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

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1 Moreover , these rules served to protect established policies and the easy access of those groups and interests advantaged by them , at the same time as groups urging change were ruled out of court by a whole series of exclusion devices .
2 In the post-war period , these districts had undergone precipitous decline from their pre-war position as thriving communities servicing the world 's largest port .
3 These schools appeared to have several things in common : first , each could be characterized as an ‘ innovative ’ school in some sense .
4 The speed at which these pulses returned told environmental experts at the town hall about the build up of dangerous exhaust fumes on High Row .
5 Over 25% of the sample companies felt the linguistic skills of these staff were inadequate for the job and over 50% of these companies had experienced poorer export performance as a direct result .
6 These responses began to permeate Israelite life : and the prophet Jeremiah preached against the cults and idolatry .
7 When the language model match factor … was large , these errors tended to swallow smaller words ( or phones ) into larger ones ; when the language model match factor was small , these errors tended to split larger words ( or phones ) into smaller ones .
8 When the language model match factor … was large , these errors tended to swallow smaller words ( or phones ) into larger ones ; when the language model match factor was small , these errors tended to split larger words ( or phones ) into smaller ones .
9 All these things helped to diffuse common ideas and assumptions .
10 Like Nos. 1–35 , these lights had radiused outer corners .
11 By their very scale these studies aimed to gather quantitative data on use .
12 But these concepts did provide some women with categories of self-definition around which to mobilize , negotiate and occasionally disrupt and claim as their own .
13 These resources had encouraged private-sector spending in excess of £2 billion .
14 These centres had treated 2490 patients with chronic viral hepatitis with interferon alfa .
15 One of these patients had undergone ileocolonic resection for Crohn 's disease five years before this study .
16 Previous expeditions had often collected from disease-free trees in the forest , but only a few of these trees had shown useful resistance in later trials .
17 These agreements aimed to secure widespread support for pay moderation and other austerity measures , but real wages nevertheless increased significantly faster in Spain than in EEC countries ( Fina and Hawkesworth 1984 ) .
18 All these departments had experienced economic development by large-scale enterprises and often for the export economy .
19 Each of these users had to meet certain criteria .
20 When these instructions failed to satisfy local societies and missions , a scheme of sharing the proceeds of the collectors ' efforts was negotiated .
21 These children had suffered 25 attacks between them over a 59-day period .
22 Unfortunately these courses failed to attract many students .
23 But if these beings had left any fingerprints I had the strong feeling they would n't be the kind you get down at Scotland Yard .
24 However , these approaches tended to use geomorphological concepts of landform , and only recently has research examined how people actually see landforms , by using artists ' sketches ( Killeen and Buyhoff , 1983 ) and computer-generated models to produce artificial landscapes ( Guldmann , 1980 ) .
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