Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is even the suggestion of a ‘ conspiracy ’ , that the authorities manipulated these troubles , realising the existence of conflicts between Chinese and African students and hoping to divert attention away from the disastrous economic forecasts for the coming year . |
| 2 | On the contrary , her policies thwarted these energies . |
| 3 | Teachers in their subjects and teachers in their year groups reviewed these assessments ; all reached the head and his deputies . |
| 4 | The naturalness and energy in Fields ' performances made these films popular with both middle-class and working-class audiences . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the subjects found these estimates extremely difficult to make and the differences between subjects ’ estimates was enormous . |
| 6 | That was how , for many years , the parties approached these matters and it is why I greatly regretted the style adopted by the Secretary of State . |
| 7 | If subjects rated these junctions as relatively low on accident estimates then the types of transfer bias which Poulton ( 1989 , p.238 ) describes could have caused the first few low judgments to inflate subsequent ones . |
| 8 | On Louis VII 's advice the three brothers rejected these proposals . |
| 9 | The more effectively managed schools understood these problems and sought to ensure that sub-groups and delegated roles and responsibilities remained part of a wider collegial culture in which all participated , and within which divergences of opinion were openly explored . |
| 10 | Of so many recordings issued these days one might say , ‘ It 's perfectly good , but was it necessary ? ’ , because of a lack of character and musical insight . |
| 11 | The consistency of both ratings between actual driving and the laboratory does suggest that subjects performed these tasks in the same way in both cases . |
| 12 | of cars purchased these days run on diesel , and that there is widespread concern that the fuel used has a heavy sulphur content ? |
| 13 | A list from one of our clients had these items ( not in order of priorities ) : |
| 14 | Bloody clashes would occur whenever armoured units raided these villages , storming through makeshift defensive road blocks and responding to rocks being thrown with live bullets and tear gas ; but no sooner would these army units be gone than authority would revert to the village residents . |
| 15 | Aeons ago , prehistoric animals roamed these parts and hid in the Paviland Caves below the cliffs . |
| 16 | As the climate of controversy became sharper at the end of the 1780s reformers countered these varieties of the national interest argument both by emphasising the potential for the country in alternative patterns of commerce and production and , more defensively , by trying to reconcile abolition with the nation 's interest in security and order . |
| 17 | Some miners used these payments to try and set up small businesses or farms . |
| 18 | The Chicago ecologists compared these processes with those of the social world . |
| 19 | It would be worth knowing how many exhibition visitors obeyed these examination instructions . |
| 20 | Parents confirmed these attitudes . |
| 21 | In a curious way the planners welcomed these developments seizing upon Government directives requiring the clustering of houses in order to economise on services , simply as a means of defending both their own Department and their backing of the housing policy . |
| 22 | A study of how the various crofting communities handled these pressures , outside the law and largely by ignoring it , might be instructive in the field of human relationships to which I have referred , but it would be difficult now to carry it out because that period in crofting has passed into history . |
| 23 | Vast benefactions brought these men knighthoods or baronetcies or honorary degrees from universities they had endowed but not had the chance to attend . |
| 24 | But the older MPs from these areas saw these efforts as merely concessions to the Nationalists . |
| 25 | Most committed English Calvinists viewed these developments with growing anxiety and alarm , and by the late 1630s some , like John Pym , had become convinced that Con , Laud , the queen , and possibly even the king , were party to a conspiracy to return England to Rome , if necessary by force . |
| 26 | ( Not all companies enforced these ties in the same way , however . |
| 27 | Lotus 1-2-3 version 3.4 has 3D graphs now and better printer support , but most DOS spreadsheets had these features yonks ago . |
| 28 | Perhaps Darnley 's killers wrote these stories about Bothwell , before they killed Darnley . |
| 29 | Again , an analysis of the lesser offices of bailli , prévôt and constable ( of a castle ) between 1254 and 1307 reveals that at least sixty-one identifiable Gascon nobles held these offices , as against a mere nineteen English or Anglo-Normans , of whom ten were appointed by Simon de Montfort and the Lord Edward in a single year ( 1253–4 ) . |
| 30 | The Chinese authorities claimed these demonstrations were being organised by the Dalai Lama 's government in exile , based in Northern India . |