Example sentences of "those who [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a person , Whitaker was frequently described by those who knew him as a great store-house of energy and enthusiasm , who could manage that rare gift of imparting such enthusiasm to others . |
| 2 | Even in Carluke , there are those who are far from convinced that Beattie , then only 19 and described by those who knew him as a train-daft ‘ big softie ’ , was capable of such a violent act . |
| 3 | Reviews were mixed but largely went the way of those who saw it as a one-and-a-half-hour commercial for LSD . |
| 4 | Those who denounced him as a political maverick were not surprised when , in 1924 , he joined the Labour party . |
| 5 | In the second camp are those who regard him as a true philosopher , however provocative his manner , who is restating traditional philosophical problems in a new way . |
| 6 | A particularly important division is between those who regard sexist language as a symptom and those who regard it as a cause . |
| 7 | Gerald Kaufman is another who will hesitate to play the sporting card , although there are those who remember him as a midfield dynamo , eternally squabbling with the referee and being booked for ‘ violence of the tongue ’ , an offence which he is said to have invented . |
| 8 | Football has been transformed for most of those who follow it from a Saturday afternoon activity in all weathers to a Saturday night home entertainment . |
| 9 | For those who sell themselves into a like dominion , paying down the price of their own honour , and throwing their soul into the balance to sink the scale to the level of their lusts , must win deliverance hardly . |
| 10 | This notion of the instrumental object as an extension of being should not , however , be reduced to a relationship of efficiency , since an agriculturalist may wax more lyrical about a musical instrument than a plough , and the microcomputer 's popularity may be greater among those who in common parlance ‘ waste time ’ in obsessive programming or games , than among those who use it as a practical means to some other end . |
| 11 | those who omitted it from a dictionary of fables were less than scholarly . |
| 12 | Moore would surely grant that there is an indefinability of the word which follows from the fact that what it labels is indefinable , while those who treat it as a statement about a word see it as turning upon what the word is supposed to stand for . |
| 13 | There are those who accept him as a subverter of meanings , including his own , an anti-philosopher , a disconcerting jester , gleefully overturning accepted habits of thought . |
| 14 | Those who dismissed him as a third-rate actor failed to recognize his ability as a political campaigner . |
| 15 | Until 1957 the French news agency , Agence France-Presse , had no legal status : rival agencies and French communists were among those who presented it as a state or of official agency . |
| 16 | ‘ We have been fairly firm with those who see it as a stick to beat the FPA or Dundee with — that is not our intention . ’ |
| 17 | So the literary set , many of them agnostic or hostile to religion , ranged behind Lord David , while those who had already committed themselves , together with those who esteemed him as a scholar , voted for E. K. Chambers . |