Example sentences of "this [noun] [vb -s] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finding challenges the notion that carbohydrate malabsorption is uncommon in patients with chronic pancreatitis . |
| 2 | This finding supports the view that chemotherapy should be the elective treatment in this group . |
| 3 | This finding confirms the need for considerable attention to be paid to general public education , to the various existing advice agencies and to such people as counter clerks , court officials , doctors and others in official agencies . |
| 4 | As careful clinical monitoring is more difficult in the darkened environment in which ERCP is usually performed , this finding illustrates the value of additional patient monitoring by pulse oximetry . |
| 5 | The morphological and syntactic characteristics of the infinitive ( no personal endings , no subject ) lead one to conclude that this support has the form of a generalized person which does not vary in rank but which encompasses all possible ordinal persons . |
| 6 | This change erodes the distinction between university and what were previously known as ‘ public sector ’ institutions , and may blur what Burgess ( 1977 , pp. 2332 ) has argued is a contrast between the ‘ autonomous ’ ( university ) and ‘ service ’ ( polytechnic/ college ) traditions . |
| 7 | This change follows the EC 's adoption in December 1991 of the Insurance Accounting Directive , which allows the inclusion of both realised and unrealised investment gains in the p&l account . |
| 8 | This change reflects the effects of the energy crisis in oil and gas in 1973 , which prompted greater emphasis on energy conservation , and the effects of economic recession ( figure 6.11 ) . |
| 9 | A transfer test is an appropriate way of assessing the value of α since the Pearce-Hall ( 1980 ) model assumes ( as do similar models ) that the value of this parameter determines the readiness with which a CS will enter into associations . |
| 10 | This coloration shows the presence of iron oxides . |
| 11 | Children are denigrated by adults , and as Itzin ( 1984 ) has identified this discrimination sows the seeds for later ageism towards very old people . |
| 12 | This complexity permits the compaction of the data that is stored and is ideal for research into the morphology of a language . |
| 13 | For my money , and at the time of writing ( things can change rapidly ) this deck represents the cutting edge in compact disc reproduction at the price — an important caveat . |
| 14 | Motion of this kind translates the chain through the tube , like a snake moving through grass , and successive defects moving the chain in this way will eventually carry it completely out of the hypothetical tube . |
| 15 | Regular exercise of this kind improves the balance of fatty substances in the blood stream , lowers the resting blood pressure level and strengthens the heart muscle . |
| 16 | ( iii ) This function measures the leisure value of being unemployed relative to being employed . |
| 17 | This function adds the number of set bits in this part . |
| 18 | This function returns the cosine of an angle . |
| 19 | This function returns the tangent of an angle . |
| 20 | This function returns the sine of an angle . |
| 21 | This function gives the logarithm to the base " e " of its argument . |
| 22 | Takamine have long since featured in the upper echelon of electro-acoustic manufacturers and this guitar enters the range in the mid to upper price bracket . |
| 23 | A review of this coverage supports the conclusion that the refusal of tenure to MacCabe was related to a sense among Cambridge traditionalists that the time had come to mount a strong resistance to further incursions by the tendency MacCabe was thought to support . |
| 24 | In times of financial stringency , when almost any change in criminal justice legislation or practice is likely to affect court costs , this responsibility gives the Lord Chancellor 's Department heightened influence across the penal field as a whole . |
| 25 | Among other things , this story illustrates the folly of giving up the convention of putting the decimal point a little above the line . , |
| 26 | This story completes the reversal of earlier , religious attitudes : death has not released the children , enabling them to take their places in a happier realm above ; instead it has allowed them to linger here below , continuing to savour the known joys of the here-and-now . |
| 27 | This story concerns the sounds of footsteps walking in the ballast ; no one was seen but the sounds were very convincing and one respects the account of this mystery from Mr Leslie , who certainly did n't believe in the supernatural , preferring to find a logical explanation of this sort of thing . |
| 28 | A cursory glance at the literature in this field reveals the importance of suspicions concerning gossiping groups of women . |
| 29 | The Bank in this case endorses the change by bringing its intervention rates in line with the new base rate . |
| 30 | Children are excited by it ; it helps reinforce the children 's understanding of and commitment to the time shift , and in this case introduces the idea of a journal as part of the fiction , thereby leading into writing-in-role activities . ) |