Example sentences of "by those who [verb] it " 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 | As for how Robertson 's order was interpreted by those who received it , we shall come to this in due course . |
| 5 | The news was received , by those who heard it on Thrush Green , in a variety of ways . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In this context , therefore , a benefit is only of value if it is perceived as a benefit by those who receive it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That is welcomed by those who work in the public service as much as by those who use it . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Like alcohol or money , it is capable of vast abuse by those who exploit it for financial purposes . |
| 13 | This demand has to be made in conjunction with demands for greater control over public housing , by those who inhabit it . |
| 14 | His Court had been notorious not only for its exclusivity and lack of responsiveness to the public at large but also , as experienced by those who frequented it , for its tedium . |
| 15 | It has been taken up both by those who see in it an attack upon civilization as an unnatural cage in which man is incarcerated and by those who take it to be a defence of civilization as man 's natural home . |
| 16 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 17 | Ultimately , it has to be worked at so that its possibilities are realized fully by those who possess it . |
| 18 | Coroner Peter Lovegrove said ’ This is a sport with risks , dangers are accepted by those who do it . ’ |
| 19 | The reason why dementia is seen as problematic by those who experience it or who are involved in the care of old people will be apparent to anyone who has encountered the frequently devastating effects of this illness : an illness ( if of the Alzheimer 's type ) with , as yet , no known cause , no means of prevention , no treatment , and no cure . |
| 20 | Irigaray 's work is nuanced in ways oft en ignored not only by her critics but by those who appropriate it , especially those who consider her to have demonstrated that homosexuality represents the true nature of patriarchy ; who believes that , as a sexual practice between the same , homosexuality becomes indicative of patriarchy 's fundamental refusal or fear of difference . |
| 21 | John Donne wrote freely on the subject of dying in his poems and of the respect he wished to have shown towards his corpse by those who dressed it and those who came to view it . |
| 22 | Clearly the relativistic approach of Becker is self evidently required in one form or another in any sociology of deviance , and it is perhaps a rather miserable reflection on the state of the discipline that such an elementary argument is ignored by those who see it as clashing with their struggle for admission to the club of natural science . |
| 23 | Adults and children spend time learning to read and write so that they may recover and renew what is best even though it is all sadly threatened again by those who destroyed it a generation ago . |
| 24 | In Protestant countries the morality of sexual restraint and fidelity was supposed to be binding on both sexes , but the very fact that it was felt to be so even by those who broke it , led them not so much into hypocrisy as into personal torment . |
| 25 | Disposal of hazardous waste is still mostly handled , if not by those who generate it , by the public sector . |
| 26 | ‘ Professional monopolists ’ attempt to retain a system in which the location , costs and type of service is determined by those who provide it , primarily doctors , ‘ Corporate rationalizers ’ , the second interest group , are the planners and administrators of health organizations who attempt to achieve a rational spread of services to meet the socio-demographic distribution of need . |
| 27 | Everything is to be produced automatically , without workers or managements , or else is to be made by hand by those who need it . |
| 28 | ‘ The Commission itself has placed a great emphasis on the promotion of milk and it is ironic that it is now undermining that investment with a proposal which could result in further reductions in the intake of milk by those who need it most ’ . |