Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [adj] [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a fast moving haulage firm , great care has to be taken to provide a safe system of working ; all employees should be responsible people who are ‘ up to the job ’ , and all equipment and buildings used must be safe and free from apparent defects . |
| 2 | And in fact , though perhaps it is shocking to admit it , we took some advantage of this dreadful argument during the campaign : we said we did not want to bring personalities into the election , but of course it was important that members of the Council should be responsible people who would not take advantage of their ‘ special position ’ . |
| 3 | There must be many people who knew this state of financial insecurity but she found that she did not want to think about them . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've heard that Middlesbrough has a large Irish community and I 'm sure there must be some Brennans who are related to us , ’ says Leo . |
| 5 | Must be some prisoners who 've escaped . ’ |
| 6 | " There must be some guys who like doing it . |
| 7 | " There must be some guys who like doing it . |
| 8 | ‘ There is no suggestion we will waive the clause and if an exception was made in this case there might be other companies who have already sold who would see it as a special dispensation for Caldaire , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 9 | It occurred to me that there might be other readers who also ran the program and were confused with the results they obtained . |
| 10 | We have been lucky but there might be other people who will not be . ’ |
| 11 | We have been lucky but there might be other people who will not be . ’ |
| 12 | As might be expected women who left school at the minimum age had the largest families , but the best educated were next in line . |
| 13 | Indeed , as the country 's stalwart burghers give lusty tongue to the national anthem , Apres des siecles d'esclavage — ‘ After centuries of slavery ’ — there might be some cynics who would be tempted to reflect that under the present system they are not an awful lot better off . |
| 14 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 15 | answer , I mean some people would be totally happy to yeah , fine but I 'm sure there 'll be other people who , you know , I want some more er |
| 16 | It means do n't wear your best clothes , there 'll be some girls who do n't have best clothes , so we do n't want any showing off . |
| 17 | They 'll be some people who erm , for whatever reason wo n't come out because it 's the worst possible day for the weather , and and and poles have been affected by weather . |
| 18 | They could be successful entrepreneurs who have retired in their fifties , or idle sybarites with the good fortune of inheritance . |
| 19 | However , they could be valuable witnesses who may have seen something of interest . |
| 20 | Translating them into actual events , there could be few people who had anticipated that a British Airways Boeing 747 would suffer loss of power on all four engines for sixteen minutes when it flew into a volcanic ash cloud at 37 000 feet . |
| 21 | While there may be Arab people who honestly desire peace , the world must realise that Israel only survives by putting fear into its enemies . |
| 22 | I realise there may be many runners who I believe have not yet heard of this relatively new organisation . |
| 23 | They may be irritable children who are generally difficult to care for as well as to feed ( Powell and Low 1983 ) . |
| 24 | There may either be a personnel officer who interviews all staff for a fairly large company , or there may be one person who will be so closely involved with the new employee that she/he seems the inevitable person to carry out the interview . |
| 25 | There may be some people who would like to see you break your neck , but I am not one of them . ’ |
| 26 | There may be some people who simply observe the outward forms of religion , in order to keep up appearances or not to upset their relations , but who have no real religious belief or feelings … |
| 27 | I can imagine that there may be some listeners who fill find the earlier movements just a shade self-effacing , despite the exceptional playing standards , typically glowing Philips recording , and exemplary foresight and structural awareness . |
| 28 | With the law as it is there may be some men who would prefer an adult partner , but who at present turn their attention to boys because they consider that this course is less likely to lay them open to prosecution or to blackmail than if they sought other adults as their partners . |
| 29 | Sometimes this may be unfortunate pupils who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ; but often it is the teachers ' families who begin to bear the brunt , and whose reserves of tolerance and goodwill may also , after a while , begin to dry up in turn . |
| 30 | He does n't appeart to have struck since the end of January but one thing worrying the investigators is that there may be more victims who are too scared to come forward . |