Example sentences of "this [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exaggeration or over-simplification of the notion of commonality within the gens as regards ownership of property is also apparent in the discussion of kinship and this led equally to a fundamental misunderstanding . |
| 2 | This looks forward to a future phase of professionalism . |
| 3 | This looks almost like a long unused guest room with a view . |
| 4 | This adds up to a total cost of just under £20 bn , or about £6,600 per unemployed person . |
| 5 | Their visibility or otherwise , the ways in which they are coded , policed , censored , constructed , praised or punished , the ways in which and levels at which they are represented as engaging with the viewer , and the contexts in which women 's bodies are placed in images and how images of women 's bodies are then distributed and consumed — all this adds up to a subtle politics of the representation of women 's bodies . |
| 6 | All of this adds up to a personal credo that we are not just specialized apes but a unique and peculiar species of our own . |
| 7 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 8 | Some animals have this honed down to a fine art . |
| 9 | Simmel places exchange at the point at which Hegel constructs society , and this articulates well with a major tradition in anthropological theory , where it is exchange , often viewed in terms of the polarity of gift and commodity , which is seen as constitutive of society itself ( e.g. Appadurai 1986 ; Lévi-Strauss 1969 ; Sahlins 1974 : 165–183 ) . |
| 10 | prisons , being regarded by most planners and politicians as ‘ non-productive ’ ( short-sighted a view as this may be ) , did not until very recently achieve even token inclusion in a Five Year Plan , and this came only after a lengthy battle by individuals within the Ministries of Home Affairs and Welfare to include a meaningful package for development in the correctional field . |
| 11 | A disadvantage of the microscope aid is that as the magnification increases the size of the lens has to decrease , owing to the weight and expense of high-powered lenses , and this results again in a smaller field of view . |
| 12 | This happens rapidly in a steady wind but can be helped by shaking the kite . |
| 13 | This happens only over a limited Reynolds number range . |
| 14 | Yet the picture that all this conjures up of a thin red , white and blue line defending civilization and the British sense of ‘ fair play ’ against serried ranks of black barbarians is suddenly counterpointed by an even more arresting image — that of the police themselves who are frightening the local inhabitants of Brixton by whooping like red indians , and beating on their shields like Zulu warriors . |
| 15 | This leads on to a major guideline for all consequences : |
| 16 | This leads on to a third aspect — the redistributive effect over a person 's lifetime , rather than just in the current period . |
| 17 | This leads on to a dramatic low and a severe craving for another dose of the stuff . |
| 18 | This leads on to a further point . |
| 19 | It is here that alternative approaches are discussed and weighted , and this leads ultimately to a refined solution . |
| 20 | This leads directly to a further difference : an orthodox practitioner is likely to treat all cases of influenza with the same drug , an antibiotic perhaps ; whereas the homoeopathic practitioner may use different remedies , depending on the patient 's reaction to the influenza , as we saw in the cases illustrated above . |
| 21 | This keeps well in a screw-top jar in the fridge . |
| 22 | This appears almost as a solid wall of mist , obscuring the view . |
| 23 | It is an excellent rule not to destroy any living organism without good cause , and this applies particularly to a potential human being . |
| 24 | This consists primarily of a 15-year mapping programme which began in 1990/91 . |
| 25 | Regrettably this consists only of a short description of the mechanical working of the lift , taken from Thomas 's own description , giving no assessment of the lift 's success in use , despite the fact that it appeared six months after the lift 's entry into service . |
| 26 | Oh right mm so it 's , it , this , this emerges out of a personal interest thing ? |
| 27 | I did this walk once on a bright June day with Pat and Bill the dog . |
| 28 | This brought together in a simplified form a number of remedies obtainable from a Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division consisting of two or three judges . |
| 29 | This went on for a long time . |
| 30 | Like the 1970 Werner Report this looked forward to a full EMU in the long term , with free capital movements , fixed exchange rates ( or maybe a common currency ) and a central budgetary institution . |