Example sentences of "these [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In each year , less than 800 of these cases led to any form of criminal or disciplinary action , and the vast majority of even this small number involved nothing more severe than ‘ advice or admonishment ’ — 651 of the 766 cases in 1987 , for example . |
| 2 | These cases led to profound questioning in social services departments , and in the inquiries that ensued , of the desirability of attempting to keep the family together wherever possible . |
| 3 | The estimated cost of all these improvements amounted to some £18,000 . |
| 4 | In other words , these artists lived during Latin American 's formative years . |
| 5 | Since these groups came from different backgrounds and worked in different institutional settings , they chose to explore different aspects of the environment and adopted different theoretical models . |
| 6 | But while the advocacy of many of these proposals drew upon long-term developments in social and political thought , it was the economic situation in the inter-war years which forced many to address the question of how the endemic problems of overcapacity in basic industries , structural unemployment and the evident failure of laissez-faire to preserve national prosperity could be overcome . |
| 7 | Both of these proposals conflicted with official CP policy . |
| 8 | These characteristics militated against any assumption of agency . |
| 9 | These subjects slept like short sleepers in so far as sleep efficiency was improved , and deep slow wave sleep was maintained at baseline levels . |
| 10 | By the 1830s the number had increased and these visits coincided with fundamental changes in English Nonconformity , especially within the older Calvinism of the eighteenth century among Congregationalists and Baptists . |
| 11 | ( The Financial Times of June 21 noted that these countries had in any case serviced only about 5 per cent of these debts in 1989/90 . ) |
| 12 | His spare-time activities during these years resulted in various patents , including one from 1931 concerning the Baird TV system and one in 1933 for the variable density technique of optically recording sound on film . |
| 13 | Forth nine per cent of these relaxations occurred within four seconds after the onset of distention . |
| 14 | One of these weaknesses lay in unsound business practices . |
| 15 | These weaknesses appeared in many forms . |
| 16 | An English observer much involved in these problems complained of Russian diplomats in 1673 that " it is their Custome , to think , whatsoever they get , too little , and whatever they give , too much " , while in 1698 an embassy sent by the Emperor Leopold I to Moscow argued that in future , to avoid such disagreements , the tsar and the Holy Roman Emperor should each be responsible for the maintenance of their own embassies in the way now generally accepted in Europe . |
| 17 | ( 1983 ) , these changes led to substantial shifts in the nature and pattern of demand in eighteenth-century England prior to the main developments in machine technology . |
| 18 | The influx of new upper-class members underlying these changes led to social innovations such as published listings of the gentry and members of ‘ Society ’ ( Scott , 1982 , p. 90 , citing Davidoff ) , which were a blatant example of social closure in their regulation of social acceptability and status among the propertied . |
| 19 | All of these things amounted to one person … |
| 20 | Anything previous to these dates consisted of mere scraps . " |
| 21 | Anything previous to these dates consisted of mere scraps . " |
| 22 | As these metals came from natural sources , such a move was perfectly legal . |
| 23 | Each of these trains consisted of sixteen bogie vehicles , a complete train 950ft long and weighing 440 tons . |
| 24 | Refinement is perhaps something of a euphemism since these alterations resulted from differing estimates of the degree of error in the data , and frequently the figures show a large balancing item which is the sum total of errors and omissions . |
| 25 | These developments coincided with major library refurbishment and the incorporation of impressive computer-assisted learning facilities within the library . |
| 26 | These differences led to differing perceptions of their role by the two development officers — in Ipswich the development officer was a little unsure of how she was going to ‘ work in with the existing multi-disciplinary team ’ , whereas in Newham the development officer said she felt she was probably going to spend a good deal of her time negotiating between the different services and ‘ getting them to talk to each other ’ . |
| 27 | Few would challenge the Maritime school 's claim that both these wars resulted in massive haemorrhages of blood and treasure . |
| 28 | These men appeared with shaven heads and grim , worried expressions . |
| 29 | The mitigating effect of these factors amounted to three years . |
| 30 | Finally , the use of money enabled societies and nations to benefit from a greater exchange of goods/services and a more specialised labour force , and both of these factors resulted in higher living standards . |