Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] these [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | De Gaulle used the extraordinary powers granted to him in June to introduce a set of major economic measures , which were intended to remedy these problems and to show France and the world that a state worthy of the name was now in charge . |
2 | Dealers were expected to get these cards filled in at the same time as fulfilling their quotas of business , but nobody had time . |
3 | Many years ago scientists tried to develop machines that produced speech from a vocabulary of pre-recorded words ; the machines were designed to join these words together to form sentences . |
4 | The next chapter describes the aims of the scheme and how both the action project and the research were designed to achieve these aims . |
5 | Travel abroad for middle-class young people before student age was relatively uncommon up until the war , and during hostilities only service personnel and those on official government business were permitted to leave these shores . |
6 | The progressive human resource management policies of the former were seen to equip these organisations with a key competitive resource : a well-trained work-force committed to the aims of the enterprise . |
7 | Factories which had been switched from military production because of cuts in defence spending were instructed to meet these needs , and it was decided to supplement the 36,000 Interior Ministry troops by diverting new conscripts from Army work . |
8 | In all such cases , it is clear that the numbers of mentally handicapped cases could be reduced if efforts were made to counter these factors , just as increased road safety should reduce road deaths . |
9 | At the same time a few modifications were made to bring these cars into line with standard practices , for example , the positions of the route board holders under the saloon windows were slightly altered to take L.C.C . |
10 | Three critical developments were needed to make these innovations possible . |
11 | I was privileged to have been one of the 28 guests , which included 11 veterans of the Tirpitz raids , who were invaded to attend these events . |
12 | All of the people who were going to entertain these friends were there to greet them . |
13 | And I made them jigs and whatnot. when they come to do it at Dolgarrog when they come to want them doing I said to the to the the chief engineer I said , he told me about they were going get these commutators done here machine . |
14 | Rats were trained to negotiate these mazes to obtain food . |
15 | But the pathway to discovery was established and the scale on which resources were expended to make these discoveries represents a fantastic extravagance when it is compared with the few thousands of pounds available to Florey and his colleagues , and even with the subsequent development of the original penicillins in the United States . |
16 | It seemed that they were determined to carry these solutions through . |
17 | Equally obviously , Rough Trade were determined to quell these rumours . |
18 | Okay , I I was just tha while you were chatting to boss these books came and they have a a number of different things which you know , from changing schools |
19 | Support is given to the view that Robertson 's order was intended to cover these Croats by a further signal sent from AFHQ on the following day , 15 May . |
20 | A sub-group of the Patterns of Service Committee of SAD was formed to explore these issues further . |
21 | This ESRC-sponsored project was designed to investigate these claims . |
22 | Field specification for a slide library database was agreed between Library and Photographic Departments in 1992 , and the BG-BASE ‘ IMAGES ’ file was modified to accommodate these specifications . |
23 | More often than not it was the ‘ depraved ’ , sexualized and socially inferior female prostitute who was seen to condense these aspects of male fantasy . |
24 | The present study was done to extend these observations and to include sera from patients with ulcerative colitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
25 | However , with the advent of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 , it was decided to replace these regulations with an amended version of the new design right by the Design Right ( Semiconductor Regulations ) 1989 , which came into force on 1st August 1989 . |
26 | As the existing windows were more than large enough to light the second-storey accommodation to building regulations standards , it was decided to shorten these openings . |
27 | Unlike Water Newton , no attempt was made to link these streets and lanes along the inner edge of the defences . |
28 | The new Singapore station was built to match these Pretensions . |
29 | An introductory program was written containing these routines , so that the subjects were able to attempt shape input and adjustment , before using the programs illustrating the CAD techniques . |
30 | A hydraulic ram was used to open these gates by means of chains passing over pulleys on the lintel of the frame , giving a velocity ration of 3 to 1 . |