Example sentences of "this [vb -s] that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This assumes that both contributions to the strain are additive so that . |
| 2 | This reveals that these companies accounted for about 40 per cent of manufacturing industry 's net assets , employment , and inward direct investment from overseas ( excluding oil company investment ) , 40–50 per cent of visible exports , 70 per cent of expenditure on industrial scientific research and development , and about 75 per cent of direct investment by UK companies ( excluding oil ) in manufacturing overseas . |
| 3 | This reveals that these words do not just carry information about proportions but also about speakers ' expectations , and even speakers ' expectations about hearers ' expectations and so on . |
| 4 | This confirms that both factors can contribute to LTP in CA1 , as shown by Kullmann and Nicoll using different techniques . |
| 5 | This requires that all resources should be used as efficiently as possible . |
| 6 | Together with the impossibility of effectively excluding people from consuming it , this implies that all individuals consume the same quantity , although they may attach different utility to this consumption if their tastes differ . |
| 7 | This implies that many carnosaurs hunted in herds or packs like wolves , weeding out the old , infirm and unprotected young , since solitary predators like lions tend to kill prey their own size or smaller . |
| 8 | This implies that any differences between forward and futures prices will be inconsequential . |
| 9 | This means that many mergers for which there have been no demonstrable advantages , but which have not been found to be overtly anti-competitive , have been allowed through , and thus contributed to the general increase in industrial concentration . |
| 10 | ‘ This means that many landowners who have sought Ministry Licences are vulnerable . |
| 11 | This means that all users must know which charge codes to use when they start to create new modules so that their modules can be stored against the correct charge code for their project . |
| 12 | This means that all users who may be affected by the SPR are notified of its existence via the Mail System , and that a particular user is nominated to respond to the SPR and informed of this responsibility via the Mail System . |
| 13 | This means that all remarks have to be addressed to the Chair . |
| 14 | This means that all combinations or configurations of emitted particles that have the same energy , angular momentum , and electric charge are equally probable . |
| 15 | This means that such extracts are protected provided the defendant can show that they were published in good faith and without malice . |
| 16 | And if our understanding of star formation is correct , then this means that most stars of the same size and density as our Sun will have planetary systems . |
| 17 | All this means that most critics never get to grips with masculinity 's perennial fascination . |
| 18 | In pence per record terms , this means that most bands receive a royalty of between 50p and 70p per album sold . |
| 19 | And as the numbers of people marrying did not significantly decline ( between 1871 and 1947 , of those who lived to 45/54 , 85–88 per cent were or had been married ) , this means that less babies were born per family . |
| 20 | Effectively this means that some students at least are initially anxious at the prospect of any language work with a grammatical focus which does not include a formalisation of the data and a description of the rules by the teacher . |
| 21 | Although in practice this means that some patients with chronic stable renal failure would have been referred for rapid investigation and diagnosis , we believe that this is preferable to taking a lower cut-off for carbamylated haemoglobin , such as 125 g VH/g Hb which would reduce sensitivity to 80% but increase specificity to 75% , since this would exclude some patients with a potentially reversible element to their renal failure that may not be so readily reversible if investigation and appropriate management were delayed . |
| 22 | Finally , if the referee brings both fists together in the middle of the chest , this means that both contestants scored at the same time , so no awards will be made . |
| 23 | Ya'kub and Fenarizade Zeyneddin , for example , rose from kasabat kadiliks to the kadiliks of Aleppo , and Damascus and Aleppo , respectively not long after the Ottoman conquest of those two cities ; but whether this means that these scholars ' careers represent exceptions to the rule or , on the other hand , that Aleppo and Damascus were not yet regarded as mevleviyets is not entirely clear . |
| 24 | This means that these devices actually allow pregnancies to begin and then abort them , a notion out of line with biblical concepts . |
| 25 | This means that any effects of the government debt may be neutralized by the appropriate combination of lump-sum taxes and transfers . |
| 26 | This means that fewer words need to be checked in the dictionary . |
| 27 | In County NatWest 's view , this indicates that many trusts will have a job to increase portfolio yields without lowering portfolio quality . |
| 28 | Often , partners can be depressed by the disinterest that each shows towards the other , and this indicates that such marriages have lost the ability to meet the needs of the individual for companionship . |
| 29 | This presupposes that all voices have an equal possibility of speech and hearing . |
| 30 | The simplest solution might appear to be to ban battery cages altogether and keep all hens free range or in percheries : but this presupposes that these alternatives really are better for the birds . |