Example sentences of "these [adj] [noun pl] [is] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Implementation of these broad guidelines is left to the national parks boards or committees .
2 The harmony of these underwater choirs is broken by predatory fish , which hunt by listening for their prey , and can even hear the sounds made by a swimming fish .
3 Since there is no strict school nor formula of belief that we may label conservatism or liberalism , an insight into the character of these political ideologies is sought through an examination of particular theorists .
4 Each of these peculiar histories is punctuated with peculiar rhythms and can only be known on condition that we have defined the concept of the specificity of its historical temporality and its punctuations ( continuous development , revolutions , breaks , etc . ) .
5 To sit down in meditation and think of these mystical ideas is to poise oneself for the transcendent journey .
6 I have found , many times , that the practical science of these old miners is astounding ; for instance , they made predictions of the effect of barometric pressure on the level of water in the shaft of flooded mine workings , which confounded the scientists of the National Coal Board .
7 A check-list of these social factors is given below , but any analysis of the processes mentioned above will combine the items of the check-list .
8 The teaching approach in these subject areas is designed to go far beyond the basic development of psycho-motor skills .
9 In the first two years , the department offers separate courses in Design , and Architectural Science , but the mutual interdependence of these subject areas is reflected in their merging into a single design course in third year .
10 A discussion of these X-radiographic techniques is given by Hamblin ( 1971 ) .
11 The time we spend attending to these individual needs is bound to vary somewhat .
12 We are pulled this way and that , but the effect of these contradictory pulls is to leave us fixed in the middle .
13 The data collection study also ascertains cases of leukaemia and lymphoma directly from diagnostic sources within hospitals in its study areas , and these are crosschecked with cancer registration records ; ascertainment for these diagnostic groups is believed to be virtually complete .
14 The importance of these conserved regions is heightened by the fact that many different mutations impairing the function of the yeast enzyme map within them , even though some others lie outside the conserved domains ( 38-41 ) .
15 The approach of all these Usborne books is to introduce the reader to the fun that can be had with electronics .
16 The pressure exerted by these escaping particles is called the vapour pressure of the liquid .
17 The solution to each of these key questions is proffered through a list of suggestions :
18 Nevertheless , commentators have argued that the function of these legal rules is to provide a standard set of terms to govern the relationship between the shareholders and the directors , the object being to reduce the transaction costs involved in the parties negotiating a private bargain .
19 The most common use of these logical operations is to extract , test , and alter selected parts of words of other data-types ; for example , an integral fixed-point number may be tested for odd or even by extracting and testing the right-hand bit ( at least in two 's complement or sign-and-magnitude representation ) .
20 My own preference when using these elite units is to mass them in a body to provide the heaviest punch possible and then unleash them against one section of the enemy line with the hope that the breakthrough will start a general rout of the enemy force .
21 In many societies , the clothing , ornaments and tools belonging to an individual may be considered so integral to him or her that to touch or do harm to these inanimate objects is considered indistinguishable from taking the same action against the person .
22 All I can say in these hectic times is thank goodness for Marks & Spencer 's prepared meals .
23 Our response to these opposing arguments is to suggest that arguments that new technology is creating very large scale unemployment in the near future are alarmist , based on too simple a set of assumptions .
24 The role played by these independent members is to represent the wider public interest .
25 A short selection of some of these complementary groups is given in table 8.5 , where a polymer containing groups or composed of units from column 1 will tend to form miscible blends with polymers containing groups or composed of units from column 2 .
26 Reference to possibly these small trials is made in Underground In Furness ( 1967 , p. 57 59 , E. G. Holland ) .
27 The principal aim of this national survey of these small businesses is to provide previously unavailable data regarding the nature of their operating efficiency , staffing , and potential training needs , in order to identify strategies for improving performance .
28 The effect of these various imperfections is to cede to companies a zone of discretion in relation to products and prices and the wide range of factors connected with the production process .
29 The net effect of these various modifications is to oppose the alkalinising effect of apical HCl secretion , with the result that patietal cell pH i increases by less than 0.10 pH units after stimulation of HCl secretion .
30 The importance of studying these demographic changes is underlined by Neate ( 1981 , p. 9 ) who stressed that the depopulation of an area ‘ is the ultimate protest and arguably one of the most potent indicators of relative disadvantage or deprivation ’ .
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