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 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 . |
| 4 | It occurred to me that there might be other readers who also ran the program and were confused with the results they obtained . |
| 5 | We have been lucky but there might be other people who will not be . ’ |
| 6 | We have been lucky but there might be other people who will not be . ’ |
| 7 | As might be expected women who left school at the minimum age had the largest families , but the best educated were next in line . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | They could be successful entrepreneurs who have retired in their fifties , or idle sybarites with the good fortune of inheritance . |
| 11 | However , they could be valuable witnesses who may have seen something of interest . |
| 12 | While there may be Arab people who honestly desire peace , the world must realise that Israel only survives by putting fear into its enemies . |
| 13 | They may be irritable children who are generally difficult to care for as well as to feed ( Powell and Low 1983 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | From time expired senior registrar who despairs of finding that elusive consultant job to the frustrations of the mature , would be medical student who comes up against the agist admissions policies of many British medical schools . |
| 16 | For the direct benefit of pupils it will be individual partners who will matter more than a grand design of co-operation . |
| 17 | Now point number two is a general charge of this kind will affect different families in widely differing ways , and quite clearly there will be some families who can well afford to pay that charge , and there will be other people who can not , and maybe the case that you were quoting me is an example of that . |
| 18 | There will be other readers who may look wistfully at the attractions of religious faith but are restrained by the folklore and fashions of what they suppose to be a current scientific philosophy . |
| 19 | In the next decade — and let us bear in mind the next intergovernmental conference — there will be different Ministers who may have different ideas . |
| 20 | No doubt there will be would-be adopters who are likely to find the possibility of inclusive adoption threatening and not wish to proceed . |