Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh pn] [vb base] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such personalized luxury is still available only to the gargantuanly rich who have their own yachts and jets in which to make journeys . |
| 2 | For example , it would be foolish to open a DIY hypermarket in a town where 90% of inhabitants were old-age pensioners and 75% of the population lived in rented accommodation ( older people in rented housing clearly do n't carry out as many home repairs or alterations as people , say , in their 30s and 40s who own their own homes ) . |
| 3 | Without wishing to sound morbid , I have noticed that older women in partnerships express less fear of death , and I know many who discuss their ultimate demise openly . |
| 4 | Figure 8.7 looks at the way in which all religions have available within them certain fault-resistant features which is why their demise , so confidently predicted by many who see their grave faults and failures , rarely seems to happen ! |
| 5 | It is not only those who dismiss the arts as self-indulgent who lay themselves open to such a charge . |
| 6 | The rules of the Young Communist League were altered so as to widen its membership " not only to those who support its stated policy and aims , but also to those who , while not being actively hostile to its policy and aims , wish to study Socialism " . |
| 7 | As one reads the various strictures of the Old Testament prophets against those who exploit their economic power , I can not help feeling that their major relevance within the U K today is to the trade union movement by the power exercised by elements within it . |
| 8 | This , surely , is no ‘ damned lie ’ , to claim that those who get their deepest satisfactions from other things are living empty lives , are posturing crabs who swagger the sea-bed in borrowed shells . |
| 9 | The overall message is that those who get their genetic , technical and marketing acts together will survive and prosper . |
| 10 | And it is on these individuals and those who train them that responsibility for the identification of such qualities and the development of such competences is placed . |
| 11 | True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost . ’ |
| 12 | The poor in spirit , those who recognize their inner helplessness , are ready to confess the words of the famous hymn , Rock of Ages : |
| 13 | Conceptually , it is hoped that some light will be thrown on the whole question of disciplinary boundaries or subjects ; these are the bricks out of which the whole educational edifice is constructed and yet we know little about them and there are those who doubt their very existence . |
| 14 | Will it not be found that the political activity of societies consists ordinarily , perhaps invariably , in filling sieves and making sand ropes — sieves which those who fill them half know to be sieves , sand which those who weave it into ropes suspect to be sand after all ? |
| 15 | ‘ Those who join their local clubs will progress , if they have the talent , to a top club at a later stage . |
| 16 | This survey asks workers to categorise their job as " permanent " or " temporary " , but again there is nothing to stop those who regard their own availability for a job as short-term from categorising themselves as temporary workers . |
| 17 | Those who deny their own prejudice and racism will need this image , for their protestations of rationality depend upon a contrast with irrationality . |
| 18 | The combative quality of these expressions has the effect , it might be argued , that those who couch their racialist observations in moderate language commit no offence , even though it might be likely to result in stirring up racial hatred . |
| 19 | Wealth to those who deem it important has a destructive effect on happiness because thinking about money is demoralising . |
| 20 | The world will become a gophers playground and those who navigate it best will command the earth . |
| 21 | If it can be claimed that the young men who spend a short time in a school before moving on provide the vitality , it is equally true that those who devote their whole lives to a single school give the continuity , tradition , and wisdom which are equally , if not more , important . |
| 22 | Collar was certainly the junior member of the partnership , but those who know his mathematical style are well able to perceive his many areas of contribution to the book . |
| 23 | The Regent Theatre stood halfway down Shaftesbury Avenue towards the Piccadilly end , convenient for the Trocadero or the Criterion for those who like their after-theatre supper served amid gilt and chandeliers rather than in the garlicky hinterland of Soho . |
| 24 | But not the water gymnastics or the 5 o'clock jog for those who like it hot ! |
| 25 | Apart from sending a frisson of alarm down the spines of all those who cherish their national sovereignty , such a forecast , if only half true , does point to the emergence of a democratic gap . |
| 26 | The right to self-determination might realistically be extended to cover those who desire their own death but lack the resources or the strength to accomplish it : this is a strong argument for a mercy-killing defence or offence . |
| 27 | Those who do their best but , for reasons for which they may not be to blame , are not temperamentally suited to deep involvement in the special problems of the elderly , may have other talents for caring . |
| 28 | Whilst the law is designed to give succour in times of difficulty to those who do their best , it will show little mercy to those who are at the receiving end of proceedings who can not demonstrate that they have given the highest priority . |
| 29 | For there are those who determine their own shape , their own direction , and the mere existence of them demonstrates Kao Tzu 's claim to be a misrepresentation . ’ |
| 30 | Transfers to and from the private sector would be eased , enabling the NHS to concentrate its long term resources on those who need its special skills . |