Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] who [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reference was encouraging to many of the Shah 's Iranian opponents who interpreted it as the presidents support for their struggle against the Shah . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the growth in the Euro-currency market has provided an enlarged source of borrowing for monetary authorities who wish either to support their exchange rates or to meet the needs of official financing . |
| 3 | In the middle decades of the century , it was increasingly the German-speaking biologists who led the way . |
| 4 | Investigative mastectomy could be considered for women with normal mammograms who present with axillary nodal disease when antibody reactivity supports a primary tumour in the breast . |
| 5 | However , their article states that ‘ investigative mastectomy could be considered for women with normal mammograms who present with axillary node disease when antibody reactivity supports a primary tumour in the breast . ’ |
| 6 | As the Tory Party debated the ‘ make-believe gangsters strolling about the streets as if they are the monarchs of all ’ , the conference hall rang with an entirely familiar pattern of complaints and accusations : ‘ the leniency shown in the past by the Courts of this country ’ ; the ‘ lack of parental control , interest and support ’ ; the ‘ sex , savagery , blood and thunder ’ in films and television ; and the ‘ smooth , smug and sloppy sentimentalists who contribute very largely to the wave of crime ’ so that young people were ‘ no longer frightened of the police , they sneer at them ’ . |
| 7 | Will the few surviving traditionalists who wore Pakamacs first time round , dripping and steaming simultaneously on forlorn summer holidays or jeered unmercifully at school , take to bright colours ? |
| 8 | He was , he said , one of that small group of political eccentrics who browsed around the dustbins of policy hoping occasionally to come across the word ‘ science ’ : |
| 9 | The Christian Social Union ( CSU , part of Kohl 's coalition government ) and organizations specifically representing the 12,000,000 Germans who fled what became Polish territory after 1945 , had called for the treaty to include a " right of return " , and for German " topographical designations " to have official status in the traditional settlement areas of the German minority in Poland . |
| 10 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 11 | All the loose women Sally-Anne had previously met in both English and American society had been particularly lovely and tempting creatures , not gross and depressed objects who looked like unmade beds — as Rose 's ma did . |
| 12 | His father was a farmer with advanced agricultural views who lived until the age of 88 , so that his son , who farmed with him , had ample time and restless energy to travel the country and buy pigs , sheep , horses and cattle with the aim of deliberately improving them . |
| 13 | The State Department had accused Guatemala of ‘ failing to investigate effectively , to detain or prosecute ’ people in the security forces or half a dozen armed groups who took part in ‘ extrajudicial killings ’ . |
| 14 | On the other hand , if we do n't do what the Russians wish there may be the danger that they will not be ready to co-operate in getting back speedily to us the British and other Allied prisoners who fall into their hands as they advance into Germany . |
| 15 | Then there is the inertia factor of the private shareholders who do n't want to rock the boat at all . ’ |
| 16 | The new body — to be set up by the 12 countries of the European Community and the six countries of the European Free Trade Association — would be open to east European states who opt for democracy . |
| 17 | Now , an amendment to an ICAO agenda requires a two-thirds majority in plenary session , and we were but three European States who wished to put this through . |
| 18 | In elections for the Gaza Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 4 nationalists who backed the Madrid conference won 13 of the 16 seats , unexpectedly leaving only three to Islamic groups who had rejected the conference . |
| 19 | The pastoralist who can control his aggression with regard to his animals has in his childhood first had to learn how to do it with regard to his excremental activities and the parental authority-figures who insisted . |
| 20 | What happened to all those budding artists who came to sign on last autumn and arrived with their brand new paint boxes and paper ? |
| 21 | This may or may not be true , but , what most certainly is true is that the next decade of Trinidadian political life was dominated by a diverse band of political mavericks who had only one thing in common . |
| 22 | He had spent most of his life in England and admired both the feudal-system efficiency and military skills of the Norman knights who had administered that country since William of Normandy conquered it in 1066 . |
| 23 | If Duchamp 's inclusion is accepted , should the exhibition have found room for other European artists who have worked in the United States , such as Mondrian or Max Ernst ? |
| 24 | These civil service pension arrangements were in due course copied , with modifications , by other public and private sector employers , though up to World War I it appears to have been a small minority of mainly the more prestigious employers who developed such formal occupational pension provision . |
| 25 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 26 | The Brunei government on Jan. 6 ordered the release of six political prisoners who had been detained soon after the large-scale revolt which broke out in Brunei and other parts of British Borneo in 1962 [ see p. 19261 ; for release of 38 political detainees in 1988 see p. 36355 ] . |
| 27 | An amnesty of political prisoners who had renounced communism was also expected . |
| 28 | Representatives from the recently formed Forum for the Defence of Human Rights met on Feb. 12 with the then Interior Minister Hekuran Isai , and received from him a list of 108 political prisoners who had been released unannounced since Jan. 6 , according to a Forum statement issued on Feb. 18 . |
| 29 | In September soldiers opened fire on political prisoners who had gone on hunger strike in Insein prison ( Yangon ) ; four were killed and many others were injured . |
| 30 | Nelson Mandela , the ANC president , intervened on their behalf on humanitarian as well as political grounds , linking their plight to that of the hundreds of ANC political prisoners who remained in prison . |