Example sentences of "[noun pl] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tower of Hoeth is also the home of the Sword Masters , warrior-ascetics who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of wisdom and learning carefully controlled violence . |
| 2 | The Sword Masters are guardians of the Tower of Hoeth in the mysterious land of Saphery , warrior-ascetics who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of wisdom and learning carefully controlled violence . |
| 3 | The Sword Masters are warrior-ascetics who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of wisdom and learning carefully controlled violence . |
| 4 | The Prussian guns galloped northwards , their retreat guarded by black-uniformed Hussars who wore skull and crossbones badges on their shakos . |
| 5 | On the river 's northern bank a troop of black-uniformed Prussian Hussars shadowed the Red Lancers , and it was those Hussars who , rounding a bend in the Sambre Valley , discovered a party of French engineers floating a pontoon bridge off the southern bank . |
| 6 | Perdita , having taken far too much , was now feeding the rest of the steak to the shaggy lurchers who ringed the table , but kept their distance . |
| 7 | Whether or not this is so , few would deny that Abbado is a sound choice , a man of few words who nevertheless commands great respect among orchestral players and is as highly praised for his Rossini as for his Mahler , his Mozart or his Brian Ferneyhough . |
| 8 | However , those who have exhausted their rights to Unemployment Benefit , in other words who have been unemployed for longer than one year , have to work for at least 13 weeks . |
| 9 | Wife Sandra adds : ‘ He 's a man of few words who hates the slightest bit of noise . |
| 10 | hens who were once the oats were so were sown they had to they were closed down and that . |
| 11 | Shareholders who do not have a long term commitment are replaced by stakeholders who do , as the ‘ owners ’ of the company . |
| 12 | She could see him as a prototype for the border entrepreneur trapped here in the decline and fall of this precarious city , the market-stallholder , the baths attendant , the potter , the vegetable grower , any one of the native opportunists who had rallied to serve and exploit this hothouse community of time-expired settlers and pay-happy leave-men . |
| 13 | Some of the crime is committed by opportunists who wander into students rooms and take cash and credit cards . |
| 14 | This image is eagerly developed by the popular press , which almost daily produces the most ridiculous and exaggerated accounts of the tiny minority of bankrupts who have run up extremely large debts . |
| 15 | George Walker , a tall , well-built centre-half , was a Scottish International with 29 caps who joined the Palace from Notts County early in the summer of 1936 for a fee of £500 . |
| 16 | He looked for the gamekeeper from the villa among the group of men in dark suits and flat caps who stood talking between the plastic flower stall and the van selling salted fish , but he was n't able to spot him . |
| 17 | At Edgbaston , in his early days , it is hard to recall him as the skinny lad in wire spectacles who tried too hard to bowl at medium pace , and when he became depressed at his form , came out in eczema rashes and asthma wheezes . |
| 18 | The stark contrast between England 's win this time and their loss in the deciding one-day match on the same ground last February made a big impact on Kiwis who saw both . |
| 19 | ‘ Most of them are 16-year-old Kiwis who have n't an idea how to pull a decent pint of Guinness . ’ |
| 20 | As stand-alone workstations for routine word processing they remain perfectly capable of meeting most normal requirements , but we have identified a number of work-groups who would operate more efficiently with higher standard machines . |
| 21 | I make allowances for old'uns who have rubber sharks in their cars : - ) |
| 22 | This vision is like that which Eliot praised in his childhood favourite , Kipling , whose Puck of Pook 's Hill and Rewards and Fairies particularly ‘ give at once a sense of the antiquity of England , of the number of generations and peoples who have labored the soil and in turn been buried beneath it , and of the contemporaneity of the past ’ . |
| 23 | He thought that if people such as the Iroquois of North America practised a particular type of agriculture it could be assumed that their institutions were the same as those of long dead prehistoric peoples who had a similar level of technology . |
| 24 | Morgan and Engels believed that there were several peoples who still practices group marriage . |
| 25 | The rainforests and the tribal peoples who live there have never needed your help so urgently . |
| 26 | He stressed : ‘ It is peoples who , by their demonstrations and actions , point the way forward for their governments . |
| 27 | For it is an ethnic conflict , between peoples who see each other at close range . |
| 28 | This bond held despite the massive immigration into America after the 1840s of peoples who had nothing in common with England , let alone with the Puritan and Protestant traditions . |
| 29 | Nakasone was unmoved in this breathtakingly preposterous nonsense either by common sense , the protests of the many minorities living in Japan ( Ainu , Okinawans , Koreans , Chinese , Filipinos and others ) , or the judgements of historians on the melange of different peoples who provide the ancestors of the modern Japanese . |
| 30 | the proletarian party must first of all advocate the proclamation and immediate realization of the complete freedom of secession from Russia of all the nations and peoples who were oppressed by Tsarism , or who were forcibly joined to or forcibly kept within the boundaries of the State . |