Example sentences of "[prep] this [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a visual aid to anatomical familiarity , a reference book such as this has undoubted value . |
| 2 | Below this sits another push-button for selecting a pre- or post-EQ balanced out signal . |
| 3 | All of this saves considerable cost without which the production of many foods would be uneconomic or impracticable . |
| 4 | None of this invalidates this definition of deindustrialization . |
| 5 | All of this creates genuine difficulties for schools , not lessened by the fact that curriculum and timetable changes ( and all the other changes that the Act demands ) have to be resourced within the limitations of a formula-funded school budget and an LEA budget effectively determined ( because of the way the community tax will work ) by central government . |
| 6 | None of this costs much money ; all of it buys off , quite cheaply , some bothersome liberal constituencies . |
| 7 | Only a part is production property which yields high income and only some of this confers economic power over others . |
| 8 | The rationale behind all of this contains many assumptions which are perhaps conventional enough in terms of Central Government legislation , planning theory and urban practice . |
| 9 | None of this brings any need for adjustment to the principles outlined in Chapter 1 , nor to what we have to say about adjectives . |
| 10 | None of this makes any sense because one of Blake 's fellow prisoners in D block of Wormwood Scrubs was the Russian spy Gordon Lonsdale ( whose real name was Konon Molody ) , a key figure in the Portland spy ring who , ironically , had also been exposed by the defector Goleniewski . |
| 11 | Yet , even if all of this causes great uncertainty among scientists , it is still a reasonable prediction that a decade ahead will see both environmental monitoring and prediction treated as an everyday need and activity in major organizations . |
| 12 | Furniture like this involves straightforward cabinet work as most of the pieces were about 8ft high the proportions had to be correct , while the combination of the dark and light woods also helped to relieve the massiveness of the piece . |
| 13 | Work like this requires continuing enthusiasm of a kind that may not outlast the departure of the original members , and their replacement with new people . |
| 14 | Detail like this provides retrospective labelling , but it is not evidence about a historical period . |
| 15 | The sanitized , simplified , view of the world offered in films like this anticipates later television styles , and mark the beginning of the closedown of any willingness on the part of British filmmakers to confront the difficulties of contemporary life . |
| 16 | Or perhaps the plot of a story like this demands such heroism from Jacob , never mind the unheroic qualities he has displayed before . |
| 17 | Possibly a little touch like this has more meaning for us belonging as we do to a mechanical age , than it would have had for our ancestors , who were unaccustomed to the click of an electric switch and its attendant results ! |
| 18 | The disqualification stage in this bears some resemblance to denunciation , which we found to be of limited value as a justification of punishment . |
| 19 | Any government provision beyond this damages economic growth and undermines individual effort and self-reliance ( George and Wilding , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | Thus free enterprise — the pursuit of fair profit , the generator of wealth and employment , the backbone on which social welfare is possible — can be viewed , at least by corporate officials , as the primary ethic for and of an industrial society , and conformity to this neutralizes any obedience to the law merely because it happens to be the law . |
| 21 | Clicking on this gives direct access to context sensitive help — which supplements the usual routes to online help including a Search command . |
| 22 | By this means light soiling can be removed completely . |