Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the other Judaean coins of the Persian period have non-Jewish symbols ; there is no particular reason to believe that this coin bears a Jewish symbol . |
| 2 | This finding reflects the commonsense idea that people are influenced in their speech by the speakers around them . |
| 3 | This finding has an anatomical correlate : the dendritic fields of cells in the octopus optic lobe tend to be elliptical with their major axis oriented predominantly horizontally or vertically . |
| 4 | This finding confirms the genetic basis of the disorder and localises this gene to the short arm of chromosome 11 . |
| 5 | This finding suggests a direct interaction between NSAIDs , synthesis of LTB 4 , and mechanisms of subsequent mucosal injury . |
| 6 | This progress has a fraught history , however . |
| 7 | This change complicates the outside world 's struggle to rescue the war 's other victim , the principles of international conduct . |
| 8 | One final point to consider is that this computer has a variable rate ascent warning . |
| 9 | This contrast reflects the conceptual imperatives which underlay change in each company . |
| 10 | The module owner is generally the person or organisation who pays for the module ( or modules ) to be developed , although this user has no specific LIFESPAN privileges . |
| 11 | The module owner is generally the person or organisation who pays for the module ( or modules ) to be developed , although this user has no specific LIFESPAN privileges . |
| 12 | This reorganisation guarantees the technological independence of the French nuclear industry . |
| 13 | What is significant for understanding why to is used with the infinitive of reaction is that the notion of " evaluation " implies a judgement as to whether the event was opportune or not , and this judgement involves an implicit reference to the situation as it existed before the infinitive event occurred , i.e. to the factors making its occurrence either opportune or inopportune . |
| 14 | 2911 built in 1920 was No 45000 , a saloon for Railway Officers , and originally the Chairman 's saloon , an LNWR body fitted to a MKI underframe and mounted on B4 bogies in 1967 ; this saloon has an all-wood body . |
| 15 | Mytho-history of this kind provides a cosmological setting for the time and space of ordinary experience but , in addition , by exhibiting the contrast of possibilities , it offers a rationale for the complex rules and conventions which characterize " our " particular way of doing things . |
| 16 | The boundary between curriculum enhancement and the third TTT purpose , professional development , is not clear-cut : curriculum enhancement necessarily involves professional development but TTT of this kind acquires the latter label when its purposes are quite explicitly directed at improving teacher competence . |
| 17 | This function converts a real number ( one with a decimal part ) to the nearest integer ( whole number ) less than the number supplied . |
| 18 | This function returns the appropriate root of that quadratic , if it is a genuine quadratic , and computes an appropriate value if not . |
| 19 | This guitar has a two-piece alder body with the join well off-centre , but because alder is such a plain-looking wood , the join is hard to spot — something the Manson shares with most Fenders . |
| 20 | It is doubtful whether this index provides an appropriate basis for measuring the rate of inflation . |
| 21 | This story has a happy ending , because we learned later that the peregrine had been paired up with another Russian visitor of the same species . |
| 22 | This story has an added interest . |
| 23 | This field has a fixed length of 2 characters . |
| 24 | This case highlights a second weakness of Dicey 's approach , namely his assumption that individual liberty can be adequately protected by the decisions of English judges . |
| 25 | This case illustrates a common phenomenon . |
| 26 | This case illustrates the fine line between debt collection and winding-up proceedings . |
| 27 | What we find is that the virtually unadapted fabliau of this kind , a version of the world of production , religion and sexual relationships ( which do not in this case imply reproduction ) is a literary genre that , allowed to follow its own logic to the very end , shames the active characters within the tale , which in this case includes the feigned narrator . |
| 28 | My Lords , this case raises the important question whether the governors of a voluntary aided school which is over-subscribed ( i.e. has more candidates for admission than it can accommodate ) is entitled to operate an admissions policy which gives preference to children of a particular religious persuasion notwithstanding the statutory provisions which give parents a right to send their children to the school of their choice . |
| 29 | This case provides a rare glimpse into police practice and raises serious questions about the use made by the police of their arrest powers . |
| 30 | This case provides a commonplace illustration of how the division of labour in an advanced capitalist society can not be grasped in terms of agreements and exchanges between autonomous traders , and so the security craved by such relations of interdependence must be satisfied by the wider conception of contractual obligations envisaged by the interests theory . |