Example sentences of "[vb past] those [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a game similar to that devised for the radio show Desert Island Discs , we listed those who would get one bullet from a six-gun , and placed them in order of preference , much in the way the FBI listed the top wanted men in the USA . |
| 2 | When Bishop Asser says that Alfred severely chastised those who disobeyed his orders , he may be referring to action of a similar sort . |
| 3 | Chancellor Kohl said that Germany would remain a " nation of friendship for foreigners " but stressed that the right of asylum should not be abused , a point which he again emphasized on Oct. 13 when he described those who attacked foreigners as " fools and criminals " bringing shame on Germany . |
| 4 | She found those who had fled from Re 's anger in the desert and killed very many of them , thus gaining the name of Sekhmet , the lioness goddess of war , with whom she is here identified . |
| 5 | In relating these results to our measures of attitude to the police we found those who had been stopped etc. , had a less favourable attitude to the police on all three measures . |
| 6 | But , besides this we found those who had not been stopped etc. at all still reflected the overall differences between races — Blacks being least favourable , Asians most favourable , with Whites being sometimes closer to Blacks and sometimes closer to Asians . |
| 7 | Almost 9 per cent of the men aged between twenty and sixty-four resident in England and Wales during the 1983 survey reported that they were unemployed , and this total excluded those who were waiting to take up jobs . |
| 8 | It was aimed at a readership of little girls at Pony Club age but also attracted those who did n't own a pony but just felt passionately about horses — a stage little English girls are prone to go through and some never grow out of . |
| 9 | This pleased those who feared big tax increases , but disappointed the fiscal purists who hoped to see the removal of anomalies . |
| 10 | She likened those who wrote about her to fish gutters and hookers . |
| 11 | He castigated those who had become wealthy by exploiting their political standing for private gain . |
| 12 | The declaration committed those who signed it to recognise the independence and sovereignty of other members , to respect human rights including those of national minorities , and to observe existing boundaries . |
| 13 | Rack renting combined with taxes and tithes — according to the abolitionists of the thirties these alone consumed a quarter of the peasants ' net income — drove out the enterprising and condemned those who remained to one of the most hopeless forms of subsistence farming . |
| 14 | Reports indicated , however , that it had been excluded on the direction of the King who , in a veiled attack on Brotherhood policies on June 19 , condemned those who engaged in " intellectual and psychological terrorism " and portrayed suicide as " martyrdom " . |
| 15 | Dread filled those who heard his words . |
| 16 | And he recalled those who had practised best , dressed them up , and sent them out into Rome 's most fashionable streets in procession , to advertise his productions — Turandot he preceded with an enormous Chinese display , dragons , lanterns , fluttering silks and banners — all around the city . |
| 17 | While they were still in the minority one could , on the basis of Rooney 's attitude , accuse them of moral censorship when they opposed those who argued that abortion was unethical because it harms the foetus . |
| 18 | On the heathland of north-west Norfolk many poor men of no military value were ignored until taxed on wages in the subsidy ; above the £1-level people there resembled those who lived farther to the east , except that the outstanding men were great landowners and yeomen , in contrast to the north-eastern district , where peasants were firmly entrenched , usually taking the initiative over enclosure , which had made more progress there . |
| 19 | These moral issues , which troubled those who wished to enjoy the company of animals but felt they had to judge them on a set of human values , have caused less concern in recent years . |
| 20 | Those who produced staple grains might have to worry about the competition of national or world markets which hardly troubled those who sold dairy products , eggs , vegetables , fruit or even fresh meat — or any other perishable commodity which could not be transported over large distances . |
| 21 | Before the campaign opened those who were particularly interested in politics were very much more aware of Thatcher 's and Kinnock 's recent activities . |
| 22 | When the French thinker Blaise Pascal joined those who , in revolt against Aristotle , were prepared to admit a vacuum in nature , he drew a distinction between theology and the natural sciences based on their respective sources of authority . |
| 23 | They joined those who had deliberately held back … the wise ones knew that the train turned round at Lynn . |
| 24 | Jesus , too , encouraged those who heard him to wait in patience for the promises of God . |
| 25 | The showmen hated those whom the Cinematograph Year Book always described as ‘ the Busybodies and Meddlers ’ and thought of their demands in terms of what the Bioscope referred to as ‘ Prussianism ’ but in order to keep control of their own industry the showmen accepted many of the standards of middle-class taste and insisted that what they would provide would be for the most part family entertainment . |
| 26 | Although the reforms had the support of the Tsar and in 1667–68 a church council anathematized those who refused to conform , the attempt to impose the new liturgy by force proved unsuccessful . |
| 27 | Burton wrote , with typical flaring generosity ( like his fellow Welshman , Henry VII , he never forgot those who had been with him around the campfire when the crown was hardly even a dream in unreal England ) : |
| 28 | Most significant was the process by which peasants divided large households to set up new families in their own homes , and merged those which old age and death had rendered unviable . |
| 29 | In 1988 , the country was seen to be losing some of its best and brightest people , which further demoralised those who could not leave . |
| 30 | Site services manager Jilly Cailes thanked those who turned up expecting to fill 1,000 balloons with helium , including students from Sudbury Upper School and representatives from the town 's Volunteer Centre . |