Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better ( > ) slow gentle motion ; this soothes them both generally and their specific complaints — pains , headaches etc . |
| 2 | Wheat beers also use top-fermenting yeasts ( they are not lagers , contrary to widespread belief ) , and this renders them doubly fruity . |
| 3 | This renders them sterile and has resulted in their virtual elimination from the Southampton and Solent coastal waters . |
| 4 | Because sentencing is viewed by magistrates as a craft or mystery , whose rites are known only to initiates , ( as opposed to a rational enterprise dedicated to the pursuit of externally defined goals ) , this renders it both impervious to criticism from outside , and highly resistant to attempts at external control . |
| 5 | An understanding of this renders it much easier to comprehend the no evidence doctrine and the reasons for the exceptions made to it in more recent years . |
| 6 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | And there is the fact that he is a good painter , and I know he will be quite famous one day , and this influences me more than it should . |
| 8 | No that , that , that , this is erm this irritates me . |
| 9 | This encourages him to continue unwinding his thread . |
| 10 | Community relations and neighbourhood policing reverses the process of depersonalization , and with regard to the police this encourages them to develop a more subtle set of typifications which categorize the majority of residents in West Belfast as decent , honest , and , at root , friendly . |
| 11 | This encourages them to listen to the responses and to each other . |
| 12 | Naturally , this involves her taking her clothes off … |
| 13 | All this involves him in a vast amount of estate business as well as , he says with a mixture of relish and despair , ‘ this desperate business of patronage ’ . |
| 14 | This involves him charting ‘ the social space in which individual subjectivities are constituted and reproduced , the differing forms and effectivity of social struggle , and the character of the state ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 15 | This involves them in the same difficulties as those faced , or evaded , by psychologists . |
| 16 | This involves me in some paperwork , which , however tedious … |
| 17 | This involves you or someone else in a chain with you being paid by goods , services or benefits , instead of in real money . |
| 18 | Quite simply , this guarantees you money which you will certainly need if a key person dies , or is too ill or too injured to work . |
| 19 | Fear , hate , love — this fascinates me . |
| 20 | This upsets me even more . |
| 21 | This offers you an opportunity to expand the scope of adventuring in the Castle greatly . |
| 22 | Peter Davis , Reed 's chief executive , said : ‘ This offers us a unique opportunity to expand our subscription-based information publishing for the legal market , which we know well and where we are under-represented in the US . ’ |
| 23 | This offers us the possibility of separating the picture from the sound and the potential of this in a language classroom is great . |
| 24 | Presumably should we therefore have something that covers quality , oh sorry no this covers it does n't it , yeah , o.k . |
| 25 | This has you aiming for each number in turn ( 1–20 ) , finishing on the bull . |
| 26 | So far we 've not been it 's not been like this has it ? |
| 27 | This pits him against dance , ragga , and hip hop beats . |
| 28 | This has been done in a number of papers and in this sections we outline the results of a study by Attfield and Duck ( 1983 ) ( henceforth AD ) . |
| 29 | While visiting the local volcano , Serena is profoundly upset by the sight of hardened lava fields around a bubbling centre , and this causes her to have a nervous breakdown . |
| 30 | She is still haunted by the grief of her husband 's death and this causes her to shrink into her own world of deception . |