Example sentences of "this [adv] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | this apparently buys an exhibition gallery utterly inadequate to host even a moderately-sized show ; a restaurant not large enough to serve both staff and members and be an income-generating venue for the public ; a bookshop that needs twice as much space if it is to be the premier one in England ; library and drawings storage that will mean costly out-housing as soon as the new facility is opened ; and finally — my own personal quibble — a drawings collection that will have lost its allure as a magnet for donor support . |
| 2 | However , this only yields an average selling price . |
| 3 | This obviously produces an impression which is quite similar to the more dominant " be aware " sense — that of the subject as possessing knowledge — the only difference being that the perfective explicitly evokes this knowledge as the result of the operation of obtaining it . |
| 4 | This naturally gives an advantage to the institutions ' closest advisers : American investment banks . |
| 5 | This curious species is preserved in a fine-grained sandstone as an external mould — that is , all the original shell material has been dissolved away , but this still allows an accurate view of the original organism , especially if an artificial cast is taken from the natural mould . |
| 6 | But this still represents an annualised yield of 12.9 per cent — 4.3 per cent above the average rise in the RPI over this period . |
| 7 | This always offers an opportunity for someone to attempt to see these serious conflagrations in a wider context , and this has been taken by Dr Grace Simpson as evidence of an uprising of the tribes of Wales ( Simpson , 1964 ) , although the archaeological support from other sites is very tenuous . |
| 8 | To do this quickly requires an extraordinary skill — but in the rush to get New Scientist to press on Tuesdays , it was often quicker to ‘ hand-set ’ last-minute headlines and picture credits . |
| 9 | This also involves an inquiry into the ways in which the critique of the sign affects historical representation , and the dependence of history on the genetic metaphor and on narrative . |
| 10 | This also implies an interrogation of the imperialism of theory itself . |
| 11 | This also provides an instant monitor of the distribution of actual and/or perceived problems presented by schools . |
| 12 | This clearly demands an answer , and it is one which the individualistic , myopically-therapeutic psychoanalysis of the present can not supply . |
| 13 | Since this clearly required an affirmative the constable nodded . |
| 14 | This probably represents an underestimate of the proliferative capacity of 14-day precursors because it is likely that not all cells are successfully incorporated into the reaggregates . |
| 15 | As the TUC would not negotiate with the NUWM this logically implied an end to the Movement which finally dissolve on the outbreak of war in 1939 . |
| 16 | As we saw with long-term insurance funds this inevitably means an emphasis upon company securities . |
| 17 | This now provides an excellent , free car park and will very usefully contribute to reducing traffic congestion in Haworth as a ‘ Park and Ride ’ facility . |
| 18 | However , this now raises an important practical issue . |
| 19 | This often forms an exception to the normal turn sequence , because the enemy may move to within 8″ during his turn . |
| 20 | Does this simply reflect an equivalently uneven distribution of ganglion cells in the retina , or is the cortical representation of the fovea preferentially expanded r8–13 ? |
| 21 | This simply follows an orthodox linguist 's view of language : style , like language itself is multilevelled . |
| 22 | This sometimes throws an additional casework burden on their colleagues . |
| 23 | This then assumes an interpretation of the adjective as a predicate qualifier with the structure of ( 15 ) and ( 16 ) as exemplified in , for instance , ( 7 ) . |
| 24 | This then suggested an altered reality in the victim 's mind . |
| 25 | In all of this there existed an air of the cottage industry , with an informality that , consciously or not , took its measure from the example of its chairman , who continued to live and work — now with the added impedimenta of potties and baby-gates — on a houseboat on the Regents Canal ; who drove a second-hand Volvo ; and who had not long come into possession of a washing-machine . |
| 26 | The great edition of the Paston Letters is his most obvious monument , but beside this there stand an edition of the non-cycle plays , a series of influential articles ( notably one which unobtrusively undermined the theory of R. W. Chambers on the ‘ continuity of English prose ’ ) , and two modestly entitled ‘ revisions ’ ( really new editions ) of Sweet 's Anglo-Saxon Primer and of Tolkien and Gordon 's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight . |
| 27 | But shortly before this there occurred an event the consequences of which were to shatter the peace of Aquitaine . |
| 28 | Though this again represents an unexpected finding on subgroup analysis , more than three quarters of men in the Medical Research Council 's trial were non-smokers , and one could argue that both studies observed increased cancer mortality in non-smoking men treated with atenolol . |
| 29 | To many people the Salvation Army is best known for its band and this certainly holds an important place in its life and worship . |
| 30 | Glucose absorption was highest in normal intestine from UK-ORS but not in secreting intestine and this certainly suggests an important role for passive glucose absorption due to solvent drag . |