Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finding reflects the commonsense idea that people are influenced in their speech by the speakers around them . |
| 2 | This finding confirms the genetic basis of the disorder and localises this gene to the short arm of chromosome 11 . |
| 3 | This change complicates the outside world 's struggle to rescue the war 's other victim , the principles of international conduct . |
| 4 | To find out what her research subjects were getting up to , this scientist took the direct approach . |
| 5 | This reorganisation guarantees the technological independence of the French nuclear industry . |
| 6 | The addition of the individual awards which would be made in the course of the aju this judgement achieve the total figure of one million eight hundred and fourteen thousand six hundred and fifty two pounds and twenty eight pence . |
| 7 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 8 | A little reflection will show how matters of this kind affect the landed interest . " |
| 9 | The boundary between curriculum enhancement and the third TTT purpose , professional development , is not clear-cut : curriculum enhancement necessarily involves professional development but TTT of this kind acquires the latter label when its purposes are quite explicitly directed at improving teacher competence . |
| 10 | This function returns the appropriate root of that quadratic , if it is a genuine quadratic , and computes an appropriate value if not . |
| 11 | I should like to take this opportunity to thank the vast majority of our shareholders who have clearly recognized Palatine 's potential and have remained unimpressed by the attempted takeover . |
| 12 | The lack of a contingency plan for this eventuality left the all-important Army of Africa , together with its commanders , General Franco and Colonel Yagüe ( who , under Franco 's orders , had been in charge of the Legion during the repression of the Asturian revolutionary movement in 1934 ) , stranded on the far side of the Straits of Gibraltar . |
| 13 | This case had the desired effect of persuading other recalcitrant authorities to proceed more quickly . |
| 14 | This case illustrates the fine line between debt collection and winding-up proceedings . |
| 15 | What we find is that the virtually unadapted fabliau of this kind , a version of the world of production , religion and sexual relationships ( which do not in this case imply reproduction ) is a literary genre that , allowed to follow its own logic to the very end , shames the active characters within the tale , which in this case includes the feigned narrator . |
| 16 | My Lords , this case raises the important question whether the governors of a voluntary aided school which is over-subscribed ( i.e. has more candidates for admission than it can accommodate ) is entitled to operate an admissions policy which gives preference to children of a particular religious persuasion notwithstanding the statutory provisions which give parents a right to send their children to the school of their choice . |
| 17 | And so it seems self-evident that the subject of language should also draw on a cognate disciplinary source even though it happens in this case to have the different name of linguistics . |
| 18 | This case provides the clearest indication of how the popular press may trade in deciding the appropriate nickname for a new case when the Star decided to focus special attention on this rape of a 6-year-old ‘ He 's been called The Beast , The Monster , the evil sex maniac … . |
| 19 | The designer must in this case provide the six displacement and rotation vectors to transform the model from its drawn space , into the reference for the component within the complete machine . |
| 20 | This prayer expresses the closest relationship between God and Jesus , as can be seen by the use of the word ‘ Abba ’ . |
| 21 | Will my right hon. Friend take time this afternoon to watch the recent interview by Mr. David Frost , which revealed the success of the Government 's health service provisions , and also that the Opposition 's figures are totally bogus ? |
| 22 | But before taking the action some members will begin a vigil in Cardiff this afternoon to give the Welsh Language Education Committee ( PDAG ) one last chance not to co-operate with what they claim are the Government 's education ‘ quangos . ’ |
| 23 | Virtually noone at this level uses the high elbow that we commonly teach in the UK . |
| 24 | This yacht spends the whole year in the Caribbean . |
| 25 | It is a good idea to practise this technique using the same piece of music each time and the length of one side of a cassette or record ( usually about twenty minutes ) is just about right for this exercise . |
| 26 | Coupled with the almost equally difficult situation in Hungary this resistance disrupted the fragile unity of the Habsburg dominions . |
| 27 | Retrace this route to rejoin the main leisure route . |
| 28 | It was as if the Party had failed in this instance to honour the tacit bargain and had allowed heavy-handed politics to intrude seriously upon fun . |
| 29 | This course provides the required knowledge and skills to plan and conduct improvement programmes for tree species . |
| 30 | This certificate produced the desired effect and I was allowed to stay at home on parade days . |