Example sentences of "this [verb] that [adj] [noun] " 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 | This assumes that past performance is indicative of future performance and this may not always be so . |
| 4 | This assumes that social worker has the information available to them to make correct decisions . |
| 5 | This assumed that young people embarked upon a particular ‘ career ’ because they had ‘ chosen ’ it : that it was a product of their own internal decision-making processes . |
| 6 | This shows that similar guidelines for decompression of the biliary tree after open cholecystectomy , can be applied after laparoscopic cholecystectomy as well . |
| 7 | This shows that human bird-catchers had already learnt to exploit the mobbing reaction . |
| 8 | This confirms that past preservation policy has been relatively successful , but also shows a continuing need to maintain such a programme . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | This indicated that Inner London and County libraries were most likely to regard themselves as offering formal induction training , County libraries were more likely to say that they offered formal training of most types , and that Outer London and Metropolitan libraries made most distinction between training offered to professional and non-professional staff , Scottish , Welsh and Northern Ireland libraries , least . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This states that nominal interest rates from investments that are hedged ( or covered ) for exchange rate risk will be equal in all countries . |
| 14 | This states that nominal interest rates from investments that are unhedged ( or uncovered ) for exchange rate risk will be equal in all countries . |
| 15 | This states that physical laws are expressible as tensor equations which reduce to laws consistent with SR in a frame in free fall . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Is this to deny that living things obey the laws of physics ? |
| 18 | ( This recognises that overall software management legitimately varies between applications and from one organisation to another . ) |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Does this imply that inferior performance can be expected in these structures ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This meant that fund-raising news and any other news about the deaf was in the forefront of everyone 's attention . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This meant that used water was not directly plumbed into the outside drain but linked into the sink waste . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This meant that substantial building-up would be needed , to allow the water to escape . |
| 28 | This meant that reserve assets had to be at least 12½ per cent of eligible liabilities . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |