Example sentences of "these [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near the club entrance were two old houses and in one of these lived the local bird catcher . |
| 2 | These revealed the industrial potential of the neighbourhood and a remarkable series of buildings ranging from simple workshops to elaborate private houses . |
| 3 | One of these became the General Forces Programme , which soon provided the light entertainment and relaxation which the Forces clearly wanted and which were easily justified by their importance to morale . |
| 4 | Also recommended were : the establishment of the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) to grant degrees to students in non-university establishments [ this happened the following year ] ; the raising of the status of teacher training colleges to colleges of education offering BEd degrees , and their integration into universities [ the former has happened , but not the latter ] ; the granting of university status to the ten colleges of advanced technology [ this was accepted ] , and in due course to other colleges [ this did not happen ; instead , from 1966 many of these became the new polytechnics ] ; and the establishment of special institutions for scientific and technological education and research ( SISTERS ) [ this has not been implemented ] . |
| 5 | Between 1897 and 1906 , magistrate courts granted over 87,000 separation and maintenance orders in England and Wales at the rate of some 8,000 separations per year , and these became the working-class norm . |
| 6 | The kids loved the chants and the masks and puppets-usually Masquerade 's strength , although here even these lacked the usual imagination-but really it could all have been so much better in almost every respect . |
| 7 | These housed the characteristic domestic vernacular buildings already described ( p. 17 ) . |
| 8 | These involved the experimental subject in observing three-dimensional figures on a VDU , and then answering questions about aspects of the figures that were knowable — but hardly at an intuitive level . |
| 9 | These pursued the large whales , mostly rorquals and sperm whales , penetrating southward into the pack ice and almost to the shores of the continent . |
| 10 | Together these measured the majoritarian-consensual dimension . |
| 11 | This belief had been reinforced by the experiences of 1866 and 1870 ; it was assumed that these showed the future pattern of warfare . |
| 12 | Neither of these showed the sea-level view from an assault craft , when the ‘ white house ’ reference point for a beach could be hidden by trees . |
| 13 | Pairs of active and passive sentences were included as controls and performance with these showed the opposite pattern . |
| 14 | Two of these survived the arduous voyage round Cape Horn in the middle of winter and arrived to a grand reception in London . |
| 15 | These included the great British trading companies in West Africa , in which are to be found the origins of Unilever , the North American fruit companies in Central America , whose activities gave rise to the expression ‘ banana republic ’ , and the East India Company which was to provide the basis for British colonial administration in India . |
| 16 | A number of countries immediately announced that they were establishing diplomatic relations with Namibia ; these included the Soviet Union , China , Pakistan , Poland , East Germany and Romania . |
| 17 | These included the respectable/unrespectable divisions made by many philanthropic organizations , distinctions drawn by the newly founded Charity Organization Society between the deserving and undeserving poor and the healthy/diseased oppositions employed by medical officers of health to identify the carriers of contagion . |
| 18 | These included the treeless spaces north and south of Brocklebeck ; he recommended places sheltered from the northern blast and with ‘ commanding prospects of that noble lake , ’ ‘ the hollow between Derwent Park and Castlehead , and the fields extending from Castlehead to Keswick . ’ |
| 19 | These included the famous Rob Lowe video ( ‘ When the light 's poor , you ca n't see the million dollar dick ! ’ ) and a film of the Go-Gos drunkenly deriding a groupie jerking off backstage ( ‘ Microphone placement is very important . |
| 20 | These included the only sample positive on culture for M tuberculosis . |
| 21 | These included the Kachan Kyzyl , Sagai , Koibal , Beltir and Shor tribes of the upper Yenisei basin ( the ‘ Minusinsk Tatars ’ ) and the Altai Kizhin Telengit , Teleut , Tölös , Kurnandan Tuba , and Chelkan , living between the Irtysh and the Yenisei , who are nowadays grouped together under the common name ‘ Altaians ’ . |
| 22 | These included the Buryat Mongols , the Turkic peoples of the Altai-Sayan mountains , and the west Siberian Tatars . |
| 23 | These included the British Aerosol Manufacturers Association , for suggesting that all domestic aerosols were now " ozone-friendly " ( despite the fact that some still contain ozone-damaging chemicals ) ; NIREX , the nuclear waste agency , for producing an over-simplified version of the problem of nuclear waste disposal ; and the Young Telegraph newspaper , for running a promotion sponsored by the BASF chemical conglomerate , which included copy presenting what FoE claim is an over-flattering account of BASF 's safety record . |
| 24 | These included the Foreign Office ( allegedly too pro-EEC and generally too prone to make diplomatic concessions at the cost of British interests ) , the Civil Service Department ( too accommodating during the civil servants ' pay strike in 1981 ) , the Department of Employment ( allegedly too ‘ soft ’ under Mr Prior ) , and Education ( allegedly too sympathetic to the education lobbies ) . |
| 25 | These included the slow growth of real earnings overall and , for public sector workers , the deterioration in their position compared to the private sector . |
| 26 | These included the Jewish prophets of the Old Testament and also Christ himself . |
| 27 | These included the urgent setting of a date for the complete demobilization of troops of both sides . |
| 28 | Thus while the new generation of ‘ modern ’ biologists was stressing the importance of pure morphology , governments were becoming interested in field studies because these offered the only way of monitoring the increasingly obvious changes in natural populations . |
| 29 | These contrasted the Western models with the sorts of restrictions that could and were applied to the media in other political systems : the media were not free to publish , the expression of opinion was controlled , the Party/government could dictate the content of the media , and the essential freedoms associated with the Western models were obviously absent . |
| 30 | These inspired the Chinese people and within a few years , there had been major efforts to move away from the centralised , planned economic system which was typical of communist regimes . |