Example sentences of "[coord] this [vb -s] that [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offspring have to be able to reproduce in their turn and this means that they must have sufficient food and space in which to breed . |
| 2 | Our eyes do not wander randomly around the page when we are reading , but certain sorts of words are fixated more often than others ( O'Regan , 1979 ) , and this means that we must know in advance of a fixation where it is that we are going to look next . |
| 3 | Over the years it has attracted add-in products , including collections of templates , and this means that it can be sometimes be used as a complete solution to common business problems . |
| 4 | It is obviously desirable that the underlying description should be as good as possible , and this means that it should be based on sound linguistic principles . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the concept of a zone of peace continues to represent a potential significant area of shared interest between the ASEAN states and Vietnam and this ensures that it will remain on the agenda for both parties although the terminology they use and the objectives they pursue may differ . |
| 6 | Their learning curve is steep but this means that they will pick up bad habits and evasions as quickly as correct ways of going . |
| 7 | But this means that he will have to concede that at least some propositions are " irreducibly " existential , and if he does , he will have disavowed his own argument . |
| 8 | It does not have all the features of a full paint package but this means that it will not take up megabytes of hard disc space . |
| 9 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies perhaps and even larger and larger growth and more and more specialised information , which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 10 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies and even larger and larger growth in more and more specialised information which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |