Example sentences of "those who had be " in BNC.

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1 As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded .
2 On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) .
3 First to suffer were the relatives of those who had been kidnapped by the Joint Command .
4 This view could not easily be maintained as the evidence mounted that , despite their negotiations with Sir Herbert Samuel and the TUC 's meeting with the Prime Minister on 12 May , the strike had been called off without any guarantees that those who had been involved would not be victimized by employers and that there would be no immediate resumption of negotiations between the coal miners and the coal owners .
5 So , for example , with regard to observance of the Passover , the pre-exilic ruling was for ‘ thee and thy son ’ , with no further qualification , to keep the feast , whereas in the exilic and post-exilic legislation the ordinance was modified to count only those who had been circumcised .
6 If any of those who had been turned away chose to complain , they would meet the same bored lack of interest .
7 On the other hand , more efficient production was a significant benefit to those who had been on courses .
8 The survey showed that only one-third of those who had been on courses generated the training themselves .
9 Indeed , many Englishmen , even those who had been on the side of parliament during the Civil War , like Richard Baxter , had never wanted to abolish the monarchy altogether .
10 Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer .
11 The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all .
12 But many of the symptoms asked about were reported for similar proportions of those who had been in residential homes and those who had not ; these were pain , trouble with breathing , vomiting or feeling sick , drowsiness , sleeplessness , dry mouth or thirst , depression , loss of appetite , difficulty swallowing , dizziness , bed sores , an unpleasant smell , and backache .
13 But if the comparison between those who had been in a home and others is confined to those for whom relatives , neighbours or friends were interviewed , there is still a difference : 31 per cent against 19 per cent .
14 Among this older group 46 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more were admitted , 75 per cent of the others .
15 Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups .
16 In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more .
17 Those who had been watching him work believed that in spite of the traumas , Hopper the actor was a star , and Hopper the director had completed an extraordinarily good film which , according to one description , included some ‘ hauntingly beautiful footage ’ .
18 Members who had been earlier supporters of television were confirmed in their views ; those who had been uncertain found themselves in favour ; several original opponents became supporters .
19 Eight days after leaving , the new convoy was back at the desert rendezvous , much to the relief of those who had been chosen to stay behind .
20 Meanwhile , the probable and longer-term human consequences of a growing emphasis upon the efficient competitive selection and of a commitment to the formula ( IQ + Effort = Merit ) disconcerted those who had been content to march under the banners of equal educational opportunity , free access to grammar schools , and the end of nepotism .
21 In Education and the Working Class they studied the attitudes and careers of eighty-eight working-class pupils in Huddersfield grammar schools : most of these had taken their A levels in the period 1949–52 , and belonged therefore to the earliest generations of those who had been liberated from the payment of fees .
22 Moreover , 70 per cent of those who had been admitted to grammar schools left school at the minimum permitted age , namely fifteen .
23 Jesus once said that those who had been shown the greatest mercy by God were the ones who loved him the most .
24 Armed with this tool for diagnosing asymptomatic carriers of the infection and those who had been infected in the past , several screening studies were undertaken in the early seventies , and to many people 's surprise the incidence of past and present infection was found to be very high amongst those attending departments of venereology or genito-urinary medicine .
25 In 1902 he founded the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club and although this was snobbishly restricted to those who had been to a British public school , the club was instrumental in establishing winter sports as a popular type of holiday .
26 In addition to this the men who were passing through the camp after the first year often had a different view of the war from those who had been there since before the fall of France .
27 To commit our cause to God , and especially to pray for those who had been trapped in France and were hurrying to the beaches of Dunkirk .
28 The Hyde Housing Association , responsible for the site , had already drawn up a list of people ‘ with strong connections with Medstead — basically those who had been resident in the village for over five years , or former residents who had moved away and wished to return , ’ said Mr. Winter .
29 Certainly those who had been accused of witchcraft or committed suicide could not be buried in the churchyard : second best was usually the crossroads , a memory perhaps of some measure of sanctity which may over time have become attached to leys because of their association with other sacred sites .
30 In the evening , the names of those who had been picked from the line-up were read out over the camp tannoy .
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