Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This says that in any closed system disorder , or entropy , always increases with time . |
| 3 | This occurs because of local variations in soil properties ; on the upper part of the slope the soil may be truncated but on the lower slopes the soils are mixed with layers of various depths . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's heartbreaking when anything like this happens but at Christmas it seems especially cruel . ’ |
| 5 | This happens because of changes at the synapses between motor and sensory cells . |
| 6 | This happens because of the venturi effect in the air-intake of the carburettor which lowers the air pressure with a consequential reduction of temperature , causing water vapour in humid air to condense out and freeze on the throat of the carburettor until it becomes blocked with ice . |
| 7 | This shows that about one record in every 500 ( 0.2 per cent ) will be part of a chain of six records . |
| 8 | This shows that for mixing to take place between high molecular weight components the solubility parameters would have to be virtually identical . |
| 9 | This shows that for each sales area there may be a number of representatives . |
| 10 | This shows that after a freshening in the early 1970s , the salinity ( and temperature ) began to increase in the early 1980s , although not to the same level as in 1970 . |
| 11 | This shows that from the earliest days of government interest in organizing the labour-market , Beveridge at least saw juvenile labour as a separate category which would require the formulation of a joint approach by the exchanges and local education authorities . |
| 12 | This shows that in 1986 the judges , with the concurrence of the Inns , resolved and confirmed that from 1987 disciplinary powers over barristers should be exercised in accordance with the provisions of that constitution and that no alteration might be made to the power or composition of disciplinary tribunals without the consent of the Lord Chief Justice . |
| 13 | This shows that in well over eighty percent there were fewer tumours at the three month cystoscopy than there were before the B G C was instilled . |
| 14 | This presumes that in the original metric equation is positive . |
| 15 | This states that in respect of loss or damage other than arising from death or personal injury ‘ a person can not so exclude or restrict liability for negligence except in so far as the term or notice satisfies the requirement of reasonableness ’ . |
| 16 | This facilitates and in part constitutes the challenge of the perverse : |
| 17 | This implies that for any investment asset the marginal rate of exchange between the expected return and the risk ( standard deviation ) of that asset must be equal to the marginal rate of exchange for the market as a whole . |
| 18 | This implies that at least 53% of lone mothers would be classified as unoccupied ; they would have been regarded as economically inactive at the census , and at death registration the instructions to registrars would preclude the recording of any occupational information . |
| 19 | This implies that in an operation I(k) we may see I ( ),; but unc will not appear in I(l) operations , except in a self-cancelling form , e.g. we could use I(l) with unc in the ith place , following with I(l) with unc in the jith place , so that the product of the two steps has unit determinant . |
| 20 | This implies that in time the antisemitic ideology will disappear , as a young post-war generation takes over the leadership of the far right . |
| 21 | This implies that in the absence of specific constraints subjects are free to attend to different aspects of the stimulus . |
| 22 | This implies that within the patches the rate of energy transfer per unit mass increases with wave number , thus complicating the derivation of the Kolmogorov law . |
| 23 | This follows because in the competitive world of the coral reef , a fish of the same species represents a major threat to the food supply and refuge of the sitting tenant , simply because the interloper requires the same type of food and habitat . |
| 24 | This means that on the surface the transactions may appear complementary but below the surface the rules of the particular game provide a hidden agenda ( see page 85 ) . |
| 25 | This means that despite the precise route being available to only one of the interlocutors , the shared knowledge and context , especially in terms of the goal to be achieved , allows the sort of negotiation that takes place in everyday communication . |
| 26 | This means that at the moment it is being used closest to the hook , where presentation and visibility are vital factors and , because it is so different to nylon , many users have problems knotting it . |
| 27 | This means that at a time of crisis , such as death , there are fewer people to turn to than there used to be when it was the norm to live much nearer to kinfolk . |
| 28 | This means that at school level there are two worlds of education . |
| 29 | This means that at any frontier anywhere in the world a border official who has at his disposal a piece of equipment which is already widely and internationally available will be able instantaneously to record the personal details from a passport without the holder realising it , and the record will be automatically read into and stored by a computer . |
| 30 | This means that at whatever level the stresses or insults initially attack the system , the effects , if the body is strong enough , will be confined to the physical plane . |