Example sentences of "this [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So great an impression did this make that Geoffrey de Rancon at once surrendered Pons . |
| 2 | This postulates that people have in mind a target income they would like to receive — set by the life style of their neighbours or those just above them on the social ladder . |
| 3 | This argued that micromanagement of spending projects had developed on an ad hoc basis , and was failing to provide enough information for a detailed analysis of the efficiency with which resources were being used in existing programmes and policy options . |
| 4 | This proposed that Comex become a subsidiary of the Merc in a $10m deal . |
| 5 | This demonstrated that Schwann cells treated with either native or recombinant GGFs phosphorylated ( on tyrosine ) a protein of 185K . |
| 6 | This found that girls who had felt isolated and embarrassed about being pregnant or having babies felt less stigma about this after they had attended the units and could take a much more realistic view of their situation . |
| 7 | This found that 7% of Irish voters wanted abortion to be legal under all circumstances and another 57% wanted it to be legal under certain circumstances . |
| 8 | This emphasises that goods must fulfil three basic conditions : |
| 9 | This suggest that mispricings can be used to predict subsequent price movements . |
| 10 | This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet . |
| 11 | This assumes that firms always set price equal to average costs because they are constrained by the level of competition to making only normal profits . |
| 12 | This assumes that patterns and trends which can be identified in past ( historical ) sets of data may be projected forward , especially under stable economic , market and organisational conditions , for the purpose of forecasting perhaps up to one year ahead . |
| 13 | This assumes that companies will respond to a weakening share price by improving efficiency in the long term , rather than by making short-term savings which might help the company 's performance in the short term ( known as short termism ) , to the detriment of long-term performance . |
| 14 | This assumes that home address does not change during the transfer period(s) . |
| 15 | Alternatively these techniques could be applied to every one of the candidate strings for each word position identified as a potential error ( again it should be noted that this assumes that errors can be identified , which may be doubtful for our system ) . |
| 16 | But this assumes that individuals within the state have some prior and superior knowledge of what the interests of capital ( and its monopoly sectors ) are in a crisis . |
| 17 | This assumes that words have clear , fixed meanings and that the purpose of language is to represent states of affairs accurately . |
| 18 | All this assumes that constituencies have been determined ; that the persons voting have become qualified to do so ; and that candidates for election are qualified to sit if elected . |
| 19 | This assumes that governments are willing to make all their objectives explicit , that they can specify them precisely , and that they are stable over time . |
| 20 | This assumes that banks have surplus liquidity in the first place . |
| 21 | There is an arrow straight to absentee behaviour ; this says that women are more likely to be absent from work than men , regardless of the kind of job they are in . |
| 22 | None of this says that software theft should be made legitimate . |
| 23 | This says that agents use all the available information to forecast the future spot rate ; that is , they form rational expectations of the future exchange rate . |
| 24 | This stipulated that products had to be fit for their purpose and meet standards of appearance and finish being free from minor defects as well as safe and durable . |
| 25 | This assumed that women could afford to be economically dependent , which was rarely the case , and offered an individualist solution to what were complex environmental , social and economic problems . |
| 26 | This shows that Myc N can dimerize with Max-VP16 and bind DNA but does not transactivate . |
| 27 | This shows that B 's family consider that their vengeance-magic has in turn successfully accomplished its object . |
| 28 | This shows that faith , obedience , and belief are all intrinsically bound up with the cultivation of emotions that are appropriate to the truths we profess to believe . |
| 29 | All this shows that Attica was far from being just a city with territory round it , but was a compromise between a centralized state and a federal one . |
| 30 | This shows that triangle 2 is half of the rectangle . |