Example sentences of "[prep] those [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next in time of those commemorated in the ASB is More 's antagonist William Tyndale , who was executed a year after him . |
| 2 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |
| 3 | Many of those detained after the attempt were quickly released . |
| 4 | And too many of them are deliberate re-runs of those seen in the aforementioned film . |
| 5 | The Triumphant Virtue of Débonereté was one of those personified in the wall paintings ( now lost ) of the Painted Chamber at Westminster , commissioned by Henry III between 1263 and 1272 . |
| 6 | Smithers and Robinson ( 1989 ) have quoted figures which indicate that on ‘ selected university degree courses 1982–87 ’ , 17.1 % of those entering on the basis of what they describe as ‘ vocational qualifications ’ dropped out while only 7% of ‘ A ’ Level entrants dropped out . |
| 7 | It is notable that all of the groups defined as ‘ non-standard ’ , and a number of those entering on the basis of other qualifications , perform better than the average level of achievement for A-level entrants . |
| 8 | My case , like so many of those studied in the literature , does not bear out these facts . |
| 9 | At a base in Hereford , which trains bomb disposal men in the army 's toughest course , bomb teams demonstrated modern explosives … incendiary devices , letter bombs which contain just a few ounces of Semtex , and car bombs , at one pound , just half the size of those favoured by the IRA . |
| 10 | The robes were of black or crimson velvet — over body armour — and all of those seated at the desks wore identical long masks . |
| 11 | Until systems exist that allow accurate recording of congenital anomalies present at birth and of those recognised after the neonatal period such a study faces insurmountable difficulties . |
| 12 | At the same time President Bush took the unusual step of sending a message of condolence not only to the families of the seven labourers killed at Rishon Le Zion , but also to the families of those killed in the rioting afterwards . |
| 13 | In December 1989 the following security developments were reported : ( i ) the seizure by the police on Dec. 5 of a large arms cache and the arrest of five people suspected of being members of a white extremist assassination squad ; ( ii ) the acquittal of 12 police officers and a soldier on Dec. 11 by the Cape Town Supreme Court in South Africa 's first private prosecution for murder , arising from the 1985 " Trojan Horse " ambush in which three people were killed , and brought by the father of Shaun Magmoed , 16 , one of those killed in the attack ; and ( iii ) the setting aside on Dec. 15 of the convictions against all 11 defendants in the " Delmas " treason trial , which had ended in December 1988 [ see p. 36913 ] . |
| 14 | On the same day the Sri Lankan army claimed to have killed 50 guerrillas of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , bringing to over 600 the total number of those killed in the latest military offensive under way since mid-March in the north around Mullaittivu and Mannar . |
| 15 | The council passed a motion backing calls by relatives of those killed in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings for an official inquiry . |
| 16 | However , some 300 members of the National Peasants ' Party staged a march on Jan. 7 through the centre of Bucharest in memory of those killed by the Securitate during the revolution and to protest against the NSF decision to stand in the elections . |
| 17 | Most of those consulted by the Commission are Anglican and they were asked to give their views on ten specific points . |
| 18 | In Canada , the federal Law Reform Commission stated in its Report that ‘ the great majority of those consulted by the Commission on this question favoured total abolition of the spousal immunity , ’ and this was accomplished in 1982 . |
| 19 | However , its principal aim of accident reduction is only one of those incorporated in the goals of the German projects , which deal with a much more extensive array of environmental and aesthetic improvements . |
| 20 | This is Canto 78 , another of those composed in the Pisan prison-stockade while their author awaited transportation and trial for treason . |
| 21 | The lists of names of those assessed for the Whitechapel sewer rates for the period — yes , there was some rudimentary sanitation ! — reveal the extent to which immigrants into the area consisted not only of young lads up from Somerset , but included , amongst others , Jewish families for whom East London would be a place of shelter , away from persecution elsewhere . |
| 22 | Indeed , in the course of our research it became increasingly clear that many of those commenting upon the " new " temporary working were making reference to the same small number of examples of this practice — examples , moreover , in which the number of temporary workers actually employed was often very low [ see Chapter 7 ] . |
| 23 | As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) . |
| 24 | When he played the old rustic Arthur Fallowfield , radio audiences all over Britain — to say nothing of those listening to the BBC 's various overseas services — sat up waiting for the virtually immortal words , ‘ the answer lies in the soil ’ . |
| 25 | Some 51.2% of those questioned at the end of 1991 said that they planned to buy more hardware but only 40.3% actually did . |
| 26 | The Nuremberg Trials lifted the scales from the eyes of many Germans , and later OMGUS surveys reported that only one in eight ( 12 per cent ) of those questioned in the American Zone recalled trusting Hitler as Leader up to the end of the war , while 35 per cent claimed never to have trusted him and a further ( 6 per cent to have kept faith in him only until the outbreak of war . |
| 27 | In 1972 the official unemployment rate was under 4 per cent , and of those questioned in the Nuffield survey , only 5 per cent told interviewers that they were currently out of work . |
| 28 | Yet the first opinion polls showed almost 60% of those questioned behind the president . |
| 29 | The High Court 's Sept. 2 judgment ( following a petition filed by Win Chadha , one of those named by the CBI as centrally involved in the scandal ) had intervened as a cantonal court in Geneva was due to deliver its verdict in response to the CBI 's request for assistance . |
| 30 | Although most of those named in the letters are well-known for their persistent campaigning over Northern Ireland , there are still more than usual and the timing created maximum embarrassment for the Government . |