Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tower of Hoeth is also the home of the Sword Masters , warrior-ascetics who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of wisdom and learning carefully controlled violence . |
| 2 | The Sword Masters are guardians of the Tower of Hoeth in the mysterious land of Saphery , warrior-ascetics who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of wisdom and learning carefully controlled violence . |
| 3 | The Sword Masters are warrior-ascetics who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of wisdom and learning carefully controlled violence . |
| 4 | The Prussian guns galloped northwards , their retreat guarded by black-uniformed Hussars who wore skull and crossbones badges on their shakos . |
| 5 | Perdita , having taken far too much , was now feeding the rest of the steak to the shaggy lurchers who ringed the table , but kept their distance . |
| 6 | Wife Sandra adds : ‘ He 's a man of few words who hates the slightest bit of noise . |
| 7 | However , those who have exhausted their rights to Unemployment Benefit , in other words who have been unemployed for longer than one year , have to work for at least 13 weeks . |
| 8 | Shareholders who do not have a long term commitment are replaced by stakeholders who do , as the ‘ owners ’ of the company . |
| 9 | She could see him as a prototype for the border entrepreneur trapped here in the decline and fall of this precarious city , the market-stallholder , the baths attendant , the potter , the vegetable grower , any one of the native opportunists who had rallied to serve and exploit this hothouse community of time-expired settlers and pay-happy leave-men . |
| 10 | Some of the crime is committed by opportunists who wander into students rooms and take cash and credit cards . |
| 11 | This image is eagerly developed by the popular press , which almost daily produces the most ridiculous and exaggerated accounts of the tiny minority of bankrupts who have run up extremely large debts . |
| 12 | George Walker , a tall , well-built centre-half , was a Scottish International with 29 caps who joined the Palace from Notts County early in the summer of 1936 for a fee of £500 . |
| 13 | He looked for the gamekeeper from the villa among the group of men in dark suits and flat caps who stood talking between the plastic flower stall and the van selling salted fish , but he was n't able to spot him . |
| 14 | At Edgbaston , in his early days , it is hard to recall him as the skinny lad in wire spectacles who tried too hard to bowl at medium pace , and when he became depressed at his form , came out in eczema rashes and asthma wheezes . |
| 15 | The stark contrast between England 's win this time and their loss in the deciding one-day match on the same ground last February made a big impact on Kiwis who saw both . |
| 16 | ‘ Most of them are 16-year-old Kiwis who have n't an idea how to pull a decent pint of Guinness . ’ |
| 17 | I make allowances for old'uns who have rubber sharks in their cars : - ) |
| 18 | He thought that if people such as the Iroquois of North America practised a particular type of agriculture it could be assumed that their institutions were the same as those of long dead prehistoric peoples who had a similar level of technology . |
| 19 | This bond held despite the massive immigration into America after the 1840s of peoples who had nothing in common with England , let alone with the Puritan and Protestant traditions . |
| 20 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 21 | It shares this reputation with countries that were once British colonies and which massacred native peoples who had lived in harmony with nature : Canada , the US , Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand . |
| 22 | The Slavs were one of a score of peoples who ravaged the Roman world , but they are one of the few whose cultural identity has remained intact . |
| 23 | Elsewhere he refers to a treaty imposed by the king on the peoples who lived on the river Wahal , that is the Franks . |
| 24 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 25 | Israel is thrilled at the pace of absorption , and accuses the Arab world of manufacturing false conflict and fear ; a conflict that is whipping up greater hostility among two peoples who claim the same land . |
| 26 | He begins by summarising that for the obvious reasons of inaccessibility and defences , the peoples who reside among mountains are the last to be conquered : he progresses to consider similarly-caused impediments to civilisation : he deduces the part remoteness plays in the preservation of ancient languages . |
| 27 | He is consumed by the challenge of the world 's highest peaks , but this has been accompanied by a geographer 's fascination with visiting new places : a curiosity about the metaphysical undercurrents that accompany great risk ; a need to plumb the capabilities of mind and body and a corresponding empathy with mountain peoples who confront such tests in their everyday struggle with life . |
| 28 | Native peoples who depend on the forests for their livelihoods , and animal species like the Siberian tiger , have suffered . |
| 29 | As among other peoples who count by lunations , the Hebrew month begins when the moon 's slim crescent is first visible in the evening twilight . |
| 30 | Already in 1957 Roland Barthes was claiming that ‘ today it is the colonized peoples who assume the full ethical and political condition described by Marx as being that of the proletariat ’ . |