Example sentences of "this [verb] that [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This showed that 1 million East Anglian and Midlands consumers regularly drank water above the 50 mg/litre standard , and another 3.8 million drank water almost as polluted during 1984/5 . |
| 2 | This meant that these two factors were hard to disentangle . |
| 3 | This means that all four cases can now be solved . |
| 4 | Although it is widely agreed that successful innovations need to couple R&D , manufacturing , and marketing activities to ensure that new products can be manufactured at reasonable cost and are attractive to consumers , it is not completely obvious that this means that all three activities always need to be conducted under the same roof . |
| 5 | This means that 166 million days were lost through sickness absence in 1992 . |
| 6 | This means that these 43 people have lost any right to apply for an exit visa , whereas normally Jews waiting to leave keep on applying hoping that eventually the visa will be granted . |
| 7 | This means that any one section can be amended and reprinted easily . |
| 8 | Er so we are all very keen to see this get these extra fire fighters but as he has n't identified the source for which they could pay more , this believes that fifty thousand pounds which slices , there is a good way of doing it and suggest that that 's the way we should do it . |
| 9 | This suggests that these two forms of temporary labour are not usually functional equivalents . |