Example sentences of "this [verb] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This revealed that the University Grants Committee , the UFC 's predecessor , had breached Treasury rules in allowing 20 universities to re-employ the lecturers and professors who had benefited from a £130 million early retirement programme . |
| 2 | This revealed that the management were ‘ concerned ’ that the post-60/65 group comprised 18 per cent of the industry compared with a national average of 3.5 per cent , and had offered ‘ solutions ’ . |
| 3 | This symbolizes that the motivation of the receiver is now following the wishes of the communicator . |
| 4 | On April 25 this reported that the security forces were to blame for provoking violence from what had been previously a peaceful crowd by making baton charges . |
| 5 | This illustrates that the law does not exist simply for the protection of individuals , for if it did one would be able to refuse its help if one did not want it . |
| 6 | This illustrates that the regime is profoundly divided against itself . ’ |
| 7 | This supposes that the court misjudges what Parliament would wish it to do , whereas in fact the decision may win general approval . |
| 8 | This suggest that the governance of Ulster is more than just a matter of security and that there are urgent needs for an independent environmental protection agency , subsidies for green farming , and more money in general for the administration of conservation . |
| 9 | This suggest that the gas is undergoing a cooling flow , as is expected anyway as the gas density inferred from the X-ray luminosity requires that the cooling time be less than the age of the Universe within that region . |
| 10 | ( This assumes that the government does not allow the exchange rate to appreciate . ) |
| 11 | In one sense , new book selection is a way of filling in or updating between stock revisions , but this assumes that the whole of a stock is updated , subject by subject , over a limited timespan , and because stock revision is a highly staff-intensive process that is rarely the case . |
| 12 | This assumes that the bathroom is next to or above the kitchen ( as is usually the case ) ; if running hot water to another room ( a bedroom , say ) will create a very long pipe run , it might be simpler to install a separate instantaneous or small storage heater . |
| 13 | This assumes that the behaviour of individuals that is part of the organization 's structure of authority can be isolated from other roles and other aspects of behaviour . |
| 14 | This assumes that the plasma free amino acid pool is representative of the precursor for pancreatic enzyme synthesis . |
| 15 | Obviously in the winter it still may not provide enough and will have to be supplemented with concentrates and this assumes that the pasture has been well maintained and is not overstocked . |
| 16 | This assumes that the universe is described by a Friedmann model , right back to the big bang . |
| 17 | This assumes that the diet you are going to follow is reduced by 500 to 1,000 calories per day , which will then have to be derived from your body 's fat store . |
| 18 | This assumes that the process name is LSTRAIN , hence that is the name of the command file , and that the user access symbol is also LSTRAIN . |
| 19 | ‘ This assumes that the investment managers are making an average return of around 13 per cent a year — which they should be able to do , given that a PEP is effectively a tax- free fund . |
| 20 | This assumes that the period of Newco 's ownership of shares in Target would be sufficiently short for there to have been no increase in their value , so that when the capital distribution takes place , there is no capital gains tax liability on the partners under s122 TCGA 1992 , nor a distribution for the purposes of s209 TA 1988 . |
| 21 | This proclaimed that the Republic of Armenia ( i.e. dropping the adjectives Soviet and Socialist ) was a sovereign state in which its constitution and laws took precedence . |
| 22 | Does this show that the father would not be neutral if he remained aloof from the quarrel ? |
| 23 | Why does this show that the argument from analogy , by making assumption ( a ) , can not account for ( b ) , our understanding of statements about others ? |
| 24 | This says that the provision of free movement for workers does not apply to the ‘ employment in the public service ’ . |
| 25 | In describing the negotiations for Æthelred 's return from exile in 1014 , this says that the king was informed that no lord was dearer to them than their native lord , if he would govern them more justly ( rihtlicor ) than before , and that he then promised to remedy the things that they all hated . |
| 26 | This says that the decrease in objective function value after one dual-simplex is Dk ( x r ) where and Dk ( x r ) is called the down-penalty . |
| 27 | This shows that the actualization of the infinitive 's event is not what such sentences express , an analysis supported by Coates ( 1983 : 100 ) , who gives a similar argument for the meaning of can in her discussion of She can swim , and Palmer ( 1977 : 5 ) , who has pointed out that a sentence such as ( 12 ) is impossible because can " is not used to imply actuality in the past " : ( 12 ) * I ran fast and could catch the bus , Example ( 13 ) however is quite acceptable because it implies that the event did not take place , being seen merely as a possibility in the past ( i.e. a potentiality ) . |
| 28 | This shows that the voltage delivered at the maximum rated current ( 75mA ) is still more than 9V . |
| 29 | This shows that the distance between the chain ends , for this model is proportional to the square root of the number of bonds and so , is considerably shorter than a fully extended chain . |
| 30 | This shows that the bonding in silver chloride is stronger than in sodium chloride . |