Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [vb -s] a " 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 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 . |
| 3 | This finding suggests a direct interaction between NSAIDs , synthesis of LTB 4 , and mechanisms of subsequent mucosal injury . |
| 4 | This progress has a fraught history , however . |
| 5 | This support combines a concern to preserve the attractive environments in which they live and a commitment to local democracy at the smallest scale . |
| 6 | This support takes a variety of forms . |
| 7 | I just feel a game of this genre needs a quota of well-hidden rooms to add a little interest . |
| 8 | One final point to consider is that this computer has a variable rate ascent warning . |
| 9 | This Spitfire has a full operational and ‘ blooded ’ history behind it , having served with 312 ( Czech ) and 222 Squadrons . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 2911 built in 1920 was No 45000 , a saloon for Railway Officers , and originally the Chairman 's saloon , an LNWR body fitted to a MKI underframe and mounted on B4 bogies in 1967 ; this saloon has an all-wood body . |
| 12 | This driver has a host of other very useful features , including things like resolution control and halftone angles . |
| 13 | Judicial disagreement of this kind presents an immediate and obvious problem for conventionalism . |
| 14 | Chair work of this kind involves a lot of compound shaping to make the chair really comfortable and supportive and five a refined appearance . |
| 15 | Mytho-history of this kind provides a cosmological setting for the time and space of ordinary experience but , in addition , by exhibiting the contrast of possibilities , it offers a rationale for the complex rules and conventions which characterize " our " particular way of doing things . |
| 16 | Dress has such strong sexual significance that minor activity of this kind adds a frisson for some in intersexual activity . |
| 17 | This function converts a real number ( one with a decimal part ) to the nearest integer ( whole number ) less than the number supplied . |
| 18 | This function obtains a pixel count of any such material seen in the strip and sets the return value accordingly . |
| 19 | This guitar has a two-piece alder body with the join well off-centre , but because alder is such a plain-looking wood , the join is hard to spot — something the Manson shares with most Fenders . |
| 20 | It is doubtful whether this index provides an appropriate basis for measuring the rate of inflation . |
| 21 | This index has an entry for each data cylinder of the file indicating the highest key on the cylinder . |
| 22 | This story forms a fairly complete myth of early origin , but in the New Kingdom texts it is followed by various additions , overlaid with some degree of satire , which explain how certain things happened . |
| 23 | This story involves a youth hostel in the town of Ramsey in the Isle of Man whose narrow-gauge railway has brought pleasure and fascination to many people either as holiday makers or railway enthusiasts since the 1870s . |
| 24 | While this story represents a departure from tradition , it already exists , in fact , to a greater or lesser extent in every well-run American and Japanese corporation . |
| 25 | This story has a happy ending , because we learned later that the peregrine had been paired up with another Russian visitor of the same species . |
| 26 | This story has an added interest . |
| 27 | This story concerns a location about ¾ mile west of Ashton-under-Lyme station where a freight-only line from Denton Junction on the Stockport to Stalybridge line bifurcates to join the Manchester to Huddersfield Trans Pennine route by way of west and east facing curves . |
| 28 | This field has a fixed length of 2 characters . |
| 29 | The history in this case describes a conflict between neighbours rather than one against the state . |
| 30 | This case presents a situation in which the commitment for change was high at the top ; but the methods of achieving the change were confused at first , and not enough effort was expended to infuse the total organizational environment with commitment . |