Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] these [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Historians have found some manors where the local custom was for the widow to receive a half proportion , or even the whole , and yet in others apparently none — although in these cases it is more likely that the documentation is being misconstrued . |
2 | Yet she felt little had been done to address this problem in school and if in these circumstances she now accepted residential school she would be giving up on Tom . |
3 | Nevertheless , it does seem reasonable to suggest that teachers need to be aware that when tackling many writing tasks pupils will achieve a greater degree of success , both as writers and as learners , if they can work in stages , and if within these stages they have sympathetic and informed support from both teachers and peers — not , I would insist , seeking to impose a preconceived notion of how to plan or how to write , but helping pupils to discover what works best for them . |
4 | With diatonic triads , in root position and first and second inversions , we have a choice of twenty-one different chords ( Example 31 ) : If to these triads we add the possible inversions of added sixth and seventh chords , we have a choice of seventy different chords ( not seventy-seven , as one would suppose , for some are duplicates ) : Add to this the fact that the notes in each chord can be varied in register ( that chords can be ‘ close ’ or ‘ open ’ ) , and we have a very wide range of possibilities — and this with chords only in the key of C major . |
5 | Because of these problems it was some time before satisfactory reporting procedures were developed . |
6 | Because of these interests she was designated as a dangerous subversive under the terms of the 1927 Public Safety Act . |
7 | Because of these changes it is not practical to adopt the government 's one-third reduction target across all age groups . |
8 | Also the er the erm these Doctor something pills er she advised me to take them because of these pains I had and er but a lot of people thought they wold work wonders you know . |
9 | As for my own research , there are some areas of it in which quantification has not been used because in these areas it was not necessary or appropriate for the purpose I had in mind ( see for example the discussions in chapter 5 ) . |
10 | you 've got the chance whereas in these countries they have n't , if you have n't got a democracy . |
11 | But , since he was Professor ( or , as we would now call him , Principal ) at the Veterinary College for over 45 years , and Principal Army Veterinary Surgeon for nearly 43 years , and since in these positions he inevitably greatly influenced the development of our College and profession , an attempt at a balanced re-appraisal seems worthwhile . |
12 | Here Darwin 's questions about the creation of species recurred , for in these islands he found fresh variety . |
13 | This can present a difficult timing problem , because it is often not sufficiently appreciated that because of the many requirements as to these documents it may be necessary to have two or three drafts before lodging the plans . |
14 | When Lewis himself was speaking , it was not always easy to find a tame atheist who was prepared to come along and be mauled in public debate ; for on these occasions he reverted to type and became again the P'daytabird prosecuting an unlikely prisoner in the Belfast police courts . |
15 | Perhaps he had been moved by the bishop of Lucca 's protest , for among these anathemas he included two which seem not to have been discussed , but which were relevant to his protest . |