Example sentences of "who [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Justice Police had sealed off the streets and were only allowing in members of parliament who agreed to be body-searched . |
| 2 | Many of the great fortunes in this country are still in the hands of the landed aristocracy who tend to be preoccupied with maintaining their great estates and country houses , no doubt feeling that opening them to the public is in itself a form of patronage . |
| 3 | More to the point , you fail to mention the fact that the Government has offered talks on a pay structure which would ensure that those ambulance workers with a high skill level , who tend to be those who deal with the worst accidents , are paid more to reflect their training . |
| 4 | But in the 1990s many citizens , particularly among the English ( who tend to be less conscious of their ‘ Englishness ’ than the Scots and Welsh are of their national identities ) , do not even feel British : it has been commented that the British lost their sense of identity along with their empire and have not yet found another identity . |
| 5 | They it is who tend to be always insisting this or that figure is the one to emulate , or repeating what some particular hero is said to have pronounced upon professional matters . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , a diagnosis of psychosomatic illness is often arrived at by a much shorter and less strenuous route than this , particularly with female patients , who tend to be perceived as more ‘ nervy ’ . |
| 7 | Support needs to be given to them , not least In their ministry to other homosexuals , who tend to be drawn to the inner cities . ' |
| 8 | However , despite the publicity given to the more extravagant claims about the impact of new technology on the level of unemployment , and the popular notion that the silicon chip is a job destroyer , a survey , published in 1979 , of some 400 documents on the effect of the new information technologies on employment showed ‘ how little foundation there is to existing studies , half of which are by pessimists ( often with a trade union background ) and the other half by optimists ( who tend to be on the employers ’ side ) ’ ( Institute for Research on Public Policy 1979 ) . |
| 9 | Real choice is most likely for a small minority of shoppers who tend to be better educated and richer than average . |
| 10 | First , the concern of socialists with justice is a rebuke to many of us in the West who tend to be far too complacent in accepting the status quo and much which is unjust which goes with it . |
| 11 | Children who tend to be irritable , moody , difficult to manage , and emotional about changes or frustrated will generally react with the most disturbance to the birth . |
| 12 | There is a continuous debate in media circles , for example , about how to reach light ITV viewers , who tend to be concentrated among better-off , and to an extent younger , people . |
| 13 | These three studies all suggest ( if do not prove ) that science specialists are likely to be rather more conformist and conventional in outlook than arts specialists , who tend to be slightly more rebellious and free-thinking . |
| 14 | It will threaten the jobs , status , and opportunities of a good many people in the organization , especially the long-serving , middle-aged people in middle management who tend to be the least mobile and to feel most secure in their work , their positions , their relationships , and their behavior . |
| 15 | Consequently , the manufacture of base fertilizers is concentrated amongst large-scale firms who tend to be part of the wider chemical industry . |
| 16 | In its early days software is tested by programmers and expert , hand picked users , who tend to be reasonable about they way they use machines . |
| 17 | This is especially true of black women writers , who tend to be plucked out of context to lend a splash of colour to a pallid white landscape — like a single exotic flower among drab , overwatered shrubs . |
| 18 | Rolle stresses at the beginning the joy which is the obverse of the discipline : But although it is characteristic of Rolle 's writing to stress the joy of the contemplative , it would be a mistake to suppose that he ever suggests that the passage to it is easy : At the very start he warns against the specific danger attendant on solitary life — hallucination ; a point to remember when considering the arguments of those who tend to be distrustful of Rolle 's theology . |
| 19 | They may involve two or more companies , who tend to be related not by product type but rather by similar customer profits . |
| 20 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 21 | He put himself forward as a self-consciously ordinary man , a politician who asked to be identified with as an equal rather than deferred to as a leader . |
| 22 | But the group who were seeing Mr Hurd this week , or who asked to be associated with the visit , included the Tory backbenchers Sir John Biggs-Davison , Sir John Farr and Mr John Wheeler . |
| 23 | Granny Rocke , who lived to be ninety-two and had seven children , adopting three more who had been orphaned in Australia , could speak Welsh . |
| 24 | There were Chaloners who lived to be seventy or eighty , there were those who died in their youth or early manhood , and many others never reached their first birthday . |
| 25 | True , she was old , but Sara had always imagined she would be one of those people who lived to be a hundred and had a telegram from the Queen . |
| 26 | TWO four-year-old boys from ‘ intentionally homeless ’ families who applied to be rehoused by their council have no legal claim , the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday . |
| 27 | Before long no one who aspires to be taken seriously can dare to question it in public . |
| 28 | ( Six years later , according to the Life , Johnson ‘ harangued ’ at Joshua Reynolds 's house ‘ upon the qualities of different liquors ’ , and coined the much-quoted ‘ Claret is the liquor for boys ; port , for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy . ’ ) |
| 29 | He did not hold staff meetings , and hardly consulted those who expected to be consulted , like the suffragan bishop or the archdeacons . |
| 30 | Those who expected to be met by family or friends were aware of the inconvenience the delay would be causing . |