Example sentences of "[verb] this a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might think this a true conversation-stopper but the Queen has a comeback : ‘ I should like us to be friends . ’ |
| 2 | WILLIAMS : Do not think this a sudden resolution . |
| 3 | You might think this a cheap revenge on a dead lady critic simply for pointing out that Flaubert did n't have a very reliable notion of Emma Bovary 's eyes . |
| 4 | Stapleton seemed to know what I was thinking , and said : ‘ You may think this a lonely , strange place to live , but the moors are very interesting , and we enjoy it here . |
| 5 | Some might think this a rather idiosyncratic approach to a primarily theoretical topic , but it seems appropriate to this book . |
| 6 | ‘ You may think this an impossible request , ’ I said , ‘ but I 'm trying to trace a man called Smith . |
| 7 | I hereby declare this a Court of Law with myself as judge and those present as jury . |
| 8 | Unless a really short-field ( e.g. a precautionary ) landing is required , the manual recommends using only 45 ° , and to confirm this a panel warning light illuminates once that setting has been exceeded . |
| 9 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 10 | To like this a lot you probably need to be able to handle silent movies — though dialogue suddenly breaks out in the final scene , powerfully underlining the film 's more serious side . |
| 11 | Devon and West Torridge : Friday afternoon declaration could make this a crucial seat ; Emma Nicholson , who angered some local supporters by backing Michael Heseltine in leadership election , is fighting challenge of David McBride.Falmouth and Camborne : Former double Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Coe in first attempt to become an MP ; but Lib Dems believe retiring Tory David Mudd 's majority of just over 5,000 is vulnerable to Mrs Terrye Jones , chairman of the local district council . |
| 12 | But I would not make this a necessary condition when designing a border , since to do so would be to deny oneself the pleasure of many first-rate foliage plants . |
| 13 | The variety of subject search approaches and output formats should ultimately make this a valuable service — although to realize full potential it must achieve a more comprehensive coverage of publishers than at present . |
| 14 | The wise head will make this a priority call upon his or her time . |
| 15 | You can make this a reciprocal arrangement . |
| 16 | A repetition of the same sin under similarly testing circumstances does not make this a duplicate of 12:10–20 . |
| 17 | I imagine communicant members would make this a little easier . |
| 18 | One matter which I should like to have seen included would almost certainly have merited parliamentary discussion before the inevitable dissolution of this Parliament , which will make this a short Session . |
| 19 | Long mundane months of boredom could make this a dull and tedious year , so make sure you take the initiative and fill your life with exciting and interesting things . |
| 20 | It will be up to the exporter to make sure that lambs have the correct certification and presumably they will make this a condition of purchase , ’ a ministry specialist said . |
| 21 | and yet she 's saying I 'm gon na make this a feature , I 'm having erm an archway over my Aga and erm , I mean she 's got a new carpet you know |
| 22 | So this all suggests to me that the establishment of fierce criteria could make this a very rare exception is the key and erm I think we 've had it in the course of the discussion , it 'll now be on the record , erm an exploration of the kind of criteria those could be . |
| 23 | However , the heavy rainfall could make this an uncertain crop so dairying and sheep formed the main enterprises on most units . |
| 24 | The use of AID would make this an unlikely event . |
| 25 | If you repeat this a few times , you may well notice more tension on the second or third occasion . |
| 26 | MIND realised this a long time ago . |
| 27 | Now the ex the analogy which is used , to , to sort of explain this a bit further , is , is with handedness . |
| 28 | And I 'll explain this a bit more . |
| 29 | To accommodate this a new boiler house and latex tank were built . |
| 30 | The multitude of Madonnas for Italian worship in the Renaissance made this a fruitful theme for connoisseurship which has taken on the task of distinguishing authentic works from those by followers or copyists . |