Example sentences of "who [verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's clear to me and I think it 's clear to the vast majority in Congress that it 's a matter for branches to decide who represents them in the various forums of the union . |
| 2 | The country is divided into nine regions and in each of these we have someone or in some cases two people , who represents us in the regional Standing Conference of Sport and Recreation , and also on the Movement and Dance Liaison Group or Association . |
| 3 | Rose 's pupil , who succeeded him as the royal gardener . |
| 4 | Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) . |
| 5 | It is clear that this change is highly evaluated in Belfast in terms of social class hierarchy and status , as it is the more prestigious groups that tend to adopt it and the more ‘ advanced ’ ( generally female and younger ) group who introduce it to the conservative inner-city communities ( which are characterized by dense and multiplex network ties that tend to resist innovation and maintain conservative forms ) . |
| 6 | And members are still less than enamoured with their district council group leader , Coun John Richardson from Willington , who led them to the disastrous defeat . |
| 7 | There it was bought by an unidentified lady who lent it to the religious Society where it has been ever since . |
| 8 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 9 | John Major scholarship boy who made it to the local grammar school and was lucky to obtain patronage from the local squire . |
| 10 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 11 | The accounts of nationalism given by liberal thinkers , who associate it with the bourgeois struggle for democracy , and by the Austro-Marxists who see it as one feature in the rise and consolidation of the capitalist mode of production , merging at a later stage into imperialism , do not exhaust the various conceptions of the phenomenon . |
| 12 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
| 13 | Its weakest point is the character of Pat — while the two men are realistically observed , Pat ( who has none of the shrewd toughness of her profession ) , is a fluff-headed mechanical doll who inexplicably switches from initial dislike of Sonny to a lovestruck Shirley Valentine . |
| 14 | The action begins in the Vatican papal apartments , where all the cardinals use mobile phones , the head of security is a Mafia hood from the Bronx , and Pope John Paul II ( Berwick Kaler , who looks nothing like the real pontiff ) is suffering from acute paranoia . |
| 15 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 16 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 17 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |
| 18 | I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed . |
| 19 | One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general . |
| 20 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 21 | The question raised by the Law Lords on the Circuit who referred it to the High Court was whether despite being deaf and dumb and uneducated , did the defendant know the difference between right and wrong , did she know that a consequence of guilt was punishment , and did she have the power of communicating her thoughts ? |
| 22 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 23 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 24 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 25 | This little harbour near St Austell is named after Charles Rashleigh , who built it in the late eighteenth century to a design by John Smeaton . |
| 26 | The case of the chainmaking trade was particularly acute because of the large numbers of women who entered it during the late 1870s from nailmaking . |
| 27 | Wilson 's principal domestic fault was his kindness in bestowing benefits on friends , and indeed on anyone who approached him in the appropriate fashion , and certainly through Marcia Williams . |
| 28 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 29 | Afterwards , Bowe dismissed Lewis , who beat him in the 1988 Olympic final , as ‘ a big , ugly bum ’ . |
| 30 | The company took the name of the new boss , who moved it into the structural market , building bridges , stations , hotels and even piers at Redcar , Bournemouth and Plymouth . |