Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [verb] these [noun] " 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 | Rats were trained to negotiate these mazes to obtain food . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It seemed that they were determined to carry these solutions through . |
| 15 | Equally obviously , Rough Trade were determined to quell these rumours . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A sub-group of the Patterns of Service Committee of SAD was formed to explore these issues further . |
| 18 | This ESRC-sponsored project was designed to investigate these claims . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | More often than not it was the ‘ depraved ’ , sexualized and socially inferior female prostitute who was seen to condense these aspects of male fantasy . |
| 21 | The present study was done to extend these observations and to include sera from patients with ulcerative colitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Unlike Water Newton , no attempt was made to link these streets and lanes along the inner edge of the defences . |
| 25 | The new Singapore station was built to match these Pretensions . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Undoubtedly , ‘ voluntary ’ Saxon labour was used to expedite these tasks . |
| 29 | Our success in securing long term contracts during 1992 allowed the company to increase staff training programmes and a new training centre was opened to facilitate these initiatives . |
| 30 | SAVE 's report , From Holiness to Hamburgers , was produced to fight these plans at a public inquiry and the scheme was rejected . |