Example sentences of "this [noun] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finding reflects the commonsense idea that people are influenced in their speech by the speakers around them . |
| 2 | This finding supports the concent that cyclosporin A has no inhibitory action on pancreatic prostaglandin and thromboxane formation under the experimental conditions used . |
| 3 | This finding confirms the genetic basis of the disorder and localises this gene to the short arm of chromosome 11 . |
| 4 | Starting with Homer and finishing with Virginia Woolf , Auerbach uses this framework to characterize the different ways in which a selection of writers represented reality across the centuries , and in so doing traces the gradual abandonment of the principle of decorum in favour of a more modern standard , according to which seriousness and realism are wholly compatible . |
| 5 | This change complicates the outside world 's struggle to rescue the war 's other victim , the principles of international conduct . |
| 6 | To find out what her research subjects were getting up to , this scientist took the direct approach . |
| 7 | This contrast reflects the conceptual imperatives which underlay change in each company . |
| 8 | This reorganisation guarantees the technological independence of the French nuclear industry . |
| 9 | The addition of the individual awards which would be made in the course of the aju this judgement achieve the total figure of one million eight hundred and fourteen thousand six hundred and fifty two pounds and twenty eight pence . |
| 10 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 11 | A little reflection will show how matters of this kind affect the landed interest . " |
| 12 | The boundary between curriculum enhancement and the third TTT purpose , professional development , is not clear-cut : curriculum enhancement necessarily involves professional development but TTT of this kind acquires the latter label when its purposes are quite explicitly directed at improving teacher competence . |
| 13 | This function returns the appropriate root of that quadratic , if it is a genuine quadratic , and computes an appropriate value if not . |
| 14 | However , if the mail message has two or more pages , you can use this field to inspect the remaining pages . |
| 15 | The study draws together the results of five years ' work by the investigator and the findings of the ESRC 's extensive research programme in this field to provide the first comprehensive account of central-local relationships in the UK for nearly twenty years . |
| 16 | Next : next entity number This field contains the next unique entity number to be assigned by the system . |
| 17 | I should like to take this opportunity to thank the vast majority of our shareholders who have clearly recognized Palatine 's potential and have remained unimpressed by the attempted takeover . |
| 18 | We would like to take this opportunity to thank the many people who have written to us . |
| 19 | May I also take this opportunity to wish the new United Nations Secretary-General success in his efforts to prepare recommendations for improvement in the preventative diplomacy , peacemaking and peacekeeping capacities of the United Nations ? |
| 20 | The lack of a contingency plan for this eventuality left the all-important Army of Africa , together with its commanders , General Franco and Colonel Yagüe ( who , under Franco 's orders , had been in charge of the Legion during the repression of the Asturian revolutionary movement in 1934 ) , stranded on the far side of the Straits of Gibraltar . |
| 21 | This case had the desired effect of persuading other recalcitrant authorities to proceed more quickly . |
| 22 | This quake happened in Tangshan province in north-east China and is the only one ever known to have occurred in a really densely populated area , in this case involving the major cities of Peking and Tientsin . |
| 23 | This case involved the 74-year-old ‘ soccer superfan ’ known for the Union Jack waistcoat and John Bull costume he sported at international matches . |
| 24 | This case illustrates the fine line between debt collection and winding-up proceedings . |
| 25 | What we find is that the virtually unadapted fabliau of this kind , a version of the world of production , religion and sexual relationships ( which do not in this case imply reproduction ) is a literary genre that , allowed to follow its own logic to the very end , shames the active characters within the tale , which in this case includes the feigned narrator . |
| 26 | My Lords , this case raises the important question whether the governors of a voluntary aided school which is over-subscribed ( i.e. has more candidates for admission than it can accommodate ) is entitled to operate an admissions policy which gives preference to children of a particular religious persuasion notwithstanding the statutory provisions which give parents a right to send their children to the school of their choice . |
| 27 | And so it seems self-evident that the subject of language should also draw on a cognate disciplinary source even though it happens in this case to have the different name of linguistics . |
| 28 | This case provides the clearest indication of how the popular press may trade in deciding the appropriate nickname for a new case when the Star decided to focus special attention on this rape of a 6-year-old ‘ He 's been called The Beast , The Monster , the evil sex maniac … . |
| 29 | The designer must in this case provide the six displacement and rotation vectors to transform the model from its drawn space , into the reference for the component within the complete machine . |
| 30 | This prayer expresses the closest relationship between God and Jesus , as can be seen by the use of the word ‘ Abba ’ . |