Example sentences of "this [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 We are surely required to follow this trail as best we can .
2 Delayed gastric emptying is not responsible for this finding since octreotide , in contrast with somatostatin , slightly accelerates gastric emptying of a mixed meal .
3 This finding that the interpretation of surface anaphors is not determined solely by a representation of the superficial aspects of the preceding text prompts the corresponding question : are deep anaphors interpreted only with reference to a mental model ?
4 This finding that increased intestinal release of IL-8 was accompanied by increased release of myeloperoxidase , however , makes IL-8 a possible factor for local activation of polymorphonuclear granulocytes in this disease .
5 They interpreted this finding as showing that associability lost by the stimulus during the first stage of training could outweigh the transfer deriving from the fact that both stage of the study involved inhibitory learning .
6 Honey , Schachtman , and Hall ( 1987 ) have confirmed this finding and have devised an explanation for it that follows directly from the Pearce-Hall model .
7 However , before we discuss the difference between this finding and that of Marslen-Wilson 's demonstration of facilitatory effects of context in auditory word-recognition , we should note that another experiment carried out by Fischler and Bloom ( 1979 ) showed that some facilitation did occur with words which were very predictable from their context .
8 This finding and the clinical and pathological evidence linking ulcerative colitis and pouchitis suggest an aetiopathogenetic link between the two conditions .
9 More recent studies , however , have not confirmed this finding and in a number of studies , patients in relapse have been treated with doses up to 4.8 g daily without untoward effect .
10 The development of flexible endoscopy , which allows pancolonic biopsy , has supported this finding and has led to a change in practice such that in many centres at risk patients are examined at intervals , with colonoscopy and biopsy , to detect premalignant dysplasia or early cancer .
11 Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form .
12 That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later .
13 Commenting on the grant , Alex Wright of the Commission said , ‘ We welcome this grant and we hope it will assist Lancashire County Council in opening up the rights of way network by dealing with several major problems and paths that need modifications . ’
14 He is perfectly clear that it is in the terms provided by this framework that we are able to answer any ‘ limited ’ question about the causes of particular phenomena .
15 Indeed , it could be argued that it is only problems which are set within this framework that are viewed by the legal community as being properly legal .
16 Given this framework and governing principles , the civil service has operated without many upheavals over the last century .
17 He was some three shots clear of the field standing on the 14th tee , but then lost this advantage after he recorded a double-bogey and two bogeys in the last six holes .
18 The owners in May , 1973 , had entered into a very advantageous agreement to charter the tanker on completion to Shell for three years , and they would have lost this advantage if the yard carried out its threat .
19 This advantage though is much less obvious in medicine science and technology subjects .
20 The author charts this progress and compares it with the British decision to choose the advanced gas cooled reactor ( AGR ) in 1965 .
21 But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ?
22 Team nursing not only provides this support but offers a way in which the fullest value can be gained from the opportunities for ward learning .
23 So strong and consensual was this support that Young ( 1984 ) advocated dropping the relevant question on royalty from this annual survey .
24 Paula Morgan described this support as ‘ tremendous ’ .
25 Within the terms of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention it could not therefore claim performance of this support if it were to become needed .
26 With this support and Papal backing , he went ahead .
27 Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) .
28 Erm , our own is , obviously our own reasons for wanting this change but we ought to know the needs of others to see whether they correspond .
29 Derek seems to remember that it was shortly after this change that a couple of what could have been nasty instances occurred .
30 People suffering from severe psychiatric illnesses are particularly vulnerable to this change because of their high level of unemployment , low earning power , and lack of social support .
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