Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [prep] these [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 2 | While the paths b 1 and b 2 are the focus of our attention , it is also important to remember the other causes which lead to people attending selective secondary schools : class membership is not a complete determinant of who goes to these schools , since some working class children do attend . |
| 3 | Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods . |
| 4 | And all the time you were n't really there , you were somewhere else entirely , and the funniest part of it was that you ended up looking like a pro , like a model who lived for these moments in the public eye . |
| 5 | How the quite respectable people who lived under these conditions managed to bring up families , I shall never know . |
| 6 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |
| 7 | The yeomen , husbandmen and craftsmen who lived in these tenements had mostly just a single fireplace in their timber-framed houses at the time of the hearth tax return of 1672 . |
| 8 | Many who suffer from these diseases experience years of ill-health and subsequent loss of productivity . |
| 9 | While working on people who suffer from these conditions I have always found that the neck muscles are extremely tight . |
| 10 | The patients who recovered in these boxes and enclosures came and went like the inmates of any other busy casualty ward , but , of course , there were big differences : most importantly , there was no waiting list , and no one had to pay ! |
| 11 | While the Secretary of State is looking at that , however , will he also take a look at the idiots who race through these roadworks ? |
| 12 | I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman , who cares about these things , would welcome that . |
| 13 | And because it seeks to arouse , porn eroticises immorality which makes it especially dangerous to those who worry about these things . |
| 14 | Shooting can be effective and sporting too , but I think it vital that everyone who shoots in these situations should be a very capable gun and able to kill a very large proportion of what he fires at . |
| 15 | Well it goes into a pot , and it , it buys into different funds which are invested in different markets , erm , to give you some examples , erm , we can invest in property , we can invest in some securities , government securities , er , we invest in the Stock Exchange and we have managers who look after these funds , and they perform extremely well . |
| 16 | I am sure the passengers who travel on these trains from Edinburgh to Glasgow and to Aberdeen and Inverness would like more room for themselves and their luggage . |
| 17 | Western philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who speculated on these matters usually emphasized two criteria : |
| 18 | ‘ We can meet people who know about these things . |
| 19 | The difficulty experienced by many who teach in these areas is not in keeping parents out of school but in attempting to make them feel that they have a place within it . |
| 20 | In contrast , in countries as distinct as Nigeria and Zambia , governments have supported the indigenous African entrepreneurs who benefited from these restraints on their potential competitors by a range of credit facilities and the judicious allocation of contracts . |
| 21 | ‘ Half of those who participate in these activities ’ , remarked one frustrated local LNU branch in a letter to Gilbert Murray in 1936 , ‘ … want our Government to do one thing and the other half the exactly contrary thing … . ’ |
| 22 | The cost of the papers is then recovered from the various departments of the Council and the Joint Boards who participate in these arrangements . |
| 23 | Preferably , it should be someone who specialises in these cases . |
| 24 | The majority of the incomers who settled in these localities were young couples who were still committed to a strategy of occupational and residential mobility in order to further their career interests ; they were ‘ spiralists ’ , and with only a few exceptions , their residence does not seem to be permanent . |
| 25 | Not all the people who indulge in these tastes are addicts — that is , they do not depend on their habit in a way that seems clearly abnormal to the bulk of people who do not share their tastes . |
| 26 | The number of peoples in the world who knew of these advantages and nevertheless persisted in rejecting them were few : to do so required a tenacity of purpose , an indifference to wealth and comfort which were not given to many . |
| 27 | Marc Bolan , who knew about these things , said it best : ‘ pop should be a spell . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's OK now , ’ said Constance , who knew about these things . |
| 29 | Someone who knew about these things had told Maman how the perpetual wearing of boots might encourage the proper shape of a girl 's ankles . |
| 30 | The Freud who emerges from these recollections of one of his prize patients is evidently quite sincere , ‘ liberal ’ in a Hampstead-ish way , thoroughly well-intentioned , but dogmatic , arrogant and autocratic . |