Example sentences of "these [noun pl] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another strand in the arguments explored in these cases was that of ‘ unfairness ’ . |
| 2 | The purpose of these cases was twofold . |
| 3 | Only 2.6% of the news used in these bulletins was other foreign news as compared to 14.3% of the English language bulletins . |
| 4 | The profit from mining was so immense that owners could afford to treat slaves their only major capital investment — as expendable ; the treatment of slaves in these mines was brutal in the extreme , and many were literally worked to death . |
| 5 | Whether or not the people actually held these views was another matter . |
| 6 | Whether the thatch on these bothies was old or new , it was always a deep orange colour . |
| 7 | The true significance of these groups was fourfold . |
| 8 | Within the political mainstream , the spirit of these times was consensual . |
| 9 | The ‘ one-to-one ’ nature of these discussions was one of the most important factors in the success of this spiritual enterprise . |
| 10 | We warned at that time that the underlying quality of these products was questionable but that they might nonetheless enjoy success because quality or lack of it is not apparent in the external appearance of the products . |
| 11 | The results suggested that the half-life of these complexes was short , in the range of a few minutes for P A2b and of 10–20 seconds for P A3 , since the DNA-strand opening was undetectable at both promoters after a 10 minutes challenge and , in the case of P A3 , considerably reduced after a 15 seconds challenge ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 12 | The transcription makes it look as if the difference between these words was clear ; it is not . |
| 13 | Notable amongst these units was III Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader 27 , whose Bf109Es provided a welcome reinforcement for the busy pilots of 7/JG 26 . |
| 14 | The intensity of these hatreds was such as to ensure that at the christening of a male child his right hand was kept clear of the water so that it would be free for unhallowed retribution upon family enemies . |
| 15 | However , it could equally be argued that the visibility of change and development in these schools was attributable to their lower starting thresholds . |
| 16 | At that time I explained that although the Board 's weekly rate on these homes was low , due to our policy of not charging any element for capital in the rate we calculate , the Department of Social Security made available to elderly people in residential care in the community an allowance in that year of forty pounds and in this present year of fifty five pounds per week below the cost of such care in any of our homes where the cost is already artificially depressed . |
| 17 | Black had already excluded investment in dwellings , in the social services , and in North Sea oil , on the grounds that investment in these sectors was unlikely to be affected by an accelerator principle . |
| 18 | Cézanne worked with a full Impressionist palette , and it is evident , not only from a visual analysis of his painting , but also from his letters and from Emile Bernard 's observations on his method of work , that Cézanne relied on the exactness of tonal relationships to produce a sensation of volume and recession ; indeed , the necessity he felt to verify these relationships was one of the reasons why he was compelled to turn back continually to a study of nature . |
| 19 | The basic elementary processes of chemistry were understood and the essential analytical tools were already available ; the existence of a limited number of chemical elements , composed of different numbers of basic units ( atoms ) , and compounds of elements composed of basic multi-atomic units of molecules , and some idea of the rules of these combinations was familiar , as indeed it had to be for the great advances in the essential activity of chemists , the analysis and synthesis of various substances . |
| 20 | Digitizing boundaries of these areas was one of first GIS investments made . |
| 21 | Clearly one of the major difficulties of applying the standard Comintern model of a vanguard Communist party with a proletarian base to the Latin American situation was that the proletariat in the majority of these countries was small in size , rural in origin and lacking in organisation and political consciousness . |
| 22 | They had n't quite known whether to be optimistic or pessimistic about the overnight delay , but they were adamant in their belief that none of these parents was capable of doing the things stated in the allegations against them . |
| 23 | The general conclusion of these analyses was that unemployment and imprisonment were related , in the sense that , after controlling statistically for the level of crime and numbers convicted , an increase in the level of unemployment led , on average , to an increase in the numbers incarcerated . |
| 24 | The forbidding presence of these mercenaries was sufficient to persuade the inhabitants of the citadel that they too would be well advised to join the revolt . |
| 25 | Bearing in mind that the departments comprised a multitude of functions , and , at this point in the study , no detailed breakdown of these functions was available , two parallel exercises were considered necessary to progress the study , ie one concerned with clarifying roles and information needs , and the second exploring and quantifying the existing information base , as represented by the central and outposted filing systems . |
| 26 | The strength of these movements was greater than that of the Communists and made anti-clericalism and radical land reform essential ingredients in the politics of the Spanish Left . |
| 27 | The University 's response to Convocation 's observations and suggestions in these matters was positive . |
| 28 | The design and planning that had gone into these places was minimal . |
| 29 | They did not like his presence but he found little difficulty in scaring them off , or evading them if they tried to mob him , and the food in these places was plentiful . |
| 30 | In view of this , it is prepared , on occasions , to buy particular stocks for which there is little demand otherwise ; for instance , the Bank was a net purchaser of index-linked stocks during certain periods in 1990 when demand for these stocks was low . |