Example sentences of "[coord] this [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was never , as we have seen , the Labour government 's intention that the independence of India should be the prelude to a general nunc dimittis , and this disposes of the plausible notion that once India was gone the pointlessness of holding on to the rest of the dependent empire , supposedly acquired to protect the sea routes to Bombay , was immediately perceived . |
| 2 | For more than 25 years the only English transmission from Holland on Sundays has been ‘ The Happy Station ’ programme , the longest running radio show in the world which started in 1928 , and this continues in the new Sunday slot for Europe . |
| 3 | Easthope concedes , ‘ Spoken performance of pentameter is accordingly open to variation in a way accentual verse is not ’ , and this points to the massive lacuna at the heart of his book . |
| 4 | The consumption rate of ectotherm predators is equal to its own body weight every sixty days , and this contrasts with the mammalian rate of its own body-weight every 6.6 days for wild dogs , 8.0 for lions , and 10 days for cheetahs . |
| 5 | On reaching the surface the residual gas pressure is consequently very high and this results in the violent bursting of gas bubbles in the magma and the generation of highly explosive eruptions which generate large volumes of tephra . |
| 6 | I resume my explanation of the Bill , and this goes to the very heart of the issues raised by the two hon. Gentlemen . |
| 7 | The ‘ new angle ’ must be sought to retain reader interest , and this goes beyond the cynical . |
| 8 | People often assume that personality and behaviour are one and the same and this leads to the erroneous assumption that because the fundamentals of your personality are relatively fixed so also is your behaviour . |
| 9 | When the Schaffer collateral-commissural pathway is stimulated it also activates GABAergic interneurons ( through glutamatergic synapses similar to those on pyramidal neurons ) and this leads to the biphasic i.p.s.p. which curtails the e.p.s.p . |
| 10 | The picture is in black and white — there is never enough night light for colours to emerge — and this adds to the unreal quality . |
| 11 | Child Benefit is the only benefit that carries automatic entitlement , and this accounts for the virtual 100% take-up of this benefit . |
| 12 | Liquidity surpluses have become quite common and this accounts for the increased issue of Treasury bills of late . |
| 13 | A registered charity , all dogs and prospective owners are vetted and this accounts for the high success rate but it must be kept in mind that people who need to find a new home for their dog usually have a problem , or a problem dog . |
| 14 | Here we would never maintain the whole is suffering environmental decline , but that parts of it are , and this matters to the numerous people living there . |
| 15 | did before or after the events we are told of in the tales , and this holds for the great majority of the fabliaux . |
| 16 | Aronson sees Sartre 's turn to the cause of resisting colonial oppression as an act of ‘ self-flagellation ’ and a product of politico-theoretical despair , but this passes over the historical and political context in which Sartre , and Les Temps modernes , played a leading role in the opposition to the Algerian war . |