Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] that this [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She did n't need to plead for long ; soon the authorities realised that this determined woman could look after students better than anyone .
2 Some researchers suggest that this environmental scanning process might best be achieved by developing especially organised environmental scanning units that are positioned towards the top of an organisation 's hierarchy .
3 The researchers found that this geographical pattern is best matched by that of sugar consumption , in which the leading countries are , in descending order , the UK , the Netherlands , Ireland , Canada and Denmark , and the countries with the lowest consumption are Italy , Yugoslavia , Spain , Portugal and Japan .
4 the authors speculated that this partisan dealignment reflected a continuing erosion of the class-party tie .
5 Parents hope that this huge investment of emotion , time and energy in training children — what we call discipline — will have its dividend , eventually , in the emergence of a young adult with good judgement and a mature , responsible outlook .
6 Thus , the planners maintain that this new demand must be disciplined in some way .
7 Overall 16 per cent of carers felt that this reduced contact with their friends and 11 per cent reported reduced family contact .
8 Nonetheless , the sharp differences in survival curves between the three comorbidity groups indicate that this simple categorisation was valid .
9 There are numerous anti-avoidance provisions to ensure that this new relief is tightly controlled .
10 Nell 's fears grew that this living creature that was neither one thing or truly the other , would never understand her .
11 Do the sponsors feel that this tawdry display does them any good ?
12 Analysis of such situations shows that this defensive process has its origin in the infantile conflict with parental authority about some form of instinctual gratification .
13 A number of developments suggest that this pessimistic attitude should be re-examined .
14 Experiments with rat embryos suggest that this increased demand for oxygen is due both to a change in metabolism , from a predominantly glycolytic source of energy to utilization of the Kreb 's cycle and electron transport system , and to a necessary compensation for the absence of a functional chorioallantoic placenta which serves in vivo as an important organ of respiratory exchange ( 18 ) .
15 Once again , many scholars believe that this allegorical interpretation is not original and was not given by Jesus .
16 However , their results show that this postnatal reduction in receptor levels is less marked in women who suffer from maternity blues , and it is suggested that this may be the cause of the depression .
17 Pre-war records show that this little lake held good stocks of the rare arctic char ( a fish of the salmon family ) and brown trout .
18 To the general public , newspapers were visibly different in tone , style , and partisan bias , even though media analysts know that this apparent variety is controlled and constrained by a handful of publishers .
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