Example sentences of "[noun] this [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course this makes the present situation sound dramatically worse than it is . |
| 2 | In part this reflects the political and constitutional environment in which our government operates . |
| 3 | In part this reflects the genuine difficulty in measuring marginal benefits . |
| 4 | If the searched-for item is less than the mid-point ( for words this means the searched-for item comes earlier in the alphabet than the item at the mid-point ) , then the search continues in the first half of the structure , if it is greater , the search continues in the second half of the structure . |
| 5 | At a stroke this reduces the marauding husband-kidnapper to an unthreatening figure of fun . |
| 6 | One further dimension to such a system is the possibility of " networking " a number of micros This involves the interconnecting of micros which retain their full power as independent computers but gain the additional ability of communicating with other computers in the network and having access to common files The result is analogous to a minicomputer with a number of terminals but with the big difference that each of the micros has its own processing power instead of sharing that of the mini . |
| 7 | He recognized that he could be accused of a conservative , ‘ indeed reactionary ’ , direction for the universities , and of condemning the public sector to second-class status , but ‘ unrepentant I shall believe that in the long run this represents the logical development of both the Robbins principle and the binary policy ’ . |
| 8 | Following the PERT conventions this displays the logical dependences of the project activities very clearly , as indicated in Chapter 6 . |
| 9 | For Judith Butler this renders the Lacanian narrative ‘ ideologically suspect ’ in that it remains rooted in ‘ a romanticization or , indeed , a religious idealization of ‘ failure' ’ , humility and limitation before the Law' ( Gender Trouble , 56 ) . |
| 10 | A phrase from the Conservative 's manifesto last year , we are the only party that understands the need for low taxation , has now returned to haunt them , for an MP in a marginal constituency this evokes the electoral ghost of George Bush , so he firmly rules out increases in income tax , but would n't mind putting V A T on newspapers and books . |
| 11 | And going through on page sixty five in the main agenda this outlines the current plan to achieve registration for Harlow 's museums in order to achieve to achieve the a the a a and tangibility to grasp to obtain aid from the museum 's national bodies . |
| 12 | Like many block diagrams this conceals the practical problems . |
| 13 | Effectively , every time the client takes another step on the ladder this becomes the bottom step , only approximately ten units of anxiety off the ground . |
| 14 | The aeroelastic engineer will usually be interested only in the fundamental mode of vibration and a few overtones , say 10 in all ; in the usual model this implies the dominant and the 9 immediately subdominant eigenvalues and vectors . |
| 15 | The average stay in hospital fell from 7.2 days in group A to 4.9 days in group B. This reflects the declining length of stay for all patients in this hospital , from an average of 7.8 days during 1974–7 to 4.1 during 1988–91 . |
| 16 | By the same token this raises the interesting possibility that , for much of the time at least , men view their knowledge as self-evident and many women may , in the absence of alternatives , come to interpret their own experiences in terms of the categories made available by male experts . |
| 17 | To a large extent this reflects the occupational distribution of the agency worker labour force and the particular characteristics of the clerical/secretarial labour market in that part of the country [ see in more detail , Chapter 5 ] . |