Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finding challenges the notion that carbohydrate malabsorption is uncommon in patients with chronic pancreatitis . |
| 2 | This finding supports the view that chemotherapy should be the elective treatment in this group . |
| 3 | This finding confirms the need for considerable attention to be paid to general public education , to the various existing advice agencies and to such people as counter clerks , court officials , doctors and others in official agencies . |
| 4 | As careful clinical monitoring is more difficult in the darkened environment in which ERCP is usually performed , this finding illustrates the value of additional patient monitoring by pulse oximetry . |
| 5 | This framework had the advantage of pointing up particular events in the process which would be improved by more careful management by ‘ sending ’ as well as ‘ receiving ’ employers . |
| 6 | The morphological and syntactic characteristics of the infinitive ( no personal endings , no subject ) lead one to conclude that this support has the form of a generalized person which does not vary in rank but which encompasses all possible ordinal persons . |
| 7 | This change paved the way for Protestantism , which first took hold where French was spoken — in a number of towns , and in the socially' atypical mountains of the Cévennes — and then spread to other rural areas . |
| 8 | This change erodes the distinction between university and what were previously known as ‘ public sector ’ institutions , and may blur what Burgess ( 1977 , pp. 2332 ) has argued is a contrast between the ‘ autonomous ’ ( university ) and ‘ service ’ ( polytechnic/ college ) traditions . |
| 9 | This change follows the EC 's adoption in December 1991 of the Insurance Accounting Directive , which allows the inclusion of both realised and unrealised investment gains in the p&l account . |
| 10 | This change reflects the effects of the energy crisis in oil and gas in 1973 , which prompted greater emphasis on energy conservation , and the effects of economic recession ( figure 6.11 ) . |
| 11 | A transfer test is an appropriate way of assessing the value of α since the Pearce-Hall ( 1980 ) model assumes ( as do similar models ) that the value of this parameter determines the readiness with which a CS will enter into associations . |
| 12 | This coloration shows the presence of iron oxides . |
| 13 | Children are denigrated by adults , and as Itzin ( 1984 ) has identified this discrimination sows the seeds for later ageism towards very old people . |
| 14 | This complexity permits the compaction of the data that is stored and is ideal for research into the morphology of a language . |
| 15 | BARGAIN-HUNTERS who scour the Church bazaar , the Scout fete and the car boot sale this Easter have the right to demand their money back if what they buy turns out to be a pig in a poke , a report says today . |
| 16 | For my money , and at the time of writing ( things can change rapidly ) this deck represents the cutting edge in compact disc reproduction at the price — an important caveat . |
| 17 | This driver saw the warning , but still tried to have a go himself . |
| 18 | In Brezhnev 's opinion an accord of this kind involving the states of the region as ‘ full-fledged parties ’ , would act as a ‘ reliable guarantee ’ of their security . |
| 19 | Switches of this kind maintain the stability of complex metabolic systems without altering the numbers or kinds of enzyme molecules present . |
| 20 | There was however some danger of developments of this kind given the resources of the powers that were active in the region . |
| 21 | Motion of this kind translates the chain through the tube , like a snake moving through grass , and successive defects moving the chain in this way will eventually carry it completely out of the hypothetical tube . |
| 22 | Work of this kind demonstrated the significance of the Bronze and Iron Ages in reducing the forest cover of the British landscape particularly in upland Britain , where blanket peat growth may have been influenced by deforestation rather than simply by climatic change ( Simmons , 1980 ) . |
| 23 | Not only does development of this kind damage the setting , it very often fails to produce the promised restoration . |
| 24 | Examples of this kind include the Polytechnic 's Diplomas in Cartography and Publishing ( now single fields ) , and , most recently , the Polytechnic Diploma in Language Studies ( now a double field , leading , over three years rather than the four required for honours degrees in other language fields , to a BA degree only ) . |
| 25 | Books of this kind include The Making of the English Landscape by W.G. Hoskins ( Penguin Paperback ) . |
| 26 | Blocks of this kind have the advantage of being regular and of uniform size , making planning , estimating and building easier than if using natural stone . |
| 27 | Regular exercise of this kind improves the balance of fatty substances in the blood stream , lowers the resting blood pressure level and strengthens the heart muscle . |
| 28 | Funding an operation of this kind required the authorisation of the office of France 's prime minister , Laurent Fabius , and he was certainly not going to give that without the president 's approval . |
| 29 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 30 | However it also appears that those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |