Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 This finding serves to refute the powerful myth that older people are neglected by their family and that the main burden of caring for older people falls upon the state .
2 Arguments about this change continue to rage , and will probably burn on for the foreseeable future .
3 This change appears to have little effect on the remaining coefficients from ( 2.2 ) , confirming the importance of both relative returns and aggregate financial activity in determining the level of foreign portfolio investment in the UK .
4 The historical legacy of this hegemony continues to have a profound influence on the contemporary political landscape .
5 This litany served to keep alive in French Christian memory the true place of the king as Christ 's representative on earth , at a time when political realities bade fair to obliterate it ; but it also elevated the lower ranks of earthly powers .
6 Protective formulae of this kind tend to become fossilized .
7 Works of this kind serve to make it visible .
8 Now you can see that if a scientist of this kind tries to study man he is in difficulty .
9 This had normally been sufficient pretext for direct military intervention , and some action of this kind appears to have been under consideration in December 1980 and again in March 1981 .
10 A model of this kind seems to require managers to have confidence in social worker judgement about closing cases , which may be easier to achieve in a specialist context .
11 Also , failure surveys of this kind fail to show up users who do not check the shelves because of low expectation of success .
12 Policy ‘ solutions ’ of this kind tended to favour erosion works ( often paid for by labour inputs on the part of farmers themselves ) , terracing , reafforestation and pasture closure , implemented by compulsory destocking or exclusion from certain vulnerable areas .
13 We suggest that an authority embarking on a project of this kind needs to give serious consideration to the time-scale for guaranteed funding and the relative merits of schemes which are openly competitive and those based on selection and sponsorship .
14 elitism in analyses of this kind tends to explain elite power through both the social function of the group , the success of the group in carrying out that function and the particular contingent demands of the society for that function .
15 The distinction between individuals in government and the senior civil service , banks and corporations is often more blurred than in western countries , and therefore this elite tends to form a coherent and powerful set of economic interests , ( although these may be contradictory and are usually very diverse ) and are not only represented in government but often are the government .
16 But if that is our conclusion , then we miss perhaps the most profound contribution this story has to make to theology and to faith .
17 ( This story seems to have originated in North America half a century ago and it has been cropping up all over that continent ever since . )
18 Actually , I missed some good ones in the couple of days ' holiday I took ; if I 'd just bothered to look at a single fucking news-stand after I left Stromeferry I 'd have seen this story starting to break about this guy — ‘ The Red panther ’ the tabloids decided on eventually — murdering these right-leaning pillars of the community .
19 Any major player in this field has to take the imminent MPEG standard very seriously .
20 But on the principle that most clever ideas in this field seem to have been developed first by bats , I do n't mind betting that the answer is yes .
21 Finally many people of this caste had to find other non-traditional occupations .
22 Organisations seeking to avail themselves of this opportunity need to catch a high speed train pretty quickly ! ’
23 The prefix " horse " in many plant names does not mean that the plant is a particularly delectable food as far as those animals are concerned ; it did in fact evolve from " coarse " , and in this case served to separate the plant from the one which actually supplied a radish root .
24 It leaves this to eventually crawl ashore and pupate among the roots of trees , to emerge as the adults — shown in this case mating to complete the cycle , the female returning to lay her eggs on the water .
25 ‘ Recent ’ in this case seems to mean c1990 ; thus reference is made to proposals for Manchester 's Metrolink to run in the City Centre , while the changes wrought by the Transport and Works Act 1992 are barely anticipated .
26 This is not a suitable case in which to reopen the matter but I am bound to say that this case seems to show that there is room for an exception where examining the proceedings in Parliament would almost certainly settle the matter immediately one way or the other .
27 The decisive factor in this case seems to have been the fact that there had been no previous contact between the child and the birth father .
28 Thus , the symbol of science in this case seems to have lost its scientific elements and have become anchored in much older images ( perhaps even in the image of a wise man , who has constructed his own Golem within his own brain ) .
29 It is not then that this particular instance of a male , semitic human being ‘ is God ’ — one would in this case have to say ‘ a god ’ .
30 The fact is that The Possessed , which can be circumstantial to a calculated fault when it chooses , in this case chooses to say nothing .
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