Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were a requirement , for example , that all pupils need knowledge , skills and understanding in non-verbal communication ( body language , facial expression , and so on ) and how this influences overall communication strategies , attainment target I for the English curriculum ( speaking and listening ) might have a more integrated feel about it from a deaf perspective . |
| 2 | Presumably this influences relative salary structures further down the hierarchy as well . |
| 3 | This encourages decisive footsteering since as one rail is depressed the other is raised . |
| 4 | This encourages first-time buyers into the market , believing that it is ‘ now or never ’ , and also encourages existing home owners to ‘ trade up ’ to larger accommodation . |
| 5 | This encourages early flowering and fruiting . |
| 6 | Below this sits another push-button for selecting a pre- or post-EQ balanced out signal . |
| 7 | However , this begs many questions about the ways in which they will respond and some of these issues will be identified later . |
| 8 | This begs many questions . |
| 9 | All this begs many questions . |
| 10 | This begs many questions , and precludes many possibilities . |
| 11 | Of course all this begs important questions about whether chemists have succeeded in duplicating the conditions of the early Earth but , even so , given that we ca n't answer these questions , the argument is worth pursuing . |
| 12 | This supplies varying impedances , in the same way that working speakers do — unlike ordinary power soaks which supply a fixed impedance . |
| 13 | This goes one stage further than the contention considered above . |
| 14 | He 's lost a dozen in a decade and this goes some way towards explaining his surprisingly philosophical attitude to his own bad luck . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This goes some way towards typing the organism causing the disease . |
| 18 | This prohibits local authorities from intentionally promoting homosexuality or publishing material ‘ with the intention of promoting homosexuality ’ , or promoting ‘ the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship ’ . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | This involves personal ties between those in elite positions in society . |
| 21 | This involves adiabatic elimination of the polarisation ( F 00 ) , and replacing x by the " intensity " I , equal to x2 , yielding the system which has only damped oscillatory solutions ( relaxation oscillations ) . |
| 22 | This involves combined action by hospital providers , who have fulfilled their contracts with a quarter of the year remaining , and general practitioners , who as a consequence are unable to obtain hospital treatment for their patients , to put pressure on health authorities to increase the resources available to acute services . |
| 23 | This involves exclusive dealing and retail price maintenance in return for which consumers are guaranteed a degree of protection and recompense in the case of financial failure of a tour operator . |
| 24 | This involves developing explanations for particular actions or behaviours that have caused problems , expressed in terms that both parties can understand and recognize in more positive and acceptable ways . |
| 25 | This involves one night a week in barracks for navigation , medical and weapons training plus nine weekends of swimming tests , nerve-testing exercises on high wires and gruelling marches . |
| 26 | Forecast of market share This involves two stages . |
| 27 | This involves two decisions : which neighbouring points are to be considered local and which changes are atypical ? |
| 28 | Even a task as simple as this involves two trips to the sink , three trips to the refrigerator , and two trips to the cooker ( more if you warmed the serving dish first ) . |
| 29 | two free goes , but this involves two nights by John . |
| 30 | Apparently , this involves two aspects . |