Example sentences of "this [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 More than 300 kg N , 80 kg P and 560 kg K were recovered per hectare per year by this method and most of this passed through the pigs and was used as fertilizer for the cropped fields .
2 If so , he will often need to know what action the local authority has taken before the matter came to court and whether this complied with the requirements of the Act .
3 There is more chance of persuading the court to substitute its own finding of inferential fact from the direct facts , because this goes to the conclusions drawn by the trial judge from direct facts .
4 This refers to the professionals and white-collar workers whose earnings are linked to their skills and qualifications rather than capitalist ventures .
5 This refers to the conditions which work to maintain the cohesion of classes over time , from one generation to the next .
6 This differs from the results of Kreps and Wilson , which show that players acquire a reputation and never lose it , by masquerading as a dominant strategy type .
7 This applied to the courts , and 6000 citizens so chosen had to be available for jury service during each year .
8 How does this compare with the precautions needed for other file organizations ?
9 This agrees with the estimates arrived at by Townsend who concluded as follows :
10 This points to the changes in employment and related opportunities between the generations .
11 In contrast , Skinner regards language as part of the process by which human beings interact with their environment and this points to the relations between utterances and their environmental effects as the natural focus for research activity .
12 Whatever effect this has on the children 's futures as clerks , it maims creative instinct .
13 Much of the blame for this lies with the Americans who shied away from disarming Somalia 's bandits and instead took guns from soft targets : small businessmen and relief-agency bodyguards .
14 Perhaps the blame for this lies with the politicians .
15 The reason for this lies in the limitations to which I have already referred .
16 Let the number of records be defined as n and the total address locations as N. This corresponds with the symbols used in equation ( 6.1 ) .
17 This view of the structurally determined nature of thought and action , and the difficulty this posed for the representatives of the working class when using a formally neutral state to serve ends other than those of capitalism , was one of the major insights which underpinned Ralph Miliband 's seminal book of the 1960s , The State in Capitalist Society .
18 This came from the parents of the children in the Old Town , because of far as I can gather from talking to the people in the Old Town
19 Does this battle of the sexes on the motorways affect country roads , too ?
20 This allows for the entries to be made by machine accounting whereby several operations can be carried out at the same time .
21 Because the cells are sickle cell shaped and rather rigid they have difficulty passing through fine blood capillaries , and this results in the tissues not having enough oxygen , causing anaemia .
22 Natural mating occurs , in temperate zones , when the days are shortening ; supposedly this results in the kids being born , five months later into a supportive spring environment .
23 However , after a few steps v , and unc usually become heavily diagonal , so that Mr tends towards I ; this occurs before the vectors Yr have converged .
24 Even though the Chinese have promoted traditional building materials and architectural styles and popular participation in the housing process in rural areas , none of this happens in the cities .
25 Is this done during the evenings , or during holidays , or weekends ?
26 It all revolves around correct timing , and this depends on the reactions of the fish at the time .
27 This depends on the judges ' views of the merits of the case before them or ( I would add ) the direction their political inclinations lead them — what I call below their ‘ view of the public interest ’ .
28 This depends on the aims of the essay , but it might include : — a judgement about which of the competing arguments you have considered in your essay is correct or most persuasive ;
29 We then have to work out for each molecule which of the Cartesian axes corresponds with which inertial axis , as this depends on the details of the mass-distribution .
30 This depends on the manufacturers ' software .
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