Example sentences of "patient [Wh pn] [vb base] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Foreigners costing the NHS millions Purge on patients who dodge paying bills
2 Patients who complain want information and explanation , and some also want compensation .
3 Those patients who fail to achieve reperfusion or who experience reocclusion of the infarct-related artery show no improvement in regional or global ventricular function .
4 Is it not scandalous that ministerial offices and the House have televisions provided by the taxpayer , yet bedridden patients who want to watch television to help them to relax must pay ?
5 Such individuals , as in patients who have undergone splenectomy are predisposed to infections and overwhelming sepsis .
6 As in patients who have undergone splenectomy , alcoholics have a predisposition to pneumococcal infection and two of the current group had had pneumococcal disease , ( both with evidence of functional hyposplenism ) with one dying from overwhelming septicaemia .
7 This finding may have clinical importance in the few patients who have pronounced hypergastrinaemia because of profound long acting acid inhibition .
8 Cognitive neuropsychology is the attempt to draw parallels between models of cognitive function and the patterns of performance observed in patients who have suffered Brain injury .
9 That is , patients who have suffered brain damage to one of their hemispheres have been used in order to examine the effect of this damage on their linguistic and spatial abilities .
10 This concept may explain why the inflammatory changes manifested in the clinical syndrome of ‘ pouchitis ’ are seen almost exclusively in patients who have had colectomy for inflammatory bowel disease rather than familial polyposis .
11 The aim of the research is to develop a scientific theory of the processes involved in face and person recognition that can account for normal performance , and will help in understanding the different types of difficulty in recognising faces experienced by patients who have had strokes .
12 The principles are equally applicable in many other therapeutic situations , not just those involving patients who have taken overdoses .
13 I and many of my colleagues who work in general hospital psychiatry often see patients who have spent years , and considerable sums of money , seeing alternative allergy practitioners for little benefit .
14 THE recent statement made by junior minister Baroness Cumberlege , implying that the Government would not object should doctors decide to withhold treatment from patients who refuse to stop smoking , gave me food for thought .
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