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

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1 At the same time it was made illegal for anyone who was not fully medically qualified and registered to treat these diseases .
2 Imported products which failed to meet these standards could be subjected to extra duties providing that : the environmental standards had a scientific base ; the same standards must be applied to all competitive domestic production ; and imported products could be proved to be causing economic damage to competitive domestic industries .
3 Kochan demonstrates how the autocracy failed to absorb these grievances and changes in society .
4 Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context .
5 xv ) Kimon tried to reverse these changes on his return from Ithome .
6 The author and the Editor would like to thank the scientists who helped keep these tales within the bounds of fact : entomologist Dr John Maunder and parasitologist Dr Ian Burgess , both of the University of Cambridge .
7 However , although rivers and estuaries helped to form these beaches , they also provide a major threat to those who windsurf from them .
8 We tried to allay these fears by taking notes in as unobtrusive a manner as possible .
9 This final section will attempt to use the material reviewed to reconcile these conclusions and provide predictions about the relationships between subjective risk and memory for driving which will be explored in the experimental chapters .
10 Yet the prosecution went ahead and ministers tried to suppress these documents .
11 A.H.Q. expected to detect these transports east of Malta at extreme range and by that time I could spare some Marylands while still meeting the P.R .
12 Although the surprise which seemed to greet these changes now seems misplaced , they represented significant alterations in the way heads and others were to manage education .
13 Isabelle might have left her the case , but she 'd hidden these things away , making sure they would n't be discovered at least while her husband was alive .
14 He 'd sailed these waters for six months and knew every reef and coral head shallow enough to be a threat .
15 Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties !
16 I 'd got these figures down , but I had n't really got anything against them , he just quickly went through the percentages so yes .
17 And we 'd got these bags , , I said just bang all the sheets into bin bags , we can wash them next week if you think I 'm starting !
18 Er , what 's it 's I was still on traction you see , and last week when I went I thought I 'd got these hives .
19 Now this is a a sort of cost benefit benefit analysis based on what would have happened if we 'd followed these protocols ourselves .
20 Civilization might be standing rock still , or even going backwards , for all the Collector seemed to care these days .
21 An architecture which seemed to fulfill these requirements was the Chart parsing system ( Thompson and Ritchie 1984 ) .
22 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 … . ’
23 " I never agreed to buy these shares at that price .
24 The Statutory Instruments Act 1946 sought to regularise these procedures and to ensure that the House had an opportunity of scrutinising such legislation .
25 Falteringly , I sought to express these misgivings in my conclusions to a number of papers , conclusions that certainly brought no joy to my more optimistic colleagues in an emerging human ethology rooted firmly in the objective analysis of behaviour sequences and components .
26 Maggie kept catching her eye with an expression of knowing amusement , but at the same time she obviously hated having these men stomping through her every possession and destroying any remaining magic in her secret chamber .
27 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 .
28 He claimed to demonstrate these causes .
29 This gave rise to speculation that Suchard planned to use these funds to launch another takeover bid , possibly for Cadbury Schweppes .
30 Although the Education Reform Bill , published in the autumn of 1987 , failed to dispel these fears , there were some modifications .
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