Example sentences of "to those who [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by this time he realised that the best opportunities came to those who kept their feet on the ground — not their heads in the clouds . |
| 2 | To those who asked him what he thought of Hitler now , he replied , ‘ I think him a very fine fellow . ’ |
| 3 | He said , it was all vanity and childishness : and that such objects were , to those who patronised them , mere mirrours of their own superiority . |
| 4 | All too often , however , we see him angry , hurt , suspicious of friends as much as enemies , rarely grateful to those who stuck their necks out on his behalf , working obsessively at powerfully emotional works while seemingly ignoring the emotions generated by the domestic chaos around him . |
| 5 | The English Poor Laws , first effective from the late 16th century and radically revised in 1834 , had always proved a headache to those who administered them . |
| 6 | The early death of Dr Knapp was a serious blow to those who respected her careful and meticulous studies and research , as well as her analyses of library objectives within the educational system . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | It was taken for granted that education was beneficial to those who received it , and that its universal provision was one of the great social improvements that were to mark the end of the war . |
| 9 | Chapters Four to Seven , which present the research findings , examine : whether the project made any difference to those who received it , compared with those who did not , in terms of institutionalisation , mental or emotional well-being , self-care capacity or receipt of other community services ( Chapter Four ) ; the effects of the project upon the principal informal carers of the dementia sufferers ( Chapter Five ) ; the major costs of community care for those receiving or not receiving support from the project ( Chapter Six ) ; and the limits to care , that is , the characteristics or circumstances of those who could not be supported at home for long even with the Home Support Project ( Chapter Seven ) . |
| 10 | Not only was it a cornerstone of Paul 's faith , he intended it to be a promise and a challenge to those who read his letter , whether in the Roman empire of his day , or Devon in 1992 . |
| 11 | ‘ Tho ’ I was young Thomas Chatterton to those I met , I was a very Proteus to those who read my Works ' : Chatterton 's story is mostly told by himself , and with a felicity of cadence and of reference which can be caught in the sentence I have just quoted . |
| 12 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |
| 13 | ‘ Especially , ’ said Mr Pumblechook firmly , ‘ be grateful , boy , to those who brought you up by hand . ’ |
| 14 | But it 's been I think great fun and I will wish to renew my thanks to those who made it possible and that of course is you by being here . |
| 15 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 18 | He rose from the ridiculous chair and made his way carefully down the crowded row , responding politely to those who greeted him by name , noting with carefully repressed surprise that two of the women who gave him private little smiles were seated next to each other , friends who had no idea they had something more than friendship in common . |
| 19 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |
| 20 | Military build-up must therefore be understood as a component of the policy of East-West détente , not a concession to those who opposed it . |
| 21 | But biological weapons are unlikely to be much used on troops in combat , mainly because of the difficulties of getting the aerosols on to them without seeing them drift back on to those who released them . |
| 22 | Under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle , provisionally signed on 30 April 1748 , and finally concluded on 18 October , which ended the War of the Austrian Succession ( and of Jenkins 's Ear ) , the French agreed — as they had in relation to the Old Pretender under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 — to recognise the Hanoverian succession and to refuse shelter to those who challenged it . |
| 23 | The ‘ lunatics ’ , in contrast to those who proclaimed their rationality , offered no justifications beyond a dislike for non-whites or a liking for violence . |
| 24 | He communed in a solitude , and much of his face was hidden by the quilted balaclava , and his mind was blocked to those who passed him . |
| 25 | Try and present your report and its main findings in person , to those who commissioned it . |
| 26 | The working man was so successfully emancipated that he ( and even more , polls suggest , his wife ) ceased to defer to those who said they were his public spokesmen . |
| 27 | Certain drafts of The Cocktail Party , for example , are marked with Mary Trevelyan 's handwritten alterations " as dictated by T. S. E. " From the late Forties she kept a diary of their friendship , and in this it is possible to see how bewildering Eliot could appear , even to those who knew him best . |
| 28 | It was a familiar stance to those who knew him , as was the smile he now gave his son ; a dark , ironic smile that seemed both amused and calculating . |
| 29 | Rendel was a shy man , but confident in his views and , to those who knew him well , a shrewd , witty , and charming companion . |
| 30 | To many this scene would have been unnerving and unsettling , particularly to those who knew them during the period known as the past . |