Example sentences of "who [vb base] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the great fortunes in this country are still in the hands of the landed aristocracy who tend to be preoccupied with maintaining their great estates and country houses , no doubt feeling that opening them to the public is in itself a form of patronage . |
| 2 | Children who tend to be irritable , moody , difficult to manage , and emotional about changes or frustrated will generally react with the most disturbance to the birth . |
| 3 | In its early days software is tested by programmers and expert , hand picked users , who tend to be reasonable about they way they use machines . |
| 4 | More to the point , you fail to mention the fact that the Government has offered talks on a pay structure which would ensure that those ambulance workers with a high skill level , who tend to be those who deal with the worst accidents , are paid more to reflect their training . |
| 5 | Rolle stresses at the beginning the joy which is the obverse of the discipline : But although it is characteristic of Rolle 's writing to stress the joy of the contemplative , it would be a mistake to suppose that he ever suggests that the passage to it is easy : At the very start he warns against the specific danger attendant on solitary life — hallucination ; a point to remember when considering the arguments of those who tend to be distrustful of Rolle 's theology . |
| 6 | I , I think I would be unwise too to make a forecast , so all , all I can say is there are some enquiries around of er , people who appear to be interested but erm , er , you know , the burden hangs quite a lot , you know the burden 's still , the is quite a long way away still , but it 's not impossible we could sell some more land . |
| 7 | Geoff Boltwood , 43 year-old psychic healer and medium , is one of a band of men and women worldwide who appear to be able to influence the outcome of disease by tapping into some force or energy which no one yet understands . |
| 8 | History students who appear to be confused about why they are studying the subject do little to encourage others to study it as a full GCSE subject or at an advanced level . |
| 9 | VECTOR is a specially designed bank account for those customers who expect to be overdrawn regularly ; |
| 10 | 1,400 ready to become priests as they win a historic vote FOURTEEN hundred women who want to be Anglican priests got the green light yesterday when the church 's ruling body voted for women to be ordained . |
| 11 | Rather , it is an unconscious , gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies , by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict . |
| 12 | There are developers for whom a building is not just another source of profit and who want to be good patrons . |
| 13 | Even though it 's about Irishmen who want to be black . ’ |
| 14 | Those with a little cash to spend , who want to be modern and sophisticated , as advertisements suggest , buy imported whiskey and brandy . |
| 15 | The new peppery ‘ Cayenne ’ is a fiery red for girls who want to be bold while ‘ Tamarillo ’ is a rich , dusky alternative . |
| 16 | A second and possibly overlapping category might be those who want to be free from the worries of maintaining such a holiday home . |
| 17 | The World Index Trust is designed for investors who want to be able to move between overseas markets but do not want to choose particular stocks to buy . |
| 18 | This seminar is designed specifically for all those who come into contact with IBM 's products and terminology and who want to be able to understand and discuss them in order to carry out their jobs more effectively . |
| 19 | Those who want to be paid-up , signed-up members and those who for one reason or another do not actually want to become a member but are keen to be kept informed , involved and used as the occasion demands . |
| 20 | For this reason the campaigning elements of the organization — and that includes many of the 80,000 British members who undertake to be active on Amnesty 's behalf — have increased and refined their methods over the years . |
| 21 | Of the best , who happen to be all men . |
| 22 | As a result , agents of the owner , who happen to be former principals of Sotheby 's , arranged for the procurement of another set of licenses from the Lebanon ’ . |
| 23 | As you well know our mission statement , Save The Children 's vision , commits us to using our experience gained here and overseas to achieve lasting benefits for children on a far wider scale than would be the case if we just confined our work to those children and families who happen to be involved in the projects we run . |
| 24 | He knows slightly too many people who happen to be rich . |
| 25 | It would seem then to fall to those staff who happen to be bilingual , or to those few teachers who are actually engaged in the teaching of community languages , to raise general awareness in the few schools in which they are deployed . |
| 26 | They are also the greasy old retro pimps it 's OK to like , a bunch of seedy would-be Lynch subjects who happen to be one of the most important groups in Britain today . |
| 27 | He points to the irrationality of this assumption and makes the seemingly rather obvious point that ‘ Torture … is an infallible means for absolving robust scoundrels and for condemning innocent persons who happen to be weak ’ ( p. 32 ) . |
| 28 | Next , his staff in the White House hamfistedly fire seven non-political civil servants who happen to be popular with their only real clients — the White House press corps . |
| 29 | ‘ Where I come from is chock-a-block with perfectly useful and agreeable people who happen to be old . ’ |
| 30 | well I mean you 're right in a way Bob those people who seem to get on within a company some of them are people who seem to be able to say the right words at the right time do n't they ? |