Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] these [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In his illuminating new notes for these CDs , Northrop Moore aptly refers to the live choral recordings as ‘ snapshots ’ .
2 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 .
3 And presumably the reasons for these suspicions and degrees of mistrust lie in history ?
4 Talk about examples ( from their own experience or from their reading ) of changes in word use and meaning over time , and about some of the reasons for these changes , eg technological developments , euphemism , contact with other languages , fashion .
5 We can only protect a national curriculum from the political dogmas of either the right or the left if we understand the reasons for these changes .
6 The precise reasons for these changes are hard to establish without further analysis of census material , but it should be noted that some of the population increases in rural areas ( sometimes of more than 10 per cent ) are from very low population bases and therefore are not great numerically .
7 The main reasons for these changes are said to be economic pressures , grant aid , and a gradual replacement of older , smaller , and more conservative farmers with younger , larger and more profit-orientated farmers .
8 Whatever the reasons for these changes , be they because of a hostile government , new technology or the European dimension , we must respond and change if we are to survive as a creditable organization .
9 The possible reasons for these changes are manifold , and mostly unquantifiable .
10 The reasons for these changes began some years ago , when made , aged 52 , redundant .
11 The reasons for these decisions are appropriately available and the completion of these stages are all documented .
12 The reasons for these difficulties are complex .
13 Again , if we can understand the reasons for these choices , we may go some way towards explaining that strange feeling teachers have when reading a piece of written work in which every sentence is grammatically correct , and yet there is something not quite right .
14 And I think erm the article itself erm s says in , in the , the first part it , it seems to be written in a very sort of erm very pro-peasant style , it 's like a justification of things that are happening , he s says that the reasons for the , the peasant movement were the exact opposite of what the gentry in Hankow and Changchun were saying erm that the , that the Party , that the revolutionary authorities had , had taken wrong measures because they thought that the reasons for these movements were , were otherwise and these we they were considered detrimental so they had to change these , these er original wrong meas measures to benefit the future of the revolution .
15 There are many reasons for these laws ; some are obvious , but some are very deep and one level of understanding is that menstruation represents a loss of potential life ; the same applied to a man who had a nocturnal emission , or wet dream , or someone who had helped to prepare a body for burial .
16 The reasons for these attitudes are bound up with complex and profound forces , as the preceding comments have indicated .
17 The reasons for these assumptions are as follows :
18 The official compilation was of moment because it ensured that certain general claims of the papacy , and the specific reasons for these claims , were not lost sight of in the later history of the papacy .
19 There are various possible reasons for these failures , including errors of recognition and errors of spelling .
20 There are a number of reasons for these differences although not all can be fully explained .
21 Further research , therefore , is required ‘ to elucidate the reasons for these differences . ’
22 The multiple causes of migration and the problems which individuals have are so diverse that it is impossible to generalize about the reasons for these differences .
23 What this research sets out to do is to examine , through the involvement of researchers and practitioners in all three countries , the reasons for these differences , whether they be historical , economic or ideological .
24 The aim of this project is to investigate the reasons for these differences and their subsequent effects .
25 The underlying reasons for these differences are explored in depth in chapters 7 and 8 .
26 The reasons for these variations are difficult to disentangle .
27 The reasons for these biases are many and varied , including the profitability of certain preparations ( zero for traditional methods , minimal for reusable contraceptives like the diaphragm ) , the extent to which they depend on continuing ‘ motivation ’ of the user ( high for traditional and barrier methods and the pill ) , and of course the efficiency of the method itself .
28 The reasons for these Institutions holding our shares are , no doubt , varied .
29 There are four possible reasons for these depletions .
30 IN the past , attention has been focused on the problems of the chronology of civil defences and less thought has been directed at the reasons for these defences and why some settlements were chosen in preference to others .
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