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Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	Even this belongs to a type that one might call the ‘ declamatory madrigal ’ ( cf.
2	There is the danger that , when we get to college , this grinds to a halt when there is no one to tell you to do it .
3	One of the means Golding exploits most consistently to overcome the obvious difficulties this imposes on a novelist is the use of metaphor and simile .
4	And if this goes round a sort of roughly circular track , the we 're not measuring velocity , we 're measuring speed .
5	Although this refers to a Christian 's relationships with other Christians , it is legitimate to extend Paul 's principles to all human relationships .
6	This refers to a culture 's ideas concerning beauty and good taste , together with an appreciation of colour and form .
7	As we have seen , this refers to a sense of knowing who or where you are in a society which has increasingly ‘ spread ’ over time and space .
8	Alcuin [ q.v. ] says that Offa shed much blood to secure Ecgfrith 's position , and if this refers to a purge of the royal kindred may explain why Cenwulf was so distant a relative .
9	This refers to a process whereby a child is rewarded every time it completes a desirable behaviour .
10	‘ This looks like a mistake by the Russian Football Association — not the club .
11	This looks like a case of a random example ; for the only problem it could create would be by failing to fall within a category of admissible wordings .
12	This looks like a meal fit for a king .
13	But anyway this looks like a grievance of standing .
14	This looks like a set for The Happiest Days of Your Life . ’
15	I apologise if this description of Boy sounds to you like some fantasy and not a real person , a real young man ; and worse still , if this looks like a photograph from that kind of magazine which you would n't even buy , let alone be seen reading in public , on public transport for instance .
16	All this matters in a system with overlapping powers , with a tendency to divide Manhattan and its liberal politicians and the mayor from the concerns of the outer boroughs .
17	This lies on a branch of the Frome , sandwiched between Ebley and Kings Stanley .
18	The reason for this lies in a theory called secondary reinforcement which says that the praise will become associated with the more powerful extra reward and take on some of the strong reinforcing properties of that reward .
19	This corresponds to a ratio log , where f X is X-ray flux at Earth and f V is V-band flux at Earth .
20	This corresponds to a temperature of -273°C or 0 K. This is the temperature called absolute zero .
21	And we for our part think that this counts for a lot .
22	Again , this starts from a point of origin and is divided into equal portions .
23	This allows for a completion review .
24	This results from a kind of double vision which blurs the difference between the historical interpretation of contemporary economic advice and the evaluation of ideas which subsequently proved to be significant in the evolution of economic theory .
25	This results from a failure in the sealing of the unit and causes condensation to build up between the panes of glass .
26	The level of output constrained by the NTB is Q1 , and this results in a price of P1 .
27	This results in a shortening of the average duration of time in which families live as a nuclear group and an increase in the phase of the life cycle in which the couple live alone post-child rearing — the empty nest phase .
28	The result is that a distribution of relaxation times is to be expected for a given process and this results in a broadening of the dielectric loss peak .
29	If this results in a tie , an arbitrary choice may be made .
30	This results in a blurring of the distinction between the real and the fictional enunciations , since the implied speaking persona is seen as representing the author himself , and the reader 's situation is potentially included within the scope of the deictics in the poem .