Example sentences of "[conj] this [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some repetition of certain material does occur , however , in several chapters , although this means that each chapter may be read almost independently of the others . |
| 2 | Also Bosanquet has argued vigorously for over a decade — and has not been alone — that this suggests that younger age cohorts are growing up fitter and will not necessarily need such varied and prolonged care in the future . |
| 3 | I know that the ‘ black baby ’ campaign was merely an attempt at fund-raising , but when one realizes that this implies that black children were ‘ for sale ’ one can see that this term would be deeply offensive to black Catholics and others . |
| 4 | Yet it is misleading to suggest that this means that legal authority depends on nothing more than the testator 's intention , whatever it may be . |
| 5 | However , two major points rule out the view that this means that indiscriminate attacks ( including the use of nuclear weapons ) are how legitimate . |
| 6 | He moved round the room — in so far as it was possible in such cramped quarters — glad to he relieved momentarily of desk work but perhaps by way of indicating that the interview must be conducted as if we were both on the move ; and this meant that certain remarks were addressed to the window or the mantelpiece . |
| 7 | Thucydides wanted to give a wholly reliable account of the wars between Athens and Sparta ; and this meant that unverified assumptions about the past had to be excluded . ’ |
| 8 | Faults occur at less frequent intervals and this means that human maintenance expertise can deteriorate through lack of practice . |
| 9 | Although some DNA adducts are lost in the course of DNA extraction during the enhancement procedures and in the chromatography stage of this assay , and this means that true adduct levels tend to be underestimated , valuable information on relative adduct levels is emerging . |
| 10 | We are determined to see the earliest possible introduction of cable and this means that national requirements should be minimal . ’ |
| 11 | The real problem is that there are situations where negative pecuniary externalities exist , and this means that co-operative R&D ventures may end up doing less R&D than independent firms would have done in the same setting . |
| 12 | One problem lies in the fact that the space is considerably wider than it is long and this means that any design needs to lead the eye away from the all-too-close rectangular boundaries . |
| 13 | Standardization is a statistical technique which takes into account the differential age distribution ( see Table 4.11 ) and this suggests that older women do indeed experience more ill health than males of the same age . |
| 14 | Often , partners can be depressed by the disinterest that each shows towards the other , and this indicates that such marriages have lost the ability to meet the needs of the individual for companionship . |
| 15 | In England any road leading to a port or a market was a royal road , and this indicates that royal interest was not confined to providing roads for the movement and provision of royal armies , but was concerned with trade and markets . |
| 16 | Where more than two pellet samples are available , for instance for barn owls and tawny owls , the within species similarities observed in bone breakage and digestion are greater than the differences from other species , and this indicates that single pellet collections probably are representative of the species . |
| 17 | The simplest solution might appear to be to ban battery cages altogether and keep all hens free range or in percheries : but this presupposes that these alternatives really are better for the birds . |
| 18 | Ya'kub and Fenarizade Zeyneddin , for example , rose from kasabat kadiliks to the kadiliks of Aleppo , and Damascus and Aleppo , respectively not long after the Ottoman conquest of those two cities ; but whether this means that these scholars ' careers represent exceptions to the rule or , on the other hand , that Aleppo and Damascus were not yet regarded as mevleviyets is not entirely clear . |