Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this testifies to the extreme importance attached to every status-symbol in an avidly status-conscious age . |
| 2 | This goes beyond the intrinsic error due to the device ( about 2% when measuring an inanimate object ) and is not random . |
| 3 | This goes beyond the statutory requirements against discrimination on grounds of sex , marriage and race , to include age , disability and sexual orientation . |
| 4 | This goes over the old arguments . |
| 5 | This goes to the Inland Revenue Accounts Office along with the NI contributions and tax deducted in the previous month . |
| 6 | Pedulla 's stated aim is to produce an instrument which will sound ‘ alive ’ even at flat tone settings , and credit for this goes to the Bartolini powerhouses and Pedulla 's tone-shaping circuitry . |
| 7 | I resume my explanation of the Bill , and this goes to the very heart of the issues raised by the two hon. Gentlemen . |
| 8 | This goes against the general trend of the rest of the survey ( which suggests that these groups are less well informed and less accurately informed about credit ) . |
| 9 | This goes against the general rule that says the bigger the band , the longer and more excruciatingly dull , the soundcheck . |
| 10 | Again this contributes to a continuing shift from manual to non-manual occupations which is affecting most parts of the economy . |
| 11 | Therefore the flower is ultimately linked to the earth itself , which is thought of as part of a ‘ sphere ’ — this refers to the Ptolemaic system , already out of date in the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | This differs from the moving average in that it does not use equal weightings for the past values chosen . |
| 13 | This differs from the previous exercise in that you are not looking directly at skills , but at the theoretical knowledge you require to undertake those skills safely . |
| 14 | To start with , there are more energy levels : for a d 3 system , for instance , the ground free ion term is usually 4 F , but this splits in an octahedral field into three levels — 4 A 2g , 4 T 2g and 4 T 1g , just as the f orbitals split into a 2u , t 2u and t 1u sets in an octahedral field . |
| 15 | This points to a toxic effect of the alcohol itself . |
| 16 | But even this points to a living belief in the supernatural realm . |
| 17 | This points to a significant disharmony between the rhetoric of schooling and the practice . |
| 18 | This points to a big difference between now and ten years ago . |
| 19 | This points to the real worry about 1991 : not that it will not be good enough , but that it will be too good . |
| 20 | Surely , all of this points to the urgent need to define a common strategy and a corporate working agenda . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One fails to see what relevance this has to the present issue at hand which is to deal with the present-day traffic using the estate . |
| 23 | Given that many of these theories require extremely detailed specifications of grammar rules and lexical entries this has for a long time formed an obstacle to the production of general systems . |
| 24 | This looks like a good item for your Christmas shopping list ! |
| 25 | ‘ This looks like a good job , ’ I though , unaware that I had arrived in the middle of Danny Baker 's leaving party . |
| 26 | Now this looks like a good game to bet on , because a probability of one , is an absolute certainty . |
| 27 | ‘ This looks like a nice spot ’ |
| 28 | This looks like a tiny tadpole . |
| 29 | To account for this , we would need first of all to explain how the form how about VERBing is more or less restricted to usages in suggestions ( again , this looks like a linguistic form that has pragmatic rather than semantic content , a problem discussed in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ This looks like a delightful place . |