Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] this [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more , they would get absolutely nothing in benefit entitlement for this purported contribution . |
| 2 | John saw his baptism as the preparation for this new era . |
| 3 | The pragmatic route through this hazardous thicket of management and evaluation issues which has evolved on the Modular Course has four elements : |
| 4 | According to the excited murmurs of my fellow conferencees , Leonard Nimoy was supposedly paid $3m for this short appearance . |
| 5 | There seem to be two reasons for this differential response to the human capital theory : education in Cuba extends beyond the classroom to the fields and the factories , while in capitalist countries it is restricted to the classroom . |
| 6 | There are good historical reasons for this general lack of enthusiasm among the public at large . |
| 7 | Reasons for this increased polarisation have yet to be made explicit , however . |
| 8 | The reasons for this apparent perversity are probably now lost to us for all time . |
| 9 | Edinburgh University , with 94 Scottish geology theses , has produced five times the average number , and it will be instructive to try to find the reasons for this apparent concentration of research effort . |
| 10 | The reasons for this demographic trend are unclear but important factors include changing diet , improved methods of food preservation , the food preservatives themselves , and decreased exposure to environmental carcinogens . |
| 11 | The reasons for this higher proportion than might be expected demographically are partly ‘ localist ’ ( specialism in an area is a distinct class of subject partition ) , but also because of the strength of indigenous departments in national terms , and the applicability of Scottish research to problems elsewhere . |
| 12 | This suggests caution in imputing too much in the way of intrinsic superiority from the actor 's point of view to Japanese management practices , irrespective of the reasons for this low satisfaction . |
| 13 | There were a number of reasons for this subtle change . |
| 14 | The reasons for this decentralising movement towards the growth of workplace bargaining activity in Western European countries have been in part economic , as a result of generally high employment and continuous economic growth in the post-war years to the mid-1970s along with a varying capacity to pay of separate employers . |
| 15 | The reasons for this wholesale liquidation of pre-capitalist ( i.e. non-economic ) forms of agrarian dependency are complex . |
| 16 | He did not apparently find it necessary to explain the reasons for this sexist-sounding conclusion . |
| 17 | Possible reasons for this 2-fold difference are as follows . |
| 18 | There were two interlocking reasons for this individual mobility . |
| 19 | Intrigued , there was much discussion about the reasons for this strange development . |
| 20 | The reasons for this high density are not yet known . |
| 21 | The reasons for this relative success certainly run deeper than Leopold Senghor 's personality . |
| 22 | Other reasons for this relative absence were discussed in chapter 6 . |
| 23 | Your reasons for this colossal exploitation of what is to you hi-tech may be quite divorced from ours ( we want to look for black holes , whereas you want to ascertain the precise time you should sacrifice a virgin in order to propitiate the gods ) , but the principle is much the same . |
| 24 | Reasons for this widespread and spectacular demise are not fully understood , but a combination of climatic change and human activity may have accelerated the replacement of pine on flat and gently sloping ground by treeless blanketbog . |
| 25 | Arthur found the reasons for this unfathomable , but took it that they had to do with a comparison to his own looks . |
| 26 | The reasons for this puzzling association of money wage changes and real-wage changes in classical theory are not altogether clear , though we speculated in Chapter 2 that the influence of the quantity theory of money probably played an important part since it anchored the price level to the quantity of money in circulation , releasing the money-wage bargain to determine real wages . |
| 27 | What are the reasons for this these shortages ? |
| 28 | The reasons for this constant conflict are not hard to fathom . |
| 29 | Twice the director stopped him to urge restraint , but television was too new a trick for this old sea-dog and he rampaged on , regardless . |
| 30 | They had reached the further side of the field during this animated discussion and Meredith hopped nimbly over the gate with twice the speed and dexterity with which she had negotiated the stile . |