Example sentences of "[n mass] who [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The people who would have suffered most from Mr Moore 's penal approach are the 1.6 million children in one parent families . |
| 32 | ‘ By forming groups such as ours , ’ says Rona , ‘ it became possible for people who would never otherwise have met , to compare ideas . ’ |
| 33 | I ca n't remember who he was supporting , but I was a regular visitor because being a big blues fan , it meant I could go and see Sonny Boy Williamson , and all the people who would be at the Richmond Jazz/American Blues Folk Festival that came every year . |
| 34 | In Britain , the InterCity trains have syphoned off people who would otherwise use cars , and British Rail expects to double passenger mileage between 1988 and 2020 . |
| 35 | We children gave no presents to one another or to our parents : we were content to send out a few picture cards paid for by our parents , to people who would send us cards . |
| 36 | She did n't like it when Dot slipped in unseen and with Mr Brown gone off to college , she had n't so many people who would listen to her . |
| 37 | Membership of the Begonia Society came soon after , which brought me into contact with some wonderful growers and really marvellous people who would help in giving growing tips and providing cuttings of varieties I did n't have . |
| 38 | Alasdair Milne , the BBC director-general sacked in 1987 , also believed that the Thatcher government abandoned any attempt at bipartisan appointments , in favour of packing the BBC governors with people who would be politically sympathetic . |
| 39 | Down with the people who would kill Bosnia ! ’ |
| 40 | There may be some people who would like to see you break your neck , but I am not one of them . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ I have in mind the fact that it was not seriously disputed , at any stage during the election , that eight out of 10 families would gain as a result of Labour 's tax and spending proposals ; and yet a number of people who would undoubtedly be beneficiaries of what we were proposing appear not to have recognised that . ’ |
| 42 | However , notwithstanding his extensive programme , no courses longer than the Terminal type were arranged , possibly because student groups were not formed in the villages of people who would have accepted responsibility to stimulate , organise and sustain local demand . |
| 43 | As an organization , Stop Hinkley Expansion had initially expected to present only a handful of witnesses at the inquiry — people who would stand up on our behalf and defend their arguments against the assault of Lord Silsoe and his colleagues . |
| 44 | ‘ Until then waves had looked like a pleasant photogenic distraction on television , and not a serious challenge to anything else , ’ Salter recalled , ‘ but getting so close to 5 p/kWh would have rung a lot of alarm bells with people who would feel threatened . ’ |
| 45 | It thus gained a considerable audience , including many people who would not normally have watched a film of this type given the subject matter . |
| 46 | They are both : tough on the values , tender in support of people who would dare to take a risk and try something new in support of these values . |
| 47 | She appealed unashamedly to her English readers for money for the foreign artists : ‘ If anyone likes to send some money , I will promise to dispense it with the most rigid favouritism towards people who would probably sooner beg than risk the jaundice of a free meal and would sooner have a note of twenty francs all at once than beg every day . ’ |
| 48 | This made him easier to take home for the night ; people who would normally never have approached such a beauty felt that they could . |
| 49 | After such victory , an annoying revelation was that the starting point was crammed with hatchbacks , unquestionably owned by people who would never share my trepidation . |
| 50 | The massive stone structure has acquired a mature and acceptable appearance in these days of so much brick and concrete , and it is one of the ironies of the philosophy of conservation that the blessed bridge which Ruskin regarded as a monstrous intrusion into a beautiful natural scene should , a hundred years later , have been noisily protected from demolition by the very people who would presumably have sided with Ruskin in wishing to preserve the landscape . |
| 51 | In order to evaluate whether the enhanced home support of the action scheme was successful in sustaining at home some people who would otherwise have been likely to enter institutional care , it was necessary for the action to take place in a prescribed geographical area , so that an equivalent , matched area could become a control area . |
| 52 | The effect of being rich is obtained by subtracting the proportion of poor people who would break the law from the proportion of rich people who would . |
| 53 | The effect of being rich is obtained by subtracting the proportion of poor people who would break the law from the proportion of rich people who would . |
| 54 | By the mid-1980s there were very few people who would have pretended to understand all the ramifications of Grant Related Expenditure Assessments , rate-capping or capital controls . |
| 55 | As modern , high-tech society moves on ( at whatever pace ) , it may come to rest in another equilibrium , of skills , where the qualified population is evenly balanced by an underclass of servitors : and missing is the layer of middling qualified people who would otherwise release the elite to produce innovative movement . |
| 56 | Land suggested that Alvey 's group did not consult enough of the people who would use advanced computers ; that it had paid too little attention to international collaboration ; and that the committee focused on too narrow an area of activity . |
| 57 | An added irritant is that the SERC employs permanently people who would not even get jobs in universities now . |
| 58 | Clark and White , whose expedition was kicked out of the country last autumn , say that there is no justification to these claims , Johanson goes further and blames ‘ a campaign by three or four people who would like to sort of smear our reputation , to do whatever they can ’ . |
| 59 | But there are many people who would not find it fulfilling to be themselves at any cost and at the expense of another . |
| 60 | It is often extremely awkward for people to take time off work , and it is probably the very people who would be most reluctant to lie or make excuses for their absence to their present employers who will be the best candidates from your point of view . |