Example sentences of "these [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Including these tremendously long towels which are er one and a half times the length of the table because they have to go over everybody 's lap as a napkin kind of communal napkin . |
| 2 | Once you have conditioned barbel to feed ravenously they are ridiculously easy to catch , assuming of course that you are using tackle which is adequate enough to handle these tremendously hard-fighting fish . |
| 3 | This dream : I had it the night after Mum-in-the-mud , the night after English Lit when I 'd sat and stared at these dead simple questions — I mean , ‘ Examine Mark Antony 's friends , Romans , Countrymen speech with a view to its effect on a modern audience ’ . |
| 4 | These dead cortical cells form what the authors call ‘ burned-out plaques ’ made of the neurotransmitter 's degradation products . |
| 5 | These overwhelmingly negative attitudes prevent many people from seeing more than a grey head . |
| 6 | To understand the significance of these most recent changes , it is first necessary to review the main trends in social mobility in Britain over the past fifty years , before considering those developments that have become more marked since the mid-1970s . |
| 7 | Work on sea level changes has tended to concentrate upon these most recent stages ( e.g. Tooley , 1 |
| 8 | Chief executive Chris Greentree welcomed these most recent announcements as further evidence of LASMO 's successes around the world and proof that the company 's exploration and development programme continues to strengthen . |
| 9 | We decided to exclude users of legal drugs such as alcohol , tobacco and caffeine , and users of prescribed drugs , such as tranquillisers and other hypnosedatives ( unless used in combination with one or more of the six study drugs ) , because these most prevalent forms of ‘ licit ’ drug use were outside the scope of our investigation . |
| 10 | Now , seeing Mary 's shapelessness goblin-like straddling her thick hips he wanted her and his child out of there , as though they were vulnerable to these most bizarre manifestations of the random and the destructive . |
| 11 | Deaf children suffer from this ‘ cause , and therefore the approach originally used , oralism , is not at fault in dealing with these additionally handicapped pupils . |
| 12 | And erm , he went to school there , and erm , all the girls had these incredibly hairy legs . |
| 13 | This difference between these rather broad age groups may be indicative of significant age-related variations within the population in terms of how they consider health . |
| 14 | In addition to these rather heroic forecasts about the post-information-technology society there have been a number of more detailed studies of the impact of new technology on particular industrial sectors . |
| 15 | Although difficulties in reliably specifying the appropriate lexical input to phonological variables are reasonably well documented , they may be more widespread and pose a greater methodological problem than these rather scattered observations in the literature suggest . |
| 16 | Continuing this tradition , Kenneth Clark selected artists of individual vision for these rather establishmentarian posts , stressing the importance of their work as art . |
| 17 | Continuing this tradition , Kenneth Clark selected artists of individual vision for these rather establishmentarian posts , stressing the importance of their work as art . |
| 18 | Yet , as might be gathered from the secret nature of the procedures , none of this has any formal parliamentary approval , and there is no formal parliamentary accountability or scrutiny of these rather sinister developments . |
| 19 | These rather simple expectations were not fulfilled however : the worst housed were not necessarily relocated and the new estates were associated in due time with their own problems of overcrowding , poverty and undernourishment . |
| 20 | These rather gloomy thoughts were in our minds as we arrived , a bit soothed but still edgy , to find that the last ferry over the Rhone from Salin which would take us on to the road to Martigues had left at 11.30 and there would not be another until 2 o'clock . |
| 21 | But all these rather extravagant claims have had to be made via the old-fashioned printed page . |
| 22 | If the combined effect of these rather complex changes in the distribution of social labour between sectors and strata was to reduce the size of the ‘ traditional ’ industrial working class , it was also to render the ‘ traditional ’ British conception of the middle class more problematic . |
| 23 | From these rather brief suggestions the New Critics built up a much more definite and systematic theory of the literary text , and of the relationship between text , author and reader . |
| 24 | In the absence of any notable achievement , these rather ineffable qualities of character must be counted among the reasons for Irwin 's despatch to India . |
| 25 | ‘ These rather lovely girls and ugly chaps ’ |
| 26 | These rather unusual troops figured prominently in later engagements , sometimes being hurled against the Iraqis in what were widely described as ‘ human waves ’ , recalling reports of the technique employed by the Chinese in the Korean war , in a bid to sweep away the Iraqis by sheer fervour and weight of numbers . |
| 27 | The clergy had to go to these rather dreadful places , but it was a pity |
| 28 | These rather sweeping generalisations are now giving way to a more mature analysis of the contradictions of science and technology . |
| 29 | What are the implications of these rather abstract remarks for the key people in higher education ? |
| 30 | These rather artificial bridges from one group of questions to another are useful for keeping the candidate 's mind focused on the right area of response and for helping the interviewer see his/her way through the prearranged structure of the interview . |