Example sentences of "those [pron] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Was n't it time she stopped believing in love since she had no evidence to suggest that such an unselfish , uplifting emotion existed outside the imagination of those who wanted to be duped ? |
| 32 | His aim in publishing his book was to ameliorate the lot of those who appeared to be victimized because they were honest , poor or in needy circumstances . |
| 33 | At both national and local levels trends can be analysed not only within churches and denominations , but across denominations , to learn from those who appear to be exceptions to the general rule . |
| 34 | Departmental managers , wanting a larger share of the cake , may feel aggrieved about the effect of the formulas on their plans , and may be jealous of those who appear to be doing well out of the process . |
| 35 | She replied ‘ simply : ‘ One day reading the Bible I was struck by the simple and loving demands of Jesus on his disciples and the intolerable demands of those who claimed to be Christ for me . |
| 36 | If there is regret over the failure of Resolution 242 as a blueprint for peace , which had seemed so promising in 1967 , there are grounds for even greater regret that the 1949 ( IVth ) Geneva Convention has not been vigorously upheld by those who claimed to be seeking a basis for peace . |
| 37 | The more traditionalist Marxist elements within the student movement rubbed shoulders uneasily with those who claimed to be — or occasionally were — of the streets . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Hundreds of people were arrested and imprisoned , or summarily executed , because their ideas or sympathies were considered " wrong " by those who happened to be in local control . |
| 40 | Those who want to be president will have to wait until then . ’ |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | These comfortable apartments , reserved exclusively for Club 18–30 , are an ideal base for those who want to be right in amongst the action , being only two minutes from the shops , bars and nightlife of San An . |
| 43 | A second and possibly overlapping category might be those who want to be free from the worries of maintaining such a holiday home . |
| 44 | ‘ There are those who want to be seen with me simply because of who I am . |
| 45 | For volunteers whose jobs are disappearing the process is fairly straightforward , but it becomes much more complicated to match those who want to be redeployed with those who volunteered to leave but whose jobs will continue . |
| 46 | The women of Britain — the women in the work force and those who want to be in the work force — will not look to the Minister to offer them any hope of liberation or any hope of a better future . |
| 47 | As Arendt has pointed out , ‘ In all these cases , legitimacy derives from something outside the range of human deeds ; it is either not man-made at all … or has at least not been made by those who happen to be in power . ’ |
| 48 | As we emphasised in the opening chapter , church growth is far more than increasing the head count of those who profess to be Christians . |
| 49 | This is not to imply that the mid-nineteenth-century ( male ) bourgeois ( or those who aspired to be like him ) was merely dishonest , preaching one morality while deliberately practising another , though patently the conscious hypocrite is more often to be found where the gap between official morality and the demands of human nature is unbridgeable , as in this period it often was . |
| 50 | My sympathy lies squarely with those who refused to be part of the South African sham in order to remain eligible to play at the highest level , but who now find that they will probably lose that chance . |
| 51 | The rock-climber is held on a rope by clipping himself on to a harness thingy ( if you 've come to this book for technical information , boy are you going to be disappointed ) that straps round his thighs and crotch , so as a quick guide to who the climbers are in the pub , just watch for those who seem to be constantly fiddling around in their genital area . |
| 52 | Amongst those who seem to be ‘ changing ’ the most rapidly are people who deserve to be called nothing short of unprincipled opportunists . |
| 53 | I am convinced that the works on view in the museums and those we consider to be exceptional , do not represent the finest achievements in the world . |
| 54 | The Tory tactic of trying to scare those they claim to be dissenters from switching to another party is laughable . |