Example sentences of "[coord] this [verb] some " in BNC.

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1 We are aware of this calorie usage as production of heat by the body — in order to keep the body at 37 degrees C , our normal temperature , a certain amount of energy is required , and this requires some 80 per cent of our calorie intake .
2 Suitable arrangements for the instruments available have to be made and this requires some skill .
3 Del , and this takes some saying , is easier on the ear .
4 The important thing seems to be that teachers should be aware of this conflict and take some steps to resolve it , and this involves some kind of negotiation between teacher and pupils .
5 The people who thought of buying the house were still hovering , unable to make up their minds , and this entailed some dreary visits to the estate agents .
6 Ha face was pale , her eyes dark-rimmed , and this assuaged some of my pain at the nun 's silly chatter .
7 The success of this assay is dependent upon the choice of buccal cell donor ( Burke , personal communication ) and this casts some doubt on its usefulness and reproducibility ; it is clearly a difficult technique to standardise between laboratories .
8 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were proved to be a forgery by The Times in 1921 and this went some way to defuse the growth of anti-semitic tendencies within the wider political culture .
9 He 's lost a dozen in a decade and this goes some way towards explaining his surprisingly philosophical attitude to his own bad luck .
10 The team is unattended , and this worries some , who wish to exchange the girl with one of the youths .
11 Onto the new route scene , and this heralds some exciting news .
12 Fine china sales have improved but the profit has n't and this needs some explanation .
13 Nevertheless , we can conclude that many of the megalithic monuments had some sort of astronomical import ( and this includes some aspects of the Egyptian Pyramids ) ; as to their religious meaning we can only guess .
14 At least one study has found a positive and statistically significant relationship between maternal ratings of children 's command of specific vocabulary items and performance on a formal language test ( Cunningham and Sloper 1984 ) and this provides some support for the validity of checklist assessments .
15 The greater this interaction between chains the more favourable will be the energy parameter and this provides some indication of the type of chain which might be expected to crystallize from the melt , viz.
16 In 1170 he had persuaded Marie , Viscountess of Bearn , to do homage to him for all her lands — and this included some estates which , theoretically speaking , were within the duchy of Aquitaine .
17 But this leaves some very dangerous and experienced experts without a job .
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