Example sentences of "this [adv] [vb -s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This skilfully manipulates alliteration and rhyme in a humorously wry acknowledgement of the archetypally human facility for putting off that effort of intellectual and emotional energy involved in recognising and acting on the truth . |
| 2 | This effectively prevents water-loss by evaporation through the skin , though the animal must doubtless lose some moisture by breathing , which it is able to do through tiny tubes attached to its nostrils and opening through the membrane . |
| 3 | Most UK institutions charge loans on a floating rate basis such that they match floating rate liabilities , but this merely increases credit risk , as interest rate risk is passed on to the customer , with subsequent greater probability of defaults occurring . |
| 4 | Since this was lithographed , by H. C. Richter , it is also much bigger , in a large folio size instead of quarto ; but with small birds which can be shown life-size on a page of ordinary dimensions , this merely adds splendour |
| 5 | You will tell me that the milkman has refused to continue deliveries , but this only adds weight to my earlier submission that the boat is not only unfit to live in but actually unsafe . " |
| 6 | But this only gives information at one point . |
| 7 | It is true , as sociologists have recently pointed out , that psychoanalysis , or a variant of it , can become a managerial ideology , and may be used by staff in hospitals in order to control and out-manoeuvre patients , but this only makes sense as a piece of sociology if there is a possibility that in principle , if not in practice , there could be an uncorrupt ideology or ‘ science ’ . |
| 8 | This obviously saves time in group sessions , but only if everyone does it . |
| 9 | This obviously limits competition in product design and innovation and facilitates uniform pricing of the resulting products . |
| 10 | This obviously stops collusion at the manufacturing stage being undone by price competition at the point of sale to the ultimate buyer . |
| 11 | This literally causes water to pile up in the western Pacific : a veritable hill of water . |
| 12 | To achieve this necessarily takes time and it is thus the means and goals which we should examine today rather than the setting first of arbitrary ( financial ) parameters . |
| 13 | This necessarily causes delay . |
| 14 | This greatly aids management and the nature of these systems makes them very easy to tie into computer control . |
| 15 | This soon becomes path , bending left in front of caravan site and crossing edge of field before running close to cliff ( there is always a fence between you and the edge ) . |
| 16 | It is true that the first of the pair begins like the piece on p.88 , with a figured Trommelbass accompaniment , but this soon gives way to a rising broken triad in semiquaver triplets which dominates from then on . |
| 17 | Film superstar Alan Rickman took a little time to settle comfortably into the stage mantle of Shakespeare 's much-wronged prince , as if the echo of his own voice was vying with King Hamlet 's exhortations to do the deed , but this soon gives way to a gentle yet powerful Hamlet . |
| 18 | This just gives time for production and dispatch to members giving them at least a clear month before the next event . |
| 19 | This generally enables business to continue as usual until the move takes place . |
| 20 | This generally means mail order , trading checks , and weekly credit traders . |
| 21 | ‘ There is no precedent created as this already takes place in Northern Ireland , which is an integral part of the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | Cells multiply by dividing and this usually requires cell growth , the cells doubling in size before dividing in two . |
| 23 | This usually involves grouping questions round a carefully devised plan , a five-point plan or a seven-point plan , designed to cover all aspects of a candidate 's achievements and personality and weighing up excellence in one area such as ‘ motivation ’ against inadequacy in another such as ‘ background ’ . |
| 24 | This usually takes place around the end of the fortieth week — 280 days — although in this as in so many aspects of sex and reproduction there is considerable variability . |
| 25 | This usually takes care of itself . |
| 26 | As this usually includes preflight briefing and often post-flight debriefing , these rates do not seem unreasonable . |
| 27 | If the dismissed employee has been replaced by another employee this usually means redundancy . |
| 28 | This usually comprises coursework on the basis of a formal curriculum consisting of lectures and practical work . |
| 29 | This usually covers death , loss of limbs or eyes , permanent disablement , temporary disablement and expenses for hospital stays . |
| 30 | This usually implies translation into a formal language with a simpler semantics , and , using Tarski 's definition , the determination of its truth conditions . |