Example sentences of "[conj] who [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the freeholders in the fields — who were willing to have enclosure so that they could farm more efficiently or sell land for building — were helpless in the face of the burgesses who might have no land but who hoped to get a piece in time , or who already held these rights to graze their cattle and sheep . |
| 2 | By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility . |
| 3 | Eight people each with different views who fail to cohere or who simply proceed by letting the majority view prevail ( as in voting ) are a group ( ie a collection of individuals ) not a team . |
| 4 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 5 | They belong to owners who believe they have passed the point of no return or who simply do not want anyone else living on their land . |
| 6 | Administering , as part of a cross-sectional survey , a series of attitude questions to a sample of respondents , we will not be able to determine which of them are expressing fairly firm attitudes from those responding out of some whim or other , or who have changed , or who simply want to please the interviewer or get rid of him . |
| 7 | ‘ Sometimes you come across patients you feel have been coached on what to say , or who just claim to be residents . |
| 8 | A traditional worker who absents himself without good reason or who persistently fails to show up for his job is likely to he disciplined or dismissed , and a casual worker who fails to appear without being able to offer good justification , or who is seldom available , is likely to be dropped from the list of those who an organisation will contact . |
| 9 | There were lots of hopefuls who would have been journalists if they had pursued a career , or who now wanted to learn . |
| 10 | Those whose dementia progresses rapidly or who suddenly become unmanageable because of aggression or death of the carer have no hope of admission . |
| 11 | The Committee who represent or who are affiliated to 15 Catholic Societies , would like names of women who have distinguished themselves in public life or who quietly give great service to their local . |
| 12 | There are always the exceptions , mothers who remain distant and angry , or who actually tell their daughters to leave . |
| 13 | A child who speaks at home with a powerful local accent , in dialect , with a swear word between every two or three ordinary words , or who hardly speaks English at all , must learn ‘ proper ’ talk at school . |
| 14 | Latterly the word ‘ harpy ’ has come to mean any person who is cruel or merciless , or who hungrily tries to appropriate the food or belongings of a weaker person . |
| 15 | That section is in the following terms : ( 1 ) Every one who by words spoken or written or by conduct represents himself , or who knowingly suffers himself to be represented , as a partner in a particular firm , is liable as a partner to any one who has on the faith of any such representation given credit to the firm , whether the representation has or has not been made or communicated to the person so giving credit by or with the knowledge of the apparent partner making the representation or suffering it to be made . |
| 16 | The Regulations require that : any person who keeps any livestock on agricultural land , or who knowingly causes or permits any livestock to be so kept , must ensure that anybody attending the stock has access to the relevant Welfare Code , is aware of its provisions and ( after 1.1.92 ) if they are attending the stock on behalf of the keeper has had instruction on the Welfare Code . |
| 17 | The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me . |
| 18 | He continued : ‘ Someone with a very sadistic outlook committed that murder ; someone who obviously does n't like Supersight and its owner , or who possibly does n't like Brian Harley . ’ |
| 19 | But how could she relax in the company of a man she did n't like , did n't trust , and who alternately mocked , patronised and bullied ? |
| 20 | Graham argued that all this is indicative of a person who has n't grown , fully grown out of his childhood worries , problems , especially the er , he has n't actually dealt with the true feelings that he had towards his father , and who instead chose to vent his rage on others and political career , which resulted in Wilson being , er well , losing some of his rationality , which led to his poor performance in er negotiating and gaining acceptance of the Treaty of after World War One . |
| 21 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , my son , who is a keen supporter of Brighton and Hove Albion Association Football Club ( The Seagulls ) , and who frequently goes to the sports centre of the University of Sussex to watch his team at their indoor training , was surprised the other day to see two figures distinctly older than the rest of the players . |
| 22 | My father happened to know , who was Quain Professor of English at University College of London ( U.C.L. ) , and who frequently visited his weekend cottage in a village near Tewkesbury . |
| 23 | The two police surgeons who so bitterly opposed them and who scarcely emerged from the inquiry untarnished , work on , while Sue Richardson , Cleveland 's child abuse adviser , still works in the county , but with abused adults . |
| 24 | It is very possible to sympathize in good part , if not entirely , with the psychologists and philosophers who were sceptical or uncertain of the worth of introspection as a source of knowledge , reluctant to attempt to deal with the unquantifiable , keen to be in accord with certain principles of scientific methodology , resistant to such free speculation as the Freudian kind , and who thus took the step of analysing ascriptions of consciousness into claims about no more than behaviour . |
| 25 | In the pre-civil war period , one group of clerics and laymen who shared this approach and who thus opposed the confrontational policies of Laud and his followers , began to meet at the house of Lucius Cary , Lord Falkland , at Great Tew in Oxfordshire . |
| 26 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 27 | You can take some and who normally put things where . |
| 28 | If I take the rest away and try and Who normally sticks one in the library , or |
| 29 | I never made more friends as easily as when I was among people whose language I spoke badly and who barely spoke mine at all . |
| 30 | Distancing criminal elements of society from a sizeable minority of otherwise reasonable people who smoke , or have smoked , cannabis , and who presently need to deal with such persons . |