Example sentences of "these [vb past] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These revealed a deficit of £2bn in trade in goods and services — the third worst on record . |
| 2 | These provided a source of torture . |
| 3 | Equally , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) of those who had taken temporary jobs because these provided a source of training had entered the labour market only in the past I 2 months . |
| 4 | These provided a view of the great central staircase . |
| 5 | These provided a forum for an emerging , indigenous West Indian literature . |
| 6 | Next to these came a Merchant of the Staple , or wool exporter ( one of two ) , assessed at £666. 13s. 4d . |
| 7 | These comprised a respect for the old , for those in positions of authority and for austerity of manner and appearance . |
| 8 | These included a shareholding in Laforza Automobiles , the US car manufacturer in which Eagle had invested $17.9m ( £11m ) . |
| 9 | These included a reduction in tax on farming land ( worth F930 million in 1993 ) , debt relief ( worth F1,200 million in 1993-95 ) , state assistance for investment in agriculture , and increased assistance to farmers in mountainous regions . |
| 10 | These included a reduction in value added tax from 18 to 17 per cent at the start of 1993 and a 4 percentage point cut in the corporate tax rate to 36 per cent spread over the 1993-97 period . |
| 11 | These included a guarantee of safety for the leaders of the opposition parties , and assurances that the commission of enquiry into the December killing would be allowed to carry out its work independently . |
| 12 | These included a guarantee to be signed by Mr. O'Brien and a legal charge of the house to be signed by both Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien . |
| 13 | These included a return to work for those who had not been laid off , the re-employment of the sacked strikers next week and a final , binding decision by the arbitration body ACAS . |
| 14 | These included a change in the constitutional status of the province so as to make it subordinate to Serbia , the imposition of Serbocroatian as the official language , the dismissal from the Kosovo government of ‘ Albanian chauvinists ’ and of Serbian ‘ opportunists and careerists ’ , and the return to Kosovo of Serbian emigrants ( NIN , 9 November 1986 ) . |
| 15 | These included a translation of the Romanian poet Eminescu ( 1930 ) , and the autobiographical The Suffragette Movement , published in 1931 . |
| 16 | These included a photograph of Weisdale Voe , taken from his local in Shetland where he had lived for five years ; photographs of himself and friends on Lost City trips ; and photographs and posters relating to his prime interests , those of a naturalist , a birder , a twitcher . |
| 17 | These included a number with simple Mendelian inheritance and a number of characters of agronomic importance with polygenically controlled expression . |
| 18 | These included a concentration on a few sectors , a bias towards managerial and commercial interests , a limited appreciation of relevant contexts , the lack of a historical perspective , and a disciplinary imbalance including insufficient attention to economic factors . |
| 19 | These formed a kind of dry oasis — a little feature common on the downs . |
| 20 | These contained a number of allegations that had never been raised with her at all . |
| 21 | These offered a variety of recreational activities , swimming , sports , dancing and so on in addition to basic victualling , and borrowed from the ordinary pub the opprobium of encouraging immoral behaviour . |
| 22 | These reached a peak during the truce of 1444–49 , but were halved when war was renewed in the latter year . |
| 23 | These marked a shift from communal use to individual use , although individual items were connected at a household level by a common pattern , as found in the modern set of china . |
| 24 | These gave a range of savings for each of the four options . |
| 25 | Out of these emerged a plan for holding a national conference to discuss the recent recommendations of the Royal Commission and also his own proposal to form a National Deaf Association . |
| 26 | The FAOR proposals for storage of information in the long term using a filly computerised system were also investigated thoroughly , particularly as these had a bearing on the manner in which the index system would be developed . |
| 27 | The government had recognised that the largest of these had a claim to continued autonomy and proposed to exclude ten of them from the jurisdiction of their surrounding counties . |