Example sentences of "[be] [conj] these [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The good reasons are that these projects have not been chucking people out into the community " willy-nilly " . |
| 2 | The buyer 's concerns here are that these items be properly used and cared for by the seller , that they be used only for the purposes of the sub-contract ( ie that the seller does not use them to make goods for third parties which can then be sold by them in competition with the buyer ) , and that they be returned to him at the end of the sub-contract . |
| 3 | The prediction had been that these elections would result in more women and fewer Scots around the shadow cabinet table as a result of the voting system . |
| 4 | Another daft view is that all the woes which have beset the Soviet Union and its satellites are because these countries did n't know how to run their economies . |
| 5 | It may be that these cases are an authorial slip ; but the point seems to be that Lok is shown painfully developing analytic skills . |
| 6 | If Soviet women choose to ignore men 's dinner-time conversation it is not necessarily because they lack education : it may be that these women too have difficulty getting a word in and risk being verbally assaulted by men 's sexism . |
| 7 | And it may be that these disadvantages help to cause parental difficulties , and hamper good parenting . |
| 8 | It may be that these differences in proliferative organisation between the skin and oesophagus explain why metaplasia and cancer are relatively rare in response to contact carcinogens in the former but common in the latter epithelium . |
| 9 | Oswald had been brought up as a Christian prince in Celtic lands from the age of 12 , so it was perhaps natural for him to look to an Irish religious foundation for ecclesiastical and spiritual direction , and it may be that these overtures to Iona also reflect a dependence on Dalriadic military support at the time of his accession . |
| 10 | Other papers in the Public Records Office showed the misgivings of the naval staff about the two incidents , for by now the Germans had found the dead soldiers , and there were fears of reprisals against any British submarine crews subsequently captured — indeed it may be that these events had some bearing on the subsequent shootings of British commandos captured in that area . |
| 11 | The conclusion will be that these explanations have recently developed in promising directions . |
| 12 | Or it may be that these animals somehow embody that peculiar quality of untamed wildness that readers admire and appreciate . |
| 13 | It could be that these varieties , which have been selectively bred for their appearance may , and I can only speculate here , have suffered some genetic or other biological imbalance caused through this selective breeding , which has opened the fish to this problem . |
| 14 | It may be that these portfolios both have the same level of expected return but the APT points out they are subject to very different types of risk . |
| 15 | It may be that these ways of speaking can be explicated at bottom only by way or the idea of necessitation . |
| 16 | On the contrary , it is a matter of great urgency that the mother 's case should be heard because , at the end of the day , it may be that these children should live in the future with their mother . |
| 17 | This variation might either be because these forms are tied in some way to a particular kind of context and so are not freely transferable , or because the second context imposes inhibiting conditions which prevent learners from accessing and applying what they know . |
| 18 | This may be because these goals have changed , but it may equally be because the social world for which the original policies were designed has changed . |
| 19 | It is fairly universally accepted that Chinese is not related to any of the four other languages , so the similarity can not be because these words are cognate . |
| 20 | At the age of 22 he wrote to his father from Paris : ‘ What annoys me most is that these idiots in France still think I am seven years old , because that is when they first knew me . ’ |
| 21 | ( Another curious suggestion I have heard is that these rings were worn as a souvenir of a marriage ) . |
| 22 | The claim is that these rules can be built up from a simple base . |
| 23 | The chief safeguard for freedom here is that these rules apply to the governors as well as the governed . |
| 24 | The reason suggested for this is that these girls feel that they should be able to cope with their pregnancy and problems on their own instead of sharing them within the unit , as most other girls do . |
| 25 | What is special is that these molecules are put together in much more complicated patterns than the molecules of nonliving things , and this putting together is done by following programs , sets of instructions for how to develop , which the organisms carry around inside themselves . |
| 26 | What Freud actually says in Totem and Taboo is the opposite of that , what he actually says is that these feelings are innate , and they are part of an evolutionary heritage . |
| 27 | So said Freud , it 's no wonder that people believe in religion , because religion can provide you with a lot , with a lot of gratification , but the fundamental psychological explanation for this , says Freud , is that these feelings that religion gratifies in adult life , are transferences of feelings that we all had in infancy . |
| 28 | Professor Stone 's views may differ greatly from Mr Irving 's , but one thing they ARE agreed on is that these diaries are genuine . |
| 29 | But the truth is that these patterns of speech belong to convention and habit . |
| 30 | ‘ The second reason for withdrawing clause 54(4) is that these services would tend to be much less used . |