Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 This has its advantages for the mother .
2 This has its origin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Japan realised it needed natural resources from overseas in order to industrialise effectively to compete with the West .
3 While this has its origins in the manipulation of plant and animal species that began c. 10 kyr BP ( section 3.3 ) it has been confined to plant and animal breeding programmes .
4 One of the Trust 's most precious assets is the experience , skill and commitment of its staff ; this has its reward in the standards of upkeep and presentation of the properties , and in the enjoyment which the members and wider public , in their tens of millions , gain from them each year .
5 We begin this section by providing a brief introduction to its calculation in the private sector , as this complements our discussion in the previous section and is a useful preface to considering what is an appropriate rate for public sector investment opportunities .
6 Many drugs are acidic or alkaline and this affects their removal in the urine ; acidic drugs are excreted more easily in the daytime and alkaline ones at night .
7 We therefore have to ask our members to contribute to the upkeep by way of fund-raising activities and this increases their spending on the Institute by many pounds per annum .
8 The Manager using the system is constantly face to face with data and this increases his knowledge of the company and its personnel .
9 This concerns your responsibility for the accuracy of the parliamentary record .
10 This takes its name from the shift to the left of the curve relating the slope of the population e.p.s.p .
11 Foraging for food in the depths of winter often means travelling through deep snow , and this takes its toll of the goat population .
12 It has also been observed that although these patients continue to experience chest pain , the knowledge that the oesophagus is the source of this reduces their perception of the disability and their requests to see a physician .
13 If unc such that a ) unc ( b ) unc c ) if the jth components of unc and unc are respectively denoted eij and fij then unc This completes our definition of the normal form .
14 The masses are often emotionally attached to their masters , and this lessens their hostility to the social order .
15 Saying this lays my head on the block , because the modern climber is much better at small hold pulling and on jamming cracks , thrutchy chimneys and greasy grooves , than I am .
16 This changes their uptake into the brain and incorporation into substances that enable brain cells to communicate with each other and the rest of the body .
17 This traces his training in the traditional virtues of upper-middle-class English childhood : free emotional deprivation at home , followed by fee-paying emotional deprivation at a public ( ie , private ) school .
18 This matches its role at the centre of the company .
19 This leaves their challengers with the uphill task of performing early to a half empty venue , or , in the case of SENSER , consigned to the early morning graveyard shift , by which time most of the audience has ( literally ) crashed out .
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