Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the most important spenders are clients who most frequently use London-based agencies . |
| 2 | However , a substantial proportion of the long-term cases are children who have been taken into care against the wishes of their parents because they have not been receiving adequate care or control . |
| 3 | The majority of hijras are men who get themselves castrated and dress like women . |
| 4 | Drivers are professionals who are employed to race where their teams compete and I do n't think they would be penalised for doing their jobs . ’ |
| 5 | Strategic visionaries are leaders who use their familiarity with the issues as a springboard to innovation , who are able to add value by building new perceptions on old practices . |
| 6 | Indeed , more than 30 per cent of clients are women who are generally more successful as they are better listeners and tend not to rush at obstacles . |
| 7 | You can work in private practice where the clients are people who come to you for help ; or you can work for central or local government , the Magistrates ' Courts Service , or a commercial or industrial organisation , where the employer is your ‘ client ’ . |
| 8 | Most of the survivors were ones who were working at the time . |
| 9 | Although it was called the ‘ Foreign Legion ’ , many of its recruits were Frenchmen who had changed their nationalities . |
| 10 | These lads were adventurers who had acquired the habit of applying a simplified anarchistic logic to life , involving contempt for all property , contempt for life and human personality , contempt for cleanliness , order , and so on . |
| 11 | King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV finally acknowledged in an interview with New Zealand television in March , in which he claimed that Pohive and other dissidents were Marxists who wished to overthrow the royal style of government , that the money was being held in a United States bank so that the government would not spend it . |
| 12 | Mr Szuluc says his parents are pensioners who ca n't afford to clothe him , so in frustration he decided to stage a protest at his local DSS office in Stroud , stripping off in front of the other bemused claimants , and handing his borrowed clothes back to his brother . |
| 13 | And the erm extroverts are people who prefer to focus outside themselves , on the world of people and things . |
| 14 | As the Zande see it , sorcerers are people who employ magical spells , rites and medicines to achieve their fell ends . |
| 15 | Many Hollywood denizens are businessmen who have been involved in politics for years . |
| 16 | And a lot of people out there who work for these record companies are idiots who know nothing about music . |
| 17 | Many of the best engineers are Dwarfs who have been expelled from the notoriously hidebound Dwarven Engineers Guild for their radical ideas . |
| 18 | It occurred to me that so many of the people who influence our lives are people who have been unjustly treated . |
| 19 | Her parents were academics who valued educational success . |
| 20 | ‘ My parents were Italians who came to England as children . |
| 21 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 22 | The only other side to overcome the elements was Chester-leStreet who had a win over Boldon . |
| 23 | Christians are people who have tested the ‘ grace of our Lord Jesus Christ , and the love of God , and the fellowship of ( better ‘ joint participation in ’ ) the Holy Spirit' ( 2 Cor. 13:14 ) . |
| 24 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 25 | Mixing with the bemused and baffled guests are actors who stage-manage the whole affair . |
| 26 | The story enshrined the belief that has developed in recent years that people who place bolts are villains who have no place on British soil . |
| 27 | The only exceptions are candidates who , when all possible transfers have been made , are declared elected without having reached the quota . |
| 28 | PR counsellors are people who advise , but do not carry out the PR work . |
| 29 | Catholics were rebels who only wanted to destroy not only Northern Ireland but also the Protestant nature of the rest of the British Isles and the only thing which maintained civil liberties was adherence to the Protestant faith . |
| 30 | Many of the 2,000-plus troops were teenagers who had never seen a dead body before , let alone large-scale massacres . |