Example sentences of "[coord] this [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1720 he speculated successfully in South Sea stock , and this enabled him to purchase an estate in East Sheen and a town house at Queen 's Square , and to consider retiring from business . |
| 2 | The peculiar quality of Tamm 's work was that he recorded individual plants , shoots or rosettes , within his populations and this enabled him to follow the fates of individual plant units ( often tillers or ramets ) rather than to study the grosser vegetational change that was the aim of many others who set up permanent quadrats . |
| 3 | Access to Tiree is not easy from Inverness but there was an opportunity before Loganair adopted their Summer flight schedules in April and this enabled me to link Scarinish in with my more regular Lewis/Uist/Barra trip . |
| 4 | From Pip being infatuated with Estella and this causing him to turn against his upbringing and background though she harbours no feelings of this sort for him due to her upbringing by Miss Havisham solely as a means to break the heart of men as Compeyson once did to her . |
| 5 | And this revealed he had fled from Ford Open Prison in Sussex in 1978 — while serving three years for conspiracy to steal and forgery . |
| 6 | so , the station 's management structure is quite bare and this helps it to respond very quickly to current events . |
| 7 | The rationale behind Laura 's views was that her heart was in Wales , or , more specifically , in the factory in Wales , and this obliged her to do everything within her power to maintain that factory at full capacity . |
| 8 | The popular tabloids , on the other hand , charge considerably less for their advertising space per thousand readers than do the qualities and this forces them to try to maximize sales . |
| 9 | 3 In addition to providing for strong and responsible government it has been claimed that the system provides for moderate government because the two parties in a two-party system must strive to occupy the middle ground where the votes lie thickest and this obliges them to control their extremists who might dissuade the middling voters from giving their support . |
| 10 | Some knew about the various methods of pain relief available , but others had no idea at all , and this made them feel even less in control of what was happening to them . |
| 11 | We were referred to as ‘ sinister ’ and this made me see how little impact we had made upon the establishment and how much further we needed to go . |
| 12 | Then she thought of Angela and her beloved pony , and this made her jerk her head up . |
| 13 | Suddenly he was unsure and this made him feel afraid . |
| 14 | Often , these have been successfully used in other research and this allows us to compare our own work with that of others . |
| 15 | And this does you see , you get it with the number . |
| 16 | In the early 1900s she began her research on the formation of sand ripples on the seashore caused by the oscillatory movement of water , and this led her to develop the ‘ Ayrton fan ’ in 1915 , a hand-operated device for expelling poisonous gases from the trenches . |
| 17 | She had also had other family difficulties and this led her to feel increasingly depressed and isolated , and to her abuse of alcohol and drugs . |
| 18 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 19 | It highlighted the urgent need to develop less-damaging methods of transport and this led us to form an expert working party under the chairmanship of Stuart Cole , a transport policy research consultant from the University of North London , who is familiar with the Welsh transport system . |
| 20 | The reason for this was that they had a different view of tradition from the locals and this caused them to turn to ‘ progressivist ’ ideas and to new ventures put forward by planners in order to effect an entry upon the local political scene . |
| 21 | A man in the crowd that was watching , kicked Underhill on the head and this caused him to release his hold . |
| 22 | From my past experiences and many finds I have plenty of knowledge in the field and this enables me to help people choose the right detector to suit them . |
| 23 | As a result it was accepted by the 1630s that English colonies could take most decisions for themselves , and this meant they developed the institutions which , over the course of time , grew in a way that enabled them to become self-governing and then independent by stages which could be so small as sometimes to be imperceptible . |
| 24 | On our return to Abergynolwyn we had a half hour wait to allow the Talyllyn 's vintage train to pass through and this allowed us to get a snack in the refreshment room . |
| 25 | Instead , they were left with their deeply-rooted faith in ‘ humanism ’ which was to be derived from citizenship , and this encouraged them to think in terms of the whole person , rather than training for specific trades . |
| 26 | People who are used to having responsible jobs at home or in the office and who are known to be good managers and organizers can not understand why suddenly the simplest task seems to be beyond them , and this makes them feel out of control and very unsafe . |
| 27 | The third stage is seeing our anxiety getting bigger and bigger and this makes it get worse . |
| 28 | In summary , the α-truncated RNA polymerases are unable to protect the final upstream helical turn of the promoter from DNAaseI cleavage in contrast to wild-type enzyme and this prompted us to suspect that the mutant enzymes had lost important contacts with the phosphates near the -40 region . |
| 29 | She is still haunted by the grief of her husband 's death and this causes her to shrink into her own world of deception . |
| 30 | While visiting the local volcano , Serena is profoundly upset by the sight of hardened lava fields around a bubbling centre , and this causes her to have a nervous breakdown . |