Example sentences of "who [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they have to play a ‘ sudden death ’ to see who wins the half million . ’ |
| 2 | Anyway , what about Sam , who takes the Ring but hands it back with only momentary delay , Pippin and Merry , who show no desire for it at all , Aragorn , Legolas and Gimli , who display the same indifference without the excuse of ignorance , and Boromir 's brother Faramir , who realises the Ring is in his power but refuses to take it , with no more sign of mental turmoil than a ‘ strange smile ’ and a glint in the eye ? |
| 3 | Prizes will be awarded for those who raise the most money . |
| 4 | It will be in everyone 's interest that the precise arrangements are specified , eg whether the partnership has a tenancy or contractual licence to occupy and in consideration of what payments , or whether the property is to be enjoyed rent free , or whether the firm is given only a non-exclusive personal licence which will determine on the death or retirement of the partner who grants the same . |
| 5 | Thus a program was written which , given a suggested set of grade boundaries , would evaluate their effects in terms of : ( i ) the numbers of staff by " before " and " after " grade ; ( ii ) the overall percentage upgrading and downgrading ; ( iii ) the percentage changes by grade ( that is the percentage of staff in each " before " grade who are upgraded , who remain the same grade and who are downgraded ) . |
| 6 | The earliest form of printed book illustration was the woodcut , and the art , with varying fortunes , has survived to the present day , so that the collector has more than five centuries to survey and a range of skill , from the superb work of Albrecht Dürer ( 1481–1504 ) to the charming absurdities of the chapbook printers , who inserted the same cuts in different publications with a reckless disregard for subject and appropriateness . |
| 7 | Guillaume understood that Zborowski , ‘ who led the same kind of life as Modigliani , haunted the cafés with him ’ , would be far more suitable . |
| 8 | Alan Byrne is a central midfield player who plays the same style of game of our recently lost friend DB . |
| 9 | Study the competition , the commercials and the advertisements of other manufacturers who make the same thing . |
| 10 | Those who make the most of their new image in a positive and welcoming way will feel good and look good too . |
| 11 | The dominant characteristic of political decision-making when compared with market mechanisms is not that those who benefit from public expenditure are those who make the most noise politically . |
| 12 | At the first hotel I worked in , I had shared an ‘ office , with one other cleaner — a taciturn alcoholic who taught me how to keep my head down — but in my new job , there were five of us who shared the same poky little room . |
| 13 | All they wanted to do was talk climbing : content to be in the company of people who shared the same obsession . |
| 14 | It is difficult to compare the perceptions of Labour and Conservative identifiers who read the same paper since the numbers in our sample who read any one paper were low and tended to be drawn predominantly from one party or another . |
| 15 | Conservatives who read right-wing papers saw more pro-Conservative bias in these papers than Labour identifiers who read the same set of right-wing papers . |
| 16 | Labour identifiers who read left-wing papers saw more pro-Labour bias in these papers than Conservatives who read the same set of papers ( Table 6.8 ) . |
| 17 | None the less , Conservatives who read right-wing papers saw more pro-Conservative bias in these papers than Labour identifiers who read the same set of right-wing papers . |
| 18 | The head of the college , Captain Lyndon Taylor , considered the pupils fortunate to have such a " thorough and gifted teacher who made the most of her cheerful and vibrant personality " . |
| 19 | But the one who made the most impact and will probably pay dearly for his injudicious comments during the week was Colin Montgomerie . |
| 20 | The most important point , however , is that this rapist , who got the most publicity , is the most unusual . |
| 21 | Here again it was the nobility and gentry who got the most attention , but at the same time the inferior ranks of society were defined with some rigour . |
| 22 | They work out who got the most shots in |
| 23 | Perhaps her husband was not such a shit after all , Blanche thought , just a human being who experienced the same tangled skein of feelings as held her then . |
| 24 | This contrast is used to explain why the Japanese are said to feel less class conscious than Westerners because vertical loyalties within companies , say , are more important than horizontal relations with other people who occupy the same position but who work for different companies . |
| 25 | Stuart , who needs the same liver and bowel transplant as Laura Davies of Manchester , had been out with Shelley and her boyfriend John Moore for just two hours on Boxing Day when the vandals struck . |
| 26 | Apart from finding globules of mercury in people 's shoes , a contemporary commentator , and opponent of this form of treatment , describes two men who used the same tavern regularly and both having supped from their little bottles of mercury would smoke a pipe and down some wine . |
| 27 | Here too they follow Richards , who used the same term to characterize the ‘ bringing in of the opposite , the complementary impulse ’ ( Richards 1967 : 197 ) , which he held to be characteristic of all great poetry . |
| 28 | We find that : ( i ) there is disutility from being unemployed , with individuals disliking unemployment even more after the first three months ; ( ii ) unemployment benefits have no effect on the behaviour of the unemployed individuals after the first three months ; ( iii ) income receipts other than unemployment benefits and earnings have only a very small effect ; ( iv ) the conditional probability of leaving the unemployment spell shows no sign of decreasing with duration for most of the members of our sample , while 50% of the teenage men have an increasing hazard ; ( v ) the effects of unemployment benefits on the expected duration varies with age ; the average elasticity of 0.12 is much smaller than those estimated by NNS and NN , who used the same data set but different models . |
| 29 | ‘ The successful scholar is normally the person who has the least difficulty in identifying the route from A to B … yet are these always the best people to put in charge of those with the greatest difficulty ? ’ . |
| 30 | She is cruelly twisted with arthritis but her spirit is livelier than a young lass 's , more concerned for an old friend in Lamlash who has the same complaint — that dread West Coast damp — and is quite unable to move . |