Example sentences of "[conj] this [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this centre presented a coherent picture in which the city was divided into discrete neighbourhoods , residents would not always identify with these boundaries . |
| 2 | Although this freedom offers a better indicator than such things as matriliny or the worship goddesses , it also is not a clear indicator of the political and economic power , in spite of Engels 's belief to the contrary . |
| 3 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
| 4 | At this stage , however , it remained a possibility that , although this residue formed an essential part of the DNA-PK recognition motif , phosphorylation might actually be occurring elsewhere . |
| 5 | Although this phenomenon has an immunological mechanism it is not necessarily associated with protection against reinfection since the larval challenge often develops to maturity . |
| 6 | Although this case provides an example of an action succeeding where no method of enforcement is provided by the statute , it appears unlikely that it will be followed in this area . |
| 7 | Although this agreement averted a government crisis , Marjanne Sint submitted her resignation as PvdA chair over the issue on Aug. 30 . |
| 8 | It was mistakenly assumed that this trend represented a return to more traditional literary values ; an examination of such works reveals a postmodernist contestation of the conventional boundaries between genres and an intertextual mixture of writings , of which the fragmented subjectivity of the writer was itself a discourse capable of being plundered in order to generate text . |
| 9 | One difficulty , however , is that this offence covers a wide range of situations from killings just short of murder to carelessly causing death . |
| 10 | My own conclusions , which in this case are probably completely worthless , are that this ticking represents a period of grace — I mean that it can not explode — as long as the ticking lasts and that it 's not designed to explode when the ticking stops but is then activated and ready to explode when triggered by passing engines . |
| 11 | make sure make sure that this secretary gets a ch suitable honorarium at Christmas . |
| 12 | However , it may be wrong to assume that this inability to create a coordinated response is a bad thing : a truly-integrated response to the cities from the Conservative governments elected in 1979 and after might have been even more detrimental to the major conurbations than it has been . |
| 13 | All the other Judaean coins of the Persian period have non-Jewish symbols ; there is no particular reason to believe that this coin bears a Jewish symbol . |
| 14 | It was claimed that this system allowed a lighter wing structure , and it was invented by a Swiss-born engineer , H J Stieher , who had worked for Wm Beardmore & Co . |
| 15 | I demand that this man gets a major deal now . |
| 16 | The important point here is to remember that this grid has a central point located at 30,80 . |
| 17 | Erm that this council had a tradition of actually putting forward information in as straightforward a way as possible and indeed the attitude of the citizens ' er charter working party demonstrates that we actually put a value on this and it seems to me that there is a gap if you like , between what some people in the conservative group are doing in this context and what they 're actually doing in working parties and in committees and it comes out elsewhere as well . |
| 18 | In an interview with French radio the following day he said that " we must not forget that this government has a lifespan which may be limited by the national sovereign conference " [ see below ] . |
| 19 | Where staffing allows , many schools/colleges try to ensure that this year contains a large element of new material , rather than a stale repetition of past experience . |
| 20 | He sees that his pack leader is terrified by the aeroplane and so he , being on a lower level , will accept that this aeroplane represents a real danger . |
| 21 | I advised Gaitskell that this requirement posed a real difficulty for the defence . |
| 22 | One final point to consider is that this computer has a variable rate ascent warning . |
| 23 | We suspect , therefore , that this knowledge had a markedly distorting effect only among a minority of respondents . |
| 24 | Laing points out that this approach generates a lot of ideas , many of which will be worthless , as happens in a brainstorming session . |
| 25 | We need to be aware that this approach has a strong emotional appeal and that using it involves taking responsibility and guiding these emotions , once engaged . |
| 26 | It is felt that this approach provides a general procedure having wide applications , instead of producing a very specific " tailor made " system that can only be applied to one company . |
| 27 | But the general point is that this hierarchy represents a ladder up which ‘ lower ’ groups aspire to climb . |
| 28 | But it should be noted that this document envisaged a definite stage of development in which Northern Ireland would be significantly changed as a result of success in achieving the reforms being demanded by the civil rights movement . |
| 29 | Well , he might say that one mental sentence is , as it were , ‘ upfront ’ ( for example ‘ The spectacles are broken ! ’ ) , but that this sentence has a network of connections to other sentences in the mental architecture ( ‘ They are made of glass , ’ ‘ They were purchased ’ , ‘ They are not unique ’ ) . |
| 30 | It does n't seem that long ago that this column reported an addition to Matthew Hall 's family and hey presto he 's done it again . |