Example sentences of "by those who [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | River , meadow , and woodland may lead the spectator to predict ‘ Arcadia among fertility , loveliness , industry and wealth ’ , but the illusion can be sustained only by those who keep their distance , for such ‘ picturesque villages are generally the perennial hotbeds of fever and ague , of squalid penury , sottish profligacy , dull discontent too stale for words ’ . |
| 2 | James , Lewis and Allison ( 1987 ) document the growth of concessions related to capital transfer tax and conclude that , like its predecessor estate duty , it is ‘ a voluntary tax paid only by those who dislike[d] their relatives even more than they disliked paying tax ’ ( p. 45 ) |
| 3 | To claim otherwise would be to place these therapies on a mystical pedestal , which would clearly open them to justifiable derision by those who doubt their efficacy . |
| 4 | During the last fifty years the church musician as a kind of freelance ‘ general practitioner ’ has been increasingly replaced by those who derive their livelihood more as school music teachers than from their appointment as parish organists . |
| 5 | Good results were obtained by those who completed their courses and at least 74.3% had at the time progressed satisfactorily ( 460 students ) . |
| 6 | The retreat into other-worldliness on the part of some women may be interpreted as a form of escapism by those who found their ideas unacceptable to society as a whole , not that this made their religious faith any less genuine or deep . |
| 7 | Sometimes , like Gardencourt and possibly Poynton , they have been bought up by those who admire their antiquity , but have no connection with their land or history . |
| 8 | The role of the media as information providers is often overlooked by those who emphasize their overtly political functions . |