Example sentences of "these [noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To protect their own interests these States openly condemned New Zealand 's stance , although they had no direct claims under the treaty .
2 Several of the mare impacts have been dated from the radiometric ages of the welding of the surrounding brecchias to which these impacts probably gave rise .
3 Nevertheless , a radical editorial reorganization called the Bradshaw shift , involving the moving of fragment VII as one large block back to the end of fragment II , with these fragments then relabelled groups B2 and B1 respectively , has been eagerly accepted by some editors and critics since the nineteenth century , wishing to solve thereby certain anomalies in the ordering of named places that the pilgrims would pass on their road to Canterbury .
4 These cars already had conduit gear and did not need modification .
5 The rapid growth of private charity in these years also gave rise to institutions demonstrating a variety of approaches to the palliation of poverty .
6 These changes effectively distanced Franco both from policy-making and the administration of the regime .
7 The OECD ( 1988 : p. 61 ) concluded that , because these conditions also hindered exports and cut the trade surplus , the policy proved self-defeating .
8 As a star , Bette Davis was of the type commonly designated ‘ inimitable ’ , which tends to mean ( as it did in her case ) that she eventually became the butt of countless imitators ; and these imitators merely accentuated symptoms of self-parody that were already detectable in her own screen presence .
9 These circles then touched others , forming groups of three , or ( since the bottom circle could be made up of three little ones ) five .
10 Serial biopsy specimens in these patients often showed variations in the intensity of inflammation and hepatocyte necrosis .
11 Because of the slight gradient , these points often gave trouble , when drivers misjudged when to cut out and sometimes ran back .
12 These clauses unilaterally abrogated Spain 's 1851 Concordat with Rome and , when carried into law during the next eighteen months , signalled an all-out legislative assault upon the Church 's influential position within Spanish life .
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