Example sentences of "[verb] those who [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One group holds those who read at low levels but who are ‘ doing as well as can be expected ’ . |
| 2 | The other group holds those who read at levels well below the level expected of them . |
| 3 | She likened those who wrote about her to fish gutters and hookers . |
| 4 | Lothar immediately sent emissaries into the regna assigned to Charles " so that they [ i.e. leading men there ] should not accept Charles 's lordship " , while Lothar himself moved south-east " to receive those who came to him from Provence " . |
| 5 | Reports indicated , however , that it had been excluded on the direction of the King who , in a veiled attack on Brotherhood policies on June 19 , condemned those who engaged in " intellectual and psychological terrorism " and portrayed suicide as " martyrdom " . |
| 6 | Rack renting combined with taxes and tithes — according to the abolitionists of the thirties these alone consumed a quarter of the peasants ' net income — drove out the enterprising and condemned those who remained to one of the most hopeless forms of subsistence farming . |
| 7 | In the aftermath of the Vietnam war it had agreed to take in those fleeing from the persecution of a vindictive regime and agreed to resettle those who fled by boat . |
| 8 | Especially we remember those who served on this airfield and we pray that the peace they fought to obtain may not be lost to us , but as we may live and work to bring it to thy world , that Christ the Prince of Peace may reign in the affairs of men . |
| 9 | This week the hospice want to thank those who gave in memory of Mr Robinson , Mr Herring , Mr Gargett and Mr Nixon . |
| 10 | Far from lending their weight to agitation for political realignment , Labour 's leaders organized to resist and ultimately expel those who persisted in advocating it . |
| 11 | He did not hold staff meetings , and hardly consulted those who expected to be consulted , like the suffragan bishop or the archdeacons . |
| 12 | Following their defeat at the Wiltshire election of 1713 , the Whig candidates petitioned the House of Commons , complaining that the under-sheriff , in collusion with the two Tory candidates , had delayed opening the poll until the afternoon , " when many freeholders , who would have voted for the petitioners , were necessitated , by reason of the harvest , to go away without voting " , and also that he had " refused those who voted for the petitioners , and had a right ; and polled others amongst them , who had no right " . |
| 13 | After a trial which ended with his conviction , the well-known preacher was publicly hanged — which shocked those who read of it , and even more those that witnessed it , but did not deter James Neild and The Thatched House Society from continuing its fine work . |
| 14 | A company pension system which rewarded those who stayed with one firm all their working life with a pension equivalent to two thirds of final salary , ‘ froze ’ the pensions of those who moved jobs . |
| 15 | It paid well enough , especially the small link from the Somerset coalfield , but as Dyos and Aldcroft point out , at their busiest the inland waterways of southern England carried only 15 per cent of total traffic and never rewarded those who invested in them in the way those of the industrial Midlands and north did . |
| 16 | Neither the extreme north of England nor the south coast had to endure the kind of onslaught that brought a plaintive cry from the Prior of St Thibaut-des-Brûlês , south-east of Paris , describing how an English force had burnt his village and ransomed the inhabitants and asking those who dwelt in towns and castles whether their suffering was anything like his . |
| 17 | No-one was certain if any hanging had really taken place but on cold , windy nights the tree would creak and moan , startling those who happened to be passing by . |
| 18 | Or again : ‘ the bards of the world pass judgement on men of valour , ’ as a sixth-century Welsh poet ( Aneirin ) wrote , in a remarkable poem mourning a defeat and honouring those who died in it . |
| 19 | I had failed miserably to give my readers a true picture of the visual delights awaiting those who followed in my footsteps . |
| 20 | We 'll not let those who fought in the Rising die in vain . " |
| 21 | The bivariate relationship between terminal education age and preparedness to break the law suggests a different conclusion about the relationship between education and respect for the law in Britain in 1984 : more of those who left school at 16 or above say they are prepared to break the law ( 0.364 ) than do those who left at 15 or younger ( 0.274 ) , a difference of +0.090 . |
| 22 | I thank those who fought for that gift and who built the lasting institutions of NATO and the European Community from the ruins of 1945 . |
| 23 | The Japanese interned those who surrendered without a struggle and killed all those French elements who put up a resistance . |
| 24 | We wish those who worked on the interim advisory committee well and we look forward to the next phase in the determination of teachers ' pay which is the work of the pay review body under the chairmanship of Sir Graham Day . |
| 25 | Viscount Montgomery and Manfred Rommel honoured those who died in the desert battles led by their fathers . |
| 26 | It equally impressed those who served on the old Select Committee on Social Services . |
| 27 | It was argued that it unfairly penalized those who worked throughout their lives until their mid-sixties , but were thrown onto the Poor Law before they qualified for the pension . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most striking is the bronze statue of an airman at Dalton-on-Tees which honours those who served at RAF Croft ( FP November , p29 ) . |