Example sentences of "this [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the years between his father 's death and the outbreak of the First War , this became quite a grand establishment . |
| 2 | Parents have ( or should have ) authority over their children and this constitutes both a responsibility and a burden . |
| 3 | This statement paved the way for and was indeed reiterated in Roberts in which the Court of Appeal held that consent had on the facts been terminated where there was a formal deed of separation , even though this lacked both a non-cohabitation and a non-molestation clause . |
| 4 | This represents perhaps a quarter of the true figure . |
| 5 | All mountain rescue medical equipment is paid for by government funding , but this represents only a small percentage of our total costs . |
| 6 | This represents only a small proportion of the structure . |
| 7 | This represents quite a significant change because it signals that the authorities were inclined to let market forces have a greater influence on the volume of credit ( and therefore the stock of money ; see Chapter 5 ) as well as the recipients of credit . |
| 8 | This has both a short-term and a long-term objective . |
| 9 | A smaller 9.6 volt model is also offered , but this has only a 330mm ( 13in ) cutting capacity , and takes 12 hours to recharge . |
| 10 | Actually , with the exception of Oldham , and 4 home and only 2 away matches , this looks quite a tricky fixture list for them . |
| 11 | Slightly better is to use the test followed by study of the words spelled incorrectly ; but this causes only a marginal improvement . |
| 12 | This reinforced both a legalistic approach , conscious of conflicts of interest , and pessimism about the results of welfare-orientated admissions to care . |
| 13 | This seemed clearly a case of the patient needing the medicine more frequently so I suggested she take it at least 4 times daily . |
| 14 | This comprised quite a large industrial site and in later years became an important iron and tinplate rolling works . |
| 15 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 16 | This happened about a dozen times . |
| 17 | ‘ All this happened about a thousand years ago , ’ she said . |
| 18 | All of this costs just a fiver . |
| 19 | This varies quite a bit , depending on the training and experience of the practitioner . |
| 20 | As the medical he describes should take around forty minutes , this forms quite a neat equation . |
| 21 | We regularly have 200 worshippers singing with us and this requires quite a lot of volume from the band to lead effectively , but I never find it necessary to increase the master volume on the Marshall beyond half way . |
| 22 | If this sounds rather a lot it is worth noting that other word processors that offer similar facilities make similar demands of your hardware . |
| 23 | This takes quite a long time and slowly the boat turns around . |
| 24 | But this takes quite a few rolls of paper . |
| 25 | This takes only a few minutes and should be done every few days . |
| 26 | Depending on size , this takes around a week to erect . |
| 27 | This creates quite a serious problem at shows because he frequently has to be dope-tested after a successful performance . |
| 28 | This affected only a few thousand people , however , and on June 9 there were protests over the restrictions by Israeli employers whose businesses were threatened , forcing the authorities to lower the age limit to 25 and drop the 10-employee rule . |
| 29 | It is as if Hahnemann takes it for granted that we all understand the importance of quantity , as well as potency , when administering a remedy , but this seems almost a revolutionary concept to us as we rarely consider this factor when using both low and high potency centesimal remedies . |
| 30 | This reflects both a desire to uphold tradition and the fact that natural dyes produce a subtle beauty of tone that has never been equalled by even the finest synthetic dyes . |