Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh pn] [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Terry Butcher , the former England centre half who was sacked as Coventry 's player-manager earlier in the season , has made a surprise comeback as a player .
2 erm particularly with planners but there is no doubt , and I , and this is no joking matter , that there are an awful lot of agencies of one sort or another who are finding that they are actually having to get on with other agencies .
3 She was another who was loved because she was as she was .
4 He glanced back secretively over his shoulder at the other three who were talking and paying no attention to him .
5 Her deep and tender sympathy for all who were suffering and afflicted expressed itself in a manner of impressive graciousness and dignity . ’
6 Abrams ( Bulmer , 1986 ) drew attention to the complexity of the concept ; many who are perceived as altruistic will themselves acknowledge the profound satisfaction which they derive from their supposedly selfless activities but find it difficult to put this into words .
7 Consequently the NHS inherited a large number of public hospitals containing many who were defined as chronically ill and written off as being impossible to rehabilitate and restore to the community or independent living .
8 ( For example Manu the lawgiver recommended to Hindu society more than twelve centuries ago that ‘ the chief function of a woman is to give birth , nurse those who are born and attend daily duties ' or ‘ A girl must be married before she attains puberty and after she is married she must be kept busy looking after elders , cooking , cleaning , keeping accounts and saving money and of course doing Dharma ) .
9 The ghillie dhu is kind to children and will help those who are lost or frightened to find their way home , and show the hungry which berries and nuts are safe to eat .
10 That at any rate is how those who are viewed as their modern day counterparts are regarded by the heroine of Rubyfruit Jungle ( above , Chapter 3 ) ; and the anonymous interviewee cited by Esther Newton : ‘ I hate games !
11 We have registers for certain groups of disabled people — those registered with local authorities , those who are listed as disabled with the Department of Employment , records of certain groups receiving treatment or pensions , and so on .
12 Equality does not extend to natural slaves or to those who are rated as infantile because of their seemingly intrinsic intellectual limitations .
13 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness ,
14 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness
15 ‘ Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires ; the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them ! ’
16 So we pray for those who are battered and bruised because of such differences , and we ask that each one may know your touch of peace .
17 It goes without saying that it would also be desirable to exclude from the unemployment figures those who are employed but are making fraudulent claims for unemployment benefit or supplementary benefits .
18 So , under men like Halsbury , they reacted to the legislation of the later nineteenth century with all the inflexibility of those who are determined that what was good enough for their fathers ' social and economic structures was good enough for them .
19 Every church ought to provide ready access to its organ for those who are learning or may wish to learn the instrument .
20 They claim that large numbers of those who are diagnosed as food-intolerant are actually hyperventilators .
21 as if massive trauma and often great suffering are not enough to face , those who are informed that they are infected have also to deal with social stigma ( unlike many other diseases ) .
22 People who are especially at risk include those who are unable to move , perhaps because of a stroke , those with contracted limbs which could be a result of an arthritic condition , people with a known skin condition or allergy and those who are debilitated or undernourished , where there is little flesh between the skin and the bone .
23 When this in not so , they are deprived of this initial preparation as are all those who are admitted as ‘ emergencies ’ .
24 In all his work he addresses not just those who are enclosed as religious solitaries with special time for attention to their inner development — though he admits that this life-style is most conducive to it — but all those who are predisposed to pursue an inner life .
25 A major and highly publicised target has been the welfare ‘ scroungers ’ , whether these are young people allegedly on the ‘ Costa del Dole ‘ , looking for seasonal casual work in seaside towns , or those who are claiming while working .
26 She receives more complaints , she said , from those who are in work but feel they would be as well off on supplementary benefit ; her aim is to increase the gap between those who are working and the non-working .
27 Those who are working and hoping , however feebly , to encompass the lives of boys and girls with wholesome atmosphere must know that in regard to sexuality two factors stand out .
28 claim that many of those who are promoted before they are 30 embark upon successful management careers and they end up in unambiguously middle-class jobs .
29 So there might be something in the argument that , that it 's not just a , a question of what you 've learned from the north , but there may be a recognition that the economy in the south is different , or at least they might be arguing , those who are arguing that the economy in the south is different and that , that reform might not be necessary , it might not even be appropriate in the south .
30 And all of that makes it easier for those who are leading or in control to change the policies and get acceptance .
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