Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that these paintings were produced for the Spanish in the decades after their conquest of Latin America , and represented the christianising of the old centres of Inca culture , in Peru and Bolivia especially . |
| 2 | However , she realised that these matters would just have to take their course , although she must also remember she did n't have unlimited time at her disposal , because her father would be expecting her back at the office . |
| 3 | After that we would go to Tahiti , and I saw the excitement grow in Ellen as she realised that these plans were so close to coming true . |
| 4 | She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer 's high standards and would go back into the melting pot . |
| 5 | It would be a bold person who claimed that these channels and mechanisms , comprehensive as they are , provide a guarantee of reliability in all contingencies . |
| 6 | She knew that these sort of wonders do pop up in the world from time to time , but only once or twice in a hundred years . |
| 7 | The Cadbury report itself suggested that these changes should be voluntary . |
| 8 | We agreed that these doubts were sufficient to justify a recommendation to sell . |
| 9 | We confirmed that these crypts were adenomatous in paraffin sections stained with haematoxylin and eosin ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 10 | Kadhafi said in an interview for the Egyptian political weekly Al-Musawar in October 1989 that in the past Libya had funded some groups without examining their aims and role in detail , but that " when we discovered that these groups were causing more harm than benefit to the Arab cause , we halted our aid to them completely and withdrew our support " . |
| 11 | ‘ I assume that we thought that these dependants would wish to accompany their soldiers and that the soldiers would wish to have them with them . |
| 12 | We , we , I thought were all saying that we felt that these reductions were actually unacceptable , or totally un almost unacceptable . |
| 13 | In Chapter 13 we saw that these differences allow people to earn very different income levels in a market economy . |
| 14 | Notice also that we can express any class of asset as a proportion of total assets or liabilities and remember too that in section 1.1.5 we said that these ratios are arrived at as a matter of deliberate choice and are assumed to represent portfolio equilibrium . |
| 15 | They argued that these sections of the law were intended to hinder the organization of opposition parties . |
| 16 | They argued that these conditions were not satisfied and , therefore , that there was no legal difficulty in remedying adverse effects in the UK . |
| 17 | They proposed that these anomalies , which seemed to be arranged symmetrically on either side of , and roughly parallel with , the ridge crest , were not a result of variations in the intensity of magnetization , as earlier suggested , but rather a consequence of the direction of magnetization . |
| 18 | Under assault by Muslim Arabs , they found that these pinnacles provided their only protection and they clung on there , up amid the remains of the ancient cedar forests . |
| 19 | They implied that these allegations were in the report . |
| 20 | They insisted that these issues were of paramount importance to all women because they were fundamental to marriage and the family and to its valid extension in female charity work and social reform . |
| 21 | However , they thought that these aspects were outweighed by the loss of headquarters functions and their multipliers from Scotland , and concluded that UK mergers policy was blind to some of these issues . |
| 22 | They accepted that these policies would provide the basis for peaceful co-existence between nations . |
| 23 | Certainly they conceded that these activities were popular in the sense that millions of people availed themselves of them but their argument had been that only in a very limited way can we talk of these activities as belonging to the masses : rather they represented the expropriation and packaging of what had previously been popular forms by middle-class organizations and in most cases by businessmen and entrepreneurs . |
| 24 | Secondly , he argued that these consumption processes are increasingly provided by the state in a collectivized form , since they become too expensive , especially at times of economic crisis , for private firms to supply . |
| 25 | He argued that these publications were the precursors of the flood of artistic , intellectual and political creativity that accompanied the move towards colonial independence . |
| 26 | Eschewing strategic analysis in favour of a more polemical approach he argued that these concessions were to be used as ‘ trans-shipping points for American combat units that are to carry out punitive operations against the peoples of the Near and Middle East , as well as in Africa ’ . |
| 27 | In later years , when he was in the position of having to counsel others he found that these doubts were quite common , and in answering their doubts he answered his own as well ! |
| 28 | He doubted if these boys had been playing soccer — Hurstdown 's sporting young gentlemen would surely scorn such a plebeian game — and , sure enough , the boy bringing up the rear , older and taller than the rest and evidently in charge , was clutching a rugby ball to his chest . |
| 29 | When the pope asked for some sign by which he could tell ‘ which requests are important to us and are dear to our heart , and which are not ’ , Edward indicated early in the new year that he would mark such requests with the words Pater Sancte , written in his own hand , but he promised that these requests would be employed with restraint — ‘ only as we can and ought ’ . |
| 30 | He noted that these talks showed that ‘ the difference in social systems can not be an obstacle in establishing in the region a zone of peace , independence , freedom and neutrality , a zone of stability and prosperity ’ . : |