Example sentences of "this [noun] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 We are surely required to follow this trail as best we can .
2 Delayed gastric emptying is not responsible for this finding since octreotide , in contrast with somatostatin , slightly accelerates gastric emptying of a mixed meal .
3 They interpreted this finding as showing that associability lost by the stimulus during the first stage of training could outweigh the transfer deriving from the fact that both stage of the study involved inhibitory learning .
4 Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form .
5 That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later .
6 He was some three shots clear of the field standing on the 14th tee , but then lost this advantage after he recorded a double-bogey and two bogeys in the last six holes .
7 The owners in May , 1973 , had entered into a very advantageous agreement to charter the tanker on completion to Shell for three years , and they would have lost this advantage if the yard carried out its threat .
8 This advantage though is much less obvious in medicine science and technology subjects .
9 Paula Morgan described this support as ‘ tremendous ’ .
10 Within the terms of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention it could not therefore claim performance of this support if it were to become needed .
11 People suffering from severe psychiatric illnesses are particularly vulnerable to this change because of their high level of unemployment , low earning power , and lack of social support .
12 Unfortunately we 've had to make this change because of the new points limit which was imposed on us which has meant that our higher points riders have had to go .
13 It is not necessary , however , to see this change as predominantly the result of changes in the organisation of their manufacture .
14 And he sees this change as demonstrating a ‘ transformation of eroticism from manipulation to expression ’ .
15 Women are most affected by this change as they are much more likely than men to receive money from a part-time job while unemployed ( Erens and Hedges , 1990 ) .
16 It is interesting to speculate on the nature of this change if the Labour Party is able to form a government in 1991 or 1992 .
17 Even so , it was the first successful attempt in this genre because it gave its performers an opportunity to reveal their talents as actor-dancers .
18 It does n't do any harm in machines that do n't require this rerouting so it is installed as a default .
19 Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ?
20 ‘ Were they making all this noise while I was studying ? ’ he thought .
21 Having set up the LIFESPAN Manager 's account and disk quota , set ownership of the Installation Directory to this user as follows :
22 I am very concerned about the implications of this judgement if the effect is to sanction death by starvation which can not be morally right . ’
23 In popular discussions of private education , grandparents emerge as people very likely to pay school fees ( Guardian 27 May 1986 ) and it certainly has been the case for some time that it is advantageous in taxation terms for them to do so , since grandparents can take out a deed of covenant to cover this payment whereas parents can not .
24 Please would you let me have a VAT receipt for this payment so the Parish Council can reclaim the VAT paid .
25 The right hon. Gentleman also knows that we have provided more additional resources in this Parliament than he was even prepared to promise in his last election manifesto .
26 There was magic behind this goblet as , however much wine the traveller drank , the goblet would never seem to empty .
27 Generation has a significant role in this paradigm because in many bilingual communities , the first generation who settled in Britain from abroad were native speakers of a language very unlike English and had had little or no exposure to English .
28 An algorithm which performs this trick before it starts searching is said to be goal directed , or a backwards searcher .
29 ‘ The problem is that I learnt this trick whilst tied up and submerged in a barrel of water .
30 Just as Harry was preparing to aim a kick at this driver where it might hurt , the man offered him more milk , saying that he was a Frenchman doing forced labour and had recognised Harry 's RAF uniform — by now extremely unsuitable for pay parade !
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