Example sentences of "this [is] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This is recorded as normal vision .
2 This is supported by General Condition 2 of the Engineering and Computer Policies which sets out the action to be taken by the Policyholder on the happening of any event which may give rise to a claim .
3 And this is supported by recently-appointed Employment Minister David Hunt 's statement in which he said British Government backing is unconditional .
4 Now denoting the nominal demand for money by MD , we can write in functional form : unc A simplified version of this function can be obtained by using real national income ( Y ) as an indicator of total wealth and by assuming that h is constant and that the function is homogeneous of the first degree in P. We can then write the real demand for money as : unc Monetarists generally believe the demand for money to be fairly unresponsive to interest rate changes ( and this is supported by empirical evidence ) .
5 A variation on this is to hold in each entry in the translation table , not only the value to be placed in the destination string , but also the address of a new translation table to be used for the next source character .
6 The supposed attraction of certain White women to Black men is again accentuated by a young , White , overtly racist male protagonist through the comment , ‘ You know what they say , they reckon that spades are special with the Janets ; that 's why they go for them ’ ; this is followed by raucous laughter from his fellow White workmates .
7 This is followed by frenzied activity on the part of the band in setting up some sort of show , usually in London with all the expense that that entails , only for the big day to arrive to find that A&R have sent a tea boy ( resplendent in his raincoat ) and not the ‘ man ’ .
8 This is followed by experimental proof , to general surprise .
9 Negligence can be thought of as an early form of product liability and has developed over the years to its present wide scope , although this is tempered to some extent by the growth of insurance .
10 In hyper-text systems , this is overcome to some extent through various composition techniques for representing isPartOf relationships .
11 This is done for each concentration and each angle and the extrapolated points are then lines of and .
12 This is done at little cost as representatives are paid on a commission basis .
13 Maintaining teacher credibility and teacher self-respect is important but often this is done at some cost but if apologies to children and parents are justified then they should be made handsomely .
14 This is done by high motivation and especially by immersing one 's own identity in that of the culture of the target language group .
15 A variant of the model proposed in Cukierman and Meltzer ( 1986 ) can be included in our framework and hence the technique described above can be applied in this context , this is done in greater depth in Cripps ( 1991 ) .
16 This is done in each chord by adding a note which is mildly dissonant with one of the upper parts .
17 When en foule vineyards are uprooted , this is done in reverse order , starting with the oldest , the mother vine , and working down to the youngest .
18 While this is seen within Total Communication programmes in education , there is no doubt that acceptance of BSL , ASL and so on offers the greatest hope for the development of effective education for deaf children .
19 A broad band of Corallian Limestone and Sand crosses the central part — northeast to south-west — and this is bounded on each side by Oxford Clay .
20 Where this is born of genuine enthusiasm , well and good .
21 On the continent , however , mixtures are used , though how effective this is compared with single remedy prescriptions is still to be evaluated .
22 This is arranged in encyclopaedic form , in loose-leaf binders , some statutes being reprinted with amendments from time to time .
23 The change in relative prices brought about by devaluations may harm output in the short term , but this is offset by faster growth in the longer term .
24 If a Conservative MP X or Y , who has not been known to take ideological stands , approaches a minister or a whip and expresses grave doubts , this is viewed with considerable worry and it is assumed that these objections have been put forward by the MP only after the points have been put to him with equal or greater force in his constituency .
25 This is composed of white blood cells , the leucocytes , and various blood-borne and tissue factors — the different classes of antibodies .
26 Even for a lifelong friend this is skating on thin ice ! )
27 This is made of paper-thin material pierced by a number of small lenses .
28 It is most unlikely that either of these areas has been used for arable in the last 1500 years , and this is confirmed to some extent by field names recorded on the earliest maps ( of the early nineteenth century ) and in medieval documents .
29 For example , if an index-linked gilt offers a 2 per cent coupon , C r , and the relevant rate of inflation , IR ( this is covered in more detail below ) , is 5.5 per cent then the nominal coupon , C n , will be : or 8.1375 per cent ; i. e. a payment of 8.1375 per unit held .
30 The electronic treatment suggests ‘ abnormal experience ’ ( presumably , so the lyrics suggest , psychedelic ) : this is achieved through implied contrast with the ‘ normal ’ timbres previously used in pop songs , which are about ‘ real life ’ ( love , dancing , and so on ) .
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