Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finding serves to refute the powerful myth that older people are neglected by their family and that the main burden of caring for older people falls upon the state . |
| 2 | There is plenty of evidence in the Review that taking a professional stance of this kind helped sustain the discursive architecture of English studies in the interwar period , especially in taking the disputative and judgemental stance of Parliament and the Law and borrowing the language from those discourses . |
| 3 | Any major player in this field has to take the imminent MPEG standard very seriously . |
| 4 | Action at this level aims to avoid the worst effects of chronic family difficulties and to prevent clients from being drawn into increasingly intrusive interventions ( Wharf , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | This response has incorporated the respectable face of feminism , concerned with ‘ equal rights ’ , into its understanding and provision , with a range of initiatives intended to acknowledge the justice of equal opportunities . |
| 6 | This study aimed to use the same methods to examine anorectal function in 23 patients with complete supraconal spinal cord lesions and to determinate the relationship between the site of the lesion and the existence of inconsistent phenomena . |
| 7 | This study aims to set the current problem in its context by describing developments in the relationship between central and local government between 1945 and 1983 . |
| 8 | This research aims to monitor the continuing but tentative humanitarian , parliamentary and economic contacts between the regimes to detect any changes in their positions , and to gauge what impact their contacts are having upon their domestic politics . |
| 9 | This research aims to determine the relative importance of ‘ area ’ and ‘ personal ’ characteristics in explaining local variations in school-leaver employment and unemployment within Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1981 . |
| 10 | This research aims to uncover the special role of refugee migrations , ‘ brain drains ’ and international movements of personnel generally in scientific growth , particularly as regards the development of new scientific specialities and disciplines such as theoretical physics , applied mathematics , bio-physics and molecular biology . |
| 11 | To help redress this imbalance , this chapter seeks to evaluate the MDC's policy and practice and will complement Colenutt 's contribution on London in this volume . |
| 12 | This chapter aims to assess the Working for patients White Paper in the light of the changing nature of the finance function . |
| 13 | This chapter aims to clarify the important issues . |
| 14 | This chapter has traced the main phases in the history of International Relations as a discipline and has thereby set an agenda for the rest of the book . |
| 15 | This chapter has had the modest aim of explaining only the kind of way in which it must have happened . |
| 16 | This chapter has described the main premises about types of care needed which underlay the way the action project was designed . |
| 17 | This chapter has considered the two most natural methods of recognition used by humans — speech and writing . |
| 18 | This chapter has considered the important topic of money : we examined the definition of money , its functions and traced its evolution from the days of the goldsmiths . |
| 19 | This reasoning fails to meet the logical objection , identified some years earlier by Lord Devlin , that a ‘ purpose must exist in the mind . |
| 20 | This augmentation seemed to give the right behaviour on the texts that SPAR processed . |
| 21 | This Plan has updated the local contribution and suggests a new target reduction of 880 casualties . |
| 22 | First , the gurus argued , this slump had produced the first fall in house prices since the early 1950s . |
| 23 | Does this Institute want to forfeit the small end of the market ? ’ |
| 24 | This work has shown the gradual deterioration of performance as random additions are made to a file , and the marked acceleration of this process as records are allocated to independent overflow . |
| 25 | This is not the first time that this issue has reached the public domain , or will it be the last time that the House is asked to focus on the rights and duties of citizens in circumstances — from time to time inevitable circumstances — when the interests of one individual or one set of individuals necessarily impinge on and potentially damage the interests of others . |
| 26 | This grouping sought to oppose the civil rights programme in which Truman called for the establishment of a more powerful Fair Employment Practices Commission , a law to make lynching a Federal crime , and the removal of obstacles preventing blacks from voting . |
| 27 | Industrial innovation is crucial for the future and this proposal aims to inform the growing debate on how it should be successfully managed . |
| 28 | Agriculture is an extensive activity with dispersed employment , but this sector has seen the largest decline . |
| 29 | When social services departments were first established a number , perhaps a majority , incorporated some research capacity into their structure and in some departments this capacity has survived the many reorganizations , changes of policy and fluctuations of resources which have taken place since 1970 . |
| 30 | This glaciation has given the Outer Hebrides a complex relief of rock knobs , and small , peat- or water-filled hollows , and intersecting linear grooves or valleys often occupied by lochs and lochans . |