Example sentences of "[to-vb] these [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Greater resources are needed to meet these obligations but they have not been forthcoming .
2 But you want to try these pickups before you dismiss them out of hand .
3 The sun 's rays have to travel through more of the Earth 's absorbent atmosphere to reach these areas than they do when the sun is overhead , resulting in a drop in temperature as winter approaches .
4 To ensure through general redistributive tax and cash benefit policies that all families have sufficient resources to purchase these services if they wish .
5 We are able to circulate these reports and I think that 's working extremely well .
6 The children are required to perform these actions as they hear the teacher 's instructions .
7 The netting thrown over the tree in the background is obviously intended to trap these newcomers as they arrive to mob the owl .
8 I should think that it would be in order to discuss these matters when we debate the revenue support grant orders for England .
9 The chairman and deputy-chairman took two shares each , and the remaining directors one share each , and they were free to use these nominations as they saw fit , within certain broad guidelines established by parliament .
10 The subject has not been fully researched before and the author feels strongly that it is important to record these memories before they fade and are finally destroyed .
11 Imagine what it might be like if , as humans , we had not only the senses of other creatures but the ability to understand these communications as they do .
12 The trouble is that people only start to read these magazines after they think of themselves as computer users — and the point they most need help is when they are deciding what to buy .
13 In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 .
14 Aglen refused to allow his officers to collect these duties until they had been formally approved .
15 It is not even a question of God inspiring people to exploit these opportunities when they arise .
16 Me and my dad were about to cut these dykes when it came on hard .
17 Help to prevent these conditions and you help to stop another Hitler or Stalin .
18 I am not suggesting that it is proven that our motives , reasons and purposes are not themselves reducible to mechanically operating causal factors , as a fully determinist model would have it ; but if that is the case , we are so far from being able to specify these factors that they do not offer a model we can actually work with — as we saw in the discussion of positivist criminology in Chapter 2 .
19 Terry hated having to make these tapes and we knew how distressing it was for him .
20 Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven
  Next page