Example sentences of "this [verb] [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This assumes that past performance is indicative of future performance and this may not always be so . |
| 2 | This assumes that social worker has the information available to them to make correct decisions . |
| 3 | This confirms that past preservation policy has been relatively successful , but also shows a continuing need to maintain such a programme . |
| 4 | This stated that full consideration would be given to ‘ any social or other problems that may arise ’ , but that ‘ the general policy would be for the Secretary of State to approve proposals to cease to maintain under-used schools . ’ |
| 5 | This indicated that PABA-UDCA disulphate is a single pass type substance in the gut and its oral administration test reflects the sum of the activities of bacteria in the small intestine and colon . |
| 6 | This states that nominal interest rates from investments that are hedged ( or covered ) for exchange rate risk will be equal in all countries . |
| 7 | This states that nominal interest rates from investments that are unhedged ( or uncovered ) for exchange rate risk will be equal in all countries . |
| 8 | ( This recognises that overall software management legitimately varies between applications and from one organisation to another . ) |
| 9 | At best , this focused that subtle blend of doctrine and awareness of its living reality defended by Walter Hilton and Reginald Pecock , at worst it encouraged the superstitious substitute for the work of faith which was labelled idolatry by the Lollards , those enthusiasts for the study of Scripture who tended to confuse its letter with its spirit . |
| 10 | Does this imply that inferior performance can be expected in these structures ? |
| 11 | This meant that fund-raising news and any other news about the deaf was in the forefront of everyone 's attention . |
| 12 | Because of its target-towing days in Sweden the rear cockpit was slightly non-standard , this meant that new perspex panels had to be manufactured to bring the rear cockpit back to Mk 1 configuration , the target cable guides on the tailplane were removed and the tailplane restored to standard fit . |
| 13 | This meant that used water was not directly plumbed into the outside drain but linked into the sink waste . |
| 14 | This meant that substantial building-up would be needed , to allow the water to escape . |
| 15 | This meant that fine tuning of the system in many areas , particularly on the personnel side , had to be held in abeyance until the payroll was running smoothly . |
| 16 | So two questions need to be resolved on my analysis : first , is prevention ordinary treatment ? and , second , if preventive care depends on data drawn from special treatment , does this mean that special care may be undertaken only under conditions of limited , controlled research , which is what I suspect is what care of the VLBW baby really is , rather than by adopting the current haphazard approach which may wrongly dissipate resources ? |
| 17 | Diagrammatically , this implies that individual demand curves are vertically added to get the social demand or marginal benefit curve . |
| 18 | None of this implies that molecular biology is simply a higher form of botanizing as practised a century ago ; on the contrary , people 's descriptions of their experimental methods are replete with numerical information about such things as the concentrations of reagents . |
| 19 | This implies that unwanted variance may be introduced into the data of those experiments where subjects are free to spontaneously attach their own labels to non-verbal stimuli . |
| 20 | This implies that monetary policy is not very powerful as a means of influencing output and employment . |
| 21 | This implies that technological change should be seen not as an isolated activity , but as integral part of firm operations , and that change is evaluated via its contributions to market success . |
| 22 | This implies that short selling difficulties have led to a widening of the no-arbitrage band by permitting greater underpricings . |
| 23 | Yet it is misleading to suggest that this means that legal authority depends on nothing more than the testator 's intention , whatever it may be . |
| 24 | This means that substantial control over work performance rests with employees themselves . |
| 25 | This means that total market turnover per day is now of the order of £4,400 million on average . |
| 26 | This means that general relativity can not predict what comes out of a singularity . |
| 27 | The first stage ( Bronze ) can be attained by any group of youngsters who are willing to work with enthusiasm , as assessment is on the basis of improvement on the standard of movement that the student starts from ; this means that due allowance is made , where appropriate , for individual physical handicaps . |
| 28 | This means that short-term interest rates on loans due to mature in a year tend to be generally lower than the long-term interest rate on loans of longer maturity . |
| 29 | This means that average household size in Great Britain fell from about 3.21 to about 2.56 persons over this period and this decline is expected to continue at least until to the end of the century ( Social Trends 10 , 1979 , Table 2.3 ; General Household Survey 1985 , 1987 , Table 3.11 ; Department of the Environment , 1986a ) . |
| 30 | This means that ancient man deliberately shaped his environment to make it represent a part of the cosmic whole , an access point into the world of the gods . |