Example sentences of "[coord] this [noun sg] [vb -s] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One single-handed edged weapon — not a two-handed weapon or an axe — can be sharpened with this tool , and this act drains the last magic from it ( other weapons can be sharpened subsequently , but this will not enchant them ) . |
| 2 | I was a bit short with him , and this incident finds no place in Michael 's lexicon of great lessons learned early . ’ |
| 3 | For instance , difference theorists dislike the implication that everything about women 's behaviour can be traced simply to their subordination , and this resistance has a lot to recommend it . |
| 4 | A host of small British firms sells small computers and this activity consumes a great deal of the country 's talent in electronics engineering . |
| 5 | Like all the new cordless machinery , the tool is only as good as its batteries and this sander requires a full charge to be effective . |
| 6 | Its essential and distinctive feature is the substitution of a bodily state for a personal problem ; and this substitution enables the personal problem as such to be removed . ’ |
| 7 | And this thought furnishes a crucial argument in favour of foundationalism and its asymmetries . |
| 8 | The weather was wet and chilly and this run underlines the standard that White is setting in the club this year . |
| 9 | The three were presented in ascending order of rank and this order matches the extent to which the views are given ‘ non-prejudiced ’ justification . |
| 10 | The plan contains many elements of the prognosis of the anarchical factor ( e.g. the estimate made of crops , of the amount of grain available as a commodity , the amount of commodities represented by peasant production generally , and consequently , the estimate of prices ) , and this prognosis becomes the starting point for this or that directive . |
| 11 | For instance ( using the familiar Venn diagrams ) it will be said that the underlined phrase of ( 11 ) ( which is , incidentally , a zoologically correct statement ) owes its restrictive quality to the fact that there is an intersection between circle a , standing for the class of piranhas , and circle b , standing for the class of vegetarian creatures , and this intersection represents the beings denoted by the subject of the sentence : ( 11 ) vegetarian piranhas can be found in the Amazon ( 12 ) However , such implications are incorrect ; it is by no means necessarily true that the property instantiated by a restrictive adjective is to be ascribed to the entity qualified . |
| 12 | In Celtic spirituality the Holy Spirit is represented by a wild goose and this symbol gives the songs from the Iona Community their name . |
| 13 | Each circular fovea forms a deep concave pit , and this adaptation has a remarkable effect . |
| 14 | And this glamourization obliterates the social reality . |
| 15 | Then Mr Jarvis had a friend with him when I went out to deal with piglets who were scouring , and this man owns a smallholding near by . |
| 16 | We are currently witnessing the expansion of Satellite Television in Britain — providing more choice of channels , and this year sees the introduction of Stereo TV broadcasts . |
| 17 | Takamine have long since featured in the upper echelon of electro-acoustic manufacturers and this guitar enters the range in the mid to upper price bracket . |
| 18 | Yet the beneficent mezzo-soprano voice is not really the ideal instrument , and this soprano has a younger , fresher tone . |
| 19 | And this approach underestimates the scale of Thatcher 's dominance of the Tory political agenda . |
| 20 | Power and ideology are best examined in situ , in the course of continuing negotiations and disputes , and this approach dictates a combination of interviews and observations . |
| 21 | What is significant for understanding why to is used with the infinitive of reaction is that the notion of " evaluation " implies a judgement as to whether the event was opportune or not , and this judgement involves an implicit reference to the situation as it existed before the infinitive event occurred , i.e. to the factors making its occurrence either opportune or inopportune . |
| 22 | ‘ Once , against Swindon a couple of seasons ago , there 's this fat cunt and Geoff 's standing outside the ground before the match and this cunt bungs a bit of old dog shit he 's found by a hall at him and it hits him on the arm … |
| 23 | It remembers which signals it has amplified and which it has not , and this information forms the 0s and 1s of a binary memory . |
| 24 | It is often a matter of difficulty to find out exactly what will have to be paid for haulage , toll and wharfage , and this fact increases the office labour in sending out tenders . |
| 25 | This kind of squabbling in the courts was most unseemly , and The Daily Mail launched an angry editorial broadside : ‘ There were cyclists on the jury , we read , and this fact has a grim sound … |
| 26 | Advent means ‘ coming ’ and this season celebrates the coming of Christ . |
| 27 | Socioeconomic status has been considered important because miners were of social class V earlier this century and this class has a 50% excess for gastric cancer compared with the higher social classes . |
| 28 | It 's two men saving single on the off side , as a mid-off and , here comes Tufnell again to Bolton , that 's pitched up and this time plays a very defensive shot on the off side , the ball trickles out to Smith at point , that 's the end of Tufnell 's over . |
| 29 | In Pale Rider , Eastwood returns from the dead again as an angel , and this time re-runs the plot of Shane , showing more affection for the community and for the values of the Western hero . |
| 30 | But it is possible to use the process determining a variable to generate a measure of the rational expectation of that variable , and this method has the attractive feature of allowing a formal statistical test of a model which includes rational expectations . |