Example sentences of "those who [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " 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 | Those who knew him in the early 1970s in Florida remember a young man who beat balls at night after working a day job . |
| 4 | To many this scene would have been unnerving and unsettling , particularly to those who knew them during the period known as the past . |
| 5 | In fact , of course , many of Japan 's new rulers shared both aspirations : modern methods and Western techniques could be embraced as wholeheartedly by those who saw them as the key to a restored ‘ traditional ’ Japanese independence based on indigenous social structure and values as by those who desired to embrace not only Western techniques but some version of Western ideology . |
| 6 | Reviews were mixed but largely went the way of those who saw it as a one-and-a-half-hour commercial for LSD . |
| 7 | But the party fell into the hands of those who saw it as the spokesman of the organized workers in politics , a view which combined the Left and Centre . |
| 8 | The Minister 's initiative was deeply and immediately resented by those who saw it as an attack upon vested interests and professional autonomies : the teachers ( and especially their unions ) , the Local Education Authorities ( and especially the Association of Education Committees under its powerful Secretary , Sir William Alexander ) . |
| 9 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 10 | Depending on the contents , the report could provide Ferranti with ammunition for legal action against those who advised it during the ISC purchase . |
| 11 | Those who denounced him as a political maverick were not surprised when , in 1924 , he joined the Labour party . |
| 12 | He even implies that those who sacrificed themselves in the Second World War are in danger of being betrayed . |
| 13 | At Dorchester on 20 October 1714 , the day of George 's coronation , it was the decision of the Dissenters to burn an effigy of the Pretender that provoked the wrath of the Jacobites , who armed with clubs proceeded to set about " those who carried him about the Town … |
| 14 | Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years . |
| 15 | The Conservatives , Winston Churchill predicted , with rather more prescience than Asquith , would not ‘ act as bottle holders to those who kicked us into the street three months ago and deliberately erected this Socialist monstrosity ’ . |
| 16 | those who omitted it from a dictionary of fables were less than scholarly . |
| 17 | Those who briefed him on the successful Los Angeles bid — Manchester retains the same American consultants — reported similar problems . |
| 18 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 19 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 20 | In 1757 Postlethwayt went so far as to argue that the national debt had had the effect of transferring property to the " money-mongers " at such a pace that , " Since our debts have taken place , not near one tenth of the land of England is possessed by the posterity or heirs of those who possessed it at the Revolution . " |
| 21 | The historic deepening process of the Community was foreseen from the outset , which is why those who commended it to the country 20 or 30 years ago took care to see that it was not misunderstood . |
| 22 | Those who dismissed him as a third-rate actor failed to recognize his ability as a political campaigner . |
| 23 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But , as the king found , he could not rely upon the Flemings ; their links with England were too strong for them to act with determination against those who supplied them with the wool upon which their own economic prosperity depended . |
| 26 | 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 . |