Example sentences of "[det] be [adj] [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some are economic refugees who came to Britain seeking a better life ; the rest are trying to escape oppression and even torture . |
| 2 | Some are alcoholic friends who are with me in my recovery . ’ |
| 3 | Some were elderly people who would now be housed in old people 's homes . |
| 4 | Some were well-known names who dominated the financial pages with their derring-do . |
| 5 | But I think that to allow those two sort of issues to get too inseparable , as it were , to so that we simply regard ourselves as being in a position to issue directives about behaviour , which do n't acknowledge that these are young people who have to learn to be autonomous , then we get ourselves onto a hiding for nothing . |
| 6 | And these are n't the sort of people that write to us using block capitals all the way through , these are reasonable people who 've had their property damaged over the years some quite horrendous tales and talk about walls being knocked down . |
| 7 | These are part-time volunteers who come and visit any patients who are alone . |
| 8 | These are flying squads who descend on social security offices to make random raids on both men and women . |
| 9 | These are independent companies who are responsible for providing customers with their mobile communications equipment and a range of services , and billing them for these products and services . |
| 10 | Then , in 1856 , the Empress Eugénie , well suited for the work of conciliation as the Spanish wife of the French Emperor , arranged a treaty whereby the territory was recognized as Spanish but was rented out perpetually to the inhabitants on the French side ; so these are French citizens who farm in Spain . |
| 11 | Serafin , too , is thinking about Annexe B. He knows , just as well as Summerchild does , that these are big men who once rowed for their colleges . |
| 12 | He says these were professional thieves who knew what they were after . |
| 13 | He says these were professional thieves who knew what they were after . |
| 14 | Added to which , these were simple people who worked hard for modest sums of money . |
| 15 | These were noble Franks who had followed Lothar into exile . |
| 16 | The kadis of Mecca from , for example , 953/1546–7 to 971/1564 can be traced in Ata'i : all are Ottoman scholars who had previously held the kadilik of Damascus , Aleppo or Baghdad , the holder in 963/1556 being Molla Amir Hasan b . |
| 17 | Many are married women who are interested only In occasional work , some are retired persons and some are students , of whom many are on catering courses and seeking practical experience . |
| 18 | Many are crazed gamblers who can not bring themselves to walk away with winnings . |
| 19 | Most were inherent cowards who picked only on people whom they knew were frightened of them . |
| 20 | Both were landless men who depended on being allowed to pasture their milk-cows on the water-meadows down at Ballechin , and as Cameron caught the drift of their intent talk and occasional sardonic laughter , he wondered again how many names had been put to faces during yesterday 's hurly-burly . |