Example sentences of "this [vb -s] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This receives the pulses through a special ultrasonic microphone , and turns each pulse into an audible click or tone which we can hear through headphones . |
| 2 | This minimises the risk of tars clogging the filter systems or damaging the engine . |
| 3 | All this renders the valuation and analysis of bonds relatively easy . |
| 4 | This destroys the supremacy of God . |
| 5 | In earlier Lectures we saw how taxation can change before and after-tax incomes of different factors , how the opportunity sets of individuals are affected , and how this influences the decisions they make . |
| 6 | This influences the expectations that the public in Easton have of the police , and of their role in the community — a point which one constable made by explaining that one resident in Easton , upon finding himself locked out of his home , called at the station asking for the duplicate set of keys to his house which he thought the police would routinely possess for the residents ' benefit ; phone calls from the public asking for air and train information also sometimes occur . |
| 7 | This irritates the worms sufficiently to cause them to crawl up to the surface immediately , where they can be collected easily in daylight . |
| 8 | This fits the student for a professional career in a wider range of applications . |
| 9 | This constitutes the stop index for the i , j trigrams . |
| 10 | It might be interpreted as saying that V has a mode of access to his own brain different from any modes of access to V 's brain available to BS ; or that V has a different mode of access to the external world , and that this constitutes the difference between him and BS . |
| 11 | It might be said that this constitutes the bulk of market lore and wisdom . |
| 12 | This encourages the bone and the implant to bond together quicker . |
| 13 | During the first three years , three additional courses are taken , one of which is in architectural history while the others may be selected individually from a range of courses offered by departments in the Social Sciences and Arts Faculties ; in keeping with Scottish University traditions , this encourages the development of diverse interests and allows insights into other academic disciplines . |
| 14 | This encourages the nose to lift . |
| 15 | This drives the spear almost completely through his body . |
| 16 | All this drives the media towards a largely predictable way of selecting and presenting events : what Tuchman ( 1974 ) has called ‘ routinising the unexpected ’ . |
| 17 | This drives the Shaman a bit mad and makes his tongue swell up and turn a bright colour such as purple or blue , but it also stimulates the part of his brain that controls magic . |
| 18 | This begs the question , what happened to the British Tennis Supporters Club ? |
| 19 | This begs the question why the Democrats and the White House are staging such a divisive quarrel , at a time when agreement on a deficit-cutting budget for 1990 is already overdue ( the nominal deadline passed yesterday ) . |
| 20 | But this begs the question : does ‘ pride and dignity ’ amount to anything more than the aspiration to participate in society on its own terms ? |
| 21 | All this begs the question about the reliability of Mr Dole 's gut . |
| 22 | Since the pursuit of increased efficiency is one of the major objectives of the proposals , this begs the question of how efficiency will be assessed . |
| 23 | Yet this begs the question of how policy initiatives should be assessed , given that they regularly embody flawed conceptualisations of urban crisis , were created in contentious circumstances and reflect spatial realisations of a political agenda as much as objectively circumscribed social problems . |
| 24 | This is not enough , for it is also necessary to ‘ think these differences in rhythm and punctuation in their foundation , in their type of articulation , displacement and torsion which harmonizes these different times with one another ’ — though it must be added that this begs the question of how such harmonization is achieved . |
| 25 | This begs the question : why were they not removed from s.61 as well ? |
| 26 | As targets were proportional this begs the question , is the failure to make progress with recruitment linked to the dynamism of the branches ? |
| 27 | As targets were proportional this begs the question , is the failure to make progress with recruitment linked to the dynamism of the branches ? |
| 28 | As far as the humanity/animality issue is concerned , this begs the question . |
| 29 | While it is true to say that the bare infinitive is more frequent in American English — Algeo ( 1988 : 22 ) found that the Brown University Corpus has only 25 per cent usage of to infinitives after help where the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus has 73 per cent — this begs the question nevertheless because both the bare and the to infinitives are used on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 30 | This begs the question : do producers respond only to perceived changes in the prices paid for their products in comparison to those paid for other products irrespective of what is happening to their costs of production ? |