Example sentences of "this [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fits with my earlier thesis about the general link between " indebtedness " and relationship " . |
| 2 | A mother who loves her daughter can experience real anguish on her behalf if she becomes totally dependent upon her , and recognises the limitations this imposes on her social life and activities . |
| 3 | This goes alongside his BBC Sports Personality of the Year nomination on Sunday and his winning of the polls conducted by , among others , the British Sportswriters , Panasonic-LWT and even the American magazine Golf Digest . |
| 4 | This led to their inclusion in numerous combination chemotherapy programmes . |
| 5 | This led to her death from pneumonia in November last year . |
| 6 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 7 | This led to his prediction that electromagnetic waves existed and would propagate at a velocity c equal to the ratio of electromagnetic to electrostatic units of measurement . |
| 8 | This led to his writing Zen and the Art of Climbing Mountains , about to be published by Element Books . |
| 9 | King was a minor poet and staunch Royalist ; this led to his flight from Chichester at the time of the Cromwellian bombardment of the city . |
| 10 | This led to his appointment by the home secretary to a commission on explosions of compressed gas cylinders ( 1895–6 ) . |
| 11 | Difficulties arose because of the relative impurity of even the best available caustic soda , and this led to his greatest success — a process for manufacturing very pure caustic soda by the electrolysis of brine in a rocking cell containing mercury . |
| 12 | The following day his chest got considerably worse and this led to his hospitalization . |
| 13 | It is normally believed that this arose through my friendship with Harold Wilson . |
| 14 | This coupled with your methylene blue filter bacteria wipe-out means that you have a tank which is generally unhealthy and at times extremely unhealthy . |
| 15 | It seems highly likely that this contributes to their increased risk of infection . |
| 16 | ( It is not clear if this refers to his own experiment or to the fact that Jones had by then made his work known to them . ) |
| 17 | They were n't sure if this applied in my case but they were investigating the matter . |
| 18 | This agrees with our localisation of gastrin producing cells from 18 gestational weeks . |
| 19 | This represents in our view a major gap in the strategic policy framework for such an extensive rural county and one which is becoming increasingly in need of filling . |
| 20 | This builds on their existing knowledge of local services and the potential for their development . |
| 21 | This points to our need for healthy relationships with other people , and above all for a healthy relationship with God . |
| 22 | A woman who is successful in getting into higher education may feel privileged ; however , her experience while she is there , and the influence this has on her decisions about her future life , may challenge this sense of privilege . |
| 23 | What differentiates true experiments from non-experimental enquiries is the attempt , either in the laboratory or field , to produce an effect among groups which have been randomly formed ; in the simplest experiment , the researcher deliberately alters the X values of an experimental group , and sees what effect this has on their Y values by comparing them with a control group . |
| 24 | When asked what effect this has on his paintings , he replies , ‘ I feel like an Irish outsider , which has given me a neutrality of vision . |
| 25 | But Arnold seems unaware of the strain that Jellett must have borne specifically as a woman artist , and one can not help but wonder if this contributed to her early death . |
| 26 | During their suffering the rabbits often become flyblown and this adds to their distressing appearance . |
| 27 | They both do a considerable amount of travelling , since Marie likes to check the Brasserie 's takings and George does n't want to lose touch with L'Auberge 's customers , and this adds to their fatigue . |
| 28 | Workers know this intuitively from their daily experience and this adds to their strain . |
| 29 | Sparcsystems were on display from a number of vendors : Ace K Computer is the sales arm of MicroHelios Ltd of Osaka , which recently announced a Sparcstation 10-compatible machine under the name HelioStation 1000 — this adds to its current Sparc-based Heliostation 400 series and both machines are imported and sold under an agreement with Axil Technology Inc , of San Jose , California , a relatively new player in the compatible market ; the prices are about 40% of the Nippon Sun retail price and the company looks to sell 1,500 of the things annually . |
| 30 | In other words , if my goal is to please my partner , the more pleasure my partner receives , the more this adds to my pleasure . |