Example sentences of "this [vb -s] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , if the replacement ratio is low , this denotes that benefit income is considerably below that which a person would receive when in work . |
| 2 | This postulates that , although some groups may not have much money in relative terms , they will spend more in defined sectors . |
| 3 | This postulates that people have in mind a target income they would like to receive — set by the life style of their neighbours or those just above them on the social ladder . |
| 4 | This postulates that there are two types of management jobs . |
| 5 | This guarantees that his own offspring have sufficient space and food in which to grow . |
| 6 | This guarantees that you receive the next 12 issues of Britain 's brightest outdoor magazine filled with all you need to know about where to walk and activity centres , plus there are loads of equipment tests and all the latest news about what 's going on in the countryside . |
| 7 | This symbolizes that the motivation of the receiver is now following the wishes of the communicator . |
| 8 | This illustrates that the regime is profoundly divided against itself . ’ |
| 9 | This illustrates that the law does not exist simply for the protection of individuals , for if it did one would be able to refuse its help if one did not want it . |
| 10 | In the case of the latter report , this illustrates that the " least favoured regions " are almost exclusively large agricultural areas on the periphery of the Community in contrast to the " most favoured " regions which are characterised either by being large administrative/service centres or by containing large industrial concentrations . |
| 11 | This concludes that 217 of Finland 's 1,692 endangered officially-species are " in immediate and serious danger " , and will probably die out by 2005 unless urgent measures are taken to protect their forest habitat . |
| 12 | But all this supposes that there is already a will proved , or letters of administration granted by the Ecclesiastical Court . |
| 13 | All this supposes that the persons mentioned want to go on the search trek in the first place . |
| 14 | This supposes that the court misjudges what Parliament would wish it to do , whereas in fact the decision may win general approval . |
| 15 | This holds that although Desert Storm passed one narrow test of political success ( the eviction of Iraq from Kuwait ) it failed in almost every other way . |
| 16 | This holds that through their actions in the market consumers oblige companies to produce the goods they require in the largest quantities at the lowest possible price . |
| 17 | This holds that , far from being the innovative genius his champions claim , Lloyd Webber has artfully fashioned a kind of ersatz music from echoes of Puccini , Rodgers and Hammerstein , and the Beatles , but which lacks the uniqueness of any of them . |
| 18 | This emphasises that goods must fulfil three basic conditions : |
| 19 | Actually , this signifies that the only rule admitted is that of public opinion . |
| 20 | This assumes that all the women who are found to be carrying a child with Down 's syndrome will want to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 21 | This assumes that there is a tension between the causing of serious harm ( death ) and the relatively low fault ( ‘ recklessness ’ , as here defined ) , and that this tension should be resolved in favour of the fault element when we are deciding on the labels of offences , thereby making no reference to the result , but should be resolved in favour of the serious harm when sentencing , increasing the sentence according to the gravity of the resulting harm . |
| 22 | Obviously in the winter it still may not provide enough and will have to be supplemented with concentrates and this assumes that the pasture has been well maintained and is not overstocked . |
| 23 | In one sense , new book selection is a way of filling in or updating between stock revisions , but this assumes that the whole of a stock is updated , subject by subject , over a limited timespan , and because stock revision is a highly staff-intensive process that is rarely the case . |
| 24 | This assumes that the affected person makes IgE antibodies to the synthetic chemical concerned ( see p 25 ) , or responds with some other inappropriate and damaging immune reaction . |
| 25 | All this assumes that constituencies have been determined ; that the persons voting have become qualified to do so ; and that candidates for election are qualified to sit if elected . |
| 26 | This assumes that we know what we want to enforce . |
| 27 | This assumes that companies will respond to a weakening share price by improving efficiency in the long term , rather than by making short-term savings which might help the company 's performance in the short term ( known as short termism ) , to the detriment of long-term performance . |
| 28 | This assumes that words have clear , fixed meanings and that the purpose of language is to represent states of affairs accurately . |
| 29 | Alternatively these techniques could be applied to every one of the candidate strings for each word position identified as a potential error ( again it should be noted that this assumes that errors can be identified , which may be doubtful for our system ) . |
| 30 | Of course , all this assumes that three years is a ‘ natural ’ rather than arbitrary period in which to reach ‘ degree standard ’ . |