Example sentences of "this [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strips of this make ideal flashings for brickwork , whilst whole plates can be used to make weatherproof roofs for sheds . |
| 2 | This sold 90,000 holidays in 1984 and claimed 45 per cent of the market . |
| 3 | Meyer are claiming that a number of competitive snowboarders are switching to this binding this winter . |
| 4 | If it were a requirement , for example , that all pupils need knowledge , skills and understanding in non-verbal communication ( body language , facial expression , and so on ) and how this influences overall communication strategies , attainment target I for the English curriculum ( speaking and listening ) might have a more integrated feel about it from a deaf perspective . |
| 5 | Presumably this influences relative salary structures further down the hierarchy as well . |
| 6 | If , as our studies suggest , there is not true and complete colonic metaplasia , does this make these hypotheses any less likely ? |
| 7 | Does this make any sense ? |
| 8 | Will this make any difference ? " |
| 9 | Does n't this make 20 points as opposed to our present 19 ? |
| 10 | In short , rapid population growth was a result of poverty and this asked fundamental questions about access and control over the means of production as well as the technical means by which they were developed . |
| 11 | When this became general knowledge later , there was general unease at this way of measuring the background ; the neutron flux 50 metres away from the cell measured for 50 hours could be very different than that at the cell site , even if the cell had been absent , measured for a different 50 hours . |
| 12 | When it became apparent that he must be dead , Casey gave orders to recover the body for proper burial ; this became another item in the wish-lists exchanged with the Iranians . |
| 13 | This encourages decisive footsteering since as one rail is depressed the other is raised . |
| 14 | This encourages first-time buyers into the market , believing that it is ‘ now or never ’ , and also encourages existing home owners to ‘ trade up ’ to larger accommodation . |
| 15 | This encourages early flowering and fruiting . |
| 16 | HOW WILL THIS AFFECT LOCAL AUTHORITIES ? |
| 17 | He forgot for a moment that it was pot and thought of nicotine , and then of cancer , cells in delirium , the inroads that living would make one day even on this varnished little icon of the exempt : the flab of tiredness , children , overwork , sitting up too late at night listening to people , indulging buoyant childish appetites as a device to sustain good nature against foreshadows of the senile self . |
| 18 | Below this sits another push-button for selecting a pre- or post-EQ balanced out signal . |
| 19 | However , this begs many questions about the ways in which they will respond and some of these issues will be identified later . |
| 20 | This begs many questions . |
| 21 | All this begs many questions . |
| 22 | This begs many questions , and precludes many possibilities . |
| 23 | Of course all this begs important questions about whether chemists have succeeded in duplicating the conditions of the early Earth but , even so , given that we ca n't answer these questions , the argument is worth pursuing . |
| 24 | In 1990 there were probably around 12,000 CD-ROM drives sold in the U.K. This doubled last year and could rise to over 30,000 this year . |
| 25 | This send/receive switching system works only if split-second accuracy in timing is maintained . |
| 26 | He qualifies this using two examples of Caesar 's ‘ humanness ’ , the first of a day when it was cold and windy , an the river Tiber was rough and in flood , and Caesar and Cassius were at the shore , Caesar asked Cassius to swim across with him as a sort of dare , almost , and so Cassius did , followed by Caesar , and they battled across . |
| 27 | Afleodham was rather deaf ; every word had to be repeated and every argument gone over time and time again , all this using three languages . |
| 28 | This supplies varying impedances , in the same way that working speakers do — unlike ordinary power soaks which supply a fixed impedance . |
| 29 | This goes one stage further than the contention considered above . |
| 30 | He 's lost a dozen in a decade and this goes some way towards explaining his surprisingly philosophical attitude to his own bad luck . |