Example sentences of "[prep] those [noun pl] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , you can ‘ But , Daddy ’ at me all you like — it 's not going to bring you , or any of those amadans mocking the poor guard , back to life when they walk out under a ten-ton truck . ’ |
| 2 | Even in the northern counties , Scottish raids were never as frequent or as deeply penetrating as they had been in Edward II 's reign , and although the inhabitants of those counties made the most of their plight in petitions for relief from taxation , the raids in the years after 1332 did little long-term damage to the region 's economy . |
| 3 | 62 of the 266 were , it is true , listed buildings , but in only three of these cases did demolition proceed against the wish of the local planning authority ; and in none of those cases did the Advisory Board object . |
| 4 | Many of those studies use the States themselves as their organizing units , if for no other reason than the convenience that data are readily available for mapping at that scale . |
| 5 | Firstly , under the 1987 Banking Act it is responsible for the supervision of those institutions comprising the monetary sector . |
| 6 | The powers given to assist in the performance of those functions include the power to borrow money : Schedule 13 to the Act of 1972 as amended ( now superseded by Part IV of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ The longstanding nature of the difficulties and the poor response to treatment of those difficulties reduces the likelihood that any treatment programme would be successful . |
| 8 | The effect of those actions devastated the tax and meant that in no circumstances could the level be low enough to make it justifiable and acceptable . |
| 9 | The Duke provided a list of suitable , sober and solid men , but the Young Frog had simply scrawled out their names and replaced them with friends he had made at Eton and , when some of those friends declined the honour , he found other congenial officers who knew how to leaven war 's rigours with riotous enjoyment . |
| 10 | The Trust says none of those offers included the necessary cash . |
| 11 | Resolution of those conflicts involved the creation of new cultural arrangements . |
| 12 | If only they had seen the correspondence that flowed to party chairmen from ’ Horrified of the Home Counties ’ when some of those Bills hit the deck ; one example was the correspondence from the lighthouse keepers association . |
| 13 | All of those factors lead the City Council to the view that the current level of residual given emerging government advice , the City Council could no longer support the idea of a new settlement of something like fourteen hundred dwellings set in the countryside beyond the outer edge of the York greenbelt . |
| 14 | And some of those things make the Alien seem downright companionable . |
| 15 | Less than one third of those firms returned the taxpayers ' investment . |
| 16 | The construction of those stations became the responsibility of various industrial consortia , an aspect of the British programme which has been much criticised . |
| 17 | One of those attacks involved the stabbing to death of Rolan Adams by a racist mob . |
| 18 | Thus whereas mastery of the instinctual drives builds the ego and raises its level of self-esteem and competence , its individuality and its initiative , external control of those drives has the opposite effect , reducing the self-esteem , competence , initiative and individuality of the ego to the point where it almost disappears altogether . |
| 19 | Given the rule that a " fair comment " must state or refer to the facts upon which it is based , to what extent might the falsity of those facts destroy the defence ? |
| 20 | The first of those tests came the following afternoon , when they were riding along that stretch of the route , around Carrick-on-Suir , where the rail was to run near the northern bank of the river for the best part of ten miles . |
| 21 | Apparently the Galway and Aran fishermen of those days had the usual fishermen 's superstitions . |
| 22 | The production of a group of related species on the different islands of an archipelago provided a model for divergent evolution , suggesting that , when a species was divided into separate breeding populations , each of those populations had the ability to change as it adapted to its new environment . |
| 23 | The fragility of those relationships underlines the essential work done by the charity . |
| 24 | The success rate for a question is the percentage of those pupils taking the test containing the question who obtain a correct answer . |
| 25 | I do not deny that some very good results have been reached by the oral method , and especially so in cases of those children possessing the natural quickness of observation and retentiveness of memory which this method requires . |
| 26 | Some of those men visited the shop many times . |
| 27 | It is not known which of those possibilities represents the truth . |
| 28 | Beneath those facts lie the high emotion , the drama , the fever-pitch excitement , the wrong of this extraordinary race . |
| 29 | Those who compete successfully under what they saw as the rules of the game — that is , to obtain O-level qualifications , find the rules have changed ; A levels had become the required entry into those jobs offering the greatest upward social mobility . |
| 30 | The Group of Rio had suggested at a meeting with Foreign Ministers of the European Community ( EC ) member countries , held in the Irish capital , Dublin , on April 10 , that the EC should " institutionalize " the dialogue between the two blocs in order that commercial and technological co-operation could be encouraged with those countries forming the Latin American Association for Industrial Development ( ALADI ) which , in addition to the Rio countries , included Chile , Bolivia and Ecuador . |