Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This goes to demonstrate a point that I have long argued businesses should not be hit in the pocket when a dispute arises through no fault of their own . |
| 2 | This goes to demonstrate a point that I have long argued businesses should not be hit in the pocket when a dispute arises through no fault of their own . |
| 3 | This involves generating a DC for the package , assessing the DC , activating the DC , updating the package to reference the selected approved version of the changed module , and then getting the package approved . |
| 4 | This involves taking a sample of households and classifying them according to their income groups . |
| 5 | This involves taking a risk : there may well be expression of anger or despair or criticism of the group or ( more commonly ) the church . |
| 6 | This involves using a filtration process which basically makes the solid content of the milk much higher allowing it to set better , making it smooth , thick and above all , consistent . |
| 7 | This involves creating a list of categories such as ‘ takes lead ’ or ‘ follows ’ , ‘ gives orders ’ or ‘ obeys orders ’ , ‘ works out of doors ’ or ‘ works indoors ’ , ‘ mends car ’ or ‘ does housework ’ , and counting up each occasion on which the characters in the book do these things . |
| 8 | This involves obtaining a training post as a trainee legal executive with a firm of solicitors or similar organisation , joining the Institute of Legal Executives and undertaking the Institute 's Part 1 and Part 11 examinations . |
| 9 | This involves spending a lot of time in the sun by the pool listening to girlish giggles as they frolic around . |
| 10 | This involves finding a language for the goal of contemplative life — " I vate wele desyres to here some special poynt of luf of Jhesu Criste , and of contemplatyf lyfe " [ vate wele : know well ; here : hear ] ( 6.102 – 3.214 – 2 ) — to bridge the gap between doctrine and reality . |
| 11 | However , it is one thing to scan a computer screen in the catering office : it 's quite another to do stocktaking — typically this involves carrying a notebook around the various larders and coldrooms . |
| 12 | This involves specifying a goal or target value for the objective function . |
| 13 | This involves gaining an idea of villagers ' senses of their past and future fates , their senses of history , and their identities with others sharing or differences from those not sharing their fates . |
| 14 | This has stimulated an awareness of the very different ways that women support each other , work around issues of parenthood and career and seek to redress an art market that continues to marginalise them . |
| 15 | We think that the er residents of a new settlement will still look to York as the natural centre for employment , for er provision of most employment , retailing and entertainment , and if you compare it with something like er Easingwold , erm which is of a similar size , erm this has achieved a degree a degree of self containment and balance , but this has occurred through erm a long period of development and a gradual growth of erm social linkages and economic linkages , however , even with such erm a gradual growth erm it 's not got a high degree of self containment , erm recent developments in er transport and changes in lifestyle have reduced this even further , and it 's difficult to believe that er a proposal , such as a new settlement er which is explicitly intended to cater for the development needs of York , located only ten miles from York can achieve the same level of self containment . |
| 16 | This has created a capital structure more suitable for a listed company . |
| 17 | This has created a vacancy for a full-time post in the Eastern Counties , for one year initially . |
| 18 | This has created a temptation to explain the passing of the radical reforms by pointing to the absence of the ‘ conservative ’ Kimon and his 4000 ‘ conservative ’ hoplites . |
| 19 | There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 . |
| 20 | Clearly , this has played a role , but The Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Overseas Trade ( HMSO , 1985 , pp. 238–41 ) concluded that the responsibility for at least half of the increase in unemployment since 1979 is laid directly at the Government 's door . |
| 21 | This has necessitated a concern with the movement and transformation of energy in the atmospheric boundary layer , in the plant cover and in the soil so that progress could be made towards understanding the mechanism of energy and moisture exchange . |
| 22 | ‘ We are already behind on our non-professional staff training programme and this has necessitated a review of training methods . |
| 23 | This has led a number of commentators to argue that the unemployment trap is now of little importance to the real world . |
| 24 | ‘ What I meant was do you wish to pull in somewhere till this has eased a bit ? ’ |
| 25 | This has traumatised a company that traditionally gave its employees an implicit job-for-life promise . |
| 26 | But this has cast a shadow over the College . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a question of some of the wiring not being routed in the correct way and in some cases this has caused a chafing or a short circuit , ’ said a Vauxhall spokesman yesterday . |
| 28 | All this has caused a lot of tension in our marriage . |
| 29 | All this has reinforced a mood of debt reduction and rebuilding of savings back to levels that were broadly maintained throughout the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 30 | To some degree , this has reinforced a kind of ‘ nostalgia ’ for the past when rural societies were thought to be organized as relatively undivided ‘ communities ’ . |