Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reality , one finds people reading newspapers , knitting and drinking cups of tea , but this constitutes rather dull television . |
| 2 | If one is interested in a 3 kilobase fragment then this constitutes about 10 pg ( 10 - 1 g ) of the sample . |
| 3 | In the US , in contrast , exchanges are more orientated towards domestic retail business , and this encourages more extensive government supervision . |
| 4 | this goes down each time until finally |
| 5 | This involves increasingly elaborate camera moves the longer the shot is held or else relies heavily on the interest of dialogue if the camera is not moving significantly . |
| 6 | These are all basic points , but it is still necessary to tackle the question of how the kind of speeds mentioned earlier can be achieved , and this involves more detailed consideration of the way the system should be designed . |
| 7 | This represents around 30,000 cases a year . |
| 8 | This represents only two cases in 1990–1 , and all costings were based on the assumption that tonsillectomies took place as inpatient procedures . |
| 9 | The talking that accompanies play with such materials as water , sand , clay , junk materials , and bricks , with dramatic role-play in the Wendy house and the model shop , and with imaginative play with miniature animals , people , and vehicles — all of this builds up spoken vocabulary . |
| 10 | This covers about 90 charities . |
| 11 | To encourage billionaires to bid against each other , the auctioneer will offer to lend up to 50 per cent of the final price , and this has clearly inflationary effects . |
| 12 | Rose of Lima 's own understanding of this has clear biographical origins which are worth noting . |
| 13 | This has quite simple implications . |
| 14 | Consider the process unc This has essentially different behaviours depending on unc or unc ( it either can communicate or not ) : this conditional choice is therefore unavoidable . |
| 15 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 16 | This has very important implications for our interpretation of the coded significance of gift-exchange behaviour . |
| 17 | Known as capillary leak syndrome , this causes both systemic hypotension and tissue oedema . |
| 18 | This places too much burden on others . |
| 19 | This highlights yet another advantage of the bicycle — the consistency of the time taken for any particular journey . |
| 20 | This highlights how easy EaziLink actually is to get up and running with the minimum of fuss . |
| 21 | This highlights how easy EaziLink actually is to get up and running with the minimum of fuss . |
| 22 | The base level for anything approaching quality reproduction would be 64 levels and this needs over 6.5 megabytes . |
| 23 | This needs very careful consideration depending upon the composition of the centre . |
| 24 | This meets informally each month to monitor progress and drive the agenda forward . |
| 25 | This allows more valid comparisons between population sub-groups ( for example , age groups , occupational groups ) and with other communities of different size . |
| 26 | When the number of attributes is low , this allows very economical storage of the data about a particular record . |
| 27 | This allows about 650 megabytes ( 650,000,000 bytes ) of data to be stored on a single disc . |
| 28 | Another response suggested the same limit : '70 — this allows recently retired people to use their experience but after this age their experience becomes dated . ’ |
| 29 | This allows relatively complex Boolean conditions to be built up and tested , such as : in the programming department AND able to speak French BUT NOT if in grade 3 UNLESS from North branch . |
| 30 | If this happens very high pressures may result due , not to the wave itself , but to the pressure of the air compressed between the wave and the cliff . |