Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the end of the 1940s local authorities organized these services within two or three departments . |
| 32 | More moderate Catholics found these crusades vulgar , intolerant and immoral ; they could not understand them , and they in turn were not understood themselves . |
| 33 | At the village level the same person generally handled police and revenue matters in Kandyan districts , while different officials performed these duties in the Low Country . |
| 34 | And after the 1880s the renewed emphasis throughout philanthropic work on the ‘ personal ’ relationship between the classes gave these contacts a special significance in terms of influencing the ‘ character ’ of parents and their adolescent children . |
| 35 | Officials attributed these increases to persons who killed cattle for beef . |
| 36 | The successful applicants accepted these offers of split contracts , though without massive enthusiasm . |
| 37 | Financial troubles marred these years : fear of arrest for debt probably motivated his flight to the Continent in November 1777 ; his resignation from the army in May 1780 may likewise have been prompted by such troubles . |
| 38 | by joining with the skilled workers in agreements linking wages and prices , employers could hope to regulate competitive wage cutting amongst themselves in recession and end costly stoppages as the workers recouped these losses in booms . |
| 39 | Greeks found these attitudes hard to understand ; accustomed to connect one-man rule with harsh policing , they imagined that the Persian Empire must have been held down by a system of institutionalized controls — garrisons and garrison-commanders — and touring royal armies and officials , King 's Eyes and King 's Ears , and so on ( Xen . |
| 40 | European powers claimed monopoly rights over the trade of their colonies for centuries to come , though other Europeans defied these claims whenever possible , but nobody launched such world-wide claims as the Spanish and the Portuguese , and the Spanish claims became even more all-embracing when Philip II of Spain secured the crown of Portugal for himself in 1580 . |
| 41 | Some Europeans saw these policies as designed to subjugate the computer industries , not only of eastern Europe , but of western Europe as well . |
| 42 | The Washington Post of Feb. 12 reported that diplomats from the major powers saw these changes as " necessary if the UN is to adjust to current world realities by moving away from its former , almost exclusive preoccupation with North-South issues and put more stress on conflict-prevention and peacekeeping " . |
| 43 | How many families kept these keys ? |
| 44 | Armies chose these banks as suitable places for crossing the Rhine , and a particularly eventful time was around the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the next . |
| 45 | An anonymous group of army officers supported these resignation calls in November , leading Pinochet in December to recall the army to barracks , a move interpreted as a show of force as the number of corruption charges increased him and the date approached for the release of the Rettig report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( CVR ) , which was finally made public on March 4 , 1991 [ see p. 38095 ] . |
| 46 | It 's claimed the officers left these tyre marks on the front lawn … and this typewritten note . |
| 47 | Andreotti denied these allegations , but on Nov. 15 Adml. |
| 48 | Thirty four patients fulfilled these criteria ; of these , 25 gave informed written consent to participate in the study . |
| 49 | Cavaillès developed these ideas into a theory of science as such , which , he argued , changed not through empirical discovery but through the theoretical reworking of its own concepts in the ‘ pure ’ sciences . |
| 50 | But higher staying-on rates amplified these figures : 3 per cent of boys in Public Schools at age 14 , but 12 per cent at age 17 . |
| 51 | The Court of Aldermen investigated these allegations , but before they had finished them they received a grovelling letter from the keeper of Whitecross Street Gaol tendering his resignation . |
| 52 | The inheritance of acquired characters explained these trends as a consequence of the animals specializing for a particular way of life chosen by their ancestors . |
| 53 | Moeri considered these discs unnecessary for his low-pressure reaction , but he says Givaudan insisted on them ‘ because they were fashionable on all their equipment at the time ’ . |
| 54 | The Bretton Woods arrangements recognized these problems by encouraging long-term adjustment to be carried out through deficit countries devaluing when their balance of payments was in ‘ fundamental disequilibrium ’ . |
| 55 | Both contestants thought these times were unusually fast , thanks to the traffic conditions . |
| 56 | At the end of the hearing the justices made these findings of fact : |
| 57 | As I have indicated earlier in this judgment , the justices made these orders expressly to ensure the bonding of the children with their mother for their long term benefit . |
| 58 | 61% of the responding university libraries and 66.6% of the responding polytechnic libraries used audio-visual introductions to their libraries , while only 25.3% of the responding colleges used these media . |
| 59 | ‘ As soon as some of our members received these letters , they threw them straight in the bin . |
| 60 | Three inter-connected themes informed these activities , namely the continued control of cultural industries by a small group of immensely powerful TNCs ; the effects of this control on those countries too poor to have much of an independent presence in these industries ; and the opportunities that the new technologies offer for the development of the Third World . |