Example sentences of "these [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Tests of medical house doctors after a night spent on emergency admissions ( when they got an average of 1.5 hours ' sleep ) showed them to be significantly worse at a memory task designed to tap these skills than after a night off duty .
2 Swordsman , poet , painter , engineer and inventor , he excels in all of these skills and more .
3 But she never seemed to make the connection between these skills and the sickness notes , apparently in parents ' hands , which her pupils brought to school after prolonged absences of two or three weeks .
4 At one time the kings and princes of Europe acquired these skills and there was much training required to give the animals the necessary muscular strength .
5 There is intrinsic interest in these skills and they exemplify in different ways a family that includes speech production and certain industrial activities .
6 But it 's it 's about about doing that and about being able to practice and use these skills and techniques so that we can improve performance .
7 There is a strong maturational component in the learning of these skills as well as cultural and societal differences in expectations .
8 In the past , it has been assumed that nurses have already developed these skills when leaving school , or that they are acquired whilst providing patient care .
9 Self employed business people also find that they need these skills if they are to succeed in , for example , obtaining more money from the bank , winning a vital contract , gaining the commitment of staff .
10 The trainees have to remember that the trainers are not responsible for these policies but only facilitate them .
11 Large numbers of people have benefited from the positive aspects of many of these policies but the casualty list has also been appalling .
12 Some Europeans saw these policies as designed to subjugate the computer industries , not only of eastern Europe , but of western Europe as well .
13 A number of Cabinet colleagues had doubts about all these policies and many would acknowledge that things would have been different without her .
14 The candidates should be familiar with these policies and the panel will want to satisfy itself that the candidate appreciates the importance of NACAB policies , standards and training .
15 Together , these policies and policy statements reflect an overwhelming official concern in the current period of high unemployment with the position of young people in the labour market and , conversely , a lack of interest in action to improve the employment prospects of older workers .
16 How firms actually reacted to these policies and practices will be best seen when , in the next chapter , we review how corporate strategies made at the world headquarters have been adjusted at local levels to reflect national possibilities .
17 But during the 1980S these policies and plans made fairly little progress .
18 Well also just my experience , my own experience with the developments of and the evolution of the policies in Kuwait coming at working at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research , there were many erm studies conducted at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and the other institute , The Social erm Political Institute , and they were the main of that was the probe through all these policies and through these institutions we have in Kuwait and try to improve it to a standard that the Kuwaiti people and the neighbouring country can benefit from at that .
19 Erm however erm it it does sound as though it 's one of these policies where as I suspected and said earlier today that it really does n't have any effect on anything and it 's probably something that could be erm crossed out and nobody would even notice it had gone .
20 Inevitably it is the fittest who are able to find these rations while children , the old , and the weak go without .
21 ‘ The love and affection which these ploughmen or horsemen had for their animals was quite extraordinary .
22 At Halling Manor Works , a horse weighing nearly a ton fell into one of these shutes and would have fallen 40 feet into the river had not the shutter been down .
23 The state was not the originator of all these transformations but it was implicated in them in quite new ways .
24 At these coathangers and violin bows , at these aitches and queries and crawling double-U 's , ranked like tabloid expletives ?
25 Find one of these copies and you will have added a ‘ Treacle ’ Bible to your store .
26 " My contribution , " he said , perhaps anxiously , to his daughter , who found it almost impossible to kiss him across the barrier made by these objects and her own girth .
27 Its arms clutched these objects as they were individually passed up the ladder to its niche : followed by its disembodied head , with a physiognomy very close to that of the photographs of the deceased .
28 It is then not surprising that much of the response to the sociology of knowledge is a defence of these disciplines that incorporates the common-sense proposition that social context can influence the form and content of knowledge .
29 Each of these disciplines is currently represented in our postgraduate body and applications are invited from graduates of these disciplines as well as of Chemical Engineering .
30 IN the past , attention has been focused on the problems of the chronology of civil defences and less thought has been directed at the reasons for these defences and why some settlements were chosen in preference to others .
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