Example sentences of "who [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Before clearing out my desk at the Times-Herald I had a quiet word with Fred Workman who agreed to accept free-lance stories from me . |
2 | The corporate approach favours ‘ those less committed to service departments … groups interested more in policy analysis than in professional standards , and … those who tend to emphasise local circumstances rather than national standards . |
3 | Orlov and others engineered factional strife in the Ministry of State Properties which in April 1857 led to the appointment as minister of M. N. Murav'ev , a man who believed that " the question [ of emancipation ] had been dreamed up by … academics , theoreticians , [ and ] sons of priests ' and who planned to treat state-owned peasants as harshly as serfs . |
4 | The main opponents in the land-use battles were the Allegheny Community College and a local developer who planned to build subsidised apartments with 25 per cent reserved for handicapped residents . |
5 | He loved clubs and wardrooms with the pre-dinner drinks , the discreet signing of chitties , the smiling elderly waiters ( from a class almost extinct now , men who lived to serve other men ) . |
6 | It is both unfair and unrealistic to expect those who remain to make further sacrifices in order to service the sensibilities of visitors . |
7 | Until very recently it was conspicuous that the secretariats and standards committees were dominated by Germans who fought to have German standards , which are often the strictest in the world , adopted as definitive EC standards . |
8 | Collective security necessarily imposed obligations on all nation states , powerful and weak alike , to respect each other 's separate identity and autonomy , and to sanction any member who failed to respect such obligations . |
9 | If these non-compliant patients who failed to tolerate four weeks of elemental feeding are taken into account , then just 45% ( 10 of 22 ) patients originally randomised to receive four weeks of elemental diet achieved complete remission on diet alone . |
10 | One approach is to hire a sociologist to peer into the black box ( the quotation from Heusch 1981 : 423 , and p. 46 in this book about the role of the sociologist is apposite here ) , in a similar way to anthropologists who sought to tell colonial administrators how to avoid irritating the people they governed ( although , according to Feuchtwang 1973 , the administrators did not take much notice of what they had to say ) . |
11 | But those scientists who sought to reconstruct these links could do so without worrying very much about how populations of individual animals adapted to the challenges posed by an ever-changing environment . |
12 | The government last year announced that those who forget to flush public toilets will be fined up to 500 U S dollars . |
13 | Sinead is just a rock'n'roll chick who forget to write any songs . |
14 | Moreover , it is the doctor-counsellor as much as anyone else who needs to ask these questions , for often spending time considering these aspects of ill-health might be more helpful than a prescription for drugs . |
15 | Robinson has a daughter who has to wait 12 months for an operation , it is no use telling her that 10 , 20 , or 25 years ago the situation was similar or much worse , because Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Robinson will still consider that the NHS is unsatisfactory today , and will naturally blame the Government . |
16 | An alternative is a licensed conveyancer ; a fully-trained specialist who has to pass professional exams . |
17 | A Leaders ' Training class was attended by Edith Harlow and Hermine Burg who helped to keep some classes going to LONDON and Dagenham throughout and after the war , while Molly was engaged on full time war work . |
18 | Its traverse , either in one go or , as I prefer it , in sections as the ‘ crux ’ of other walks in the immediate vicinity , is a must for anyone who wants to sample these hills at their best . |
19 | I have a young friend in her early twenties who wants to do some A-levels at a reasonable nightschool in London . |
20 | There are pros and cons , and everything really depends upon the main interests of the observer ; for example , anyone who wants to make regular studies of the Sun will be far better off with a refractor , while the deep-sky enthusiast will in general prefer a reflector . |
21 | The Scots and the Welsh and the Irish have clearly retained very strong national cultural characteristics , which have made it necessary for the student who wants to make accurate distinctions to say ‘ British does mean something , and it 's something to do with the Briton overseas ’ . |
22 | ‘ She 's not the sort of girl who wants to make political statements with her music . |
23 | Arrange to go shopping with a resident who wants to buy new clothes . |
24 | Unfortunately , anyone phoning who wants to buy shiny tights with the word ‘ climb ’ on them must be referred to The Samaritans . |
25 | The five-year MEng honours degree course is for particularly able students who expect to assume responsible positions in industry immediately after graduation . |
26 | People who want to open more shops complain that it is becoming ever harder , and more expensive , to find and bribe the correct official responsible for allocating premises . |
27 | More recently , there have been the objections against council housing developments by environmentalists seeking to halt urban encroachment , and existing owner occupied rural dwellers who want to halt particular forms of residential development . |
28 | Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them . |
29 | Hitherto the product was reliant on a third-party database , both to store user data and user data dictionaries and objects , but now it comes with Watcom 's SQL Database ; an addition that will appeal to a small number of customers who want to build stand-alone applications . |
30 | Practical English Usage is a comprehensive reference book for advanced students and teachers who want to check troublesome points of grammar and usage . |