Example sentences of "who [verb] [noun] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He writes : Molla Hacihasanzade , who became kazasker for twenty-five years continuously through purposing the turning away and hindering of those capable of achieving renown by directing them to the path of kaza [ kadilik ] and of those who were spoken of as outstanding in excellence among their contemporaries by impeding their passage through the ranks ; and who had by this stratagem , over so long a period , found safety from the crush of those ulema who , by right of learning and excellence , might have passed through the ranks and become rivals to him …
2 The burden of the message from schoolmaster Olver , who led Quins for three seasons before a head of department post took him to Northampton in 1990 , will be about debts — moral , not financial .
3 The depressing news for the Iron Lady who ruled Britain for 11 years is that nine out of ten can not recall the day she quit , according to research revealed yesterday at the British Psychological Society 's London conference .
4 If I can demonstrate that the Kaiser himself , the monarch who ruled Germany for thirty years until nineteen eighteen , had ideas very similar if not identical to those of Hitler 's , at a time when he was not in contact with Hitler , when Hitler 's party was nowhere in political terms , then I think that 's yet another very important indication that there is continuity in German history from say the Bismarckian period through to nineteen forty-five , and that Hitler stands in that national tradition , and is not some kind of lightning erm that , that struck Germany erm from a blue sky .
5 It is most important for those who develop services for old people to consider the complexities and variations of the social structures which we describe with words like ‘ community ’ , ‘ neighbourhood ’ and ‘ networks ’ — all overworked and imprecise terms as presently used by many professionals .
6 ‘ Melinar ’ B100 is supplied to Wellstar who make bottles for soft drink franchises across Europe .
7 May I ask you , Mr. Speaker , to seek some way to force , make , persuade or otherwise cajole the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland who has responsibility for such matters to make a statement to the House ?
8 Tom is a constituent and it was suggested that he , Andrew and Iain go to see Lord James ( who has responsibility for Scottish Home Affairs ) .
9 Longterm survival in patients who undergo transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma tends to be shorter than in patients transplanted for cirrhosis , because of disease recurrence .
10 Staff who helped care for American casualties were invited back for the occasion … along with a cavalcade of military vehicles from the second world war .
11 Age Concern England , Astral House , 1268 London Road , London SW16 4ER Tel. 081–679 8000 , has over 1000 groups who provide services for elderly people .
12 This process is complicated by the differences in salary , qualification and experience which exist between field social workers who hold legal responsibility for such children and their residential colleagues who provide care for those children who are placed in children 's homes .
13 Fiona , who supervised Davies for ten months , had a torrid affair with the former jailbird and became his self-confessed ‘ sex puppet . ’
14 Andrew Carnegie was one of those enlightened people who provided libraries for rural areas on the mainland and certainly not the only one ; sometimes people got together under the leadership of the minister or the doctor and formed their own society .
15 Why did people who put adverts for local fêtes in their windows so often neglect the paint on their woodwork ?
16 Hence , in conjunction with a local architect who provided technical advice and who prepared drawings for statutory approvals , a new scheme was developed .
17 In simple terms , sponsorship of the Universities ' Athletic Union rugby championship alone is not acceptable to the UAU 's hierarchy , who seek money for all student sporting activities and are looking for something in the region of £100,000 to spread around .
18 For Lynda Hall , 43 , and her husband Alan , have just bought the 200-year-old Navigation Inn , at Buxworth , which actress Pat Phoenix , who played Elsie for 22 years , took over not long after going into the Street .
19 DEREK LEE , who played fullback for Scottish Schools last season , has nailed his colours to the Glasgow even though he is playing standoff for Watsonians in Edinburgh .
20 The reshuffle was also felt to confirm widespread speculation that Maynard , the Deputy Prime Minister , who assumed responsibility for Foreign Affairs in the reshuffle , was likely to become the successor to the acting Governor-General , Sir Hanry Taylor , who was in poor health .
21 Whitehall set to work on the implications of the Charter for postwar economic policy , but senior Ministers had no time to spare and the series of politicians who assumed responsibility for post-war planning had little weight in Cabinet .
22 The third problem is the Housing Executive 's requirement under its warranted contractor scheme , which was introduced in 1987 , that people who receive grants for this type of improvement employ a warranted contractor .
23 Our policy is to recruit at the lower levels and train those staff who show aptitude for managerial responsibility .
24 Harvey Pitcher , doing research on nineteenth century Arran writers and painters and especially on the wealthy Muir family who rented houses for many years on Arran , has given me this delightful little gem .
25 For example , a sufferer from alcoholism who still used sleeping tablets , a sufferer from any of the eating disorders who is not physically abstinent from sugar and white flour , a sufferer from workaholism who exchanges work for physical exercise in similar quantities and a sufferer from the family disease who still searches incessantly for treatment or other solutions to the problems of the primary sufferer rather than accept his or her own powerlessness over the lives of other people and accept the need for personal recovery , are all still in the active phase of the disease even if they are regularly attending meetings of an appropriate Anonymous Fellowship .
26 The best-known architect working in this manner was Edward Buckton Lamb who submitted designs for all parts of the competition .
27 Government funding to Social service departments who pay 230-pounds for each resident each week will be cut substantially in April .
28 Satan , who finds work for idle hands to do , also fills idle minds with fruitless speculation .
29 It says it 's the devil who finds work for idle hands .
30 One offered guaranteed annual earnings of £35,000 to people able to sell 45 titles a week from home , but a complainant who sent £149 for more information was unable to make any money at all .
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