Example sentences of "[conj] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if there were only two thousand living souls in Famagusta several days ago , there would be fewer now who were both soldiers and active . |
| 2 | HIV spreads between people who have sexual intercourse together , or who share needles when injecting drugs , or from mother to unborn child . |
| 3 | Otherwise as meaningless as any other gesture , as deeply rooted in the moment , in how one is feeling or what one has eaten or who one has been seeing . |
| 4 | Particularly suitable for a woman who is spacing her pregnancies or who has completed her family , and for older women . |
| 5 | The internal phone system springs into life and the moves are analysed or colleagues contacted to speculate on who has ‘ blotted his copy book ’ , or who seems to be on his way up the hierarchical tree in the mad scramble for position and preference . |
| 6 | I can only volunteer that this is done by designers who have an imperfect understanding of the nature and properties of wood , or who are literally prepared to risk it . |
| 7 | Some older people who live alone or who can not get out appreciate the security of knowing that they can contact someone in an emergency . |
| 8 | Some social service departments provide a laundry service for people with incontinence , or who can not manage their laundry for other reasons . |
| 9 | For those who wish to stay at home , or who can not obtain a move , Age Concern believes that there is an urgent need to improve housing conditions . |
| 10 | CAMRA supports tenants evicted so that pubs can be run by managers or who refuse to sign new leases on unfair terms . |
| 11 | One would not want to suggest that the academics who contribute to the New Accents series ( or who write similar texts ) can not read French with ease . |
| 12 | In much the same way his reference to the rundown , dirty and potentially dangerous state of public transport would strike a chord with commuters who use our shoddy and dilapidated railways or who drive on potholed roads . |
| 13 | If necessary , Shaw then adds details ( who sued whom ) , and a panel of celebrities is asked who won and why , or who got sent down and for how long . |
| 14 | And about 50,000 young people in further education or who are still at school would also be exempt from the community charge , David Hunt , Minister of State at the Department of the Environment , said . |
| 15 | Before it left , the UN mission compiled information on 1,100 people who had been detained , were alleged to have been detained or who were said to be missing , back to 1977 . |
| 16 | A feature of such stories is their selectivity , for they omit to mention the number of part-time reserve police who are unemployed or in low-status employment , or who sign up for mercenary reasons or for the power and respect that they believe accompanies the uniform . |
| 17 | It involves visits to the homes of children who are either convicted offenders , children at special risk , or who have recently been involved in trouble and have come to the attention of the police . |
| 18 | The number of voters who cited social issues as their top priority ‘ or who claimed such issues were ‘ extremely important ’ to their voting decision , hardly varied at all throughout the campaign . |
| 19 | Neither they nor the local relief committees were given any remit whatsoever with regard to how food should be dispensed or who was eligible to receive it . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , most of the material which is sent in comes from people who have no other way of getting in touch with us , or who are unable to seek the advice of professional songwriters or publishers . |
| 21 | Who 's your heroine in history or who 's your hero in poetry ? |
| 22 | Even the World Bank regularly despatches different missions to an individual country unaware of each others ' presence , or who may meet by accident in a permanent secretary 's outer office . |
| 23 | Yet it is not uncommon for people who can not get to sleep , or who have woken up , to get up in the middle of the night and to make themselves a snack because they are hungry . |
| 24 | Daily rhythms are abnormal in subjects who have recently undergone major surgery or who are in intensive care because of serious illness . |
| 25 | We all know someone who has cancer or who has died of this dreadful disease . |
| 26 | ‘ Often , operatives who are self-taught or who have minimal instruction will use the equipment for a very limited range of tasks , never realising its full potential . |
| 27 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 28 | Ever-improving standards of production and design ( hear Arnold Bennett in 1921 complaining that ‘ operatic mismanagers are obsessed with the music and they leave everything else to people who are either dead and have forgotten to get themselves buried or who do n't know the elements of their job ’ ) . |
| 29 | Vocal opposition , such as it is , has come from people who are retired from public life , who have been purged or pushed to one side by the Ceausescu leadership , or who have been forced to make do with a moral posture on key issues , registering their dissent , but no more . |
| 30 | it is no good squabbling over who is responsible or who should pay . |