Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [vb base] them " in BNC.
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| 31 | Legislation has not only so multiplied that it is now the characteristic activity of the modern state , but it has been addressed to complicated matters which have increased the complexity and bulk of individual statutes so that they often go unread even by the legislators who pass them . |
| 32 | So , here 's a thought for Bill , Neil and all the spin-doctors and psephologists who advise them : try having some real , unwavering principles for a change . |
| 33 | All my investigators who want them have got personal alarms of their own . |
| 34 | Poor children in Jamaica often fall prey to drugs dealers who offer them clothes and shoes in return for carrying drugs . |
| 35 | Biology and Chemistry are the most appropriate subjects , but these two sciences are not obligatory for entrance , nor are applicants who offer them given preference . |
| 36 | The main problems they pose are the excessive patronage they confer on the politicians and officials who establish them and make appointments to them , ‘ their frustration of the implementation of public policies , their financial irresponsibility and their erosion of democratic accountability and control ’ ( Jones , 1982a , p. 924 ) . |
| 37 | Indeed in many authorities permanence may be characteristic more of councillors and committee chairmen than the nominally ‘ permanent ’ officials who advise them . |
| 38 | These genetically-engineered microbes bear foreign proteins or lipopolysaccharides which could provoke an allergic response in workers who breath them in . |
| 39 | As Durkheim and others have tried to demonstrate , these relationships seem to have an independent existence over and above the individuals who compose them . |
| 40 | This is because both forms of enterprise are identical to the individuals who own them ; their creditworthiness is that of those individuals . |
| 41 | Environmental determinists are also numerous among the social commentators of the period : ‘ Wretched houses make wretched homes ; and while immoral or slatternly habits convert fine dwellings into styes , it is almost as true that dirty and unhealthy habitations transfer a taint to the character and habits of the persons who occupy them . ’ |
| 42 | " Restaurant licence " which authorises the supply of alcoholic liquor to persons taking table meals for consumption as an ancillary to the meal in premises which are adapted for habitually providing meals to persons who frequent them , are principally used for providing main meals at mid-day and in the evening , and do not contain a bar counter . |
| 43 | Candidates tend in Ireland to be voted for by electors who know them , and they must be selected with this in mind . |
| 44 | If it is power that the leading families who supply them want , why not simply distribute food to hungry people ? |
| 45 | Old Señor Freitas coughed , before he said , ‘ Sometimes señoritas have families who want them to go back to their own country . ’ |
| 46 | As specifications become more and more stringent , so they work increasingly with suppliers who give them exactly what they need . |
| 47 | Bulmers and the thousands of farmers who supply them with fruit are hoping that although the apples will continue to obey the law of gravity , profits and sales will keep going in the opposite direction . |
| 48 | Most successful companies are bought out by large customers who see them as a way of getting into new technologies . |
| 49 | In another part of its robots programme , the Department of Industry puts up cash to help firms to pay consultants who advise them on robot applications . |
| 50 | The press officers who compose them are n't employed for their outstanding literary flair and their missives routinely come replete with weak jokes and dismal puns . |
| 51 | Some shopkeepers have foreign partners who supply them . |
| 52 | Both the staff pension fund and TOPS are in the hands of trustees who run them through management committees . |
| 53 | At all events there are Englishmen who find them so . |
| 54 | The aviators who fly them , while not ( generally ) sporting eye-patches , are particularly hard-baked salts . |
| 55 | They identify the central issue as that of dependency : given the sexual division of labour , women , unlike men , have dependants who need them for their very survival . |
| 56 | They concluded that people with high or borderline high ( above 200 ) cholesterol levels who reduce them will benefit more than people whose levels are within the desirable range . |
| 57 | Yet the big powers have tended to pick high-grade but unadventurous diplomats who give them a quiet life . |
| 58 | The bodies supervised by such boards are likely to be dominated by the bureaucrats who run them , rather than nominees who supervise them , particularly since they will be able to hide behind all the defences of professional expertise with organizations which are larger than almost all the departments within individual local governments with which councillors will be familiar . |
| 59 | Age Concern believes that convalescent facilities must be available to all elderly patients who require them . |
| 60 | He was aware of the accusation frequently levelled at doctors of his sort , that they are charming to their private patients who pay them , while treating like so many malfunctioning machines their National Health patients who merely pay the state . |