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

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1 One hundred and nine adult asymptomatic cases without any abdominal complaints ( 68 women , with a mean age of 45.6 years ) , who agreed to participate in this study , were selected from an original group of 120 controls ; 11 subjects refused to participate in the investigation .
2 These falls have been due in part to straightforward changes in age structure : fewer children — who tend to increase average household size — and more elderly people — who tend to live in smaller households — will both lower the overall average household size .
3 New entrants to the venture capital industry are now low in number , probably reflecting the size and strength of incumbents in attracting the available funds , and it is likely that concentration will occur , creating larger institutions , possibly to the detriment of independent venture capitalists who tend to specialise in particular markets .
4 In Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 2 WLR 805 at p873 , Lord Donaldson MR stated that at first instance Scott J had come to the conclusion that the duty to maintain confidentiality was not necessarily in all circumstances the same in relation to third parties who became possessed of confidential information as it was in relation to the primary confident .
5 ‘ Government regulations make it extremely difficult to move it by road , ’ said Allister Anderson , of Nuclear Services at Peel Park , who became involved at this stage .
6 There were many others , not mathematicians or academic linguists , whose function I did not know ( and not all of whom I met in what was by then a large organisation ) , who became celebrated in later life .
7 Consider , for instance , how Rupert Croft-Cooke , out to discredit Gide 's account of Wilde 's seduction of him ( Gide ) into a confirmed homosexuality ( above , Chapter 1 ) , writes of Gide that he ‘ picked up ( among others ) the Algerian boy prostitute Athman , who became known to other visiting Europeans , including Eugène Rouart and Francis Jammes and was brought to Paris by Henri Ghéon ’ .
8 In July 1839 , Spalding travelled to the village of Tuekakas — who became known as Old Joseph — in the beautiful Wallowa valley .
9 Surely she accepts that the Government were right to provide compensation for haemophiliacs who became infected through contaminated blood factor 8 .
10 On the contrary , the two young persons communicate in a jokily affectionate private language , often about people in a not undistinguished but certainly restricted circle of acquaintances and Shakespear connections , who lived according to social codes now utterly unremembered .
11 But Mr Ahtisaari said that more recent checking , against the roll of Namibians who registered to vote in recent months , turned up 54 more names , and the mission expects to find that at least 20 others have been repatriated .
12 There was to be no pay , and yet any private who failed to attend for two hours , at least twice a week , for ‘ The Exercise ’ when the troops would ‘ … go through the Evolutions together ’ would be fined two shillings .
13 Fourteen ( 15% ) of the control group failed to be seen again in a hospital diabetes clinic during the study period compared with only three ( 3.4% ) of the prompted patients who failed to attend for clinical diabetic review ( p=0.013 ; table IV ) .
14 IF , AS predicted , a right-wing coalition looks set to sweep the Socialists from power after the first round of France 's parliamentary elections on Sunday , the most interesting statistic will probably be the number of people who failed to vote at all .
15 Words which proved to be unreliable as stimuli for eliciting particular consonants were excluded , as were children who failed to respond to 15 per cent or more of the items .
16 Some of those who failed choose at this stage nonetheless to drop out .
17 ‘ Ideally , it would involve the six clubs in Scotland and 10 in England who failed to qualify for European competition . ’
18 FORMER Barcelona Open winner David Whelan , who failed to qualify for this year 's European Tour , hopes to play regularly in NE and NW PGA events .
19 This qualification was designed for candidates with special needs who intend to progress into occupational NVQs .
20 All candidates who intend to study for any full-time first degree must apply through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service ( UCAS ) which for 1994 entry replaces UCCA/PCAS .
21 Those who ceased to associate with such organizations within one month of the law coming into effect would be exempt from punishment .
22 Unfortunately , those four hundred thousand Palestinians lost everything in Kuwait , and erm it 'll be important to know that for each Palestinian in Kuwait there 's at least two or three other Palestinians whom they support outside Kuwait , in other words in Jordan , West Bank and the Gaza strip , so totally the Palestinians who got devastated by this invasion is about one point two million Palestinians .
23 Guildford Kings star Gordon , who top scored with 17 points , put his country back on course to qualify for next year 's tournament finals in Germany , when all hope had seemed lost with less than five minutes remaining .
24 It was an act familiar to anyone , that is almost everyone , who has suffered from those self-inflicted illnesses that inspire only a feeling of wanting to curl up in a ball and be alone .
25 ‘ Apparently none of their allen keys would fit the screws , ’ explained Andy , who has ridden at all the world 's top circuits during his 16 year career .
26 It was only to be expected that a man who has written with such insight and style about Calcutta and New York , cricket and the crossing of deserts would do justice to a life-long passion .
27 The entire span of Irish Art and Architecture is examined in a book of that name by Peter Harbison , chairman of the National Monuments Advisory Council , Homan Potterton , former director of the National Gallery of Ireland , and Jeanne Sheehy who has written on Irish art ( £14.95 ) .
28 Can the government that has been assembled around Mr Beregovoy , the man who has moved from Leftist doctrines to a belief in a mixed economy and who keeps a tight rein on public spending , still be called socialist ?
29 Drew Minter , the American counter-tenor , who has appeared in many of Nicholas McGegan 's recordings with Philharmonia Baroque , takes the title role .
30 Captain Fred Barker is Senior Master with the hunt , a man who has hunted for 44 years .
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