Example sentences of "this [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This proposed that mid-oceanic ridges represent regions where new oceanic crust is being generated by the upwelling of hot mantle material . |
| 2 | Successes such as this suggest that remedial actions are feasible and can bring beneficial effects in a relatively short time . |
| 3 | Of course , all this assumes that three years is a ‘ natural ’ rather than arbitrary period in which to reach ‘ degree standard ’ . |
| 4 | This assumes that both contributions to the strain are additive so that . |
| 5 | This shows that similar guidelines for decompression of the biliary tree after open cholecystectomy , can be applied after laparoscopic cholecystectomy as well . |
| 6 | This shows that human bird-catchers had already learnt to exploit the mobbing reaction . |
| 7 | This confirmed that these junctions were unaltered at the nucleotide level ( data not shown ) , indicating that integration had indeed occurred by homologous recombination . |
| 8 | This reveals that these companies accounted for about 40 per cent of manufacturing industry 's net assets , employment , and inward direct investment from overseas ( excluding oil company investment ) , 40–50 per cent of visible exports , 70 per cent of expenditure on industrial scientific research and development , and about 75 per cent of direct investment by UK companies ( excluding oil ) in manufacturing overseas . |
| 9 | This reveals that these words do not just carry information about proportions but also about speakers ' expectations , and even speakers ' expectations about hearers ' expectations and so on . |
| 10 | This confirms that both factors can contribute to LTP in CA1 , as shown by Kullmann and Nicoll using different techniques . |
| 11 | This showed that deaf school-leavers , educated orally , had an average reading age of eight and three quarters and that only about ten per cent of their speech was intelligible to a hearing person . |
| 12 | This requires that all resources should be used as efficiently as possible . |
| 13 | This states that physical laws are expressible as tensor equations which reduce to laws consistent with SR in a frame in free fall . |
| 14 | This states that different tasks will have different optimal levels of arousal and proposes that the optimal level of arousal for a task is inversely related to its difficulty . |
| 15 | Is this to deny that living things obey the laws of physics ? |
| 16 | This ensures that complete tables and only complete tables are approved , or that a single oddball entry and only a single oddball entry is approved . |
| 17 | This meant that new buildings would often incorporate , for example , safety-oriented features such as computer-controlled fire alarm and sprinkler systems which not only reduced the risk of fire but , when fire did break out , ensured it was containable until the emergency services arrived . |
| 18 | This meant that criminal laws were clarified and in some countries codified , as both Beccaria and Bentham advocated , but leaving a greater degree of flexibility and judicial discretion than either would have found congenial . |
| 19 | This meant that reserve assets had to be at least 12½ per cent of eligible liabilities . |
| 20 | Mr Patten said this meant that all releases of waste from large industrial processes would be considered together before a discharge licence was granted . |
| 21 | He moved round the room — in so far as it was possible in such cramped quarters — glad to he relieved momentarily of desk work but perhaps by way of indicating that the interview must be conducted as if we were both on the move ; and this meant that certain remarks were addressed to the window or the mantelpiece . |
| 22 | None of this meant that American companies were no longer interested in financing British filmmakers or even British ideas , but they were no longer committed to doing so , and did n't expect to be sufficiently involved to justify keeping offices in London . |
| 23 | Thucydides wanted to give a wholly reliable account of the wars between Athens and Sparta ; and this meant that unverified assumptions about the past had to be excluded . ’ |
| 24 | This meant that most Liberals remained resolutely opposed to the idea that the Liberal Party had to change its policies to fit the new problems facing society . |
| 25 | The scientists were being cautious and so were the civil servants ; this meant that British politicians could happily continue to struggle over familiar issues until 1988 when a devastating drought enabled scientists in the USA to get the ear of the Senate and pour into it a story sufficiently sensational to alarm the rest of the Western world . |
| 26 | As the fashionable trade came in so more thought had to be given to subject-matter and to technique and in America this meant that short films had to be replaced or shown in conjunction with multiple-reel films as already pioneered by European film-makers . |
| 27 | This meant that these parties had equivalent subsidies from the Bundestag ( for staffing , etc. ) , but only restricted procedural rights , as compared with larger party groups . |
| 28 | This meant that some Christians followed Jesus as a Guru , others as a moral guerrilla leader and still others worshipped him as a perfect person . |
| 29 | In particular , the rapid ossification of the Soviet hardline position in the East and the Cold War division which resulted from this meant that clear decisions had to be taken . |
| 30 | Does this mean that defining jobs and structures is a mistake ? |