Example sentences of "this [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meyer are claiming that a number of competitive snowboarders are switching to this binding this winter . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Presumably this influences relative salary structures further down the hierarchy as well . |
| 4 | Does this make any sense ? |
| 5 | Will this make any difference ? " |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This encourages decisive footsteering since as one rail is depressed the other is raised . |
| 9 | This encourages early flowering and fruiting . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Below this sits another push-button for selecting a pre- or post-EQ balanced out signal . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This send/receive switching system works only if split-second accuracy in timing is maintained . |
| 14 | This goes one stage further than the contention considered above . |
| 15 | He 's lost a dozen in a decade and this goes some way towards explaining his surprisingly philosophical attitude to his own bad luck . |
| 16 | If a common phenomenon , this goes some way towards accounting for the ingrained belief that such growth engendered serious economic and social problems , not least Carew 's conviction that the opening of tin workings impoverished a parish , whilst their discontinuance restored prosperity . |
| 17 | This goes some way to explaining why the complicated campaigns within Toulouse in the second half of the century were largely fought out under the banners of the Angevin , Aragonese , and French kings ; and why the revolts of Henry II 's sons had widespread ramifications . |
| 18 | This goes some way towards typing the organism causing the disease . |
| 19 | Furthermore , this presumed strong association between crime and social class has been the basis for most of the leading sociological theories of crime . |
| 20 | This prohibits any requirement for separate accounts for branches of companies incorporated in other member states and substitutes provisions compelling disclosure , in the member state in which a branch operates , of the affairs of the company ( or , where it is a subsidiary , of the group to which it belongs ) . |
| 21 | This involves adiabatic elimination of the polarisation ( F 00 ) , and replacing x by the " intensity " I , equal to x2 , yielding the system which has only damped oscillatory solutions ( relaxation oscillations ) . |
| 22 | This involves combined action by hospital providers , who have fulfilled their contracts with a quarter of the year remaining , and general practitioners , who as a consequence are unable to obtain hospital treatment for their patients , to put pressure on health authorities to increase the resources available to acute services . |
| 23 | This involves exclusive dealing and retail price maintenance in return for which consumers are guaranteed a degree of protection and recompense in the case of financial failure of a tour operator . |
| 24 | This involves one night a week in barracks for navigation , medical and weapons training plus nine weekends of swimming tests , nerve-testing exercises on high wires and gruelling marches . |
| 25 | Furniture like this involves straightforward cabinet work as most of the pieces were about 8ft high the proportions had to be correct , while the combination of the dark and light woods also helped to relieve the massiveness of the piece . |
| 26 | In some cases this involves experimental work to test particular theories of how certain processes were carried out and the ways that artefacts were constructed . |
| 27 | This involves responsible self-knowledge ; not a striving after a spirituality which may not be appropriate to one 's particular capacity , but a creative inner process . |
| 28 | Sometimes this involves heavy conflict , and he may ever after be sensitive to the threat posed by powerful women who try to dominate him . |
| 29 | This involves formal recognition by the American Radio Relay League which administers the prestigious DX Century Club awards for contacts with over 320 ‘ recognised ’ countries . |
| 30 | This involves careful planning in building up contacts and nurturing them and not taking the first ‘ no ’ for an answer . |