culbone through visionary eyes .
26	The Oxenhope Straw Race has a long way to go before it reaches its centenary , but the aims of the people who organise it and take part are the same as those who in the nineteenth century began the hospital sings at Holmfirth and Mapplewell .
27	Situated in a conservation area in the historical town of Lewes , Millers derives its name from the millers who in the 19th century sold their produce from the front parlour ( now the dining room ) .
28	The origins of Cognitive–Behaviour therapy may be traced back to the philosopher Epictetus , who in the first century AD wrote ‘ People are disturbed not so much by events as by the views which they take of them ’ .
29	Manjrekar , who in the first Test struggled for 36 minutes for a duck , batted nine minutes short of five hours before India , 31 ahead on first innings , declared at 312–8 .
30	My title is intended to bring to your mind H V Morton , Henry Vollam Morton ( 1892–1979 ) , who in the first half of this century wrote one of the most popular series of travel books ever .