Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which current Conservative cabinet minister was reputed to have said of John Stonehouse 's faked suicide , ‘ This goes to show that old politicians never die , they simply wade away ’ ? |
| 2 | This involves showing that reasonable care was not taken in the manufacture . |
| 3 | Along with the rise of local voluntary and community groups , often funded by the local council , this has ensured that local authority politics have increased markedly in both their visibility and their differentiation . |
| 4 | This has supposed that feminist effort should be devoted , first , to showing how the ‘ images ’ in question oppress or denigrate women , and second , to offering positive images of women to replace these . |
| 5 | Typically this has meant that economic policy has emphasised the primacy of industry over agriculture , investment over consumption and exports over imports . |
| 6 | This has meant that many enthusiasts for computing in the humanities have an uncomfortable sense of crisis , a feeling of promise unfulfilled . |
| 7 | This has meant that many studies tend to concentrate on the objective assessment of a fiscally quantifiable reality . |
| 8 | As far as study of the mystics is concerned , this has meant that modern readers have felt inhibited about discussing these texts and have attributed to them an abstruse esoteric quality ; this is ironic in view of the fact that the mystics themselves proclaim their experience to be of fundamental human importance — and essentially simple . |
| 9 | This has meant that domestic plumbing has been brought within the reach of the competent handyman . |
| 10 | This has meant that common law and equity have developed alongside one another and equitable principles have helped to extend the bounds of remedies available . |
| 11 | This has meant that dead animals are left by the roadside for the council to collect , and the local slaughterhouses have been receiving sick animals as some farmers try to use it as a replacement for the knacker 's yard . |
| 12 | This has meant that legally-held guns and those applying to hold them are already subject to very tight controls . ’ |
| 13 | This has meant that underground aquifers , which supply much of the water requirements of the south-east , have shrunk to the lowest level on record . |
| 14 | Sometimes the author 's identity is given away by some small detail reflecting a habit of expression or thought , and this seems to confirm that each writer has a linguistic " thumbprint " an individual combination of linguistic habits which somehow betrays him in all that he writes . |
| 15 | This seems to indicate that most drivers have heeded the message of drink driving campaigns . |
| 16 | The basic components of Maslow 's theory are often presented as a pyramid , but this seems to imply that those needs situated at the top of the pyramid are more important than those at the bottom . |