Example sentences of "[noun sg] this [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course this goes wrong . |
| 2 | In part this reflects increasing expenditure on state pensions as more and more people live to a ripe old age . |
| 3 | For handwriting this means matching sequences of x , y coordinates with the characters they represent . |
| 4 | In social anthropology this becomes important for a variety of reasons . |
| 5 | In terms of Renaissance drama this has enormous implications for trying to argue the drama as a representative cultural form . |
| 6 | From a distance this looks paradoxical , because although Bismarck 's fall was not in itself decisive in changing the course of German foreign policy , it removed the most important restraint upon it . |
| 7 | It would be pleasant to think that this decision was made purely on conservation and environmental grounds , but on all the evidence of the past this seems unlikely . |
| 8 | It is not so much doubtful about Christianity as diffident about itself , and at first sight this looks appealing . |
| 9 | Below the transparent epicuticle of the elytra is a very thin spongy layer ; when its interstices are filled with air this appears yellow , but when they fill with water the black colour of the underlying cuticle becomes apparent . |
| 10 | The reason this seems paradoxical is that we place so much emphasis on natural selection as the driving force of evolution . |
| 11 | In principle this seems sensible , since for many of the industries , particularly those with monopoly power , information on financial outcomes is of only limited relevance in indicating the value for money that society enjoys from the industries . |
| 12 | I have no doubt this seems exaggerated . |
| 13 | Like the discount market this provides individual banks with an outlet for surplus funds and a source of borrowing when their reserves are low . |