Example sentences of "those who [vb past] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ lunatics ’ , in contrast to those who proclaimed their rationality , offered no justifications beyond a dislike for non-whites or a liking for violence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The members who got most out of it , and were most appreciated by the Boards , were those who saw their role as a symbiotic mixture of representing consumer complaints to managers and presenting a favourable public relations image for the Board . |
| 4 | The generational nature of the Takeshita faction 's split was underlined by the fact that 19 of the 23 first and second-term lower house members of the faction were among those who transferred their loyalty to Hata and Ozawa . |
| 5 | Those who said they never revealed that they have cystic fibrosis were more likely to be employed ( 64% ( 110/172 ) v 53% ( 311/585 ) , difference 2.5% to 19% ) , than those who revealed their cystic fibrosis at job interviews , but the questionnaire did not ask about responses to confidential medical questionnaires . |
| 6 | This attitude was kept alive by the strong sense of the permanence of human arrangements in the matter of property , which seems to us of all things the least permanent : gifts to the Church were made to last till the Day of Judgement , and many of the documents in the Canterbury archives invoked God and all his saints on the Day of Judgement to destroy those who violated their provisions . |
| 7 | They record him burning with anger against those who practised their faith at the expense of others . |
| 8 | Knitters were pressed to rent the stocking frames and those who owned their own found it hard to get work when times were less busy . |
| 9 | Among those who owned their own homes the party trailed third behind the Conservatives and the Liberal/SDP Alliance . |
| 10 | More particularly , those who owed their careers and their satisfactions to grammar schools , or were headmasters of them , feared that the progressive elimination of those schools might make it more difficult for the maintained sector to compete effectively with the independent schools . |
| 11 | Some bishops , notably those who owed their promotions to James ( such as Thomas Cartwright of Chester and Samuel Parker of Oxford ) , supported the Indulgence , and encouraged their clergy to deliver addresses of thanks for that part of Declaration in which James promised he would continue to protect the Church of England . |
| 12 | They should play an active part in assessing their own progress through discussion with those who read their writing — their peers , teachers or other adults . |
| 13 | The old divorce laws which once sat on the statute books were viewed with contempt even by many of those who made their living from them . |
| 14 | But those who made their fortunes in trade were despised by most members of the middle classes and all of the upper classes . |
| 15 | Similarly 26 per cent of regular smokers thought their best friends would not mind them smoking , compared with 2 per cent of those who thought their best friends would mind . |
| 16 | Those who sold their diesels after 50,000 miles or so might just as well have bought a petrol vehicle . |
| 17 | However , the law , it would seem , was not so much concerned with those who drank as with those who sold their bodies for gain . |
| 18 | Those who carried their counties or their countries to victory are featured to the exclusion of all else , and the result could serve as a visual aid to motivation . |
| 19 | For those who enjoyed their time here it wo n't be Goodbye . |
| 20 | Looking in more detail at our poll it is clear that of those who expressed their voting intentions some ten per cent who voted Conservative in 1987 will now vote for Labour , and eight per cent of them will vote LibDem . |
| 21 | Mr Grimstone stressed that the perks would only be available to those who registered their interest in advance , with the cut-off date likely to be some time in mid-November . |
| 22 | You should answer separately for each of them , or for those who took their place in your childhood . |
| 23 | Brownie and Lola were young and defiant at a time when those who went their own way were considered to be delinquent . |
| 24 | But by this time he realised that the best opportunities came to those who kept their feet on the ground — not their heads in the clouds . |
| 25 | But the number of those who compromised their faith was largest among the propertied and those well up in the social hierarchy . |
| 26 | Before the First World War there were big differences between social classes in the proportions of those who planned their families ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 27 | A harmonious relationship with a non-deviant spouse was more likely among those who planned their marriage or cohabitation . |
| 28 | Those who had their immunity waived were all noted parliamentary figures : Carlo Tognoli ( PSI ) , the Minister of Tourism in the previous government , two other PSI members Paolo Pillitteri and Renato Massari , Antonio Del Pennino from the Italian Republican Party and Gianni Cervetti from the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS , formerly the Communist Party of Italy ) . |
| 29 | But that made it no less a dire experience for those who found their world gradually being pressurized , slowly becoming conditioned by a series of events beginning with the familiar friendly knock on the door — as dramatized in Thames Television 's play Not Waving But Drowning , produced and directed by Polly Bide , based on a real-life case history . |
| 30 | The retreat into other-worldliness on the part of some women may be interpreted as a form of escapism by those who found their ideas unacceptable to society as a whole , not that this made their religious faith any less genuine or deep . |