Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most this left insufficient time to build any significant pensions . |
| 2 | For most this is a consequence of them being , or aspiring to be , objective sciences incorporating , well or badly , the scientific method . |
| 3 | For most this will mark the end of their playing days . |
| 4 | It was early in the season yet , and he probably had long periods of inactivity to fill up between visitors ; but he was not going to be left at leisure for long this time , for in the gravelled car park outside the enclosure a large bus was just disgorging a load of loud and active schoolboys , shepherded by a frantic youth hardly older than the eldest of his charges . |
| 5 | For only this use of ‘ perceive ’ exhibits the supposed philosophical truth that perceiving is a matter of being causally affected by something . |
| 6 | Police , with riot gear on standby , were called in just after 1am this morning . |
| 7 | BELFAST Crown Court Jurors whose numbers are 1–75 and 226–301 inclusive should contact the Juries Office after 5pm this evening regarding Jury Service at Court No 1 , Old Townhall Building , Victoria Street , on Monday . |
| 8 | Francis Bacon advised King James to hold on to his royal wastes and hunting forests for exactly this potential ; and , as if to confirm the good sense of such drainage enterprises , a series of bad winters between 1607 and 1613 created some of the worst floods in living memory . |
| 9 | For soon this feeble Case , worn out with Age , |
| 10 | ‘ I intended it to last for longer this time , meu amor , ’ he said unevenly , ‘ much longer , but I 'm wild with wanting you and I 'm sorry but I ca n't — ’ |
| 11 | Blyth Tait says that the last time he won the top spot from Mary he only kept it for a week and is hoping to hang onto it for longer this time . |
| 12 | And there is also the crucial issue of political financing which we 've heard about already this morning , and which is such a vexed question in French Spanish , and Italian politics now everybody wants to see more money coming from an expanded , er , political membership . |
| 13 | As Tynyanov puts it , ‘ Since a system is not a free interplay of equal elements but presupposes the foregrounding of one group of elements ( ‘ a dominant ’ ) and the deformation of others , a work becomes literature and acquires its literary function through just this dominant' ( O'Toole and Shukman 1977 : 34 ) . |
| 14 | For just this reason the issues of The Exile , though they provide only conflicting evidence about Pound 's acumen as an editor , are very instructive about the cast of his sensibility . |
| 15 | Here we see it practising for just this role . |
| 16 | The inmates had rudimentary weapons for just this moment , and Fujimori backed down when they fought the troops . |
| 17 | For example , we know that some people eventually decided not to be recorded because of painful secrets in their lives , while there were others who for just this reason found it helpful to talk : but how far these two groups balance out can only be guessed . |
| 18 | The Mackie Memorial Library had been put together for just this purpose a hundred years before , and these were the very books being sold by Derbyshire library staff . |
| 19 | It is noteworthy , however , that the Royal Society made a plea for just this type of multidisciplinary work in its submission on greenhouse gases to the House of Lords ' Select Committee on Science and Technology ( Royal Society 1989 : 40 ) . |
| 20 | TO MARK the 70th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun 's Tomb , the Egyptians are opening the site for just this month and January . |
| 21 | It turned out that my grandfather was right for Cody was killed a few minutes afterwards for just this reason . |
| 22 | If my aunts ' upbringing had prepared me for anything , it was for just this sort of agitation . |
| 23 | A special overlap and border adhesive , like a thick pva , is made for just this type of situation . |
| 24 | Each main cap was tapped during manufacture for just this purpose . |
| 25 | Some models have mesh at both ends for just this purpose . |
| 26 | According to Chomsky , we are genetically pre-programmed to search for just this sort of structure underlying the sentences that we hear as infants . |
| 27 | For just this reason the only scheme of family allowances acceptable to the Labour movement as a whole was one financed out of general taxation . |
| 28 | Quite apart from introducing the problem of just how you get the document to the bureau in the first place ( we know of people who have extra hard disks for just this purpose ) the time it takes to run such a document through an imagesetter can be significant in the extreme . |
| 29 | As Julia began to work the room , she realised that the house had been designed and built for just this sort of occasion : it was planned for servants to run . |
| 30 | And although Gramps had left her enough money for just this purpose she 'd been hoping to live cheaply so that she could stay in Ireland for at least a month , see as much of the country as she could . |