Example sentences of "[det] [Wh pn] [vb past] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protection of rights became for him , and for all who thought as he did , the enforcement of ‘ constitutional limitations . ’ |
| 2 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 3 | Philosophers could argue against them , playwrights could mock them , but their following remained strong among the many who felt that one can not be too careful not to offend the cosmic powers . |
| 4 | After his death miracles were attributed to him and he was made a saint ; there were many who maintained that he was too ugly to be anything else . |
| 5 | By the 1870s there were many who disbelieved and who yet ‘ retained the nobler attributes of humanity ’ ; but if the bulk of humanity lost its faith then it would be hardly possible to imagine ‘ civilised and well-ordered communities ’ surviving . |
| 6 | Secondly , even a small proportion of people declining to give consent might have undermined the study — if those declining included most of those who knew that they allowed race to influence their judgments when shortlisting candidates for jobs . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the actual direction of the party under Mr Callaghan , aided by Mr Foot , was in the hands of those who believed that its main task was to represent the interests of trade unions . |
| 8 | To those who believed that he had not rigorously demonstrated the earth 's motion , it would look as if he had condemned himself . |
| 9 | Some of those who believed that his first bankruptcy had been engineered by the Shipping Federation had come to his rescue at the eleventh hour . |
| 10 | Walesa 's move caused alarm among those who feared that he was aiming to rule without parliament as a virtual dictator , on the basis that he had been democratically elected and that 65 per cent of Sejm members , under the 1989 compromise provisions establishing the parliament [ see pp. 36578 ; 36722-24 ] , had not . |
| 11 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 12 | The list of those who served and who had , or have , links with Edenderry Memorial is impressive : . |
| 13 | For this reason the list below is not complete , and we apologise to those who attended but whose names we failed to record . |
| 14 | The single-copy fallacy operates here strongly , for the only way to study the Convention is through copies in the ‘ real world ’ : that is copies obtained at the time and held since by those who attended or their heirs . |
| 15 | The Gundovald crisis can thus be seen as a classic illustration of the difficulties raised at the time of the transfer of power from one monarch to another : the dispossessed and those who thought that their status was in question set about making contact with a new lord . |
| 16 | He is as you know , 67 , but I have never been amongst those who thought that he was growing old and tired … he is , I think , just as fit as the day when I first saw him in July 1946 . |
| 17 | Finally there were those who argued that it was essential to keep British control over at least part of the British car industry and that , after all the taxpayers money invested in Austin Rover , the company should not be turned over to Ford , a US multinational . |
| 18 | And although disagreeing in significant respects with Schwoerer , W. A. Speck concludes that significant inroads on the royal prerogative were made by the Revolution settlement , and that " the debate on the nature of the monarchy did end decisively in 1689 with the victory of those who argued that it was limited and mixed " . |
| 19 | Those who predicted that her reign would see the end of the British monarchy have been proved stoutly wrong . |
| 20 | My constituent , Mrs. X , who is still suffering badly , had been treated in a less than fair way by those who conducted the criminal investigation and also by those who decided that there were no grounds for bringing the perpetrator in front of a court martial . |
| 21 | But there were still those who suggested that its ‘ clumsy ’ diction and experimental forms were not poetry at all . |
| 22 | There were those who doubted that he would win even one major title . |
| 23 | Having said all this , there were still those who wondered if it was not all too easy to confuse the eternal with the transitory . |
| 24 | Of those who reported that their disability handicapped them in some way , 90 per cent stated that they ‘ had to take special care ’ and 86 per cent reported a restricted work or social life . |
| 25 | We were , however , readier , I think , than at the beginning , to take seriously and to counter , the equally serious convictions of those who held that there was no place for courses similar to ours , of which there were at that time a number in various stages of development . |
| 26 | The initiative in theology in the closing years of Troeltsch 's life was already passing to those who held that it was not , and that the whole direction of thought which could be seen as culminating in him needed to be put into reverse . |