Example sentences of "those [pron] [noun] were not " in BNC.

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1 Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened .
2 Section 4 of the Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 gave entitled persons , that is those whose resources were not sufficient to meet their requirements , a legal right to supplementary benefit .
3 It 's easy to see the same thing happening today ; when the United States troops went to Somalia , earlier this year , their officers had hardly anything to do with the local experts , preferring to stick with their prejudices about the lack of intelligence of those whose skins were not the same colour as their own .
4 In the end , two thirds of the value of the tools destroyed were paid to those whose tools were not insured , and new tool chests were made to replace those destroyed by fire , free of charge .
5 In between swigs they expressed approval or disparagement of the play with drawn-out exclamations of ‘ Ooooh ! ’ and ‘ Aaaah ! ’ and — from those whose hands were not otherwise encumbered — the occasional burst of applause .
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