Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 2 | All this involves him in a vast amount of estate business as well as , he says with a mixture of relish and despair , ‘ this desperate business of patronage ’ . |
| 3 | This involves them in the same difficulties as those faced , or evaded , by psychologists . |
| 4 | This has something of the smack of a ‘ like it or not ’ pronouncement of the kind commonly declaimed by those who would have us suppose that opposition to things we do not like would be pointless . |
| 5 | The carving of the features on the youth 's head , fig. 70 , is so like that of the girl 's that they may well be the work of one artist ; but this has none of the other 's contradictions . |
| 6 | This has none of the mysticism about it , but has been hammered in by a pragmatic human being , after careful choice of the most suitable section available . |
| 7 | At one level , this exhibits itself in the place that mathematics and science have come to occupy , mainly in virtue of their underpinning of technology in all its forms , including information technology and computerization . |
| 8 | This places one in the domain of knowledge or facts and the perceiving necessarily precedes the logical conclusion to which it gives rise . |
| 9 | First , cases of ‘ excessive defence ’ have a grounding in legal justification , in that the occasion was one which justified the use of some force , and this places them on a higher social plateau than killings with no element of justification at all . |
| 10 | The reason is that the folding of the ears brings them forward and this places them in a posture that is not part of the usual ear-lowering signal . |
| 11 | In addition , even medium-sized plants can dominate the labour markets of small towns ( for example , in the cases of Westland at Yeovil and Clarks at Street ) , and this places them in a strong position in their dealings with the labour force ( Lever 1978 ) . |
| 12 | This says nothing about the Government 's industrial strategy , because although the Government give nothing to the DCDC , they give more than £500,000 to the Devon and Cornwall development bureau , the inward investment bureau . |
| 13 | However , this says nothing about the under — or overpricing of their insurance services . |
| 14 | Even if there were regular hours , this says nothing about the intensity of labour . |
| 15 | ‘ This says something for the era in which projects have to be approved by television , ’ he told me . |
| 16 | This says something about the economy in this region , and the sensible way in which local people conduct their financial affairs . ’ |
| 17 | The prosecution alleges this links them with the 3 lorry attacks . |
| 18 | This links itself to the three previous parts because it displays a process which metaphorically or symbolically represents change . |
| 19 | PC Paul Lewis of Leicestershire Police , said : ‘ This shows us in an unfair light . |
| 20 | This shows itself in a variety of ways : in the all-consuming craving for more money and possessions , more power and social status , and more pleasure and entertainment . |
| 21 | For some this reveals itself as a conflict between the top and the lower tiers of the organization , between strategy making and local autonomy . |
| 22 | This leads him to a much wider generalization that the course of history , over space as well as time , is closely linked to the anthropological map . |
| 23 | This leads me to the last determinant of transmission teaching I want to explore here : that of teacher isolation . |
| 24 | All this leads me to the conclusion that the greater part of the passage of geological time has left over most of the earth no more than Shakespeare 's " gap in nature " . |
| 25 | This leads us to a discussion of the concept of ‘ information management ’ . |
| 26 | This leads us to a fundamental distinction in the character of critical judgements , a distinction between what I shall call internal and external criteria of judgement . |
| 27 | This leads us to a brief discussion of the developments within these fields since the time when the early sociologists were working . |
| 28 | This leads us to the composition and behaviour of sports crowds , especially at football matches and the current debate about the reasons for hooliganism . |
| 29 | This leads us to the most widely adopted material for kite sails , Ripstop Nylon |
| 30 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |