Example sentences of "those [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have been the greatest bore ever , and it 's a wonder that those I inflicted my views upon did n't rebel . |
| 2 | Thus a computer catalogue could print out on demand all the items of which Dr Rhodes Boyson was the author ; or those which had his name in the title ; or all the items having to do with a specific topic , even something so very specific as " The effect of solvents on the killing of bacteria by phenol " ; or all the items in tape-slide format ; or all the items published in Bletchley in 1975 . |
| 3 | He lost the protracted litigation with the Queen and this could have been a factor amongst those which persuaded him into treasonable activity later which cost the worthy earl his head ! |
| 4 | This risk negligence also affected the choice of technology : projects which appeared to achieve high levels of production rapidly by using advanced technology would be preferred to those which achieved them more slowly by using more appropriate technology . |
| 5 | Earlier ideas such as those of Lamarck formed a bone of contention throughout the pre-Darwinian decades , and the aspects of Darwin 's thinking that are seen as most innovative by modern biologists were not necessarily those which interested his contemporaries . |
| 6 | Rather than attempting to repeat and surpass the exalted projects of Sartre or Althusser in a new guise , later writers such as Foucault or Derrida learnt a lesson from history , and stopped to ask why such comprehensive theories , like so many of those which preceded them , could not hold together . |
| 7 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 8 | Indeed the nations that stood to gain most from European expansion were those which burdened their economies least with the unproductive business of armies and bureaucracies . |
| 9 | In the former case the study will concentrate on factors which constrained or enhanced the development of Western medicine ; in the latter case those which encouraged its export . |
| 10 | The declaration committed those who signed it to recognise the independence and sovereignty of other members , to respect human rights including those of national minorities , and to observe existing boundaries . |
| 11 | Do you dare to help those who robbed us ? ’ |
| 12 | The ‘ lunatics ’ , in contrast to those who proclaimed their rationality , offered no justifications beyond a dislike for non-whites or a liking for violence . |
| 13 | All too often , however , we see him angry , hurt , suspicious of friends as much as enemies , rarely grateful to those who stuck their necks out on his behalf , working obsessively at powerfully emotional works while seemingly ignoring the emotions generated by the domestic chaos around him . |
| 14 | Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people : those who knew what they wanted to do ; those ( the unhappiest ) who never knew what their purpose in life was ; and those who found out later on . |
| 15 | I stayed well clear of the sort of people who thought I had a dead-end job in the Civil Service , and those who knew what the job was stayed clear of me . |
| 16 | Like her great namesake she was always well organized , and of course she had had so much experience helping with my grandmother 's last six confinements , and going out sometimes with our local midwife , who to some would be a Sairey Gamp , but to those who knew her , another angel of mercy . |
| 17 | Those who knew her during this period described her as full of life and fun and an exceptional administrator . |
| 18 | ‘ This includes all those who knew her well : the Lady Prioress , the two Sub-prioresses , and our comely Dame Agatha . |
| 19 | All those who knew her will miss her warm personality and lively mind . |
| 20 | Gide at the end of his life remarked that Wilde only began to live after dark as it were , away from most of those who knew him ( So Be It , 27 ) . |
| 21 | A MAN of many parts , Warren Tute was thought by those who knew him only slightly to be a good raconteur and a popular member of the Garrick . |
| 22 | He was appointed MBE , but those who knew him thought he deserved much more . |
| 23 | He was only 27 , amusing , very intelligent and talented and will be deeply missed by those who knew him . |
| 24 | Those who knew him best saw the melancholy that went hand-in-hand with the gaiety he showed the world , and because he lived every emotion intensely , his misery went deep . |
| 25 | To most of those who knew him Henry was just eccentric enough to be terrifyingly normal , and even his carefully calculated bitterness , the quality of which , on the whole , he was most proud , had become , in early middle age , a Nice Dry Sense of Humour . |
| 26 | Accounts of his sexual prowess have been dismissed by sceptics , but those who knew him better maintain that he was able to exercise extraordinary self-control when making love , so that sex several times a day with different women was perfectly feasible . |
| 27 | Standing on the doorstep of the family 's Georgian mansion house , Mr Greig said : ‘ Louis brought great joy and happiness to our family and all those who knew him . |
| 28 | Grand though this sounds , it seems to be borne out by those who knew him about that time . |
| 29 | More interestingly , those who knew him well speak of his outstanding security . |
| 30 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |