Example sentences of "who [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , he was keen to be among the extras who despairingly crowded the rail as the ship went down — keen , you could say , to undergo in fiction an alternative version of history . |
| 2 | The cast of characters is evidence enough of the approach : a fashionable young baronet intended by his ambitious politician uncle to marry the Princess of Lystria ; an exiled king running a fashionable London restaurant ; two pretty dancers , one royal and one plebeian ; a curate on holiday who strikingly resembles the baronet — with such components , the square dance performed through Central Europe is both neat and exciting . |
| 3 | But in the middle are a group of ‘ innovators ’ who effectively abolish the underlying unit trust charges and instead impose a smaller initial charge which is coupled to a sliding scale of exit charges on the PEP , which disappear altogether after three years . |
| 4 | Yet by the time the invasion neared he was one of the inner-most group of five Ministers — with Eden , Lloyd , Macmillan and Head [ who had replaced Monckton as Minister of Defence ] ( plus Mountbatten , the Chief of Staff ) — who effectively took the decision to issue an ultimatum to Egypt and Israel . |
| 5 | Though the group which dominated the executive board of the National Association tended to be drawn from the secularist , radical circles of the metropolis , the women and men who effectively led the repeal movement came from the same provincial backgrounds which sustained many other mid-century reform groups . |
| 6 | THE Mirror is not about to be sold , the man who effectively controls the Mirror Group said yesterday . |
| 7 | Galloway was actively involved in the management of the business while it was expanding rapidly , but after it was formed into a limited company under the name of Galloway Ltd. in 1889 it was Charles John , the chairman and managing director , who effectively held the reins . |
| 8 | After 1911 Manchuria fell under the domination of the warlord , Zhang Zuolin , who effectively controlled the territory until 1928 . |
| 9 | The powerful Yang brothers ( President Yang Shangkun and Yang Baibing ) , who effectively controlled the People 's Liberation Army , initiated a major military reshuffle in April and May 1990 , affecting six of China 's seven military regions . |
| 10 | We talked of the tremendous impression that our century 's two great conflicts had made upon Finzi , a widely-read intellectual , who paradoxically shunned the public life of the composer , finding his personal outlet in terms of an insular , and yet highly individual musical style . |
| 11 | As well as being deficient in mass support , the Republican politicians who numerically dominated the Provisional Government lacked unity amongst themselves . |
| 12 | It 's very weird to see yourself ; looking in the mirror is not the same thing as seeing yourself three-dimensionally , which is very , very peculiar , ’ says Howard , who politely declined the chance to take his effigy home at the end of filming . |
| 13 | LORD Young , the former Trade Secretary , who secretly authorised the £38 million ‘ sweeteners ’ paid to British Aerospace to buy Rover , last night launched a strong defence of the deal . |
| 14 | But amongst the fakes , obsessives and lunatics , was there perhaps a man who instinctively knew the route to the Imajica ? |
| 15 | So too , in less tragic circumstances , artists and intellectuals who instinctively loathed the Arts Council rallied round when Thatcher put the boot in . |
| 16 | 144 ‘ Artificial lesbianism ’ , as opposed to ‘ true ’ homosexuality of the ‘ congenital invert ’ , was condemned as the product of a culture which segregated the sexes and manufactured perverts out of women who instinctively preferred the love of a man . |
| 17 | It was , though , his rather better known colleague at Caltech , Linus Pauling , who proposed that the principle to adopt was that of structures that maximise the number of so-called hydrogen bonds between different amino acids in the polypeptide chain ( and who thereby forged the key which very rapidly unlocked molecular biology ) . |
| 18 | Erika , who rather liked the Kiev , was disdainful . |
| 19 | Fenella , who rather liked the look of the Gnomes , thought they were a bit like careful children , diligently remembering their manners , sprinkling their conversation with ‘ please ’ and ‘ thank you ’ , and with things like , ‘ I 'll trouble you for the jam pot , your honour ’ , or ‘ after you with the tomato chutney , your worship ’ . |
| 20 | This had to involve the person who most wanted the situation to change , as well as the elderly person and other relevant people . |
| 21 | It was they who most resented the contempt of factory management , the humiliation of public examination for venereal diseases , the lack of privacy in the lavatories , the insecurity of their jobs , the degradation of their living quarters . |
| 22 | But the player who most resembled the Becker of old was 31st-ranked Costa . |
| 23 | But the player who most resembled the Becker of old was 31st-ranked Costa . |
| 24 | Of all the travellers of our period those who most affected the lives of large numbers of people , those who travelled most regularly for pleasure and profit , those to whom the sea , the river and the road , were most natural companions , have left the smallest record . |
| 25 | I believe that the Housing Executive ensures that those who most need the grants are put at the top of the list . |
| 26 | Those who most need the improvements can not usually afford them . |
| 27 | But the moment alone was enough to prove that the Soviet authorities are sincere in their efforts to resolve the riddle of a romantic , mythical figure who single-handedly saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews in wartime Budapest before disappearing for ever , at the start of 1945 , into the darkness of Stalin 's Russia . |
| 28 | Consequently , Reagan , in looking for support from conservative Republicans , ran up against the reality that many of those same people felt bound by obligations to Nixon , who duly won the nomination on the first ballot at the Convention . |
| 29 | The only relaxation presently available from the absolute prohibition against foreign lawyers ( other than those who duly obtain the professional qualifications necessary to become members of the legal profession in England and Wales ) undertaking the work of solicitors and barristers is that afforded under the European Communities ( Services of Lawyers ) Order 1978 which , as amended , has effect for the stated purpose of enabling an EC qualified lawyer to pursue his professional activities in any part of the UK by providing , subject to conditions , the services otherwise reserved to the local professions ( advocates , barristers and solicitors ) . |
| 30 | Quarry walls , drainage cuts , spoil heaps , road works , railway sidings … are sometimes colonised before the workmen at these sites ( who mostly view the small birds with tolerance ) have even packed up and left . |