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Example sentences for "this phenomenon"

  • Perhaps, indeed, this opinion best explains all the circumstances of this phenomenon, and especially the occurrence so constantly observed of such agitation.

  • There was a singularity, and a grandeur in the display of this phenomenon, which could not fail of giving occupation to the mind, and striking it with a reverential awe, due to Omnipotence.

  • Mahine was struck with great astonishment at this phenomenon, and would scarcely believe his senses.

  • Rapidly increasing difficulty of intensifying race characters; alleged causes of this phenomenon; probably an internal cause co-operates.

  • This phenomenon is very natural, since it is observed even in animals when they are together in number.

  • This phenomenon, moreover, is not peculiar to the Latin peoples.

  • This phenomenon is not peculiar to crowds.

  • In some seasons and places they multiply so inordinately and prodigiously as to deserve the title of a plague of caterpillars, and several remarkable instances of this phenomenon are on record.

  • This phenomenon is quite inexplicable with regard to insects endowed so pre-eminently with locomotive powers as butterflies are.

  • This phenomenon can be plainly seen with an opera-glass.

  • This phenomenon is shown in the accompanying illustration.

  • They must of course sometimes pass between each other and the sun, but as their shadows never reach each other, they hide so little of his light, that the term eclipse is not in this case used; this phenomenon is called a transit.

  • This phenomenon is called the precession of the equinoxes.

  • This phenomenon is said to have been produced by selection.

  • Eimer finds the cause of this phenomenon in the alteration of the form.

  • These observations upon some of the earlier known forms of optically active organic acids led the way to a general study of this phenomenon as exhibited by the optically active soluble carbohydrates.

  • Numerous examples of this phenomenon might be cited.

  • I may however add, that the same torn and irregular particles of gelatinous matter, described by Ehrenberg, seem in the southern as well as in the northern hemisphere, to be the common cause of this phenomenon.

  • This phenomenon is quite different from that of the salinas, and more extraordinary.

  • In the first place, such words as permission and Providence are simply neither more nor less applicable to this phenomenon than to any other.

  • This phenomenon is analogous to that of number-forms,--a kind of diagrammatic mental picture which accompanies the conception of a progression of numbers.

  • Such is the explanation which I have offered of this phenomenon in the Hort.

  • This phenomenon is as frequent and destructive as in Switzerland, where, however, more lives are lost; from the country being more populous, and from the people recklessly building in places particularly exposed to such accidents.

  • As far as my observations go, this phenomenon of light is confined to the lower orders of vegetable life, to the fungi alone, and is not dependent on irritability.

  • This phenomenon is attributed to a combination of the oil with the mercury, which produces a compound, the attraction of which is less strong than that of pure mercury.

  • The cause of this phenomenon is, that water does not congeal unless its particles unite together, and assume among themselves a new arrangement.

  • Apartments of a circular or elliptical form are best calculated for the exhibition of this phenomenon.

  • Brewster’s investigation of the cause of this phenomenon; and in so doing he discovered the leading principles of the Kaleidoscope.

  • This phenomenon is described by Pliny as the flame of the Lycian Chimera.

  • This phenomenon is the progressive motion of the centre of gravity of the whole solar system in universal space.

  • One of the chief causes of this phenomenon is the necessity, as population and consumption increase, to employ capital in the fertilization of less productive land, and in less profitable investments.

  • In the latter respect, this phenomenon may be considered, not only as a symptom but also as a cause: since bastards are generally very badly brought up.

  • This phenomenon, indeed, finds its analogon in every thing that is human, but seems to contradict a law of nature which very widely prevails, viz.

  • It was replied, that the reason of this phenomenon was, not the superior lightness of the ice, but its incapacity, owing to its flat shape, to penetrate and overcome the resistance of the water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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