Example sentences of "this [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does this make a significant difference to the the hous household requirement ? |
| 2 | This became a forward base for the NPFL , and reports told of ships being diverted to Buchanan and their cargoes used to replenish the rebel supplies . |
| 3 | Green also made much of Claude 's ‘ Air ’ and this became a paramount feature in the Ambleside painter 's work . |
| 4 | This became a strong reason to him for the practice of private confession . |
| 5 | Since this became a standard feature of trusts it is not helpful to treat it as if it were dependent solely on an especially close regard for the testator 's intention . |
| 6 | This became the saddest decision of all . |
| 7 | This became the Working Committee of the UGCC , but Nkrumah rapidly discovered that there was little else : there were only two branches , both inactive . |
| 8 | The state of continual fear which Hobbes attributed to natural man outside society was , for Vico , a characteristic of emergent civilized man inside society , and this became the generative source for much of human culture . |
| 9 | After the war this became the British section of the Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom , a transnational organization which exists to this day . |
| 10 | This became an emergent feature of British ( and other European ) inclusive tour companies in the late 1960s as the expansion of charter non-scheduled activity gained momentum . |
| 11 | This constitutes a ritualistic burning of the books in which the characters were conceived ; they are thus taken out of the ‘ old world ’ of their origins and made to embark on an adventure in the ‘ new world ’ of Brooke-Rose 's novel . |
| 12 | In terms of historical explanation the last difficulty is particularly important since TFP analysis pulsates to the rhythm of the sub-period and , as subsequent discussion will show , this constitutes a major problem for the so-called war period of 1937–51 . |
| 13 | By contrast , a curriculum for young people with disabilities or learning difficulties often centres around a ‘ preparation for adulthood ’ as if this constitutes a recognisable area of study . |
| 14 | Arguably the appointment of an administrator for the more advantageous realisation of the company 's assets than a winding-up has this effect since this constitutes a virtual cessation of business . |
| 15 | This constitutes a fundamental challenge to the basis of the British planning system , and raises a host of thorny questions about the nature and efficacy of the system . |
| 16 | Mr Hurd said ‘ this constitutes a different situation from that implied ’ by Mr Garel-Jones . |
| 17 | The first demarcation is between what is and is not ‘ higher education ’ ; this constitutes the general boundary within which knowledge and curricula are structured . |
| 18 | This constitutes the Bajocian Stage of the Middle . |
| 19 | This encourages a balanced view of Catholics , something which , as we shall emphasize in later chapters , can be absent amongst some policemen beleaguered behind their reinforced stations in areas of high tension and conflict . |
| 20 | But the agencies prefer to avoid complaints wherever possible , and this encourages an administrative inclination for equity of treatment , even though ‘ scientific ’ judgment may dictate otherwise . |
| 21 | For example , the adjective ‘ stone ’ modifies the noun ‘ bridge ’ in the expression ‘ stone bridge ’ , and this denotes a subordinate type of noun class . |
| 22 | This subdivides the whole field of science and technology into about 60 000 subdivisions . |
| 23 | A phrase from the Conservative 's manifesto last year , we are the only party that understands the need for low taxation , has now returned to haunt them , for an MP in a marginal constituency this evokes the electoral ghost of George Bush , so he firmly rules out increases in income tax , but would n't mind putting V A T on newspapers and books . |
| 24 | This evokes the Nazi pogrom against the Jews in November 1938 , and depicts the burning synagogues , photos of the artist 's own German/Jewish relations , and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse . |
| 25 | This displays the latest version of the module currently known to LIFESPAN . |
| 26 | All this imposes a powerful constraint on language acquisition from the allegedly scanty data available to any child . |
| 27 | Indeed , as experimental psychology of animals evolves from simple behaviourism — the simple response experiments of Skinner — to the more complex information-theory of positive science , it becomes ever clearer that the minds of animals — and I use the word advisedly , meaning their capacity to reason from stored information — are extremely complex , and this imposes a greater responsibility on us . |
| 28 | A debate such as this imposes a special obligation on those who take part in it . |
| 29 | This imposes no real burden in small problems solved by hand . |
| 30 | This imposes an additional demand on the system of levels . |