Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in this instance you do the company a disservice , since the harmoniser patches you refer to are intended to work this way . |
| 2 | Local bus or VL buses are designed to overcome this problem by running at the same speed as the processor . |
| 3 | Neither existing or potential finance departments ( Fig. 3.4 ) are designed to handle this funding structure . |
| 4 | Formal observation techniques and equipment are designed to reduce this discrepancy to a minimum but the nursing process depends on much more than can be obtained by this means ; therefore it is important for the teacher to have some understanding of the factors that affect the formation of percepts so that she can help the nurse to make accurate judgements where these are possible and to be sufficiently receptive and mentally flexible to consider more than one possible judgement as basis for action . |
| 5 | The point to make here is that the logic of adversary adjudication is that the decision of the court should be based on the case put to it by the parties in dispute and not on material or information supplied by third parties ; and rules of evidence are designed to achieve this result . |
| 6 | The same number are expected to arrive this year . |
| 7 | Oil exports are expected to increase this year , but will soon fall back ; domestic consumption is soaring ( because the stuff is so cheap ) , and few new wells are being drilled in the forests . |
| 8 | The Server 60 and Server 80 are expected to ship this summer , when UK pricing will be announced . |
| 9 | Emergency cooling systems are installed to remove this heat , but what if those failed as well ? |
| 10 | The risks and benefits of adding intravenous heparin to aspirin and thrombolysis are unknown and will remain so until trials are done to address this question adequately . |
| 11 | People who foresee airplane disasters before they happen are said to have this gift . |
| 12 | IBM and Sybase Inc have cooked up a co-development/co-marketing deal revolving around the RS/6000 that they 're expected to announce this week . |
| 13 | And you 're asked to complete this work in pairs if it 's easier . |
| 14 | They have not right to take and fund matters to the Higher Courts to review the decisions of the Government , the executive in other words , and they themselves have no idea how they 're meant to fulfil this role that the Government sees them as having . |
| 15 | As the consultant employed by the company , you are requested to re-examine this statement , taking account of the additional information , and to recommend any necessary action . |
| 16 | Some stories saying that Gravier has recently been seen in Miami and Argentina are advanced to support this theory . ) |
| 17 | It is the organs of articulation which are used to create this barrier . |
| 18 | This is beneficial in terms both of union welfare and world welfare , because less resources are used to produce this output . |
| 19 | A number of indicators are used to compute this index , two of which are educational level and occupational mobility ; the indicators are selected for their capacity to measure the extent to which the persons with whom a migrant customarily interacts is integrated into ( i.e. participates in ) urban life . |
| 20 | More studies are needed to investigate this finding . |
| 21 | Conductors are needed to impose this learning in a structured manner . |
| 22 | Clearly , different criteria are needed to understand this practice . |
| 23 | Two separate operations are needed to normalise this sentence , one involving closed set items : |
| 24 | No additional components are needed to build this circuit . |
| 25 | Conferences are held and expensive volumes of statistical information are produced to confirm this phenomenon . |
| 26 | All Christians are called to fulfil this role without exception . |
| 27 | Oil shocks , resource scarcities and the provision of raw material subsidies to CMEA countries are bound to prompt this question . |
| 28 | As the numbers of frail old people grow , in both absolute and proportional terms ( and they far exceed any other vulnerable groups ) , those who work with and for them are bound to experience this dilemma more acutely , which may be summarised as ‘ just how much are we supposed to do to support and protect such old vulnerable people ? ’ . |
| 29 | All too often , running reins are employed to do this job . |
| 30 | In a sense , we all understand perfectly well what experiences are ; it is when we are challenged to explain this understanding that we are at a loss how to put it into words . |