Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb -s] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has warned this will lead to redundancies among architects and quantity surveyors . |
| 2 | The European Court of Human Rights has left this general question to be dealt with by local law , and the matter is , therefore , one for the discretion of British trial judges . |
| 3 | Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed . |
| 4 | The world population of red-breasted geese has decreased this century . |
| 5 | For instance , much of the debate about teaching craft and technology as a way of reinstating practical curricula has missed this point . |
| 6 | One of Switzerland 's finest private watchmakers has crafted this timepiece exclusively for the Danbury Mint . |
| 7 | Evidence from other studies tends to confirm this argument . |
| 8 | After a thorough investigation as to the source of a phenolic type odour being generated within a newly completed building , several possible sources were identified including foam-backed carpeting laid on concrete floors , which under certain conditions appears to generate this type of odour . |
| 9 | In Britain the merging together of the banking and securities business in the guise of financial conglomerates has rekindled this debate . |
| 10 | Any particular sequence of actual exchanges of Kula valuables serves to manifest this state of indebtedness but at the end of the day the position is as it began . |
| 11 | One of the true leopards has done this most successfully . |