Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again this contributes to a continuing shift from manual to non-manual occupations which is affecting most parts of the economy . |
| 2 | To start with , there are more energy levels : for a d 3 system , for instance , the ground free ion term is usually 4 F , but this splits in an octahedral field into three levels — 4 A 2g , 4 T 2g and 4 T 1g , just as the f orbitals split into a 2u , t 2u and t 1u sets in an octahedral field . |
| 3 | This points to a toxic effect of the alcohol itself . |
| 4 | But even this points to a living belief in the supernatural realm . |
| 5 | This points to a significant disharmony between the rhetoric of schooling and the practice . |
| 6 | This points to a big difference between now and ten years ago . |
| 7 | Given that many of these theories require extremely detailed specifications of grammar rules and lexical entries this has for a long time formed an obstacle to the production of general systems . |
| 8 | This looks like a good item for your Christmas shopping list ! |
| 9 | ‘ This looks like a good job , ’ I though , unaware that I had arrived in the middle of Danny Baker 's leaving party . |
| 10 | Now this looks like a good game to bet on , because a probability of one , is an absolute certainty . |
| 11 | ‘ This looks like a nice spot ’ |
| 12 | This looks like a tiny tadpole . |
| 13 | To account for this , we would need first of all to explain how the form how about VERBing is more or less restricted to usages in suggestions ( again , this looks like a linguistic form that has pragmatic rather than semantic content , a problem discussed in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ This looks like a delightful place . |
| 15 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 16 | Anne read the guidebooks , while I 'd say , ‘ Hey , this looks like an interesting airfield ! ’ to which Anne would reply , £The fact that the place has an interesting approach does not mean that I want to spend my holidays there ! ’ |
| 17 | In the gravitational case the dipole term contains a factor which equals the net force , and this vanishes for an isolated system . |
| 18 | This smacks of an orchestrated campaign by those who are opposed to his policies and would like to do him dirt . ’ |
| 19 | This allows for a continuous stream of models and prototypes : the USSR does not face NATO 's proverbial problem of holding together a design team in peacetime . |
| 20 | This results from a previous transaction failure where the user has not complied with the instructions . |
| 21 | This results from an increased level of the hormone progesterone in the blood , which normally occurs as the result of pregnancy , but sometimes takes place without conception . |
| 22 | TIMI 2B clearly shows that elective and semi-elective angioplasty after thrombolysis can be performed in the conservative strategy patients , in other words those with recurrent ischaemia or a positive exercise test , and this results in a good prognosis , both at six weeks and at one year . |
| 23 | Sometimes this results in a major objection being reduced to one which can easily be dealt with . |
| 24 | This results in a catarrhal enteritis with impairment of digestion and absorption . |
| 25 | All this results in a rare phenomenon : Marks and Spencer is a company people are fond of . |
| 26 | Put a coin into the box and phone Moe ; this results in a verbal battle between Bart and Moe and Simpsons fans will be familiar with . |
| 27 | This results in a pictorial view being created in which the perspective converges to a point directly behind the origin point of the reference space . |
| 28 | This results in a materialistic society that worships consumer goods , and where academics rule rather than artists and philosophers . |
| 29 | When using SEC , care must be taken not to overload the columns with too large a polymer sample as this results in a non-linear response , characterized by losses in resolution and column efficiency . |
| 30 | When using the tuba as an independent bass to the trombones in held chords the most satisfactory result is obtained if the tuba is placed rather low , even if this results in a big gap between it and the bass trombone . |