Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 This separation of levels may well have a role to play in the study and teaching of discourse , and we shall need to think carefully about its role in language learning .
2 You know things like uppermost in people 's minds , I do n't know whether I suppose this question of fees might still be , I do n't know , it depends what the national executive say , but I mean I think it 's those issues and the fact we can respond quickly is , will be an advantage .
3 the effective supplier and not the ostensible supplier shall be treated for the purposes of this Article as supplying the article or substance to the customer , and any duty imposed by this Article on suppliers shall accordingly fall on the effective supplier and not on the ostensible supplier . ’
4 My Lords , any discussion of this group of amendments must surely be conducted against the background of the vital Amendment thirty-one concerning the Chairman of the police authorities .
5 Any new concepts or terms that emerge during this examination of relationships must also be inserted in the deck of cards .
6 This ball of cells will then develop into the lens .
7 This selection of foods will soon bring your fish into breeding condition .
8 IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year .
9 This state of things must indeed seem strange to the young people of today who can fly off for a summer in Katmandu with scarcely a quiver of apprehension or pause for wonder .
10 Ultimately , this state of affairs can only work to the advantage of our trainees , who will come out at the end of their programme with an eminently marketable collection of skills .
11 This glut of contracts can also be partly explained by the actions of some banks supporting their national exchanges , and by some governments ' policies through their tax legislation and regulation actions which are aimed at establishing a presence in what is thought to be an essential requirement for each country 's financial centre .
12 This improvement in standards can only be put down to cellar training .
13 A figure of 40,000 a year is used ( though ‘ we have formed no final view about whether this number of demolitions will actually take place ’ ) .
14 This list of requirements might well succeed in eliminating all our ideas ; in practice we would be satisfied if two or three of these demands were catered for but very unhappy with a unit that failed on all nine aspects .
15 The result of this sharing of feelings can only be disastrous .
16 Hopefully this lack of competitors will only be temporary for there is really no substitute for racing between the hedges .
17 If it does , this time round others will almost certainly follow .
18 In this way , this family of solutions may also be considered to be a generalization of the Szekeres solutions with .
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