Example sentences of "of these [noun pl] the " in BNC.

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1 Shorn of these surroundings the furnishings would be just another museum collection .
2 In spite of these differences the passage was still difficult to understand without knowing in advance what it was about , as you can judge from the following extract :
3 In order to solve the first of these differences the two kings signed the Treaty of Andelot in 587 , but Guntram remained suspicious of his nephew .
4 In most of these universes the conditions would not be right for the development of complicated organisms ; only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question : " why is the universe the way we see it ? "
5 In most of these groups the black and ethnic minorities are disproportionately represented
6 Because of these uncertainties the appropriate time for selecting the multiplier is at the time of death and the number of pre-trial years for which special damages are awarded should then be deducted from the multiplier ( Graham v Dodds [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 808 ) .
7 Both linguistic and legal grounds make the second of these hypotheses the more plausible : the response seems to be tailored ( drastically ) to fit the preceding enquiry , in which only subsequent debts are considered ; there is no reason why this trust clause should be thought invalid , as other texts confirm .
8 In the forest home of these birds the obscured vision in dense foliage necessitates a courtship strategy in which females are pursued and shown to their nest sites .
9 Up some of these tendrils the substance and energy of the ooze could travel parasitically .
10 On behalf of the society I should like to thank all those who contributed to the success of these productions the actors and actresses , backstage staff sound and stage management , props front of house tea , coffee makers programme and raffle ticket sellers thanks also to Adrian who has patrolled the car park on occasions .
11 The first of these concerns the attempt to construct a general theoretical framework in terms of which we can answer the ‘ limited ’ particular questions of the second .
12 The first of these concerns the difficulty of replacing or augmenting tissues that are living , highly organised but dynamically responsive and structurally complex materials with synthetic materials that are non-living and structurally naive and unresponsive .
13 One of these concerns the idea of the oscillating Universe ( see below ) .
14 The first of these concerns the relation of the body to the mind and emotions .
15 The first of these concerns the reciprocal nature of kin exchanges .
16 The first of these concerns the functions of the curriculum , any curriculum .
17 One of these concerns the supervision and arrangement of adoptions .
18 One of these concerns the dichotomy between " cure " versus " care " .
19 So as a result of combining both of these strategies the differing male and female strategies
20 From the steep sheep-bitten turf at the head of these cliffs the land slopes gently down towards a glen where the island 's only sizeable river runs seawards out of a loch cupped in a shallow basin among low hills .
21 In all of these instances the animal 's blood was daubed on the altar , the fat burned , and the meat of the carcass divided between the sacrificing priest and the offerer for consumption .
22 In both of these instances the child 's bad behaviour was ‘ rewarded ’ by allowing him to get his own way .
23 In all of these instances the term " seasonal " or " casual " is probably a better description of their status .
24 If in some of these instances the writer appears to be trying to get more out of a rendering than a rendering will reasonably yield , the reason may be that in Horace 's line there is a fortuitous convergence , a hovering ambivalence , of two possible constructions : , " the celestial losses of the moon " , i.e. the moon 's waning , and , " swift — i.e. quickly returning — moons " .
25 The February revolution gave some of these forces the opportunity to enter the administration , but often only temporarily , until the Russian colonists could re-establish their power .
26 In all of these activities the Faculty and the Institute , although constituted as independent professional bodies , will be working closely together as a single profession .
27 The first of these sets the amount of effect coming in from the JMP 's effects loop — a really good idea and all amps should have this in some form .
28 If we strung together a sequence of these sets the sequence would be , in the best case , completely unambiguous : a sequence of uniquely identifiable words .
29 Yet in spite of these difficulties the Company turned down any chance of surrender ‘ and would be treated as brigands ’ according to the message Donald Ross brought to Hatu-Lia on 13 March — three weeks after the Japanese landed .
30 With all of these writers the technical , and apparently neutral , quality of their specialist , language is used to give greater weight and universality to arguments about literacy and objectivity which , when analysed closely , can he demonstrated to rest upon social and ideological presuppositions .
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