Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [vb -s] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the other Judaean coins of the Persian period have non-Jewish symbols ; there is no particular reason to believe that this coin bears a Jewish symbol . |
| 2 | This finding reflects the commonsense idea that people are influenced in their speech by the speakers around them . |
| 3 | This finding has an anatomical correlate : the dendritic fields of cells in the octopus optic lobe tend to be elliptical with their major axis oriented predominantly horizontally or vertically . |
| 4 | This finding challenges the notion that carbohydrate malabsorption is uncommon in patients with chronic pancreatitis . |
| 5 | This finding supports the view that chemotherapy should be the elective treatment in this group . |
| 6 | This finding supports the concent that cyclosporin A has no inhibitory action on pancreatic prostaglandin and thromboxane formation under the experimental conditions used . |
| 7 | This finding confirms the need for considerable attention to be paid to general public education , to the various existing advice agencies and to such people as counter clerks , court officials , doctors and others in official agencies . |
| 8 | This finding confirms the genetic basis of the disorder and localises this gene to the short arm of chromosome 11 . |
| 9 | As careful clinical monitoring is more difficult in the darkened environment in which ERCP is usually performed , this finding illustrates the value of additional patient monitoring by pulse oximetry . |
| 10 | This finding suggests a direct interaction between NSAIDs , synthesis of LTB 4 , and mechanisms of subsequent mucosal injury . |
| 11 | This progress has a fraught history , however . |
| 12 | This support combines a concern to preserve the attractive environments in which they live and a commitment to local democracy at the smallest scale . |
| 13 | This support takes a variety of forms . |
| 14 | The morphological and syntactic characteristics of the infinitive ( no personal endings , no subject ) lead one to conclude that this support has the form of a generalized person which does not vary in rank but which encompasses all possible ordinal persons . |
| 15 | This change complicates the outside world 's struggle to rescue the war 's other victim , the principles of international conduct . |
| 16 | This change erodes the distinction between university and what were previously known as ‘ public sector ’ institutions , and may blur what Burgess ( 1977 , pp. 2332 ) has argued is a contrast between the ‘ autonomous ’ ( university ) and ‘ service ’ ( polytechnic/ college ) traditions . |
| 17 | This change follows the EC 's adoption in December 1991 of the Insurance Accounting Directive , which allows the inclusion of both realised and unrealised investment gains in the p&l account . |
| 18 | This change reflects the effects of the energy crisis in oil and gas in 1973 , which prompted greater emphasis on energy conservation , and the effects of economic recession ( figure 6.11 ) . |
| 19 | I just feel a game of this genre needs a quota of well-hidden rooms to add a little interest . |
| 20 | A transfer test is an appropriate way of assessing the value of α since the Pearce-Hall ( 1980 ) model assumes ( as do similar models ) that the value of this parameter determines the readiness with which a CS will enter into associations . |
| 21 | This coloration shows the presence of iron oxides . |
| 22 | This computer has no machine code instruction set or data formats in the ordinary sense . |
| 23 | One final point to consider is that this computer has a variable rate ascent warning . |
| 24 | Children are denigrated by adults , and as Itzin ( 1984 ) has identified this discrimination sows the seeds for later ageism towards very old people . |
| 25 | This Spitfire has a full operational and ‘ blooded ’ history behind it , having served with 312 ( Czech ) and 222 Squadrons . |
| 26 | This contrast reflects the conceptual imperatives which underlay change in each company . |
| 27 | The module owner is generally the person or organisation who pays for the module ( or modules ) to be developed , although this user has no specific LIFESPAN privileges . |
| 28 | The module owner is generally the person or organisation who pays for the module ( or modules ) to be developed , although this user has no specific LIFESPAN privileges . |
| 29 | This reorganisation guarantees the technological independence of the French nuclear industry . |
| 30 | What is significant for understanding why to is used with the infinitive of reaction is that the notion of " evaluation " implies a judgement as to whether the event was opportune or not , and this judgement involves an implicit reference to the situation as it existed before the infinitive event occurred , i.e. to the factors making its occurrence either opportune or inopportune . |