Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | If nothing else , leadership is about building this basis ( Bartolme , 1989 ) . |
| 2 | There are persuasive reasons for doubting this . |
| 3 | There are grounds for doubting this opinion . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you for bringing this to our attention , Miss Connor , ’ Nick said , standing up . |
| 5 | Now they also , in the wake of this knowledge is the er awareness that they 're going to be interrogated on this , and they 're also sitting up there thinking ‘ what are we going to say ? ’ and indeed that 's another reason for bringing this whole incident to an end , because in a sense they are cooking up alibis and covering their backs . |
| 6 | My only reason for including this story is to record the short but pithy comment of Canada 's leading humorist who , when we had paused to take in the scene , turned to me and said , ‘ I do n't think it 's a bit funny ! ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes a leaf of the plant subject grows across the reference area — the reason for including this diagnostic . |
| 8 | So well no yeah , is it worth seeing this guy ? |
| 9 | It is a special occasion as it coincides with a lovely Flower Celebration and we have Canon Harney to thank very much for allowing this to happen in our lovely Cathedral . |
| 10 | And surely our reasons for allowing this are close to those suggested by the tripartite definition ; he has the right answer , and not by luck . |
| 11 | But there are other even more fundamental reasons for allowing this appeal , and they are concerned with the judge 's actions and decisions which led up to his discharge of the jury . |
| 12 | I agree with both the judgments that have been given and with the reasons given in those judgments for allowing this appeal . |
| 13 | So I 'll just say thank you to the management of the Seraglio for allowing this conference to take place in such pleasant surroundings , and to you ladies for giving up your weekend to be here . |
| 14 | She was annoyed with herself for allowing this man to overhear her secret thoughts . |
| 15 | And Pilate standing there watching in awe , knowing that he is the one who is guilty for allowing this to happen hating himself for it ! |
| 16 | Gouzenko had obvious reasons for perpetuating this myth and was always astute enough to embroider his story with whatever facts the listener wanted to hear , eventually becoming so vain that even he did not know what was truth or fiction . |
| 17 | The hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras ( Mr. Dobson ) had some difficulty about attributing this and therefore did not say that that eminent legislation was passed by a Liberal Government . |
| 18 | The capacity of closeknit networks to exert normative pressure formed a basis for using this speaker variable not only descriptively , but to explore more radically patterns of language maintenance and change . |
| 19 | It would be a good idea to develop a formula for using this kind of programme so that you know precisely what kind of item you are looking for and , if you can arrange for a regular supply , you do n't need to spend a lot of time viewing it to work out how you are going to use it . |
| 20 | MINIS , at its simplest , represents ‘ an … attempt to collect information about a Department 's activities and to place responsibility for using this information with the Department 's top management , Ministerial and official ’ ( Richards , 1987 , p. 26 ) . |
| 21 | However , the rationale for using this paradigm as a way of investigating perceptual units was established by Ladefoged and Broadbent ( 1960 ) who showed that the position of clicks is not reported accurately , because they are heard as displaced from their original position to the boundaries of perceptual units . |
| 22 | ‘ I have no qualms whatever about firing this , ’ she warned him . |
| 23 | It is worth pursuing this example . |
| 24 | A second reason for preferring this new version is that the cast , while not composed of better singers , is on the whole better suited , character by character , to the roles . |
| 25 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 26 | It is also well worth using this style sheet as the starting point for any new ones . |
| 27 | Erm , we have looked again at the programme for building this road . |
| 28 | A Curriculum Co-ordinating Committee ( CCC ) was responsible for editing this document to represent the work of each area in a standard format . |
| 29 | The B6259 road into Mallerstang from the south leaves the Sedbergh — Hawes road at the Moorcock Inn near Garsdale Head in a setting of bleak moorland , and rises gently , with the railway coming alongside , to Aisgill Moor Cottages , a terrace of humble dwellings built for the workers responsible for maintaining this highest of English railways which here attains its summit at 1169 feet . |
| 30 | This would permit an accurate assessment of current purchaser and provider research and development activity , interest , expertise , and capacity and develop a framework for maintaining this . |