Example sentences of "who [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The review proposes a national insurance contribution ‘ holiday ’ to employers who recruit the long-term unemployed , although it admits that the Treasury would probably veto the plan . |
| 2 | Competitive tendering is a system whereby contracts are awarded to the supplier who offers the best deal . |
| 3 | The reshuffle came under almost immediate fire from former president Francesco Cossiga , who branded the new administration as a government of national hypocrisy . |
| 4 | These listen to appeals against official decisions by people who dispute the official interpretation of their rights . |
| 5 | Dave Whelan , 53 , who played for Blackburn Rovers and broke a leg in the 1960 FA Cup final , has offered £100,000 to any youngster born within 10 miles of Wigan parish church who wins the junior Wimbledon title in the next 10 years . |
| 6 | Dave Whelan , 53 , who played for Blackburn Rovers and broke a leg in the 1960 FA Cup final , has offred £100,000 to any youngster born within 10 miles of Wigan parish church who wins the junior Wimbledon title in the next 10 years . |
| 7 | The bill is just over £300 and is the last poll tax bill which will have to be paid , no matter who wins the General Election . |
| 8 | But I want to be a history maker , to be the first coach who wins the European Cup for an English club and the coach who makes England an international force . |
| 9 | A SUBSTANTIAL silent minority still holds the key to who wins the marginal seat of Darlington , according to a new poll . |
| 10 | So they have to play a ‘ sudden death ’ to see who wins the half million . ’ |
| 11 | Well it 's one who spoils the bloody party is n't he ? |
| 12 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 13 | The new faces , including Leader of Liverpool City Council , Harry Rimmer who represents the five metropolitan districts on Merseyside and Coun Edward Bowden of Warrington Borough Council representing Cheshire 's shire districts , increases the size of the board from 18 to 23 . |
| 14 | Father Caden , who represents the Catholic diocese on Durham County Council 's education committee , said he , too , wanted a clear declaration that extra places were a basic need in the north end of Darlington . |
| 15 | THE MISSING link reappears at Goodwood this afternoon in the shape of Ile De Nisky ( 2.45 ) , the horse who represents the prime piece of evidence in the argument over the comparative merits of Nashwan and Old Vic , writes John Karter . |
| 16 | President Izetbegovic , a Muslim who represents the largest ethnic group , has appealed for UN help to stave off civil war . |
| 17 | Mr Gonzalez , who represents the modest Hispanic city of San Antonio , Texas , shepherded the affordable-housing programme through Congress as part of the S&L bail-out . |
| 18 | It found that a number of them were ‘ what could be described as pits ’ , according to the Nigerian ambassador , BA Clark , who headed the team and who represents the United Nations Transition Assistance Group ( Untag ) in Angola . |
| 19 | Although the current five-year term of the People 's Action Party ( PAP ) administration could have run until 1993 [ for 1988 general election see pp. 36352-53 ] , Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong who succeeded the veteran Lee Kuan Yew in November 1990 , wished to secure a popular mandate for his leadership and its changes of policy emphasis [ see p. 37860 ] . |
| 20 | It was built by the Stephensons ( q.v. ) and John Ellis , who succeeded the formidable George Hudson as Chairman of the Midland Railway Company . |
| 21 | He handed a small scroll across to Corbett , who checked the purple wax seal of the King before breaking it and unrolling the vellum . |
| 22 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
| 23 | Tigrett , who sold the Hard Rock chain and set up the charitable Rama Foundation , falls readily into the cranky crackpot mould : he is even married to Maureen , former wife of Ringo Starr who has been supporting his friend George Harrison 's Natural Law Party . |
| 24 | upset the chairs of those who sold the sacrificial pigeons ; |
| 25 | Indeed , Terence Hawkes has defined and defended what he calls ‘ paperback research ’ as a proper activity for those who lack the scholarly resources of the ancient universities . |
| 26 | Mature students who lack the requisite O-levels or GCSEs can opt to sit an alternative entrance test , although there is some confusion over the purpose of such tests . |
| 27 | The six-year course ( intended principally for non-Science pupils at school ) is provided for well-qualified students who lack the requisite subjects for entry to the five-year course ( see the Table of Admissions Requirements ) . |
| 28 | They make nonsense of the aspirations of developing countries , who not only lack the funds available to some American schools in the 1960s but who lack the meagre finances spared to education in Britain in her declining 19705 . |
| 29 | But 70-year-old Mr Lowes , who unearthed the historic treasures while searching for lost tools on Home Farm , at Hoxne , Suffolk last November , is totally relaxed about the whole thing . |
| 30 | I have something here that might help you find the man who attacked the poor girl . |