Example sentences of "by those who [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bill took four years to get through Parliament , during which time Owen was subjected to abuse by those who opposed it , and on his deathbed in 1858 , a clergyman who came ( needlessly ) to offer him the consolations of religion asked him if he regretted having wasted his life in fruitless efforts ! |
| 2 | While the pop princess ' disappointment at finding a wedding ring firmly on his finger seemed real enough to viewers ( and is confirmed by those who witnessed it at first hand ) , Banderas likes to believe it was all an act for the cameras . |
| 3 | An obvious objection is that the attitude of respect is not regarded by those who display it as the source of their obligation . |
| 4 | A MAN of many parts , Warren Tute was thought by those who knew him only slightly to be a good raconteur and a popular member of the Garrick . |
| 5 | He was only 27 , amusing , very intelligent and talented and will be deeply missed by those who knew him . |
| 6 | Grand though this sounds , it seems to be borne out by those who knew him about that time . |
| 7 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
| 8 | As a person , Whitaker was frequently described by those who knew him as a great store-house of energy and enthusiasm , who could manage that rare gift of imparting such enthusiasm to others . |
| 9 | Spiers was an unassuming and kindly man , whose painstaking scholarship was greatly admired by those who knew him . |
| 10 | Admired for his ability , diligence , and determination by those who knew him and looked on with affection by all who met him , the ready reference to ‘ Jock ’ was a happy recognition of his easy combination of public popularity , private modesty , and unfailing personal courtesy . |
| 11 | Even in Carluke , there are those who are far from convinced that Beattie , then only 19 and described by those who knew him as a train-daft ‘ big softie ’ , was capable of such a violent act . |
| 12 | For students , corruption and the use of ‘ guanxi wang ’ — relationship networks — by those who had them , meant that their job prospects were further worsened . |
| 13 | As for how Robertson 's order was interpreted by those who received it , we shall come to this in due course . |
| 14 | The news was received , by those who heard it on Thrush Green , in a variety of ways . |
| 15 | The [ draft ] FRS applies to accounting for capital instruments by those who issue them . |
| 16 | The two 15-feet-high statues were manufactured at the state plant in St Petersburg but , following the soviet collapse , were never claimed by those who commissioned them . |
| 17 | Many so-called ‘ expert reports ’ simply provide the answers sought by those who commissioned them . |
| 18 | True , revolution was for a time a strong possibility , if not a probability ; and as true , such a revolution would of course have been seen as the means to industrial democracy by those who sought it . |
| 19 | The crucial importance of the functions of convening and chairing meetings seems to have been overlooked by those who set it up , or else these duties were delegated to people who did their best in adverse circumstances but who may well have been inappropriate choices . |
| 20 | The hand of friendship , extended so warmly by so many , was rudely brushed aside by those who believed they knew best . |
| 21 | It allows that some definitions will be of greater ‘ priority and intensity ’ than others and this has been taken to imply that the definitions will differ in their subjective interpretation by those who receive them ( see Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 ) . |
| 22 | In this context , therefore , a benefit is only of value if it is perceived as a benefit by those who receive it . |
| 23 | Apart from the need to reduce delays in the investigation of complaints there is no more important issue than the need to ensure that serious misconduct is met with suitable sanctions , and that the costs of disciplinary proceedings should , so far as is practicable and just , be borne by those who cause us to incur those costs . |
| 24 | Equally important is public confidence or acceptance of coinage ; as coinage is a convention , in the sense that its value is conventionally fixed by the authority of the state with the agreement of the public , it can only function if the value of the coinage , as fixed by the state , is accepted by those who use it ; otherwise , market forces will tend to discount overvalued coins towards their individual bullion values . |
| 25 | That is welcomed by those who work in the public service as much as by those who use it . |
| 26 | In fact , of course , many of Japan 's new rulers shared both aspirations : modern methods and Western techniques could be embraced as wholeheartedly by those who saw them as the key to a restored ‘ traditional ’ Japanese independence based on indigenous social structure and values as by those who desired to embrace not only Western techniques but some version of Western ideology . |
| 27 | Occasionally he was referred to by those who saw him at services as ‘ the old canon ’ though he was much the youngest of the canons . |
| 28 | Trotting past the houses , she was greeted with affection by those who saw her . |
| 29 | The Minister 's initiative was deeply and immediately resented by those who saw it as an attack upon vested interests and professional autonomies : the teachers ( and especially their unions ) , the Local Education Authorities ( and especially the Association of Education Committees under its powerful Secretary , Sir William Alexander ) . |
| 30 | These pieces of paper can be sold by those who hold them ( i.e. lenders ) on financial markets such as the Stock Exchange or the discount market if money is needed before the loan is due to be repaid . |