Example sentences of "who [vb base] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some require anonymous donors who perceive their role as similar to that of blood donors .
2 He was explicit : ‘ There appear to be those in the Lord Chancellor 's Department who perceive its role as being far wider than is consistent with any concept of the independence of the judiciary . ’
3 ‘ Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out , go home and think of the dozens of abortions you 've had , go home and think of that and your damned caesarian sections too , and your children who hate your guts !
4 The area is now faced with a regional conflict — deep and dangerous for those who live there and tragic for those who lose their lives .
5 Any reader can , in any case , place himself or herself within the deictic centre by adopting an appropriate psychological distance towards those who lose their lives at war .
6 ‘ I usually find that the people who lose their tempers when I start asking questions are the ones with something to hide , ’ he said easily .
7 She shares the heartache felt by many owners who lose their horses to thieves , often never to see them again .
8 I have no time for people who lose their temper with animals but something snapped in my mind then .
9 If the water flows into the shaft of an adjoining mine , with the result that the mine can not be worked for six months , the mine owner may recover damages , but the miners who lose their wages during that period probably have no remedy , not because the loss is ‘ unnatural ’ or ‘ unforeseeable ’ but because it is a loss of a type for which the law restricts recovery .
10 ‘ MPs who lose their seats should definitely think twice about this , ’ he told me .
11 At the present time patients who lose their job in middle age experience great difficulty in finding another .
12 For those who lose their job , we are making every effort to provide high quality support , through both generous severance terms and counselling services to help identify suitable opportunities outside BP .
13 Workers who lose their jobs are sent to farm camps , along with bureaucrats doing two weeks ' hard labour .
14 The development of industry within urban areas tends to be welcome as it provides employment for those who lose their jobs when older industries become redundant .
15 Thus it has been estimated that one in four women who lose their jobs do not appear in the monthly claimant count .
16 of people who lose their jobs are back in work within three months is encouraging .
17 ‘ Those who lose their jobs are reckoned to stand a 50pc chance of securing new employment within three months , ’ said Ronnie Scott of the Economic Research Centre .
18 Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point .
19 Half the people who lose their jobs get another one within three months .
20 With companies in Hereford shedding staff in the recession , the outlook for those who lose their jobs at the RAF base is bleak .
21 Russia has made clear that it would like longer-term credits and money to help finance such programmes as a social safety net for workers who lose their jobs due to the reforms .
22 The Junker path involves the increasing proletarianisation of the peasantry , who lose their plots to encroaching landlords ( for a more detailed discussion of Kulak and Junker paths , see de Janvry 1981 ) .
23 The people who lose their children to public care are , disproportionately , socially deprived , lower-class parents who are prey to such disadvantages as low income , inadequate housing , homelessness , living in deprived inner-city neighbourhoods , unemployment or erratic employment , and frequent changes of home .
24 Thus , for example , the disabled wife ( or cohabitee ) can only draw the Non-contributory Invalidity Pension if she is unable to perform normal ( as defined by the DHSS ) household duties , regardless of whether housework is her normal profession , regardless of the fact that men and single women only have to prove inability to do paid work to qualify for the pension ; and conversely , the Invalid Care Allowance , for people who lose their incomes because they must stay at home and care for a sick relative , is not payable to wives ( or cohabitees ) because it is assumed that they would be at home in any case !
25 I have often played host to married friends who bemoan their lack of privacy , or express their desire to be able to put themselves first , once in a while , instead of their partner , parent(s) , children or grandchildren .
26 This sort of language dismays the traditional ranks of SPD supporters , especially the big trade unions , who fear their voice within the party is being muffled .
27 There 's no name vile enough , my lord , for creatures like you who vent their spite even on the dead .
28 Zenaida threw her head back and laughed ; she had very big , yellow teeth too , donkey 's teeth , strong enough to haul with ; and Carmellina abased herself before her to trick her , until her face was on the floor at the dirty and rank hem of Zenaida 's dress , like the pilgrims who drag their tongues along the ground during the Tomb ritual before Easter .
29 You will be feeling ruthless and ambitious and walking all over those who drag their heels .
30 But those who raise their heads above the vestibule are seldom treated with Christian charity .
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