Example sentences of "[prep] those [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any reader can , in any case , place himself or herself within the deictic centre by adopting an appropriate psychological distance towards those who lose their lives at war . |
| 2 | How do they feel towards those who consigned them to what could have been a violent and horrific death ? |
| 3 | My secret eating was expressing what my secret writing ( a misplaced oral activity ) could not : my hatred towards those who oppressed me , my desperate sense of isolation . |
| 4 | As we read our participants ' accounts , the severity of retribution is to be understood against a background of the degree to which they feel let down in relation to their expectations of those they feel they should respect . |
| 5 | Rather than attempting to repeat and surpass the exalted projects of Sartre or Althusser in a new guise , later writers such as Foucault or Derrida learnt a lesson from history , and stopped to ask why such comprehensive theories , like so many of those which preceded them , could not hold together . |
| 6 | Socrates is a teacher , but his function as he himself describes it is to uncover in the minds of those he teaches what they really know already , but have simply failed to recognise or make explicit . |
| 7 | The publicity his ideas have attracted has only deepened the tragedy : the bad influence of those he has himself influenced has added frivolity to the obscurity … |
| 8 | One possible answer to this is that such a person is felt to be not only a representative but also representative as a person of those who chose her/him . |
| 9 | The effect which pines and other trees have on the emotions of those who visit them is formalized in the work of Dr Edward Bach , who developed a series of remedies , based on plant extracts , which work directly on the mental or emotional state of the person . |
| 10 | These apparent pointers to evolution only demonstrated the folly of those who accepted them , thus vindicating the superiority of God 's plan . |
| 11 | Some press and television people — even some of those who support him — talk of his apparent decency in this election campaign as if it were a vice . |
| 12 | If the unholy alliance in favour of the National Curriculum is likely to come apart at the seams over the issue of resource , so also , given the very different aspirations of those who support its introduction , there is likely to be a parting of the ways over principles . |
| 13 | Religious art provides ‘ poster-like ’ illustration of religious stories , but does not ‘ deepen the faith ’ of those who contemplate it . |
| 14 | Tea and marijuana have three things in common : they alter the moods of those who take them , they are regarded as tolerably safe , and they are addictive . |
| 15 | Twenty years of club tours to the Midlands , Kent , Herts and Essex recorded for the delectation of those who enjoyed them . |
| 16 | There really is an enormous amount of work and preparation for the Summer Fayre , and on behalf of those who enjoyed themselves , I would like to express our thanks to , the chairman of the day , and to his committee . |
| 17 | The survey people stressed the importance of neutrality and objectivity in research , and the participant observation enthusiasts argued that the essential thing about social life is what it means to those involved , and that the only valid way of getting at these meanings is to participate in the lives of those who shared them . |
| 18 | A Disaffection is a problematical book — because of this closeness : we learn very little about how Doyle is seen by companions , very little about the standpoint of those who surround him , those with whom he has his tender and abrasive dealings , with whom he airs his invectives and bitter ironies , with whom he conducts his antagonisms and ingratiations . |
| 19 | His squabbles with publishers and his vicious exploitation of those who befriended him continued as before , but , in addition , he gratified his pederastic cravings . |
| 20 | The steward was not left to mourn that his bottles found no custom : there was treating and return treating , and one humble Highlander who could sing Gaelic songs was made the sink into which was poured the spirits bought by sundry odd pence ; and , to the satisfaction of those who deem it a noble accomplishment the filling a man drunk , this Celt was brought into that pitiable condition , and manifested the power of the spirits over his brain in rather a curious way , — he was for kissing all round . |
| 21 | Signposts are available , what is now needed are the stories of those who follow their direction , and accounts of their perception of the terrain covered and problems encountered . |
| 22 | Er he he he had been , in verse twenty five , now great multitudes were going along with him , and he turned to them and said to them , and you got there what he tell , what he says , he 's talking about discipleship , and of the importance of following him , and the cost that will be involved in following him , and the responsibility of those who follow him , that they are to be salt within their generation , within their environment . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | On the one hand , a school curriculum must fulfil its primary function of serving to open to new ideas the minds of those who follow it . |
| 25 | We see its inspectors at work , and share the joys and the frustrations of those who dedicate their lives to saving animals . |
| 26 | Even at sixteen it was clear to some of those who observed him , as it was to William Joyce himself , that his were the qualities of a leader rather than a follower . |
| 27 | This led many later Greek thinkers to regard musical theory as a branch of mathematics ( together with geometry , arithmetic , and astronomy it constituted what eventually came to be called the quadrivium ) , although this view was not universally accepted , the most influential of those who rejected it being Aristoxenus of Tarentum ( fourth century BC ) . |
| 28 | Let us instead sing the praises of those who get us to smile — the Hundred Funniest ( say we ) People in Britain : those indomitable men and women who help us to cackle through our tears , and who , while they do n't make the bad times any better , certainly make them hurt less . |
| 29 | Statutory authority is given to the various public transport authorities to regulate the conduct of those who use their services . |
| 30 | Because of this , Marx took as one of his main tasks the understanding of how this system came into being , and this was in order to discover why this system had such power of the minds of those who operated it , whether exploiters or exploited . |