Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [conj] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although exporters fairly complained that this made their goods less competitive in price , it helped to lower the cost of imports and thus the prices of foreign goods sold in Britain . |
| 2 | Moscucci further argues that this historical situation is fully comprehensible only if we take into account the 19th-century debates about femininity . |
| 3 | The planners cheerfully calculate that this works out at only 60 cents a day per person — and that this cost will be offset by people having to spend less on doctors and medicines . |
| 4 | The Earth is over 100 times more flattened than this upper limit . |
| 5 | Repealers quickly grasped that this parliamentary language surrounding prostitution and venereal disease increased their difficulties in launching an effective campaign . |
| 6 | The next day , instead of counting their blessings , officials apparently decided that this was the moment to announce the ending of price controls for oil and grain and new taxes . |
| 7 | Independence three years later meant that this arrangement had to be altered . |
| 8 | the security contracts that have covered Wakefield , Drury and Norwich Houses for some years now show that this is an effective method of providing security to Stamford and Rennie House . ’ . |
| 9 | ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . ) |
| 10 | Most support workers worked with only one client ; but the figures below show that this was not true for ail . |
| 11 | Clark and Coats rightly state that this ‘ can have value in reassuring unaffected members of families where the mutation is known . ’ |
| 12 | Several expert committees now recommend that this is reduced to 30–35 per cent of the calorie intake . |
| 13 | New Agers generally think that this is a good idea . |
| 14 | The so-called ‘ fifth modernisation ’ , democratisation , appeared to be on the agenda , but groups of student activists soon discovered that this was fraught with difficulty and contradiction . |
| 15 | But its neighbours still question whether this weight will be thrown behind efforts to build a more secure and more stable Asia . |
| 16 | Critics also argue that this has been compounded by a policy which has unfairly favoured the private sector in preference to the public sector . |
| 17 | Lignite seams also exist as this Sparnacian deposit is quarried at Sans-Souci , just two kilometres north of Sézanne . |
| 18 | Members please note that this is a SATURDAY . |
| 19 | Their results also show that this effect is independent of syntactic constraints , since there was no interaction between word order and knowledge of the title . |
| 20 | Historians now suspect that this harsh image of Darwinism is a misinterpretation arising from the application of modern values to a past situation . |
| 21 | Boarding out ( or fostering ) has been practised for many years and the Curtis Committee on the care of children strongly urged that this should be the first choice in finding substitute homes . |
| 22 | Recordings of sleep patterns again showed that this was achieved at the expense of REM and Stage 2 sleep , leaving Stage 4 sleep levels unaffected . |
| 23 | What might have been just an isolated , if pretty , trick effect is thoroughly integrated into the thematic content of the film in characteristic Minnellian style — though the evidence of interviews sometimes suggests that this aspect of his work , unlike the stylish and carefully contrived visuals themselves , is in part unconscious and instinctive . |