Example sentences of "these [noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 These patterns tend to stay stable over time and most patients had the same strain of Helicobacter in the stomach and duodenum .
2 Accordingly it is interesting to speculate to what extent these attitudes have caused British businessmen to adopt short time-horizons in making decisions — with negative consequences for longer-term growth performance — because their main objective is to acquire sufficient wealth to enable them to move on to the better things in life .
3 Many reformers in these states have become concerned with the role of plans and markets in socialist economies , with the way the state and political life should be organized , and with the kinds of property relationships compatible with socialism .
4 Making their British debut — these printmakers have become recognised as one of the liveliest groups of artists working in France today .
5 These researchers attempt to provide simple rules which could be applied as productions at the tactical and even strategical levels .
6 These groups have made strenuous efforts to get it right — to get the sound they always wanted , with none of the cheapskate shoddiness that British soul/jazz groups often settle for : to counterbalance that lush , affluent sound with concerned lyrics , nods to their roots and tons of soul-blaring compassion .
7 These activities have helped many of the WACC-related communication agencies to revitalise their activities .
8 In many cases these activities have promoted gender-neutral policies and perhaps in the long term will have a major impact on some aspects of gender bias in schools .
9 These tendencies have entailed certain structural problems — the market suffers from excess capacity ( see section 5.3 ) , with many eurobond operations unable to make profits on turnover averaged over the interest rate cycle .
10 However , Figure 5.2 indicates that the present inert gases are not the surviving remnants of such an atmosphere , and therefore these planets have lost any such atmospheres .
11 Some of those courts have seized upon the use of the word ‘ send ’ in Article 10(a) , as opposed to ‘ serve ’ ; although this distinction could be explained by reference to civil law ideas of formal service as opposed to informal delivery , these courts have concluded that Article 10(a) does not allow effective ‘ service ’ in Japan .
12 While the primary ethnographic accounts of life and character in such peaceful societies usually present multi-dimensional pictures of complex human beings , these pictures tend to become more and more one-dimensional as the material is employed in secondary and tertiary works , where the original complexity is often reduced to little more than caricature .
13 This means that the eyes can no longer be moved in their sockets , and these animals have developed mobile heads to compensate .
14 These characteristics help to support popular notions of the upper class as ‘ the aristocracy ‘ — landowners with titles ranked below the monarchy — or as an ‘ establishment ’ where elite individuals man ( sic ) core traditional institutions in order to effectively control the country .
15 These aspects have received sustained analysis from recent feminist and social historians .
16 It is not at all easy to see what it is that makes one thing tough and another brittle because the substances in each of these lists seem to have little enough in common .
17 These immunoassays have shown increased sensitivity to anti-HCV in chronic hepatitis C and have shortened the period between infection and the detection of anti-HCV by four to five weeks when compared with the first generation assays .
18 Nevertheless , these authors do list those characteristics of the ‘ strike setting ’ which they consider most conducive to violence ( Thieblot and Haggard , 1983:10–11 ) .
19 These viruses have received most attention because their high pathogenicity , narrow host range , and complete safety to vertebrates and plants , make them ideal candidates for biological pest control agents .
20 These companies have developed great expertise in radioisotope technology for their own use over the past 30 years , and these skills , together with special instruments , are now offered by the Group to the chemical , oil and other process industries at large .
21 Not surprisingly the temporary structures erected in these areas have left few archaeological traces .
22 All these countries have handled incoming tours in the past with considerable ease and all their faculties are well documented .
23 Although some of these analyses have proved abstruse and others untenable , this collective contribution ( which can be only briefly explored here ) has proved vital in re-orientating thinking on the urban problem and its resolution .
24 These barriers have reached towering heights in the twentieth century , although information does slowly trickle through them .
25 These shoes have run 2500 miles !
26 These shoes have run 25,000 miles !
27 Now that is to paint a far wider duty than I had been er er er thought and indeed er those who follow these matters have suggested that 's rather wider than the than the er secondary legislation here before us actually provides for .
28 Accepting that we respond to our environment , whether it is natural or artificial , we can see that these responses appear to produce further changes in us .
29 These gardens have taken many years to complete and now include a children 's Play area , a small lake with swans and fountains and a large sloping grassy area surrounded by trees and seats .
30 ‘ How all these places start to look alike after a while . ’
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