Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] who [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His drawings and documentation proved extremely valuable for researchers who followed him . |
| 2 | So now is the ideal time for growers who suspect they may have herbicide-resistant strains of the weed to get them checked , says ADAS 's James Clarke . |
| 3 | A special frisson seems to be guaranteed for readers who think they are readers if the object of the mystery is itself a literary ( or artistic ) artefact — the manuscript in The Name of the Rose , the novel in Francesca Duranti 's The House on Moon Lake ( 1987 ) , the unwriting writer in Del Giudice . |
| 4 | A TEST which checks foetuses for Down 's Syndrome will be made available at Hartlepool General Hospital 's Cameron maternity unit from next Wednesday for mothers-to-be who want it . |
| 5 | Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists . |
| 6 | He has told colleagues in the force in South Africa ( ‘ There are lots of cops who support me ’ ) that he is ready ‘ to lick your arse in Church Square on a Sunday , if I ca n't solve it in two days ’ — referring to the notorious unsolved murder of the antiapartheid activist , David Webster . |
| 7 | As much as the militants ' venom , I recall the desperation of pickets who said they ‘ just want to get it over with ’ and strikers ' wives wondering where the next meal was coming from . |
| 8 | The rating on which young people do so badly is derived only from that fraction of employers who say they are different . |
| 9 | Amanda was rescued after meeting up with a group of hikers who escorted her out of the bush . |
| 10 | The genealogical trigger determining the numbers involved , the extensiveness of the quarrel , is thus the branching of the tree through brotherhood : by tracing the extent of obligation to two brothers ( rather than to their father ) each disputant secures the maximum of supporters who owe him loyalty and who do not in that particular instance owe loyalty to the other side . |
| 11 | After a performance in Manchester towards the end of 1989 , Gedge was accosted by a group of fans who told him vehemently that the band 's new songs were poor compared with previous material . |
| 12 | At seventeen he joined a travelling band of gypsies who taught him the finer skills of pickpocketing until an accident to his hand six years later put paid to what would have been a very lucrative career . |
| 13 | In the drama Kristian plays Adam the leader of a new generation of youngsters who discover they have special powers . |
| 14 | The poet , playwright and painter , Stanislaw Wyspiański ( 1869–1907 ) , saw himself as the bridge over the confused gulf that separated the Polish intelligentsia and the peasantry , the perfect representative of the Young Poland movement that contained all the bitterness of repeated national defeats , all the resignation of patriots who felt they could change nothing , and all the compromised hopes for material change that the Positivists saw in Poland 's potential industrial wealth under foreign rule . |
| 15 | I do n't want to sound as if I have n't got sympathy with people 'cause I know it 's bloody hard , but I know a lot of blacks who use it [ blackness ] as an excuse and we 've got to be careful that we do n't use it like that . |
| 16 | The means by which school-leavers made the transition from school to full-time wage-earning have been described , as have the criticisms of reformers who dubbed it ‘ haphazard ’ . |
| 17 | This general argument was in the interests of large users of telecommunications who thought they were subsidizing small and local users . |
| 18 | Some are in the hands of collectors or co-operatives of enthusiasts who see them as relics to cherish and maintain as part of our heritage , but these are in the minority . |
| 19 | Thus in 1296 he consulted his council of magnates who advised him that a certain papal provision would prejudice the crown ; and in 1299 he contested the pope 's claim to sovereignty over Scotland as a threat to the dignity of his crown . |
| 20 | Let us now suppose that our government falls under the influence of economists who advise it to treat as a trade off relation in the manner outlined above . |
| 21 | An unnamed 21-year-old man was beaten unconscious by a group of thugs who attacked him with sticks . |
| 22 | There are a lot of producers who tell me it 's extremely difficult to get British writers to do a third draft . |
| 23 | Bulmers and the thousands of farmers who supply them with fruit are hoping that although the apples will continue to obey the law of gravity , profits and sales will keep going in the opposite direction . |
| 24 | Whitelocke was constantly sceptical of the motives that impelled the politicians and men of affairs who surrounded him , and he was always ready to voice his doubts . |
| 25 | When someone says ‘ It was the knave of hearts who stole the tarts ’ I agree with him or not according as to whether I believe that it was the knave of hearts who stole them , not according as to whether I believe that he believes that it was the knave . |
| 26 | Graham 's ( 1972 ) analysis of the social processes leading to the US Comprehensive ( sic ) Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act , 1970 , considers how , through tough lobbying tactics and calling on good connections — especially in the House of Representatives — the pharmaceutical manufacturers were able to limit the discussion of amphetamine abuse so that it focused on that small minority of persons who inject it . |
| 27 | The wolves were hunted to extinction in the 1920s , at the request of ranchers who regarded them as a threat to cattle . |
| 28 | Both the staff pension fund and TOPS are in the hands of trustees who run them through management committees . |
| 29 | A number of callers who believed they had recently seen the man telephoned the London headquarters after the programme and several called the Durham police headquarters at Akeley Heads . |
| 30 | You published last week an account of our ordeal at the hands of burglars who left us barricaded for 37 hours in a tiny bathroom . |