Example sentences of "this [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1937 Sino-Japanese friction erupted into full-scale war , but even this failed to rally much more than token support for China in the West . |
| 2 | This tends to make most people somewhat lazy as they take one another for granted . |
| 3 | This seems to suggest that for films with many moving objects or with high levels of subjective risk subjects ignored the fixed information in the recognition phase and were thus not biased by it . |
| 4 | MAFF ( and DAFS ) have also commented that the scope for Article 20 was limited in the UK ; this seems to pay little regard to the plight of on-farm woods and overlooks the point that the aid is not intended for large scale afforestation but for more modest schemes . |
| 5 | This seems to indicate that , despite his reference to sex as a fine and noble thing , he still regards it with a certain amount of misgiving , and as something that should be kept under strict control . |
| 6 | This helps to explain those cases of withdrawal which , otherwise , are so hard to understand . |
| 7 | Tensions between right and left flared up in a dispute over the May 1968 by-election in the City of Londonderry constituency , and this helps to illuminate some of the characteristics of the Derry Labour left . |
| 8 | It takes hardly any time at all to swoosh down a can of cola , and neither does this seem to have any effect in satisfying the appetite . |
| 9 | This serves to support some of the statements made in Section 12.5 and again emphasizes that a good index is one which permits effective retrieval . |
| 10 | Although this appeared to repeat some of the work already undertaken by the FAOR team , because the analysts were now concerned with documenting the user requirements at a detailed level it was necessary to focus the questions more precisely and , taking account of the proposed technical solutions , to consider with the interviewees the potential advantages of information being indexed and stored by electronic means . |
| 11 | However , this promises to do little for educational standards ; sometimes these tutors have neither materials nor premises to work from , and hold classes under trees . |
| 12 | Many models now incorporate a thrust race below this bearing to reduce this effect . |
| 13 | Order effects strategy involved the effect of the position of each adjective in the list to the impression formed ; ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ , ‘ when the list ended with several good qualities this tended to affect any answer since they remained more prominent in my mind ’ , and ‘ tended to remember first 3 adjectives better than last 3 ’ . |