Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] [prep] those " in BNC.

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1 All the suppliers of building services represented in this brochure have been selected from amongst those recommended by established local opinion as being reliable and reasonable .
2 It had all been talked about by those involved .
3 in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm
4 The old detractors may remain unconvinced , but taking ‘ Outernational ’ on its own merits — and leaving the past where it 's best left — this has to be the culmination of what Mackenzie has been striving for through those half-pitched albums of the late '80s .
5 How has the power of this system of classification been dealt with by those who have been victims of its perverse games of inclusion and exclusion ?
6 Regrettably but perhaps inevitably , the ambivalence of feeling and thought which is bound to exist at any time of change has been seized upon by those who can profit from it .
7 Through her time of growing up , Miranda had had to talk so loud to interrupt the brawling , crying , canoodling jag that was her parent 's marriage , to entertain so insistently in order to divert them from the partying , bickering , kiss-and-make-up affair that absorbed them totally , that she had become as deaf to tremors and to nuances as her former games mistress shouting ‘ Bombs Coming Over ’ or ‘ Scrub the Decks ’ through a megaphone in the gym at the dim convent Miranda had been sent to for those three years of her childhood when the family had been in funds .
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