Example sentences of "[conj] this [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where this happens the intervening cause is known as a novus actus interveniens and breaks the chain of causation between the defendant and plaintiff . |
| 2 | Close to the mill stands what became the mill house , although this pre-dates the actual mill by at least a century and a half . |
| 3 | In some ways , although this mirrors the current NTSC , PAL and SECAM situation for ordinary television , it is surprising that while global standards are an intense concern in multimedia development , the same is not true for HDTV . |
| 4 | This , and many similar references , suggests that this remains the popular conception of an internal market . |
| 5 | Many people think that this combines the good points of the one-to-one interview with those of the panel interview . |
| 6 | Standish has constructed a new ephemeris with the correct mass and finds that this reduces the root-mean-square Uranus residuals by about 20 per cent and , more importantly , removes the systematic trends . |
| 7 | It must , however , be said that it is by no means crystal clear that this forms the mental element of the ‘ species ’ torts of unlawful interference with contract and unlawful means conspiracy ( indeed , in the case of the latter it very probably does not ) and it is not easy to see how the species can differ in this respect from the genus . |
| 8 | Not that this stops the tragic artist from coaxing us into awareness of the normally intolerable , taking advantage of ways in which things terrible in experience become agreeable in imagination . |
| 9 | Indeed , in what follows , wherever we refer to the transactions demand , L t , it should be understood that this includes the precautionary demand . |
| 10 | It has been claimed that the vivid pattern of black and white stripes creates a dazzle effect , rather like the Op Art paintings of Bridget Riley and that this disconcerts the attacking predator at close quarters . |
| 11 | Further the ethical positivist will reject the move towards giving the organs of international law teeth of a physical sort to any significant degree , on the grounds that this undermines the ethical authority of the system and in present circumstances renders impossible the move towards the developments required in international law if it is to act as an acceptable method of dispute resolution . |
| 12 | It might be thought that the subject 's apprehension of his own brain is more immediate and more holistic than any external knowledge , however complete , and that this explains the experiential difference between the two kinds of knowledge . |
| 13 | Though it is plausible that Mercury and the Moon could have lost large quantities of volatiles to space it seems unlikely that this explains the extreme extent of their depletions . |
| 14 | If the standard of service observed on this occasion is general , it may be that this reflects the low priority given to library expenditure in this university . |
| 15 | It argues that this reflects the inherent character of the relationship between the public enterprise and the political controllers . |
| 16 | However , to demand better working conditions in the home is in a sense contradictory in that this reinforces the social and spatial oppression of women within their domestic roles . |
| 17 | To provide a smooth endpoint value , we replace y 1 by z 1 , the median of y , y 1 and z 2 ; in this case , the median of 42.2 , 40 and 45.2 is 42.2 , so this becomes the new , smoothed endpoint value . |
| 18 | Once this occurs the democratic process can have an important function in failing to legitimize the state , and in providing justification for a rejection by groups of subjects not only of particular governments , but of more general constitutional arrangements . |
| 19 | Both of these depend on the capacity of organisms to integrate previously separated functions through the imposition of a superordinate system relating its subordinate parts ; and this requires the open transfer of information between those parts . |
| 20 | And this defines the theoretical equilibrium conditions . |
| 21 | You will notice that this inference contains the built-in assumption that whatever went on on Earth is likely to have gone on elsewhere in the universe , and this begs the whole question . |
| 22 | As soon as the delivery is made stocks shoot up again , until further usage reduces them , and this produces the saw-tooth effect on the graph . |
| 23 | A seismic boundary , known as the Conrad discontinuity , underlies some continental regions at a depth of between 10 and 30km and this divides the continental crust into upper and lower layers . |
| 24 | But if data is imported to a spreadsheet , the imported data 's structure must be stripped away , and this severs the intelligent data connection between server and client . |
| 25 | The local authority also undertakes supervision of children and this replaces the previous probation order . |
| 26 | For example , in P1 , the objective function of LP ( 2 , 1 , 3 ) is and this gives the optimal solution ( 2 , 0 , 0 ) which must be efficient . |
| 27 | To avoid the necessity for the provision of a special supply of unsoftened water , an addition of magnesium sulphate can be made to the soft supply , and this gives the desired stability . |
| 28 | And this gives the green consumer movement another role : to make shoppers stop before they buy to ask whether they need a product at all . |
| 29 | In other words , the military budget in the United States is of enormous significance for any government 's economic policy and this gives the military tremendous leverage in terms of obtaining new weapons in an age of high technology , especially in conjunction with fears of the enemy 's growing strength . |
| 30 | The autorities in Poland understand that talking will not harm them and this gives the Polish intellegentsia a feeling of freedom . |