Example sentences of "who [adv] [vb base] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Unlike the uninformed virgins described by Selvini Palazzoli ( and who were , after all , Roman Catholics who traditionally place a high value upon virginity ) , I was horrified and disgusted by menstruation rather than by sexuality . |
| 32 | Although we can not honestly say that those who unsuccessfully oppose a particular decision or policy consent to that decision or policy when it is carried out despite their opposition , we can say that they are nevertheless bound by that decision in so far as they accept both the principle of majority decisions and the fairness of the procedures through which the decision is reached or the policy made . |
| 33 | The Rapoports ( 1971 ) , in their study of married couples who both have a professional career , chose to investigate just five such couples by means of extended in-depth interviews , rather than attempting a survey . |
| 34 | British backbenchers may cast envious glances at their American counterparts who both have a greater impact on executive-initiated legislation and conduct more thorough investigations of the bureaucracy , but the problem remains of how to transfer political institutions from one political system to another . |
| 35 | What has happened is that the tax system has become less progressive , the changes having benefited those on high incomes who now surrender a smaller proportion of their earnings in the form of tax . |
| 36 | The occupational community becomes what can be called an ‘ encapsulated community ’ , a village within the village , suspicious of and resistant to any intimate social contact with the commuters and second-home owners who now comprise a substantial proportion of the population . |
| 37 | Whatever the truth , it 's the all-mahogany Customs that have escaped the attentions of guitar-fakers , who often take a mid-'50s gold-top , strip the paint off , rout it for PAFs , refinish it sunburst and try to pass it off as a late-'50s Les Paul Standard . |
| 38 | He gained a reputation for being broad minded , and welcomed homosexuals , single parents and black Jews ( the offspring of Jewish mothers and West Indian fathers ) who sometimes get a frosty reception elsewhere . |
| 39 | For the longer term , it is worth noting that a number of the member states have a more independent system of audit , under which a company 's accounts are audited , not by its own accountants , but by auditors who primarily owe a public interest duty . |
| 40 | This , and many companion volumes on overseas registers which Air-Britain produces , are much more serious volumes than those spotters ' guides of yore , their contents likely to prove as useful to aircraft dealers , brokers , insurers , buyers ( and tax inspectors ? ) as they do to the binocular-and-bobble-hats brigade , not to mention we scribblers , who occasionally have a compelling need to know how many PA-28s there are in the country ( a lot ) or whether the Miles Student jet trainer is still extant ( it is ) . |
| 41 | Fantasy is also an important component in the work of other writers who occasionally employ a postmodernist idiom : Brian Aldiss in his Joycean Barefoot in the Head ( 1969 ) or the nouveau roman , Report on Probability A ( 1968 ) ; J. G. Ballard in The Unlimited Dream Company ( 1979 ) ; Christopher Priest in The Affirmation ( 1981 ) ; even D. M. Thomas in The White Hotel ( 1981 ) . |
| 42 | If the legislation could only help Catholics , West Belfast Protestants who too lack a supporting network of friends and relations able to assist them in obtaining well-paid employment , could complain . |
| 43 | Certainly , it seems reasonable to assume that individuals whose temperamental make-up is more ‘ psychotic ’ , and who therefore have a greater predisposition to psychosis , will be in greatest danger of passing over the threshold into overt illness , just as those of anxious temperament are more likely to develop an anxiety neurosis , and persons whose blood pressure is more labile will carry an enhanced risk of heart attack or stroke . |
| 44 | In this situation , ‘ further research is necessary ’ and , when controversy arises , it is likely to occur between those who actually share a large number of fundamental theoretical assumptions . |