Example sentences of "this [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meyer are claiming that a number of competitive snowboarders are switching to this binding this winter . |
| 2 | If , as our studies suggest , there is not true and complete colonic metaplasia , does this make these hypotheses any less likely ? |
| 3 | Does this make any sense ? |
| 4 | Will this make any difference ? " |
| 5 | When it became apparent that he must be dead , Casey gave orders to recover the body for proper burial ; this became another item in the wish-lists exchanged with the Iranians . |
| 6 | He forgot for a moment that it was pot and thought of nicotine , and then of cancer , cells in delirium , the inroads that living would make one day even on this varnished little icon of the exempt : the flab of tiredness , children , overwork , sitting up too late at night listening to people , indulging buoyant childish appetites as a device to sustain good nature against foreshadows of the senile self . |
| 7 | Below this sits another push-button for selecting a pre- or post-EQ balanced out signal . |
| 8 | However , this begs many questions about the ways in which they will respond and some of these issues will be identified later . |
| 9 | This begs many questions . |
| 10 | All this begs many questions . |
| 11 | This begs many questions , and precludes many possibilities . |
| 12 | He 's lost a dozen in a decade and this goes some way towards explaining his surprisingly philosophical attitude to his own bad luck . |
| 13 | If a common phenomenon , this goes some way towards accounting for the ingrained belief that such growth engendered serious economic and social problems , not least Carew 's conviction that the opening of tin workings impoverished a parish , whilst their discontinuance restored prosperity . |
| 14 | This goes some way to explaining why the complicated campaigns within Toulouse in the second half of the century were largely fought out under the banners of the Angevin , Aragonese , and French kings ; and why the revolts of Henry II 's sons had widespread ramifications . |
| 15 | This goes some way towards typing the organism causing the disease . |
| 16 | This prohibits any requirement for separate accounts for branches of companies incorporated in other member states and substitutes provisions compelling disclosure , in the member state in which a branch operates , of the affairs of the company ( or , where it is a subsidiary , of the group to which it belongs ) . |
| 17 | This involves some expenditure , but this can be avoided if staff awareness is raised and a ‘ switch off ’ attitude is developed . |
| 18 | The important thing seems to be that teachers should be aware of this conflict and take some steps to resolve it , and this involves some kind of negotiation between teacher and pupils . |
| 19 | I make no apology for reminding the House of the quotation from Sir Winston Churchill upon which I drew last year : ’ It is said with truth that this involves some sacrifice or merger of national sovereignty . |
| 20 | This led several members of the Congress to question the Assembly 's moral right to initiate political reforms . |
| 21 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |
| 22 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 23 | This led some policemen to enjoy the sport which the court room offered ( Holdaway 1983 : 74 ) . |
| 24 | But when this produced little response , she brought the palm of her hand in short slaps on each side of the pale cheeks , and when Agnes gulped at the air , she cried at her , ‘ That 's it ! |
| 25 | When Paisley was later told about the woman 's remark , he immediately condemned it and rebuked her , but this made little impression on the basic loyalties of the audience . |
| 26 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |
| 27 | As far as the administration of relief was concerned , this made little difference ; the public assistance committees of the local authorities could be regarded as broadly the guardians under another name . |
| 28 | The one factor which might have altered this made little difference . |
| 29 | For most couples this made little difference in terms of tax actually paid , but , as feminists were quick to point out , it treated the wife as a dependant and not a separate entity . |
| 30 | Taking a share of the profits : Prior to s. 2(3) of the Partnership Act 1890 , the courts had decided that if a person took any share in the profits of a business this made that person a partner . |