Example sentences of "this [noun] [vb -s] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 This change appears to have little effect on the remaining coefficients from ( 2.2 ) , confirming the importance of both relative returns and aggregate financial activity in determining the level of foreign portfolio investment in the UK .
2 This case has become all things to all men .
3 Adapting LE to JC in this case means distinguishing those lexical items which historically end in /r/ from those which do not .
4 Whannel believes that the main reason why this terminology has taken such an enduring grip is that it is being used to serve the commercial interests of Football League and club officials as part of a hidden agenda to attract a new type of football audience ( the ‘ family audience ’ ) and thereby solve the game 's economic crisis .
5 This decision has provoked much animus among many who knew him and believed in him , sustaining the view that he had planned to ditch the Labour government .
6 But even in murder cases it is now far more favourable to the accused for him to plead instead diminished responsibility , and for most practical purposes this defence has replaced that of insanity in criminal law .
7 This study proposes to settle such questions empirically .
8 This study has shown that luminal bile directly inhibited terminal ileal motility .
9 If a cohort of patients with diabetes shows poor control this study has found little evidence that it should be attributed to factors specific to non-diabetic patients .
10 This study has identified some areas in which adults with cystic fibrosis may need extra help , notably in obtaining school leaving qualifications and for young men to achieve independence .
11 The nature of the breakage is largely controlled by the structural properties of the bones concerned , and it is not considered that this experiment has provided any new information on breakage ( see , for instance , Korth 1979 ) .
12 This research seeks to fill this important gap .
13 This research aims to do that and , whilst it will not ‘ value ’ the benefits , these will be itemised and related to those costs and perhaps cheaper ways of producing similar benefits found .
14 As it is this confusion has seen many of Mann 's photographs censored across America .
15 This chapter seeks to explore some of the implications of drama as a popular form , distinguished in terms of its place and material existence from other literary writing within the English Renaissance .
16 This chapter seeks to explore these matters in some depth , for they are critical to the understanding of elderly people .
17 This chapter seeks to examine some of the means employed by New Historicism in trying to address these problems .
18 This chapter tries to answer these questions , to show the deficiencies in the system , and how to use a DIY survey in conjunction with the present schemes as a ‘ belt and braces ’ exercise .
19 This chapter has explored some of the issues and challenges involved in helping such process of change to take place .
20 This chapter has followed this usage and stressed how the RUC also discharge the same ordinary , mundane tasks which characterize routine policing elsewhere , despite the folk images of the force .
21 This chapter has given more space to the anti-rather than to the pro-classical themes that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s .
22 This chapter has introduced some of the issues surrounding the propagation of error in GIS and described the preliminary application of a Monte Carlo approach to assessing their effects .
23 This chapter has identified some features of the advanced capitalist state that are relevant for an understanding of the logic of state enterprises .
24 This chapter has considered some of the dimensions of the likely future needs for health care among older people , and has examined practices which discriminate against those needs by comparison with other age groups .
25 This chapter has considered some of the major advances in macroeconomic thought in the twentieth century .
26 The visible changes which this programme creates have some positive effects on women 's place in the discipline .
27 This programme has given more coverage to committees than any other programme , with 25% of its attention being given to select committees and 6% to standing committees ( compared with 9% and 3% respectively , in Parliament ) .
28 This inn has seen many interesting gatherings through the years .
29 This exchange has established some facts about where the snow is likely to be found and which terrain gives the best ski running .
30 This question has achieved some notoriety in two cases concerning telephone tapping .
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