Example sentences of "[subord] this [noun sg] [vb -s] the " in BNC.

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1 I would also like to erm ask that erm that we do have everything we can to ensure that where this council has the possibility as erm landowner or property owner or whatever that we prevent or certainly discourage the use of such property for car boot sales and I had in mind sales that are taking place based on erm education property and in the case of Hatfield we were able to persuade the relevant authorities to er cause the car boot sale to cease but that particular car boot sale was causing great damage to the legitimate traders in both the Hatfield market and the Hatfield town centre .
2 Although this procedure removes the contam-ination of the observer , it is far from clear to what extent adults are able to reconstruct the context of their previous linguistic encounters with children , and how far post hoc interpretations regarding what was said and what was meant are subject to distortion .
3 There is often an implication that skilled means highly skilled although this connotation confuses the concept of existence and level .
4 Although this disparity reflects the real world of budget limits , it could scupper the care programmes that the psychiatry department is meant to set up for seriously mentally ill patients and make planning for discharge more difficult .
5 Although this example takes the point to an extreme , I have noticed that many people mistakenly use flowers that are so big that there' is barely room for them in the frame , and therefore the finished miniature is not as full of detail , nor as interesting , as a larger picture would be .
6 However , although this example reflects the failure of the Federal Trade Commission to think the sanction of positive repentance through to its logical conclusion , it also demonstrates just how powerful this sanction could be , had it been accompanied by just one further instruction — ‘ publish the repenting adverts in the original outlets ’ .
7 We observed that deletions up to nt -531 did not impair transcriptional activity , although this region comprises the RARE sequence known to be responsible for the retinoic acid-mediated transcriptional enhancement .
8 Although this hip reduces the likelihood of resorption , early detection of problems is vital .
9 Although this method fulfils the requirement that all animals are equally likely to be part of the study , we have no control over sample size ; if herd A is chosen then there will be 36 cattle in the study whereas for herd C there will be only 6 .
10 It will be amazing if this government runs the full course and as we saw in nineteen nineties the Tories just love leadership elections putting the knife in .
11 If this treatment changes the fundamental disease process , a prolonged period of remission might be expected in these patients .
12 If this expert knows the product or has already worked with it , so much the better .
13 These are the social functions of contemporary states , even if this perspective overemphasises the oppressive nature of state apparatuses .
14 But the put is exercised at the option of the investor , and he will exercise it only if this strategy maximizes the value of the bond .
15 If this sergeant relates the action of cleaning boots to any of the felicity conditions for orders , if he bellows ( or even gently whispers ) any of the following :
16 If this subculture imitates the dominant from below , it also thereby employs a strategy which embarrasses the dominant .
17 If this religion becomes the powerful complement to lawfully elected government , which would be a very desirable development , then those decisions would settle many controversial issues which at present are successfully resolved by neither statute-law , nor , to the slightest degree by a respected and accepted moral code .
18 I have to see if this key fits the deposit box and if there 's anything there which will throw some light on my family . ’
19 It can be hard to predict where the familiar clusters of ash keys will appear , because this tree has the peculiar propensity of varying the sex of its flowers according to the season .
20 Because this approach highlights the link between morbidity and mortality , it can direct attention to the improvement of the most crucial areas of the health services more than other approaches .
21 This is because this analysis excludes the effect of changes in basal acid secretion , which is thought to be independent of gastrin dependent .
22 To overcome this difficulty , the estimated cumulative proportion of ulcers relapsing on each treatment was calculated using life tables and the log rank test as described by Peto et al because this method uses the actual duration of the ulcer free period for each patient and allows any censored data to be incorporated into the calculation up to the point at which the patient drops out of the trial .
23 Because this book explains the many ways in which fibre-rich foods help you to shed weight , I do n't want you to imagine that they are calorie-free .
24 While this interlude spoofs the love-suicide convention , though , Chubei 's story spectacularly dramatises it .
25 While this chapter emphasizes the ‘ political economy ’ context in which the practice of retirement spread , it also stresses the point that its institutionalization did not go unnoticed by older people themselves .
26 Since this sentence explains the context for what precedes , we might think it more natural to place it ( deprived of the connecting words " And then " ) at the beginning of the paragraph .
27 But since this use implies the broader one , which is all we need in this book , we shall not pursue it .
28 Since this shop has the reputation of being the best for designer clothes , its customers tend to pay more than at other branches — but still only a fraction of the retail price .
29 Since this database has the potential for generating income as a value-added service ( online or CD-ROM ) , it should be maintained and accessed separately from BG-BASE , and interfaced rather than integrated .
30 Since this strategy enables the elimination of many word strings as the transition probabilities between successive words are calculated , it may provide a solution to the problem of the large number of word strings that are derived when words are hypothesized from a mid-class input .
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