Example sentences of "by those [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend puts his finger on one of the central dilemmas faced by those who would advocate setting up a separate Parliament with separate powers entrenched in Edinburgh in rivalry to the Westminster Parliament . |
| 2 | The threat from outside the surveying profession by those who would compete on the same ground can be countered by active marketing of the surveyor 's services . |
| 3 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
| 4 | China is negotiating , rather slowly , to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) ; those outsiders who favour binding China into international trading rules are roughly matched by those who would prefer to keep it outside and thus retain their present freedom to retaliate against its exports . |
| 5 | It 's one aspect to the hobby which spreads our good name around the area , thus counteracting the mud being thrown by those who would consider responsible detectorists in a different light . |
| 6 | And you ca n't seriously characterise a nation 's ballet strength by those who would risk anything to escape it . |
| 7 | ‘ If , while talks are in abeyance , there is abuse by those who would seek to interfere with humanitarian aid — attacking protected areas , resuming the sustained shelling of Sarajevo , for example — then first I would remind you that the NATO military option is very much alive , ’ Clinton said . |
| 8 | I simply remove myself , calmly , and with a dignity that must be noticed even by those who would have to look the word up in a dictionary to get some faint glimmer of an idea of what the concept actually means . |
| 9 | This has something of the smack of a ‘ like it or not ’ pronouncement of the kind commonly declaimed by those who would have us suppose that opposition to things we do not like would be pointless . |
| 10 | Not only does this save time in the Commons , it provides another type of less politically charged scrutiny by those who may have a wide range of expertise and experience . |
| 11 | Schedules must be published ( either internally or externally ) , so that the scheme can be applied by those who might find it useful . |
| 12 | But if , as the data say , they measure socially significant individual differences , the cost of banning them is paid mainly by those who might have benefited from better job placement and school curricula . |
| 13 | Important or insignificant , customs appointments were , however , obtainable only by those who could expect a political favour , and many of the officers were in fact the nominees of a member of parliament and often the active partisans of that politician . |
| 14 | In Paris Haussmann had no such tabula rasa , so that demolition meant displacement of established communities , a circumstance which gave rise to bitter complaints , many justified , by those caught in the upheaval , as well as a great deal of sordid speculation by those who could buy run-down property cheaply and sell dear for compensation . |
| 15 | It could be copied only either by those of nearly equal wealth or by those who could concentrate their resources chiefly on defence — princes , great bishops or , in the south especially , towns . |
| 16 | The assumption was that insurance would be paid only by those who could afford it while those who could not afford to pay would be exempt . |
| 17 | Charles was described as temperate in his consumption of both food and drink ( in an age and culture where gluttony and heavy drinking were often regularly practised by those who could afford it ) , and particularly careful when it came to alcohol . |
| 18 | Milk was not greatly used by villagers , partially because of the poor condition of the animals , but buffalo curd was considered a treat by those who could afford it . |
| 19 | Their value in battle , as shields behind which the knights could shelter before they launched their charge , ensured their continued employment by those who could afford them — notably Henry II of England . |
| 20 | While the really poor live in privately-owned , deteriorating homes — and about 90 per cent of the houses in Britain are still privately-owned — the new council houses are occupied by those who will pay up to twice or three times as much in rent , even after allowing for a subsidy of at least 8s. 6d. a week , and often far more , out of the general rates and taxes . |
| 21 | And if I handle all with my own hands , and keep the prince clear of it — though he knows my mind , and it is his mind , too — I do so to preserve him from harassment by those who will hear of nothing less than Owen 's head on London Bridge . |
| 22 | The techniques of AI are becoming more and more important , both in industry ( eg in robotics and the intelligent use of databases ) and in pure research in the cognitive sciences ; but the techniques are essentially programming concepts and can only usefully be grasped by those who can program . |
| 23 | Regrettably but perhaps inevitably , the ambivalence of feeling and thought which is bound to exist at any time of change has been seized upon by those who can profit from it . |
| 24 | it seems as if there were people in medieval and earlier times , aware of the significance of particular sites , who have , in some way we do not fully understand , left instructions and clues which can be followed by those who can tune in to them . |
| 25 | Or we say , ‘ Poor me , I am so anxious , because I am alone , unrecognized , even by those who should know me best . ’ |
| 26 | Newton ( erroneously regarded as a materialist by those who should know better ) was the one responsible for the Western scientific endorsement of ‘ ether ’ prior to 1 930 , having based his own work on much earlier sources , including the Greeks . |
| 27 | By a process of mutual choice , referral back and elimination a number of names is arrived at of individuals who by reputation are assumed by those who should know to have power in the community . |
| 28 | And many whispered of witchcraft ; and some , in very low voices and in trusted company , said that the judgment of God was sometimes miscalled the malice of the devil , by those who must pass off their devil as God . |
| 29 | It results from and reflects power , patronage and politics in our society — and it is detested by those who must live for decades in its shadow . |