Example sentences of "these [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These stain hair without interfering with its basic structure . |
| 2 | A Some of these sucking type catfish have this habit of trying to attach themselves onto the sides of other fish . |
| 3 | The Disabled Persons ( Employment ) Acts 1944 and 1958 These make provision for the employment of a quota of disabled persons in larger firms ( with more than 20 employees ) . |
| 4 | These make life easier when attending to the filter . |
| 5 | Thus , accountability requires test results on pupils , schools , LEAs ; testing requires attainment targets which are to be set within programmes of study ; and these make sense in terms of the subjects which are , in the view of lay people , the essence of the curriculum . |
| 6 | Since we are generally concerned to detect deviations from average , it can be useful to show the row and column averages where these make sense . |
| 7 | These make cultivation slightly easier as with drainage holes , there is less risk of overwatering . |
| 8 | Most of these make use of an external protocol program to receive or send programs to and from other computers . |
| 9 | Leaf-bud cuttings : these combine stem and leaf cutting techniques , and can be used with various refinements for subjects such as ficus ( rubber plant ) , camellia , clematis and briar fruits . |
| 10 | These combine time recording with an agenda , diary , alarm system , calculator and other useful functions . |
| 11 | These lent brilliance to the footwork which became more intricate and thus more interesting . |
| 12 | These push water backwards and in consequence the lancelet moves forward . |
| 13 | These remain primitive in that , on the whole , non-technical English is used with all the possibilities of ambiguity and communication at cross purposes which this implies . |
| 14 | Give him a nice straightforward GBH case in the back streets of the Cumbermound development any day rather than these smartarse church intellectuals with their fancy words and their finicky manners and their too high opinions of themselves . |
| 15 | The information at the centre will permit the board to determine exactly how close it is to achieving these change management objectives . |
| 16 | One of these involves damage from free radicals that circulate in the blood . |
| 17 | These muffle market signals and keep too many loss-making factories in business . |
| 18 | Certain of these reminded Rachaela of the Scarabae albums , the upright waxwork figures posed before palm trees — yet these people might once have been alive , the Scarabae had looked frozen dead for ever . |
| 19 | Urgently needed are suppliers which can guarantee prime quality meat and poultry to hotels and restaurants : the report says there are not enough of these to meet demand . |
| 20 | Primary colleagues will have spent many hours compiling this information and it is incumbent on secondary teachers to use these to inform pupil progression . |
| 21 | These supply steam for the hammers , and ’ for a blowing engine for the furnace draught . |
| 22 | In the USA teacher competency tests are also included ; these test teacher knowledge . |
| 23 | The editing pattern consists of one entry per character position in the destination string : each of these specifies insertion either of a designated character or of the next character from the source string , and this may depend on the sign of the value being converted or on whether the first significant digit has yet been reached . |
| 24 | Heroes : these suggest role models for employees to follow . |
| 25 | John Papworth , for example , remarks that their genuine adornments are neatness and cleanliness , for these suggest industry and cheerfulness , whereas ‘ the broken casement , the patched wall , the sunken roof , the hatch unhinged , the withered shrub , are corresponding testimonies of the husbandman 's relaxed energies and broken spirit ’ . |
| 26 | These suggest unsteadiness and imbalance ; brittle textures and hard yellow-greens evoke the dazzling clear-cut light of reason , but their surfaces are marred by thin wounds and blemishes which , camouflage by the paint 's substance , present an insidious challenge to the perfect symmetry of composition . |
| 27 | These involve awareness not only of a narrative point of time , but of circumstances which , in relation to that point , are past , future , or hypothetical . |
| 28 | All of these involve cost for the purchaser and may discourage the purchaser from using shares . |
| 29 | These involve Legendre functions of the first and second kinds ( 10.78 ) where a n , q n , Pn and b n are series of arbitrary constants . |
| 30 | These involve action by diplomatic or consular agents ( presumably of the state of origin , though this is not made clear in the text ) , by the Central Authority designated for the purposes of the convention in either the state of origin or that of destination , by ‘ the interested parties ’ , or ‘ through judicial channels ’ . |