Example sentences of "[adj] by those " in BNC.
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| 1 | a compassionate employer — compassionate by those days ' standards , not by today 's standards . |
| 2 | But his sentence — 12 months in prison , suspended for a year — was regarded as much too light by those who believe that deliberately to take a human life is always wrong . |
| 3 | As a woman who is young in years by our own standards but who is thought old by those of her own time . |
| 4 | In the course of our social lives we are constantly learning about ways of thinking and behaving considered appropriate by those other members of society with whom we come into contact ( as well as those considered inappropriate by them ) and this learning process only ceases when social life itself ceases — on death . |
| 5 | A person is permitted under the section to argue that he was unaware that his conduct was likely to be regarded as disorderly by those who witness what he is doing . |
| 6 | The exertions of the opposing armies , air forces and other formations did not go unmatched by those of their supporting information media . |
| 7 | Even as the company got bigger , the familial atmosphere on which Virgin had been built in the early Seventies stayed strong , a flame that was kept alight by those who had been with Virgin since the earliest days , until it became a myth , self-perpetuating and strong enough to touch any newcomer to the organisation , strong enough to have even Richard Branson in its grip . |
| 8 | We should not underestimate the power of official systems of classification of children , even when they are generally held to be inadequate by those that work with them . |
| 9 | For example , ideas arising from work in Quadrant 1 may well not be easily recognizable as potentially useful by those concerned with the practical aspects of managing organizations . |
| 10 | ‘ I was very young ’ , she says , and I was impressed by those people . |
| 11 | He can not interfere directly with the proceedings of the Common Law Courts ; he can not issue a new writ which will have much chance of being held good by those courts . |
| 12 | The reason why dementia is seen as problematic by those who experience it or who are involved in the care of old people will be apparent to anyone who has encountered the frequently devastating effects of this illness : an illness ( if of the Alzheimer 's type ) with , as yet , no known cause , no means of prevention , no treatment , and no cure . |
| 13 | In several experiments , scientists have undertaken the task of analysing the stools of those following high-fibre diets and have found that the calories excreted are measurably greater in number than the calories excreted by those on the normal , varied Western diets , rich in refined carbohydrate foods — or , indeed , on any other pattern of eating . |
| 14 | Travelling along at such a pace was an experience she would have enjoyed no end on a happier occasion , and even now she savoured the luxury of sweeping by those on foot as if she were royalty . |
| 15 | Finally , with considerable reluctance , I suggested that his faith seemed to have very little foundation and that without more understanding to match his enthusiasm he was in danger of being tripped by the questions of life — let alone by those of his fellow students . |
| 16 | The situation was further complicated by those like Stubbes and Perkins who saw dress contusion as symptomatic of impending social collapse , and those like James I whose hatred of female cross-dressing introduced a misogynistic factor which antedated current social anxiety yet found a powerful focus in it . |
| 17 | Outside Europe , class hierarchies were further complicated by those of race . |
| 18 | The measures were felt to be particularly harsh by those catholic parents who were getting involved with the All Children Together movement . |
| 19 | Most empirical research into the effects of controls proceeds on the basis that the decision is unexpected by those operating within the economic system . |
| 20 | Several months later , Batty was asked to make a film about any successful British company to redress criticism that television programme makers were obsessed by those in difficulties , of which there were many in the Seventies . |
| 21 | The crucial weaknesses of the South Korean army on the eve of the Korean War were that it lacked the range and quality of the equipment possessed by the North Korean forces and that the leadership of the North Korean army was inspired by a fanaticism unequalled by those fighting for Syngman Rhee . |
| 22 | I was made uneasy by those parading men in smart suits and dark glasses , who appeared to be a kind of confraternity of Falangists , ardent nationalists and supporters of Franco , whose picture was everywhere . |
| 23 | Secondly , the notion of usability allows us to recognise that if information is actually to be used by users , then it must also be usable by those users , without undue expenditure of time , effort or resource , or it simply will just not get used . |
| 24 | In one sense , in a report about ‘ environmental scanning ’ , it would be good to be able to report that those engaged in that activity had solved this problem of making the information that they deliver , directly usable by those to whom it is delivered . |
| 25 | Zeelenberg is n't worried by those who question his sanity at turning down big cash incentives from Rothmans and Lucky Strike . |
| 26 | Ideas that arise in Quadrant 4 may be very exciting to the person concerned , but be seen as trivial by those who have to implement them , with the result that the innovation process is less effective than it might be . |
| 27 | Indeed , this had not gone unnoticed by those on the governing body as one person remarked that she ‘ had the clenched fist on the side of the car ’ although this had not been mentioned at the interview . |
| 28 | He has no time for the fair-weather aid groups , who will only go to Romania in the summer and is annoyed by those who deliver basic supplies , take a few pictures and never return . |
| 29 | Because it appeared more resolute in its unionism , it was taken to be more trustworthy by those who were prepared to break the law for their unionism . |
| 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 . |