Example sentences of "this [noun] [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This support combines a concern to preserve the attractive environments in which they live and a commitment to local democracy at the smallest scale . |
| 2 | This support takes a variety of forms . |
| 3 | I just feel a game of this genre needs a quota of well-hidden rooms to add a little interest . |
| 4 | This driver has a host of other very useful features , including things like resolution control and halftone angles . |
| 5 | Chair work of this kind involves a lot of compound shaping to make the chair really comfortable and supportive and five a refined appearance . |
| 6 | Dress has such strong sexual significance that minor activity of this kind adds a frisson for some in intersexual activity . |
| 7 | This function obtains a pixel count of any such material seen in the strip and sets the return value accordingly . |
| 8 | This story involves a youth hostel in the town of Ramsey in the Isle of Man whose narrow-gauge railway has brought pleasure and fascination to many people either as holiday makers or railway enthusiasts since the 1870s . |
| 9 | While this story represents a departure from tradition , it already exists , in fact , to a greater or lesser extent in every well-run American and Japanese corporation . |
| 10 | This story concerns a location about ¾ mile west of Ashton-under-Lyme station where a freight-only line from Denton Junction on the Stockport to Stalybridge line bifurcates to join the Manchester to Huddersfield Trans Pennine route by way of west and east facing curves . |
| 11 | The history in this case describes a conflict between neighbours rather than one against the state . |
| 12 | This case presents a situation in which the commitment for change was high at the top ; but the methods of achieving the change were confused at first , and not enough effort was expended to infuse the total organizational environment with commitment . |
| 13 | this case concerns a claim for pain and suffering lasting a few seconds prior to death arising from the hillsborough incident . |
| 14 | ( The TRAGEDIANS have taken up positions for the continuation of the mime : which in this case means a love scene , sexual and passionate , between the QUEEN and the POISONER/KING . ) |
| 15 | This technique uses a number of PCR primers for different organisms in the same test tube . |
| 16 | For instance , difference theorists dislike the implication that everything about women 's behaviour can be traced simply to their subordination , and this resistance has a lot to recommend it . |
| 17 | This award confirms a commitment to clients by offering both products and an after-sales service monitored by a guaranteed quality assurance policy . |
| 18 | said ‘ This award provides a standard by which you can gauge yourself , and gives you a means by which quality can be improved . ’ |
| 19 | But while the Way continues north-west on the old military road , this route climbs a hillside footpath from the town to join the track heading broadly north-east towards Luibeilt . |
| 20 | This Certificate qualifies a person to work as a Community Interpreter in a particular context : the exam is offered either in the context of the Health Service , the Legal Services or Local Government . |
| 21 | The precise timing of this decision remains a mystery . |
| 22 | In so far as this decision approves a requirement made under section 7(4) to provide a specimen of blood simpliciter , without making any reference to the alternative of urine , it has been effectively overruled by later cases and I shall defer further consideration of it until I come to those cases . |
| 23 | I am going to attempt such a classification not with the belief that it is either scientific — this University has a Department of Criminology , and I am sure that my attempts would be regarded as very crude in those august circles — nor with the idea that the classification will be exhaustive , but by way of illustration of my essential point that different criminal phenomena , or anti-law-and-order phenomena , require different types of reaction on the part of the rest of society and imply different prognoses . |
| 24 | It may be recalled that no group contemplated placing the following sentence at the end : From an analytic point of view , this sentence raises a number of issues . |
| 25 | This sentence makes a number of claims , some more overt than others . |
| 26 | Well , he might say that one mental sentence is , as it were , ‘ upfront ’ ( for example ‘ The spectacles are broken ! ’ ) , but that this sentence has a network of connections to other sentences in the mental architecture ( ‘ They are made of glass , ’ ‘ They were purchased ’ , ‘ They are not unique ’ ) . |
| 27 | The requesting State and not the moving party is liable for these costs , and it is of interest that this provision enables a judge of the requesting State to impose an international fiscal obligation on his Government . |
| 28 | Unlike some other units , this charger has a start button : charging begins when the red start button is pressed . |
| 29 | This algorithm depends a bit too much on the sorting stage . |
| 30 | But this ruse gives a chance for Nestor and the gallery of small time crooks and pimps to be transported to Devil 's Island , an escape on a raft in a storm and end up at the North Pole for a sequence with a dancing penguin and a polar bear , to give the show a Christmas gloss . |