Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | Starting with Homer and finishing with Virginia Woolf , Auerbach uses this framework to characterize the different ways in which a selection of writers represented reality across the centuries , and in so doing traces the gradual abandonment of the principle of decorum in favour of a more modern standard , according to which seriousness and realism are wholly compatible . |
| 4 | This change complicates the outside world 's struggle to rescue the war 's other victim , the principles of international conduct . |
| 5 | To find out what her research subjects were getting up to , this scientist took the direct approach . |
| 6 | This contrast reflects the conceptual imperatives which underlay change in each company . |
| 7 | This reorganisation guarantees the technological independence of the French nuclear industry . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 10 | A little reflection will show how matters of this kind affect the landed interest . " |
| 11 | This function returns the appropriate root of that quadratic , if it is a genuine quadratic , and computes an appropriate value if not . |
| 12 | However , if the mail message has two or more pages , you can use this field to inspect the remaining pages . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This case had the desired effect of persuading other recalcitrant authorities to proceed more quickly . |
| 16 | This quake happened in Tangshan province in north-east China and is the only one ever known to have occurred in a really densely populated area , in this case involving the major cities of Peking and Tientsin . |
| 17 | This case illustrates the fine line between debt collection and winding-up proceedings . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 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 | This technique records the exact points in the sentence which the reader fixates , and the time of each fixation . |
| 26 | Coupled with the almost equally difficult situation in Hungary this resistance disrupted the fragile unity of the Habsburg dominions . |
| 27 | This Preface summarises the main respects in which the proposals of the FRED differ from those of the Discussion Paper , and explains why certain proposals were retained although some commentators pointed out difficulties or expressed objections . |
| 28 | Retrace this route to rejoin the main leisure route . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The specific concerns of this bargaining cover the following areas : 1 Concern that the productivity gains from new technology are equitably distributed by improving wage and other benefits , and , as an alternative to job losses , by increasing/diversifying output and reduced working time . |