Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] these [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Dalton was fond of contrasting these numbers with the half million total troops thought likely to be necessary in peacetime by the war-time Coalition Government . |
2 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
3 | At an emotional meeting earlier this week , Terry told me ‘ I 've lost touch with the modern game , Les , nobody seems to be interested in drinking these days , all they want to do is get on with the football . ’ |
4 | Hence , governments interested in reducing these disparities have introduced various taxes on large wealth holders , directed in particular at reducing the extent to which large accumulations of wealth can be passed on to the next generation . |
5 | But Veronica had stopped short , perhaps embarrassed by making these revelations to a stranger , and Loretta had a distinct feeling that she was expected to go now . |
6 | We should be cautious about using these results to argue that verbal pretraining does not influence performance on a recognition memory test . |
7 | While individual speakers may be quite consistent in using these features , none of them is universal and no systematic research has been done to show how widespread they may be . |
8 | Most people would agree that the institutions of the labour market are central to understanding these issues . |
9 | Some have tried to appear natural by mixing these chemicals with plant extracts . |
10 | The leaders of the community and the religious élites differentiated themselves from society at large by adopting these virtues ; monastic communities had come into being dedicated to their observance . |
11 | A question-answer drill is useful for learning these vocabulary items : When learning verbs , ask your language helper to act them , or act them yourself , so that you associate the verb you are learning directly with the action it signifies . |
12 | The classical multifactorial model is useful for considering these observations , even though its requirements may not be fully met . |
13 | Patients are entitled to receive accurate information about their treatment and the risks we ask them to take ; they also have a right to withhold consent from such treatment if they feel unhappy about accepting these risks . |
14 | Did he never grow tired of making these accusations ? |
15 | Our study shows that bFGF , even at a dose that did not affect gastric acid secretion ( 30 µg/kg/day ) , was also effective in healing these lesions . |
16 | If practitioners can become aware of and able to understand and transcend these complicated messages from research , however , not only may they become more confident in reflecting on their knowledge when making such judgements , they may also become more confident in discussing these complexities and difficulties with both other professionals and the wider public , thus enhancing social understanding of the day-to-day realities of work in this area . |
17 | Since most of those involved in organising these commemorations were also involved in NICRA , and both were initiated by the Wolfe Tone Societies , the events illustrate how deep-rooted was their belief that it was possible to bring about unity between workers in both communities in Northern Ireland , provided the right political formula could be found . |
18 | Thus it includes both lexical choice — choice of words from the vocabulary of the language — and the grammatical choices involved in combining these words into sentences . |
19 | Er , certainly in the last well , all the time I 've been involved in developing these schemes , twenty seven twenty eight years now , we 've had a gradual increase over the years of involvement in the public , with the public and we 've been criticized where we have n't done so . |
20 | When we look in more detail at efficiency , effectiveness and performance indicators and the difficulties involved in using these ideas , we may agree that current proposals — while less ambitious — are more productive . |
21 | The cost involved in taking these cybernetics down is too high . |
22 | Discuss the difficulties involved in investigating these claims scientifically . |
23 | The following analogy may prove helpful in understanding these statements . |
24 | Rifkin 's very good at bringing these questions together into one emotional package , but there are several different dilemmas here , all tangled together . |
25 | The executive search consultants are usually good at keeping these relationships and informing decision-makers on changes in their organisation as well as general information about the search business . |
26 | You can be very good at saying these things about love , and doing it in a kind of way people can identify with , but it does n't necessarily tell the whole truth about yourself . |
27 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
28 | but that 's no problem for me , it used to be a problem but it is n't now because I 've worked on building up my confidence in other things so I 'm good at quite a lot of things and I always keep re-enforcing that that I 'm good at doing these things . |
29 | Civilian contractors were normally responsible for provisioning these armies , and often for supplying them with arms , ammunition and uniforms . |
30 | John Cunningham , Chief Engineer , is responsible for co-ordinating these developments . |