Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] these [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is assumed that the personal and social significance of transport in general and driving in particular develops rapidly between the ages of 13 and 19 , and that the knowledge , attitudes and judgements relating to driving that develop during these years will have an important bearing on how young drivers behave on the road . |
| 2 | The first paragraph , for example , comes from p. 10 and the second from p. 13 ; and all the connections Leech and Short make between these pages have been lost , with the result that it is not clear how the first paragraph leads to the second paragraph . |
| 3 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 4 | Women grumble about these inequalities , and sometimes men complain that they too feel restricted by the roles they have to play . |
| 5 | The carriage of goods for a subsidiary or for a holding company and for other companies which are subsidiaries of the same holding company is generally regarded as own account for these purposes . |
| 6 | One last time the name is going to be talked about in the circles that bother about these things and it 's all to do with Mrs Thatcher who 's prone to say about her enemies vanity , vanity , all is vanity . |
| 7 | While the Secretary of State is looking at that , however , will he also take a look at the idiots who race through these roadworks ? |
| 8 | It 's said to last for days even this great high that they get when they jump off and leap off these bridges or something on a bit of elastic . |
| 9 | What I 'd like say with these guys there 's no right or wrong style , there 's no good or bad , we 're all different erm and we f we 're all a combination of each as well . |
| 10 | It is likely that all those who choose to study electronic publishing interact with these systems in some way . |
| 11 | Programmes may then be designed which build upon these notions . |
| 12 | ‘ What could be more democratic than to give people a direct say in these things ? |
| 13 | One month later Baggio was , as they say in these parts , ‘ re-dimensioned ’ . |
| 14 | We have heard many times why that has not been possible and it 's no good crying over spilt milk , as they say in these parts . |
| 15 | Presumably some patrol ship on the high seas might log messages in this way , but it is clear that , as humans , our experience of utterances is not that we have recorded in memory a list of utterances to which are attached standard tags specifying time and place in these terms . |
| 16 | SLIP on these tights , girls , and you 'll look a real smarty pants — just like sexy Kimberly here . |
| 17 | Now meditate on these words of Paul , thinking about what they tell you about the grace and love of God in your own situation or that of someone close to you . |
| 18 | How can the job holder build on these strengths to improve his/her performance overall ? |
| 19 | The meanings that we attach to these objects are not intrinsic to them but are learned through experience and are influenced by our current goals , values and energy levels . |
| 20 | It is possible , however , to classify most British political leaders according to the relative importance they attach to these values . |
| 21 | For both ways of life and for both sets of values , excluders and includers , the language of ‘ coping ’ and ‘ coming to terms ’ describes the transition between one world and another world ; this much they agree on , even if the values they attach to these worlds are totally opposite . |
| 22 | But if we seek through these texts to understand more about the social and cultural circulations of Renaissance England it becomes problematic . |
| 23 | Teachers complain that children sail through these tests without being able to write a decent essay , solve a multi-step maths problem or do a précis . |
| 24 | Support for these propositions may be found in the case of Re B . |
| 25 | Support for these changes grew as many active members became more and more dissatisfied with the performance of the Labour Government between 1974 and 1979 . |
| 26 | Support for these views has been sought in the small , variable , pleural sclerites of the Apterygote insects , though recent work on these by Manton ( 1972 ) has cast serious doubt on the subcoxal theory . |
| 27 | Support for these generalisations will be given as we proceed , but we should be aware that descriptions of institutional change need to be understood in the light of political and theoretical considerations . |
| 28 | Support for these courses is being provided by BITER ( British Institute for Traffic Education and Research ) . |
| 29 | In a similar fashion large companies frequently reduce the cash element or where they supply materials to be processed by subcontractors , increase the prices they charge for these materials . |
| 30 | Yet , in practice , students in Western countries only protest about these things if they can detect them in their own , or allied , cultures . |