Example sentences of "this [verb] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All around us were mountains ; they were often half-smothered in cloud , but in the evenings this lifted and then the crests loomed over us , rain-washed , clear-cut and splendid . |
| 2 | They had to reconcile the interests of poor peasants with the larger national goals of providing for the war and this meant that how the C C P had to take a more moderate erm policy . |
| 3 | To use a common denigrating quote of a ‘ PR job ’ , this implies that somehow the truth is being hidden behind a glossy or false facade . |
| 4 | This would be fine but the natural type of memory for a modern machine , a 286 or 386 , is extended memory and this means that often a machine will have 4 or 8 MBytes of memory that a simple spreadsheet just can not make use of . |
| 5 | It will be irresponsible to allow this to happen and therefore the company will maintain normal port services irrespective of any union ballot . |
| 6 | This suggests that either the K + channel bearing cells were overgrown by other cell types when true confluency was achieved , or confluency was associated with full polarisation of the cells and mvoement of K + channels to the basolateral membrane , which was inaccessible to the patch pipette . |
| 7 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |