Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] these [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A separate Manifesto , in both English and Welsh , sets out our full programme for building on these achievements for Wales . |
| 2 | With the largest majority in Britain to defend — 27,044 — anything less this time round would be regarded as defeat by these Stakhanovites of the Fens . |
| 3 | Application may be made for entry to these courses in the normal fashion . |
| 4 | What sense can we make of support for these parties at the polls ? |
| 5 | Moreover , I was ( and am ) conscious of the strengths of a grammar-school tradition , and was enjoying the work of building on these foundations within a relatively secure system . |
| 6 | The conciliation staff did a bit of homework , and found out how fond Swindown had been over the years for concealing motion and valve gear between the frames , which did not arouse enthusiasm amongst the more portly fitters , who had plenty of experience of these delights with the collective works of F.W. Webb and other C.M.E. 's designs . |
| 7 | Especially characteristic of some endocuticles is the progressive " helicoidal " change of direction of these fibres in successive lamellae , which produces parabolic figures in sectioned material ( Neville , 1970 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ There have been a number of instances of disruption in these areas in the past couple of months directly due to the number of police on the streets , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Across the major developed economies of Europe , Australasia , North America and Japan , unemployment rose from 7.4 per cent of the work force in 1991 to 8.2 pct in 1992 , bringing the total out of work in these countries to 32.3 million . |
| 10 | The studied plainness of diction in these poems of country life was an important part of their experimental character , but became the object of much ridicule . |
| 11 | There has recently been interest in the pattern of distribution of these antigens in the biliary epithelium in both normal and diseased livers . |
| 12 | Generally speaking , as a matter of practical necessity , the defence will have to produce evidence of consent in these circumstances in any case , but where an evidential burden exists , a failure to produce such evidence will ensure that the issue of consent is not left to the jury . |
| 13 | The American scene should be a piece of cake for these lads after several years of sharing a camper and traversing huge chunks of arid land to play in one-day pro-ams that may net them a couple of hundred pounds . |
| 14 | One great challenge in producing new dental materials is the achievement and maintenance of adhesion of these biomaterials to vital tissues . |
| 15 | So much evidence , relatively speaking , survives to illustrate Offa 's dealings with the men of Kent and to a lesser extent with the South Saxons and so little to illuminate his relations with the Anglian groups of eastern England that the order of importance of these areas to Offa can easily be inverted . |
| 16 | There is a lot of overlap between these measures of sexual activity : people who have had more than 10 sexual partners are the most likely to have sex every day . |
| 17 | There is , in fact , no monomorphemic means of enquiry for these adjectives in English ; the simplest corresponding question has some such form as what … do to … ? , as in : ( 8 ) what did Ellen do to the keys ? what will the mixture do to metal buttons ? what does muzak do to them ? |
| 18 | The use of his name and his connection with the area , particularly with the Physic Garden and also his reputation abroad , lent an air of authority to these pieces of china — as no doubt Mr Sprimont , the astute manager of the factory appreciated . |
| 19 | That any exercise of authority beyond these limits by any government is an exercise of ‘ power without right . ’ |
| 20 | I have only selected a few examples of deducing modes of life from these fossils with two valves ; the examples could be multiplied many times . |
| 21 | The way of life in these republics in the 1980s remained demonstrably much more ‘ Western ’ than that in the other Soviet republics , and they were among those most exposed to outside cultural influences ( Estonia , for instance , had ready access to Finnish television and ‘ Dallas ’ and ‘ Dynasty ’ had a devoted following ) . |
| 22 | the subsequent rate of growth of these nuclei to macroscopic dimensions . |
| 23 | The earlier return of growth in these regions in the 1980s signalled a resumption of the urban-rural shift which we have already seen in population trends ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 24 | Waldron refers to a justification of property along these lines as a right-based argument for private property , which he defines as ‘ an argument which takes an individual interest to be sufficiently important in itself to justify holding others ( especially the government ) to be under duties to create , secure , maintain , or respect an institution of private property ’ . |
| 25 | The mean amplitude at each level was then plotted on charts where the 90th and 10th percentiles of pressure at these levels in our previously defined normal volunteers were represented by horizontal boxes ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 26 | A dolphin dives with its lungs filled , and copes with the crushing effects of pressure at these depths by collapsing its chest as the water pressure compresses the air in its lungs . |
| 27 | Andesitic eruptions typically occur from a single central vent , while both basaltic and , to a lesser extent , rhyolitic eruptions are more often associated with fissures , in part because the major phase of expansion in these forms of volcanism occurs near to the surface . |
| 28 | When Colin Mortlock and myself initiated the first phase of exploration on these cliffs in the 60s , we negotiated an access agreement with the commandant of the Castlemartin camp . |
| 29 | The ideological approach to the problem of soil erosion in the international aid and academic communities can not be ‘ read off ’ or predetermined by the relative strength of direct economic interests , as there is often a degree of autonomy of these ideas from economic determinants . |
| 30 | Sad though he felt , there was a touch of comfort in these manifestations of life going on as usual . |