Example sentences of "who [modal v] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 61(2) provides that persons who are entitled to a deposit as trustees shall be treated as ‘ a single and continuing body of persons distinct from the persons who may from time to time be the trustees . ’ |
| 2 | The patronage is in the hands of the Prime Minister who may from time to time invite leaders of opposition parties to propose names . |
| 3 | ( b ) Powers of a justices ' clerk Certain functions of the court may be performed by a justices ' clerk who may in turn delegate these functions to any clerk of the court authorised for this purpose . |
| 4 | He sells his fabric to a French garment maker who may in turn sell his products into Germany . |
| 5 | However , parallel cousins who may in reality be half-siblings are also likely to have lived in the same household . |
| 6 | The onus thus falls very heavily on the doctor , who may in fact have to persuade the parents to allow the child to live ; this would be the case if a life-saving operation is involved . |
| 7 | But he sees this foundationalist as a weak-kneed sceptic , who ought in consistency to go further ; who ought , in fact , to doubt whether he understands the proposition that other minds exist , and so ought to be a solipsist . |
| 8 | If I wish to buy a manufactured object from a shopkeeper , the shopkeeper must first obtain it from a wholesaler , the wholesaler must then in turn obtain it from the manufacturer , who must in turn obtain components and raw materials from other suppliers further down the line . |
| 9 | The report suggested that all the powers relevant to school government should be formally vested in the LEA , but that it should delegate these as far as possible to the governing body of each school , who should in turn allow as much discretion as possible to the head . |
| 10 | To these self-appointed custodians of public morals it was even more appalling that those very classes who should in theory be the hope and backbone of republicanism were equally infected by the general tone of light-mindedness : |
| 11 | He will be unable to discover possibilities of buying from those who underestimated the eagerness of potential buyers and of then selling to these eager buyers ( who might in turn have underestimated the eagerness of the sellers ) . |
| 12 | This would put applicants in a very false position , perhaps drive away very talented applicants who might think that there were fewer places available for them , but also to encourage people who might in fact be struggling to go to any university in the country , it might encourage them to apply and to have a reasonable expectation of success because their sporting abilities were outstanding , they would then be disappointed because they would not be admitted and if they were admitted at that level , they would probably have a very unfortunate time at Oxford . |
| 13 | If the consultant withdraws and the residents come under the care of a general practitioner , who might from time to time call in a psychiatrist , the home is called a nursing home in the community . |
| 14 | From what we have seen it might be supposed that private judicial patronage was more trouble than it was worth , but the offices were in fact received as a sign of favour by many lawyers , who could of course use them as stepping stones to better things . |
| 15 | Well I suppose probably people li like nursemaids and er and er what they used to call in those days mothers ' helps , who used to sort of be a general skivvy around the house and would look after the children , and , and , and they were the same , they had to be in I think at , at sort of ten o'clock at night . |
| 16 | That she was anywhere away from Margaret Lacey and her cronies who would without doubt be waiting for her as she left the school . |
| 17 | If he had no children , an emperor might adopt a son from another gens , or he might leave the throne to his sister 's son , who would of course bear the name of another family . |
| 18 | Page after page , after page , after page , of descriptive material , drawn from all over the world , both published accounts , which Frazer drew on , erm , with er , kind of er , encyclopedic knowledge , but also a lot of personal contacts which he had with people like missionaries , er , colonial administrators , and even er , local people who would with descriptions and er , and facts about the things he was , he was researching . |
| 19 | It was fairly obvious that Jo did not want to be recognized , but then who would with Nevil in tow ? ’ |
| 20 | In these ‘ policed provinces ’ crime was to be reported in the first instance to headmen who would in turn notify the police of serious offences . |
| 21 | Erm well our branch secretaries are , are the main people who pass on to stewards , who would in turn pass all this literature and things like that on , on the NUPE side |
| 22 | In a referendum held at the same time as the elections , 78 per cent of voters supported a new Constitution which provided for a directly elected President to appoint a Prime Minister who would in turn appoint a Cabinet , with all appointments requiring parliamentary approval . |
| 23 | We 've then got well to do middle peasants , we 've got middle peasants who would in turn |
| 24 | I really do think that there is a degree of inconsistency in compelling a Gothic architect to erect a classical building — and so I have been thinking of appointing you a coadjutor , who would in fact make the design ! |
| 25 | ‘ Yousefi has a wife and three children who will of course suffer the same fate if the Home Secretary 's decision is to deport him . ’ |
| 26 | The Secretary of State is anxious to concentrate on rebates to do something for those who will by hit be the property tax , but the Minister has scorned property taxes and is determined to weight the tax in favour of the better-off . |
| 27 | Though I have never heard of any one collaboration between restaurateur and artist proving more lucrative than the next , there does not seem to be any shortage of artists who will in effect take on certain risks in order to get their work out on the town . |
| 28 | Contracting out makes it possible to transfer those problems to others , who can in principle be fairly tightly controlled through contracts . |