Example sentences of "these [noun pl] [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The purpose of these meetings is to gather more information and hopefully some assistance and/or resources .
2 These groups are called different fishes ' names , such as octopus , eel , cod , shark and salmon .
3 Kadhafi said in an interview for the Egyptian political weekly Al-Musawar in October 1989 that in the past Libya had funded some groups without examining their aims and role in detail , but that " when we discovered that these groups were causing more harm than benefit to the Arab cause , we halted our aid to them completely and withdrew our support " .
4 The purpose of these notes is to assist all bodies to improve their applications , to ensure that they present the kind of information to justify grant aid previously offered and to strengthen the case for continued and/or increased grant aid .
5 The stress in these words is called secondary stress .
6 A limited number of these vouchers were issued each year .
7 Now , to political and economic repression in these areas was added cultural suppression .
8 By the early 1960s the largest metropolitan areas in Britain had moved into ‘ absolute decentralization ’ , whereby the principal settlements of each began to lose population , and by 1971 several of these areas were facing overall population decline , with residential decentralization taking place across their boundaries and spilling over into adjacent city-regions or further afield ( Hall et al. , 1973 ; Spence el al. , 1982 ) .
9 Indeed , given that these cowboys are under-cutting decent employers it would be in your own interest to tackle this problem ’ .
10 One of these keys is pressed each time that component is visible under the cross hairs of the microscope .
11 In the USA in the 1990s there appears to be a wide recognition of the need to maintain the political system and these concerns are superseding previous motivations for partnerships .
12 These advances were celebrated last month in Berlin in what will surely be seen as a landmark conference on the femtosecond chemistry .
13 The value of these stocks is uprated each year in line with changes in the retail price index .
14 The profit a retailer makes before deducting these costs is called gross profit .
15 But there is no doubt that some of these ideas are causing great disquiet among Branch Management and Staff .
16 Shocked Derrick Baker , of the GMB union , said : ‘ Staff at these establishments were working 24 hours a day during the Falklands and Gulf conflicts .
17 These powers are to take immediate possession of all the debtor 's property but only to sell anything of a perishable nature or goods which are likely to go down in value if not sold ( s 287(2) ) .
18 All subjects used in these studies were leading normal life-styles ; the vast majority of them had levels of lead well within the normal range .
19 Securities , banking , property , corporate activity : the collapse of all these businesses is hitting commercial lawyers as much as City banks .
20 These efforts were rewarded last November when the USAF Museum at Dayton , Ohio , agreed to make its last C-121 available to NASMA on an ‘ as is , where is ’ basis .
21 Into these holes are place half inch square pieces of milk soaked bread and a large pebble is then used to cover the food .
22 Twelve of these patients were receiving corticosteroid treatment and three elemental diet at the time of surgery .
23 Four of these patients were taking regular NSAIDs .
24 These arguments are given some strength when we realise that the claims being made for English language by Lyons are remarkably similar to those being made for other aspects of English in general , or of English class culture in particular , by other writers .
25 These levels are misleading any way because they do not give a true indication of the ‘ quality ’ of the protein .
26 This has resulted in teams playing Nomads in one of these tournaments being awarded three point for a win , the goal difference being discounted .
27 And in the second programme ( 24 March ) , these qualifications were repeated several times .
28 The purpose of these techniques is to make quantitative data available to managers in order to aid decision-making , planning and control .
29 The fundamental technique used to analyse the monetary aspect of these decisions is called relevant costing .
30 Each of these exercises is done 35 times .
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