Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be [noun pl] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the late 18th century onward these brought sealers from North America and Europe into the Southern Ocean ; during the subsequent decades of competitive exploitation it was sealers who discovered most of the cold temperate islands , the ice-covered islands within the pack ice belt , the tip of Antarctic Peninsula , and the great ice-filled bight of the Weddell Sea . |
| 2 | But for the moment we were friends who had to prepare Wavebreaker for a possible Atlantic crossing . |
| 3 | ‘ They have been treated , therefore , as persons in a different situation from mere contractors for then they would have been exempt , but in truth they are purchasers who have acquired an interest not in a mere chattel , but in a subject of a permanent nature … ’ |
| 4 | And , therefore , these days it is men who are oppressed , not women . |
| 5 | Of course , many workers in adult education are also feminists — they may be the anti-sexist male variety — but on the whole they are women who want adult education to respond to the concerns of the women 's movement . |
| 6 | When the rise in rents from 1912 onwards threatened to overwhelm the family economy it was women who protested and led rent strikes , for example in Leeds and , more famously , Glasgow , leading to the imposition of rent control in 1915 . |
| 7 | In times of trouble it is children who suffer most — whether through war or the daily grind of poverty . |
| 8 | According to these employers it was teachers who needed WE more than pupils , so that they could get a picture of what engineering was really like ( as opposed to media misrepresentations — strikes , redundancies , etc. ) and so put across a ‘ good image ’ of engineering , hopefully attracting the ‘ brighter pupils ’ into the industry . |
| 9 | In any case , organisations can only be represented by their members , and in partnerships it is individuals who are the active partners . |
| 10 | In conclusion , according to the papers it 's women who are the problem , not men . |