Example sentences of "this [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Presumably this influences relative salary structures further down the hierarchy as well . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This encourages decisive footsteering since as one rail is depressed the other is raised . |
| 5 | This encourages early flowering and fruiting . |
| 6 | This send/receive switching system works only if split-second accuracy in timing is maintained . |
| 7 | Furthermore , this presumed strong association between crime and social class has been the basis for most of the leading sociological theories of crime . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Sometimes this involves heavy conflict , and he may ever after be sensitive to the threat posed by powerful women who try to dominate him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This involves careful planning in building up contacts and nurturing them and not taking the first ‘ no ’ for an answer . |
| 17 | This guarantees total inadequacy , but the pay-off is ( a ) the knowledge that nobody could cope with all fifteen , and that therefore the failure does not reflect badly on him personally , and ( b ) some self-righteousness at how hard he is trying to contribute , and resentment at those who are not ‘ pulling their weight . |
| 18 | This pooled concentrated urine was then centrifuged at 10000 g for five minutes and 1 ml of supernatant chromatographed on a Sephadex G-25 column ( 0.9×43 cm ) in TRIS buffered saline ( TBS ) containing 50 mM TRIS/HCl , 0.15 M NaCl , 3.1 mM NaN 3 at pH 7.3 at a flow rate of 39.5 ml/ hour and 1.056 ml fractions collected and assayed using the APGPR ELISA . |
| 19 | This produced complete deadlock in the conference , which now went to the highest governmental level , showing the importance attached to the matter by both the USA and the UK . |
| 20 | This produced differential status between older and younger sons and between sons and daughters . |
| 21 | While this made eminent sense for production efficiency in wartime , it was very much apparent to the British that this would give the United States a natural advantage when the war ended . |
| 22 | This made geographical sense : both valleys drain west to the River Lune and the Irish Sea and are separated from the rest of Yorkshire by the barrier of the Pennines ; nevertheless , the breaking of traditional ties was not to the liking of all the inhabitants . |
| 23 | Coupled with under-funding , this made commercial software development unattractive and many of the major educational publishing companies such as Heinemann , Longman , Oxford University Press , and Macmillan , who had initially invested heavily in software development , eventually retrenched or withdrew from their activities . |
| 24 | All this made interesting reading over breakfast , but it did n't seem to advance the hunt for Andrew Stavanger . |
| 25 | Finally , and this returns us to Kumar 's statements , it is unlikely that with the elimination of the scarcity of resources — and this made cultural direction incredibly simple — and the internationalization of media productions a nation can ever maintain its defensive walls unbreached . |
| 26 | There was indeed a trend towards higher eradication rates in the triple therapy group ( 84.2 v 78.9% ) , but this lacked statistical significance because of the rather small sample size . |
| 27 | Although this precedes one-step sparring , caution must be exercised by fighters who are striking each other with hard techniques . |
| 28 | This represents substantive agreement between the two main observers and the third in the diagnosis of probable Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 29 | This represents massive expansion : the labour force in 1968 totalled 9 individuals ( 7 of whom were classified as natives of the area ) . |
| 30 | It may , of course , be reassuring for general practitioners to have consultants available in their surgeries , and doubtless they will be able to find ‘ skin specialists ’ who are retired , redundant , or otherwise unemployable , but to pretend that this represents proper dermatology or will lead to an improvement in patient care is dangerous nonsense . |