Example sentences of "who [vb -s] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A monotheistic God is a God who insists on being ‘ over against ’ and separate from creation and from the gods of other nations . |
| 2 | Here is a woman who insists upon being treated with all the formality of royal protocol . |
| 3 | Before long no one who aspires to be taken seriously can dare to question it in public . |
| 4 | ( Six years later , according to the Life , Johnson ‘ harangued ’ at Joshua Reynolds 's house ‘ upon the qualities of different liquors ’ , and coined the much-quoted ‘ Claret is the liquor for boys ; port , for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy . ’ ) |
| 5 | When we 're researching our shows we explain the whole process very carefully to each woman who agrees to be interviewed ; they get paid for talking to us , they give feedback at all stages of the writing process — it 's very much done as a contract . |
| 6 | In her enchanting story of The Velveteen Rabbit , Margery Williams ' tells of a cloth rabbit who longs to be more than just a toy . |
| 7 | If he is a loser , who needs to be a winner . |
| 8 | She would be well and truly mystified by the sight of an elderly king who needs to be helped into his chair one minute , but can swing his cane around like a golf stick the next , and even more flummoxed by the depiction of a world in which the porter has closed circuit television , but the method of killing has n't changed a jot . |
| 9 | The patient referred to here is one who needs to be connected to a ventilator to cope with a crisis or emergency . |
| 10 | ‘ Control is exercised by the chairman of the establishment committee who needs to be convinced of the value of each and every application ’ … |
| 11 | Who needs to be told that ‘ partnership and cooperation could prove to be the watchwords for the 1990s ’ ? |
| 12 | ‘ Cantona is a sensitive man who needs to be told he is doing well , even if he can do better . |
| 13 | It is a matter of seeing the enemy as a human being created by God and who needs to be transformed and not destroyed . |
| 14 | The SIET hands out around £50,000 a year to young Scots who need help to get on and , often in the nature of things , to get out of Scotland for a while : some physics graduate from St Andrews who needs time at MIT , a violinist who needs to be at a foreign conservatoire . |
| 15 | The Area Sec has the right to relate directly to Waterloo , but how does this relate to the role of Nat Sec who needs to be informed ? |
| 16 | Some of the combinations seem to go together automatically — e.g. the apprentice will be low status , somebody who needs to be taught — but often it 's useful to think beyond the obvious . |
| 17 | Identifying trainees is all about finding out who needs to be trained and what they need to know and if you remember one of ject objectives we had for the course is , was to , so that by the end of the course you will actually develop a system by identifying the trainees because this is sort of hit or miss . |
| 18 | We do the first bit who needs to be trained what do they need to know is the second |
| 19 | Providing the disabled person is entitled to receive mobility allowance , it need not necessarily be the disabled person who has to be the driver of the vehicle . |
| 20 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 21 | At the climax of the film McDowell , who has to be rescued from the sea by Willis , had to endure the freezing water throughout several takes because director Blake Edwards was not satisfied with Willis 's performance . |
| 22 | ‘ When some of the XV disappear through injury or some other reason it means that , all of a sudden , you are dealing with a new player who has to be parachuted in and the pressure on the individual is acute . |
| 23 | His ignorance of what she feels about his ‘ human kindness ’ — she rejects any ‘ compunctious visiting of nature ’ ( 44 ) — makes him a victim , or accomplice , who has to be instructed in hypocrisy : One of Shakespeare 's problems in having to develop an evil conspiracy in the absence of any vocal moral commentary on it is to make it judge or condemn itself . |
| 24 | The mother image can be either the strict mother who has to be obeyed , or else the loving mother who has been hurt and can now be comforted . |
| 25 | I stress that any person wishing to operate buses must have a PSV operator 's licence issued by the traffic commissioner , who has to be satisfied that the person is of good repute and financial standing and has adequate facilities to maintain the vehicles in a roadworthy condition . |
| 26 | I 'm your wife , I 'm a responsibility , I 'm someone who has to be dumped somewhere safe , like a child who ca n't look after herself . |
| 27 | The first is the role of women as housewives and mothers and the devaluation of domestic work , how this creates a self-image of being someone who has to be provided for . |
| 28 | All committed by a man who has to be caught . |
| 29 | A horse who has to be lightly raced , Chatam has only had three runs this season . |
| 30 | We could hardly wish for a more graphic portrayal of the son who is tied to his domineering , aggressive mother by ties of love , but who has to be a hero in the eyes of the world to prove his masculine worth . |