Example sentences of "this [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the other Judaean coins of the Persian period have non-Jewish symbols ; there is no particular reason to believe that this coin bears a Jewish symbol . |
| 2 | AD 620 there were rare English imitations of Frankish coin , but despite any possible tendency for this coin to become currency , it would still have found its greatest use for high-value transactions and storage . |
| 3 | Since neither the quality nor the acceptance rate of foreign submissions can be gauged from available data , however , the significance of this finding remains speculative . |
| 4 | This was not found to be the case , although the number of people in each profession was far too small for this finding to carry much weight . |
| 5 | Lord Mackay of Clashfern LC held , on a construction of section 63 without the aid of reference to the parliamentary material , that the tax-payers were only assessable on the extra cost of providing the in-house benefit , and in reaching this finding regarded it as crucial that , on the facts , as found , the teachers ' sons occupied only surplus places and their right to do so was entirely discretionary . |
| 6 | Using WHO national mortality rates for both colonic cancer and coronary heart disease , Rose et al showed a direct relation between these two diseases , and on the basis of this finding anticipated that serum cholesterol values could be used as a predictor of colon cancer . |
| 7 | Once more , this finding does not correlate with the relative deleted genome concentration . |
| 8 | As the authors themselves point out , this finding does not provide definitive evidence against an interactive view of syntactic and semantic analysis . |
| 9 | This finding warns us against concluding that women get into heroin and sustain regular use solely because of male associations and partnerships . |
| 10 | This finding came from testing the ability of readers to recognise strings of letters when only briefly exposed . |
| 11 | This finding concurs with the personal study of Payne-James . |
| 12 | This finding reflects the commonsense idea that people are influenced in their speech by the speakers around them . |
| 13 | This finding has been confirmed by Spiker and Norcross ( 1962 ) . |
| 14 | This finding has been supported by various other firms and factories . |
| 15 | EVOLVING humanoids grew more intelligent at about the time they began using tools to hunt ; this finding has encouraged anthropologists to speculate that it was tool use that made intelligence particularly adaptive . |
| 16 | This finding has an anatomical correlate : the dendritic fields of cells in the octopus optic lobe tend to be elliptical with their major axis oriented predominantly horizontally or vertically . |
| 17 | This finding has been attributed to the increased prevalence of hepatic dysfunction , with associated impairment of bile acid synthesis and contraction of the total bile acid pool , in adults with cystic fibrosis . |
| 18 | This finding has led to the suggestion that the hepatocyte pallisade may represent a lineage system within which cells mature as they pass from a peri-bile ductular position ot mature perivenular hepatocytes . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , this finding has led to further speculation about the role of hostile , critical and overprotective parenting in the first onset of schizophrenia . |
| 20 | I recognise that this finding stands in stark contrast to the finding that was implicit in my decision on Wednesday night/Thursday morning . |
| 21 | This finding serves to refute the powerful myth that older people are neglected by their family and that the main burden of caring for older people falls upon the state . |
| 22 | To accept the implication of this finding makes it difficult to explain away the dissociation obtained by Hall and Channell ( 1985b ) ( the observation that latent inhibition is context dependent when habituation is not ) , which came from an experiment using the same response measures , stimuli , and procedures as were used by Hall and Schachtman ( 1987 ) . |
| 23 | This finding makes it possible to identify with some degree of certainty those students who are unlikely to graduate , and thereby allow the necessary resources to be targeted on these potential non-graduates . |
| 24 | This finding challenges the notion that carbohydrate malabsorption is uncommon in patients with chronic pancreatitis . |
| 25 | However , Kimura 's interpretation of this finding did not go unchallenged . |
| 26 | This finding corresponds with research that has concentrated on early retirement ( McGoldrick and Cooper 1980 ; Parker 1980 ; and in France , Cribier 1981 ; Gaullier 1982 ) and withdrawal from the labour market through the job release scheme ( Makeham and Morgan 1980 : 14 ) , but we do not know how many of those older workers with poor health would have been fit enough to continue working if the plant had not closed . |
| 27 | This finding supports earlier studies published in North America . |
| 28 | This finding supports that of Milner ( 1962 ) who found that right brain damaged subjects were more impaired than patients with left sided damage on certain items of the Seashore test of musical abilities . |
| 29 | This finding supports the view that chemotherapy should be the elective treatment in this group . |
| 30 | This finding supports the concent that cyclosporin A has no inhibitory action on pancreatic prostaglandin and thromboxane formation under the experimental conditions used . |