Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] these " in BNC.

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1 The Bank itself commissioned a study which noted that approximately a third of its projects failed to meet these rigorous criteria .
2 A Board of Associateship was set up to manage the new regulations for admission to the Register of Chartered Librarians , and delegated to the Association 's expert Sub-Committee on Training the task of detailed assessment of the training programmes designated to meet these new regulations .
3 Goals are often too readily set and aims too ambitiously expressed and unless a systematic ( scientific ) examination is made of the methods utilised to achieve these ends , there is the danger that progress may be slowed or even upset … . ’
4 At the end of 1985 the directors met to consider these figures and to determine future development policy with regard to the Dee Hall , in particular what to do with the adjoining Dee Cinema site .
5 26 emissaries drove to collect these .
6 Some missionaries in the Sukuma , Nyemwezi , Chagga and Haya language areas preferred to use these languages in evangelism and religious literature .
7 The Defendants had to prove these communications were not records because if they were deemed records then the records management responsibility clearly stated each agency ‘ maintain an active , continuing programme for the economical and efficient management of the records of the agency ‘ with ‘ safeguards against the removal or loss of records he ( the agency head ) determines to be necessary and required by the Archivist . ’
8 The Marxist feminists argue that it is capital which gains the benefit from this exploitative form of labour , since it means that they can pay these women 's husbands lower wages than would be the case if male workers had to buy these services , for instance meals in cafes , laundries for clothes-washing , and nannies for their children .
9 The urge to cash in on contemporary themes remained , however , and another small group of films attempted to dramatize these issues in a way that would avoid the pitfalls of labour films .
10 The workers attempted to remove these disadvantages by reintroducing the concept of an incompressible and predictable basic wage of ‘ standard rate ’ , through trade unions or through informal practices .
11 As the case study of Channel Four ( see below ) amply demonstrates , concerned groups and individuals attempted to keep these services out of the competitive struggle between the two giants of broadcasting in the hope that they would be better able to serve previously excluded minority groups in society .
12 However , although rivers and estuaries helped to form these beaches , they also provide a major threat to those who windsurf from them .
13 But the frequency with which women were thus brutalised depended not on the category of entrant they fell into but on whether Immigration Officers wanted to use these methods , and on the attitude of the Minister responsible .
14 During the war , various reforms attempted to consolidate these diverse institutions , including the appointment in February 1855 of Lord Panmure to a position combining both governmental posts .
15 For those requiring assistance , on discharge from acute or long-stay care , needs must be assessed prior to discharge , for health and social care services , including nursing home or residential care , domiciliary day and other support services , and arrangements made to provide these when necessary .
16 Senior police-officers appeared to play these incidents down , but black youths complained that on the estate they were increasingly harassed by the police .
17 Indeed , cross-tabulation showed that some mail order , credit sale , check trading and fuel board credit users forgot to mention these types of credit in answering this question .
18 Although clerks were barred by canon law from arms and bloodshed , and indeed were excommunicated for such offences in the thirteenth century , the pervasive propaganda mounted by the clergy in support of the king 's wars served to overwhelm these inhibitions in the early fourteenth century .
19 On 1st July 1916 at 7.30 a.m. , to the sound of exploding mines and a massive artillery barrage , British and Commonwealth forces attempted to storm these low hills around Thiepval .
20 Certainly , further investigations aimed to clarify these aspects are warranted .
21 In the nineteenth century men began to regard these phenomena with more composure , especially if they lived in northern climes where the earth 's crust was relatively secure .
22 Men tended to dominate these movements , both personally and intellectually .
23 Yet the prosecution went ahead and ministers tried to suppress these documents .
24 By the late eleventh century the popes began to regard these lands as a conglomerate , the " lands of St Peter " ( terre sancti Petri ) while interestingly the emperors write more vaguely of papal regalia et possessiones .
25 Both the English and the French revolutions served to dramatize these events .
26 No matter what the intellectual window dressers did to make these boys seem less attractive , the fact of the matter is Guy Debord could never play guitar like Steve Jones , and the only Society Of The Spectacle anyone in rock ‘ n ’ roll is interested in nowadays is that of Messrs Bausch & Lomb of California .
27 Work with offenders tended to reinforce these trends .
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