Example sentences of "this [adv] [verb] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , workers under the age of 20 do not receive payments and this especially affects women because girls have tended to leave full-time education earlier than boys . |
| 2 | Second , while many other tax sources are buoyant , property assessments only rise slowly and so more revenue means raising the tax rate and this always causes trouble as the tax is regressive , weighing more heavily as a percentage of total income on those in the lower income ranges . |
| 3 | Some elderly people still prefer ( or have to make do with ) an open fire , but this often presents problems if they have no one to carry coal for them and help to clear out the grate if it is of the old-fashioned type . |
| 4 | This often takes place because their responses to us arouse the wounded feelings that our parents or other family members inflicted on us . |
| 5 | Northumberland had more use for him ; he was temperamentally closer to this coldly thinking man than to his own son . |
| 6 | We want the children to have a good time , and may be encouraging them to shout , but this then creates problems if some order needs to be restored because the children are too wound up . |
| 7 | The history of polarity reversals of the Earth 's magnetic field recorded in this newly generated crust as it cooled indicated that , once formed , it moved away from ridges towards oceanic trenches . |