Example sentences of "[n mass] who [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And no doubt other dangerous folk who might have been known to me . |
| 2 | There are some folk who will talk about the the baptism of the spirit , and the gifts of the spirit , and say , oh well , well they 're all very well and good but I would rather have the fruit of the spirit . |
| 3 | Does he not know that people will actually die , old folk who will turn down the heat without telling anyone ? |
| 4 | It is clear that among the more prosperous merchants in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries there was the first beginning of a tendency towards specialization , in types of goods carried and markets exploited ; but growing trade , freer movements of peoples , no doubt enhanced the number of folk who could earn a few pennies peddling or carting . |
| 5 | In other words , it looks as if mothers erm actively discriminate against er embryos which are not normal and are not gon na develop into into in in into er offspring who will survive . |
| 6 | Most importantly , there have been fluctuations over time in the actual existence of kin who might provide such support for each other . |
| 7 | These were people of means who could afford to foot the bill : no appeal to the fear of physical pain was needed here . |
| 8 | And at one point in the conversation they touched on the kind of people who ought to become bishops . |
| 9 | Behind them flicker George Weberish faces with small beards and women in dungarees , people who ought to have been expensively invented by Saatchi and Saatchi , but who have a menacing life of their own . |
| 10 | The people who ought to study and argue such questions , the philosophers , have mostly not had enough mathematical background to keep up with modern developments in theoretical physics . |
| 11 | But where it is n't well known is the people who ought to know , and that 's the pensioners , you know th perhaps er your er parents , people er older than yourselves who are drawing state pension , and er the advertising seems to have gone astray . |
| 12 | Needless to say , I was treated like a crank , was completely ignored by the so-called ‘ experts ’ and in general was subjected to ridicule by people who ought to know better , namely my own family ! |
| 13 | I know quite a few people who would do that . |
| 14 | Candidate Alan Milburn said the bus campaign would reach many of the people who would do best under his party . |
| 15 | How do we turn the people who would do semi-skilled jobs on machines into people who can programme numerically-controlled machines to perform that job more effectively and with much greater levels of productivity . |
| 16 | Just imagine the abuse with which they would be showered by people who would tell them : ‘ Since it is easily possible for the economy to grow at 4 , 5 , 6 per cent or any other figure you like , the public are being cheated of the growth of public expenditure which they have a right to enjoy by this niggardly Government which is only counting on being able safely to increase public expenditure at a rate of 2 to 2and1/2 ; per cent . ’ |
| 17 | I wanted to cry there and then but I was in the ward surrounded by people who would want to dam up my tears , so I stood up , put my jacket on and walked out . |
| 18 | He decided to sell it because he wanted time to look for other things and because whichever organisation bought it would automatically attract people who would want to study it for different scientific reasons . |
| 19 | He says he ca n't understand the mentality of people who would want to prey on him ; and his message to the thieves is clear . |
| 20 | The Royal Exchange Trust Co Ltd was made a defendant as the executor and trustee of the will ; the company also represented the interests of the people who would benefit in default of an appointment of the income . |
| 21 | And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her . |
| 22 | A practice developed of allowing the individual to make representations and call witnesses before a panel of three people who would advise the Secretary of State . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | After all , it was their people who would suffer most from the subsequent food shortages . |
| 25 | The UNHCR 's envoy , Jose-Maria Mendiluce , fiercely attacked the council 's decision yesterday , saying it was an insult because the people who would suffer had not been consulted . |
| 26 | erm yes , erm it 's very sad that there are people , and something should be done about it , but if you were to have a society , a perfect society , where there was no need for people to sleep out rough , or to sleep rough , you would still find some people who would sleep rough . |
| 27 | Although she was penniless , she managed to get back to England : Margery never had much difficulty in finding people who would give her money to go a long , long way away . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Well-intentioned though their desire was to make available to everyone the best information concerning hygiene , health care , child care , etc. , and although they always placed such recommendations in the context of ensuring that everyone , through improved wages and benefits , would live at least at a ‘ national minimum of civilized life ’ , the ‘ official interference ’ implied by their proposals was disliked as much by working people who would experience it , as by the Liberal bourgeoisie who were hostile to the principle . |
| 30 | Erm , but an awful lot of people who would go up and make a fuss may not get this , the same level of services erm , somebody who went up there and was nice . |