Example sentences of "these [noun] [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly it is interesting to speculate to what extent these attitudes have caused British businessmen to adopt short time-horizons in making decisions — with negative consequences for longer-term growth performance — because their main objective is to acquire sufficient wealth to enable them to move on to the better things in life . |
| 2 | These researchers attempt to provide simple rules which could be applied as productions at the tactical and even strategical levels . |
| 3 | These groups have made strenuous efforts to get it right — to get the sound they always wanted , with none of the cheapskate shoddiness that British soul/jazz groups often settle for : to counterbalance that lush , affluent sound with concerned lyrics , nods to their roots and tons of soul-blaring compassion . |
| 4 | In many cases these activities have promoted gender-neutral policies and perhaps in the long term will have a major impact on some aspects of gender bias in schools . |
| 5 | Some of those courts have seized upon the use of the word ‘ send ’ in Article 10(a) , as opposed to ‘ serve ’ ; although this distinction could be explained by reference to civil law ideas of formal service as opposed to informal delivery , these courts have concluded that Article 10(a) does not allow effective ‘ service ’ in Japan . |
| 6 | These data do lend some support to the prevailing public opinion . |
| 7 | This means that the eyes can no longer be moved in their sockets , and these animals have developed mobile heads to compensate . |
| 8 | These characteristics help to support popular notions of the upper class as ‘ the aristocracy ‘ — landowners with titles ranked below the monarchy — or as an ‘ establishment ’ where elite individuals man ( sic ) core traditional institutions in order to effectively control the country . |
| 9 | These aspects have received sustained analysis from recent feminist and social historians . |
| 10 | These immunoassays have shown increased sensitivity to anti-HCV in chronic hepatitis C and have shortened the period between infection and the detection of anti-HCV by four to five weeks when compared with the first generation assays . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , these authors do list those characteristics of the ‘ strike setting ’ which they consider most conducive to violence ( Thieblot and Haggard , 1983:10–11 ) . |
| 12 | These viruses have received most attention because their high pathogenicity , narrow host range , and complete safety to vertebrates and plants , make them ideal candidates for biological pest control agents . |
| 13 | These companies have developed great expertise in radioisotope technology for their own use over the past 30 years , and these skills , together with special instruments , are now offered by the Group to the chemical , oil and other process industries at large . |
| 14 | All these countries have handled incoming tours in the past with considerable ease and all their faculties are well documented . |
| 15 | These barriers have reached towering heights in the twentieth century , although information does slowly trickle through them . |
| 16 | These shoes have run 2500 miles ! |
| 17 | These shoes have run 25,000 miles ! |
| 18 | Accepting that we respond to our environment , whether it is natural or artificial , we can see that these responses appear to produce further changes in us . |
| 19 | These gardens have taken many years to complete and now include a children 's Play area , a small lake with swans and fountains and a large sloping grassy area surrounded by trees and seats . |
| 20 | These explanations try to isolate clearly-defined elements of behaviour , and to account for them in terms of the simplest possible models of learning . |
| 21 | These troops tend to pull High Elf strategy in two different directions . |
| 22 | Numerous trials have evaluated the various procedures performed during pregnancy and labour ( Iain Chalmers has even gone to the trouble of collating them ) but very few of these ideas have changed obstetric practice . |
| 23 | These reforms have encouraged some historians to see the Despensers as ‘ much more than greedy and irresponsible favourites ’ , but their contemporaries judged them by their behaviour towards other landowners and by their position at court , rather than by their responsibility , however great it was , for what were essentially technical reforms in government . |
| 24 | All of these changes have undermined medical resistance to participating in management , usually through some form of clinical directorate system . |
| 25 | These changes have had massive implications for the provision of age-specific services such as maternity facilities , school places , youth training , elderly health care and sheltered housing . |
| 26 | Hence , governments interested in reducing these disparities have introduced various taxes on large wealth holders , directed in particular at reducing the extent to which large accumulations of wealth can be passed on to the next generation . |
| 27 | These committees have issued various guidelines ( on such matters as shareholders ' pre-emption rights , employee share incentive schemes , and discounts to market price on share issues ) which they require companies to follow if the institutions they represent are to be expected to invest in and support them . |
| 28 | These actions have created large numbers of refugees and displaced people , who have been spread through most of the countries in the region . |
| 29 | And it may be that these disadvantages help to cause parental difficulties , and hamper good parenting . |
| 30 | Some of these lenses appear to have selective absorption at certain wavelengths , and there can be distinct changes in perceived CL colour when such lenses are interchanged during viewing of a single sample . |