Example sentences of "who [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sweeney 's name pronounces him of the lineage of a man who sold human flesh for butchermeat , a ‘ demon barber ’ . |
| 32 | I once went to a saddler in Bungay who sold these belts ready made up . |
| 33 | If this is the case , the ones most likely to buckle under the heat of the pressure will be those Christians who lack personal conviction . |
| 34 | In comparing the procedures for electing party leaders in Britain and the United States , Anthony King concluded that , ‘ recent developments in the American presidential nominating system have greatly increased the probability that men will be nominated who lack relevant experience and have no evident aptitude for one of the most demanding and powerful jobs on earth ’ . |
| 35 | Introduced to provide finance for promising entrepreneurs who lack sufficient track record or collateral , the loan guarantee scheme is being improved with the maximum loan available up from £100,000 to £250,000 . |
| 36 | In that year the Cohen Committee succinctly explained how this state of affairs had come about : ‘ [ t ] he illusory nature of the control theoretically exercised by the shareholders over directors has been accentuated by the dispersion of capital among an increasing number of small shareholders who pay little attention to their investments so long as satisfactory dividends are forthcoming , who lack sufficient time , money and experience to make full use of their rights as occasion arises and who are , in many cases , too numerous and too widely dispersed to be able to organise themselves ’ . |
| 37 | The long-term trend towards greater equality of income and wealth has been reversed under the Conservative governments of 1979 onwards and it is argued that this ‘ strategy of inequality ’ ( Child Poverty Action Group ) , which is seen as a direct consequence of the drive towards popular capitalism , has led to a major increase in poverty in the UK and to the possible emergence of an underclass , who lack any stake in popular capitalism and who are caught in the dependency culture . |
| 38 | A TRANMERE man who attacked two sisters at a party told police he remembered little or nothing about it because of the quantity of drink he had consumed . |
| 39 | A MAN who attacked two sisters at a party told police he remembered little about it because of the amount of drink he had consumed . |
| 40 | He knew that without Sweetheart 's loving protection he would be put in a Home with criminals and perverts and mad people who attacked small boys . |
| 41 | The visit followed accusations by Egyptian officials over several weeks that gunmen who attacked foreign tourists in Egypt , damaging the lucrative tourism industry [ see pp. 39168 ; 39214-15 ] , had been trained in Iranian-run camps in Sudan . |
| 42 | Has the Prince forgotten that it was the French farmers who attacked British lorry drivers and burned their cargoes of lamb ? |
| 43 | However , there are some women who display total commitment to their men without appearing to need the safety net of marriage . |
| 44 | Launching the scheme Princess Diana said : ‘ The awards will go to those who display exemplary qualities in adversity while helping others . ’ |
| 45 | Wayans insists the joke is meant to lampoon those who display unwarranted fear of Aids and is no way in poor taste . |
| 46 | Paul Beniston , who obtained his BA in Music in 1987 , was one of the members of Royal Fort Brass , a brass quintet formed in 1985 , who entertained many audiences with their wide-ranging repertoire , both serious and humorous . |
| 47 | THOUSANDS of couples who hate each other are trapped together in a living hell because of the slump . |
| 48 | A very early and most interesting use of this technique was that of Jahoda who asked young people at school to write an essay about their first day at work and what they envisaged it would be like . |
| 49 | Thanks are due also to all those who took part in the experiments , especially those who asked common sense questions which I frequently found extremely difficult to answer as a cognitive psychologist . |
| 50 | They had originally offered £100,000 for Fox , who asked relegated Rovers for a move just before he left on the Lions tour Down Under in May . |
| 51 | You know we were intelligent people who asked intelligent questions . |
| 52 | Leigh are set to advertise for a player-coach to succeed Jim Crellin , who quit last Sunday . |
| 53 | Mr Gould — National Heritage shadow to shamed David Mellor who quit last week — infuriated Labour with the timing of his announcement . |
| 54 | Despite the obligatory Republican , anti-commie ranting , O'Rourke is a softie who hates all politicians . |
| 55 | Who hates big mouths like Stock , Aitken and Waterbucket ? |
| 56 | He was on his way to becoming a statistic , one of the sixty per cent of fathers who lose all contact with their children within five years of divorce . |
| 57 | This is the polar opposite of those who have been brainwashed by an ideology , and who lose all sense of being individuals . |
| 58 | AN evil gang who kidnapped two families to force the managers of a bank and supermarket to hand over £96,000 were jailed for a total of 65 years yesterday . |
| 59 | Eight years for youth who stabbed frail pensioner , 85 |
| 60 | ‘ Every match I am playing better and better , ’ said Stich , who revealed that marriage to German actress Jessica Stockman nine months ago helped put his career back on track after he had slumped as low as 17 in the world last year . |