Example sentences of "who [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There he shared a platform with distinguished Japanese financiers , who agreed that shareholders ought to have more power over company managers . |
| 2 | They included five-year-old Scott Duffy 's great-grandfather Tom Brown and great-aunt Bet Jones , from Andrews Walk , Barnston , who agreed that Scott 's school was much more cheerful and welcoming than their own . |
| 3 | They are not likely to be deterred by those who contend that democracy is no more than a method of choosing national governments . |
| 4 | Unfortunately most agents are more than willing to bow to pressure from landlords and tenants who insist that confidentiality clauses are inserted into any deal , no matter how small . |
| 5 | There are others who insist that games and exercises per se have no place in the drama lesson , that the best way to learn about drama and to learn how to use it is by doing it , that if the drama itself is powerful and effective there is no need to prepare children for it by doing something else . |
| 6 | This possibility will seem unacceptable only to critics who insist that election must be by votes cast directly and personally for the successful candidate . |
| 7 | They are not for those who insist that learning must be a serious business and who would feel embarrassed to be caught reading a ‘ comic book ’ . |
| 8 | At least the up-to-date cost accountant has plenty of ammunition to fire at the chief executive who insists that accounting has little to do with strategy . |
| 9 | Thus while those TANU members concerned to achieve effective communication for the purpose of education and development preferred the press to radio , whose full potential they failed to recognize , there may have been others who realized that radio had powers to reach people which TANU had not . |
| 10 | INVESTORS who fear that membership of the European Monetary System will not prevent a resurgence of inflation in coming years should examine the virtues of index-linked gilts . |
| 11 | It is all standard royal stuff , but not much help to the millions who fear that Hong Kong will not remain open after 1997 . |
| 12 | Anna Martin preferred the approach of feminists such as Clementina Black , a former President of the Women 's Industrial Council and the head of its Investigation Committee , who argued that women should have a legal right to a certain portion of their husband 's wage . |
| 13 | But some people did worry , notably those who argued that Britain , having ruled Hong Kong as a benign dictatorship for more than 140 years , should institute a fully democratic government before 1997 . |
| 14 | The submarine force — over its whole lifetime — was often to absorb as little as 2 per cent of the defence budget , thus weakening the case of those who argued that Britain 's conventional forces would have gained significantly from its cancellation . |
| 15 | More influential , and more in conformity with Keynesian orthodoxy , were those economists who argued that income restraint was necessary to bring unemployment and inflation into balance , and to prevent Britain 's balance of payments getting out of hand as rising wages led us to import goods we could ill afford while making it more difficult to sell things . |
| 16 | The Cabinet was deeply divided on the issue , between those , such as Alan Lennox-Boyd , the Colonial Secretary , who argued that immigration curbs could damage ‘ the Commonwealth concept ’ , and those , such as Duncan Sandys , Minister of Housing and Local Government , who warned the Cabinet that ‘ in certain districts , such as Birmingham and Lambeth , colonial immigration had already led to serious over-crowding and consequently to social disturbance ’ . |
| 17 | The spate of similar lecturers , articles and tracts was a stunning confirmation of the critics who argued that scientists could spout such one-dimensional , unrealistic drivel only because they and their science was equally one-dimensional . |
| 18 | It was a Romantic notion that there were resonances in the natural world and art ; and it was Schiller who argued that music , the visual arts and poetry ‘ always become … similar in their action on the mind ’ . |
| 19 | On the campaign trail , Mr Clinton did not hesitate to attack opponents who argued that America must tax sources of energy . |
| 20 | Focusing on such issues also served to provide yet more material for those who argued that schools need to be subject to much stricter government control . |
| 21 | At one end of the spectrum of opinion were xenophobic seclusionists who argued that relations with foreigners would be morally as well as politically disastrous . |
| 22 | The term , of course , comes from Piaget , who argued that children passed through a developmental stage during which they were unable to take the point of view of another . |
| 23 | Paul Rotha was amongst those who argued that crime films did much to change the whole basis of film technique ; now the pace was to be crisper , there was more naturalism , and dialogue was lifted out of the ‘ doldrums of the photographed play ’ . |
| 24 | This , in turn , was the subject of a celebrated book by the German writer , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , who argued that sculpture was not a fit medium for representing time and movement . |
| 25 | Even Crosland took it for granted , in trying to disarm those critics who argued that comprehensives would damage standards , that pupils who would have gone to grammar schools would of course still be taught with those of their contemporaries who would also have gone to grammar schools . |
| 26 | While they were still in the minority one could , on the basis of Rooney 's attitude , accuse them of moral censorship when they opposed those who argued that abortion was unethical because it harms the foetus . |
| 27 | you know the one who drives that Porsche |
| 28 | MAFF 's narrow attitude has been criticised ; not the least by the House of Commons Agriculture Committee who recommended that policies should be adjusted so that part-time and small farms could make more of a living . |
| 29 | ANYONE who thinks that Donegal are a spent force following their National League final defeat by Dublin should think again . |
| 30 | He writes songs that bare their roots with an unsubtle pride , and in choosing to cover both a Ron Wood song and a very Clash-version influenced ‘ Pressure Drop ’ , he has outlined his mission very clearly ; namely , to be the sort of rock musician who thinks that Keith Richards is a force for change in the world and that Los Angeles poodle metal is bollocks . |