Example sentences of "[prep] those who [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Religious art provides ‘ poster-like ’ illustration of religious stories , but does not ‘ deepen the faith ’ of those who contemplate it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If a Canterbury visit did occur in 1018 it may have been while Cnut and his men were waiting for the £82,500 to be handed over , as the bulk of those who received it were doubtless based in and around London . |
| 8 | While he recognised that the essence of this quietness is an inner condition , saying of those who know it : many of their number , although they live physically among people , are mentally remote from them ; they never falter in their heavenly longing , because in spirit they are far removed from a sinful way of life , |
| 9 | Many of those who hold it live in poor areas and some are Coloured , that is , of mixed European and African descent . |
| 10 | The proper reply to this is not that the truth of a view , strictly speaking , is independent of the motivations of those who hold it , although that is so . |
| 11 | Throughout the early Anglo-Saxon period the basis of the economy was the land and what it produced , and the efforts of those who farmed it . |
| 12 | Reviews were mixed but largely went the way of those who saw it as a one-and-a-half-hour commercial for LSD . |
| 13 | John Pemberton was Palace 's genial and gutsy full-back throughout our promotion drive to Division one in 1988–89 and then in The Eagles ' progress to the FA Cup Final and Replay of' 1990 Indeed , his surging run in the semi-final against Liverpool at Villa Park , which took him past several defender s , before he delivered the cross from which Mark Bright put the Palace on terms and on the way to our stunning victory , will probably remain for ever in the memories of those who saw it , even though he impressed enormously in the two Cup Finals against Manchester United 's sophisticated and costly imports . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One of those who saw it all happen was a young actress called Sheila Hancock . |
| 16 | The incident which will stick for ever in the minds of those who witnessed it came when she was being ushered into the main entrance of Yorkshire Television . |
| 17 | And we must not discount those who became converts to the new religion , whether on account of the superiority of its miracles — especially its apparently superior powers of healing — or of its doctrine or the example of those who taught it . |
| 18 | Like the War powers Act , the budget reform act has not lived up to the expectations of those who crafted it . |
| 19 | Britain was one of those who thought it went too far . |
| 20 | He envies too the regularity , the normality of a life at sea and the unique relation of those who work it with the element by which they are surrounded : ‘ The water opens and closes continuously , and only those who are on board know that they have really passed through . |
| 21 | If some of those who proposed it are proved right in several years ' time , I hope that I will admit as much , but I have grave doubts nevertheless , and they are shared by a large number of heavyweight people in the Scottish universities . |
| 22 | However , a new problem arises — that of selection due to differential recruitment of those receiving or not receiving X. For example if , after a TV programme on violence in society , we sample to compare the opinions of those who watched it with those who did not on the question of bringing back corporal punishment , can we assume that the subpopulations of watchers and non-watchers are otherwise similar ? |
| 23 | Lenin once argued that a political leader is responsible not only for policy but for the action of those who execute it . |
| 24 | This makes one quite comfortable with the fact that those who have never had such an experience will doubt its very existence and possibly even the sanity of those who experience it . |
| 25 | Separation is not a sufficient cause of depression , because a depressive response of clinical proportions is not observed in more than 10 per cent of those who experience it … |
| 26 | Many of those who constitute it would adhere to a world-renouncing ethnic based on a doctrine of separation from the world . |
| 27 | The electric guitar demands particular sensitivity on the part of those who play it since , by its very nature , its sound is somewhat aggressive . |
| 28 | And our Lord in the words that we 've read gives a very solemn answer to that question in the , in those words that we read a few moments ago and his immediate answer to the question you know are there few that be saved , was to say many , this was in the following verse , many shall not be able to be saved , now does that mean that only a few will be saved , that there 's only a few people who are gon na be in heaven that Jesus Christ came and died on the cross for about a handful of people , a small percentage does that what it , is that what it means , well lets look and see what the bible has to say , in Matthew chapter seven in verse thirteen and verse fourteen , this is what Jesus says enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and many of those who enter by it , for the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life , but few of those who find it any way in the same book , in , in Matthew in , in , in chapter twenty two and in , in , in verse fourteen , listen again to what it says there Jesus is speaking he says for many a called , but few are chosen |
| 29 | There may well be room for one or two such centres in other places , but in our view the success of the centre in Birmingham owes a very great deal to the almost evangelical enthusiasm of those who run it . |
| 30 | Planning policies tend to run behind developments and trends , and all too often the planning machine has given the impression of existing more for the benefit of those who run it ( professionals and politicians ) than those who are served by it . |