Example sentences of "who [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar arguments for the need for flexibility were given by employers in the entertainments industry who recruit their seasonal staff on open-ended contracts and , more particularly , by employers In the holiday camps sector . |
| 2 | The last time Ballater had been in the cottage was just before Miss Marshall had been forced out of it by her rapacious relatives , backed up by the insensitive local general practitioner who agreed she could n't cope . |
| 3 | A woman who offers her body commonly for any lewd act for reward is a common prostitute . |
| 4 | Vic Brown in John Schlesinger 's A Kind of Loving ( 1962 ) settles for telly-watching inanity within marriage , while Billy Liar in the same director 's 1963 film turns away from the girl who offers him the chance to fulfil his ambitions in London . |
| 5 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 6 | This is another reason why a well-advised employer who offers you an ex gratia payment when your job comes to an end is likely to insist that you are effectively prevented in law from making any further claim against him ( see Chapter 19 ) . |
| 7 | The kitchen salesman who offers you a ridiculously large discount is probably not doing you any favours . |
| 8 | There is the simple , early but in some areas persistent situation of the independent producer who offers his own work for direct sale . |
| 9 | ‘ Only a man who offers his word as a guarantee could be so naïve . |
| 10 | This view of the incorporation of natural science into the school curriculum is taken by David Layton , who offers us a valuable account of this process of ‘ accommodation ’ in the late nineteenth century , complementary to his earlier study of the demise of ‘ the science of common things ’ . |
| 11 | In 2 Corinthians 10:12 he says , ‘ We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves . |
| 12 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 13 | In April the Department of Education issued a specimen paper of the new test to howls of protest from teachers who branded it ‘ horrendous ’ , ‘ unbelievable ’ and ‘ quite intimidating ’ . |
| 14 | The pathological model reaches its apotheosis in attempts to explain the origin and distribution of racist beliefs in terms of the personal characteristics of those who espouse them . |
| 15 | In time , the neglected objectives become important , or those who espouse them become increasingly vociferous , and a new form of structure evolves . |
| 16 | If we study drug addicts , they will surely tell us and we will be bound to report that they believe the outsiders who judge them are wrong and inspired by low motives . |
| 17 | Shirley , who books his races , keeps his times , files his cuttings , went to Melbourne for six weeks to her sister 's , and he was lost without her . |
| 18 | Some require anonymous donors who perceive their role as similar to that of blood donors . |
| 19 | He was explicit : ‘ There appear to be those in the Lord Chancellor 's Department who perceive its role as being far wider than is consistent with any concept of the independence of the judiciary . ’ |
| 20 | Now clearly there are , you know , methodological issues here , who replied on the questionnaire and so on , but there are clearly a very large number of replies , a very large number of students up in the , you know , several hundreds , who perceive themselves to be being sexually harassed . |
| 21 | The third woman of world class is Marie Laure de Lorenzi , who wins everything in Europe but has yet to be persuaded that America is worth a detour . |
| 22 | Second successive corner then for Forest and again it 's aimed at Rozario who wins it this time that 's dangerous . |
| 23 | Charles Randall on the Cambridge rugby union captain who wins his soccer Blue today |
| 24 | Richard Last names the interviewer who wins his vote |
| 25 | Botha , who wins his 28th and possibly last cap for South Africa , said : ‘ We have received a wonderful welcome in England which has relaxed my players and this is something you can see reflected in our three wins here so far . |
| 26 | During the film the ‘ workers ’ demands for increased wages are refused and then follow riots , battles with militia , and eventually industrial peace is restored through the efforts of a young engineer who wins his employer 's confidence and the love of the employer 's daughter' . |
| 27 | According to Irish religion , Macha ( or Machas ) referred to a compound trinity of goddesses who concerned themselves with childbirth , agriculture and war . |
| 28 | Clearly there can be no simple answer to such a question , but we need to appreciate that , until the eighteenth century , the speculative moral philosophers who concerned themselves with such issues did not have to bother about the practical implications of their argument . |
| 29 | The British Mesozoic Committee ( who concerned themselves with such matters ) therefore found it impossible to accept the stratotype concept as it is usually proclaimed on the continent . |
| 30 | He is a head-on tackler who lines you up in his sights , closes down your space and — whack — you suddenly find yourself enveloped , smothered and smashed all the way back to square one . |