Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is that the folding of the ears brings them forward and this places them in a posture that is not part of the usual ear-lowering signal . |
| 2 | All this leads me to the conclusion that the greater part of the passage of geological time has left over most of the earth no more than Shakespeare 's " gap in nature " . |
| 3 | This leads us to a discussion of the concept of ‘ information management ’ . |
| 4 | This leads us to the composition and behaviour of sports crowds , especially at football matches and the current debate about the reasons for hooliganism . |
| 5 | Our concern then Mr Mayor is to see social housing used correctly , for those in greatest need and this leads us to the conclusion that means testing is the best way to ensure , is positive discrimination in favour of people in such need . |
| 6 | He then goes on to say that after her death he loved her more than when she was alive — this leads us into a trap , for we begin to feel that the old man was a ghoulish sentimentalist . |
| 7 | But this leads us into the area of secularisation that has been the most damaging to the Christian church . |
| 8 | It also provides a clinical procedure for treating some psychological conditions , but this takes us beyond the scope of the present book . |
| 9 | This takes us into an area of discussion — what has broadly come to be known as ‘ the environment ’ — which will be dealt with in the following chapter . |
| 10 | This takes us into the realm of language . |
| 11 | This takes you to the top of the crane and the two flags — well done , level complete . |
| 12 | This forewarns us of the issue of SELECTION which will be taken up in Chapter 2 . |
| 13 | This distinguishes them from the state agencies that provide health , education or other services on the basis of bureaucratic criteria such as need and entitlement , rather than as commodities to be bought and sold in the market . |
| 14 | Returning to the central theme of the present chapter , electrical activity can be correlated with behaviour and this helps us towards an understanding of the neural mechanisms and cognitive processes underlying behaviour . |
| 15 | This prompts you for the input range and you type this in or select it by pointing . |
| 16 | This compensates us for the cost of processing your booking , advertising your holiday for sale , and reflects the risk that the holiday may remain unsold . |
| 17 | CD PHANTASM ( this moves you into the Phantasm directory ) |
| 18 | This puts them at an advantage in terms of trading within the EC , and within a Europe whose centre of gravity is shifting steadily eastwards . |
| 19 | This puts me in the position of having to either cancel the project — which would be a great discouragment to the volunteers , who might be reluctant to come forward again having been let down over this one — or risk going on without funding ( and then perhaps being told that funding can not be granted retrospectively ? ) . |
| 20 | When she is in her own home this puts her above the income support level of £44 personal allowance , plus a higher pensioner premium of £23.55 , totalling £67.55 . |
| 21 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 22 | Pa talking like this reminds me of the witch in the Snow White video : ‘ Cymbeline 's bought you strawberries and ice cream m for tea , ’ it says . |
| 23 | All this reminds me of the ideas of Michel Foucault . |
| 24 | This maintains them within the layer of plant plankton upon which they feed . |
| 25 | This leaves him with a personality that is highly developed in one direction at the expense of the rest . |
| 26 | If we persist in interpreting virginity and motherhood only in a physical sense this leaves us with a problem , and she once again becomes a burden by being an impossible act to follow . |
| 27 | Thus although it is commonly suggested that the notion of certainty is relevant to the analysis of claims to knowledge , but not to the analysis of knowledge itself ( e.g. , in Woozley , 1953 ) , this leaves us with no method of explaining why certainty should be required before one can claim knowledge when it is not required for knowledge itself , i.e. , for the existence of what one is claiming . |
| 28 | This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true . |
| 29 | This brings you to a barn . |
| 30 | This brings us to a consideration of whether these programmes are capable of suggesting appropriate remedies . |