Example sentences of "[verb] this [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates . |
| 2 | They do relate this to the capitalist character of industry , and to the market economy , but the restructuring school would argue that the implication of this is that it is important to specify the particular capitalist nature of industry . |
| 3 | Sony will shortly upgrade this to the Extended Architecture standard enabling CD-ROM to beat portable CD-I to becoming the first multimedia handheld units to reach the commercial market . |
| 4 | It is a fast and relatively cheap working method but it turns this into a real Spaghetti Opera , where the soundtrack never quite gels with the visuals . |
| 5 | We must Adapt this to the continuing changes in educational standards to meet the requirements of both Students , Educationalists and Governmental bodies . |
| 6 | So let's treat this as a political problem and look for a political solution . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We shall treat this as a suspicious death ; there will be an autopsy and , of course , an investigation to discover the source of the poison and how it got into the brandy . ’ |
| 8 | At 31 March 1991 , Harland Simon held 50% of the equity share capital of Perfect Information but did not treat this as an associated undertaking because the investment was held for the short term and was disposed of in August 1991 . |
| 9 | She would treat this as an unexpected opportunity to gain experience in mass-production fashion . |
| 10 | Just in case you are in any doubt though , you can treat this as an enthusiastic endorsement . |
| 11 | This is the first study from the United Kingdom to examine the cost of maintaining patients on long term sclerotherapy , and it is also the first to compare this with a surgical procedure in such patients . |
| 12 | A second way of comparing the expected yield of an investment to its cost is to calculate the investment 's expected rate of return and to compare this with the prevailing rate of interest . |
| 13 | Furthermore , even if acculturation to a dominant order was a feature of early Chicago society there was , according to Castells , no need to promote this as a universal process occurring in all cities . |
| 14 | ‘ I wonder if we 're handling this in the right way , ’ he said cautiously . |
| 15 | Accepting this as a broad description of the current state , we now examine some real-time data in order to confirm the direction of change . |
| 16 | I believe that in 100 years people will look back on the middle of the twentieth century as a nightmare period when mankind suddenly discovered the means to destroy itself , and was seriously considering using this as a preferable alternative to reconciling differing political views . |
| 17 | Mr Chairman , er , it 's an important point , but I 'm so fed up with hearing people using this as a political issue , erm , and , and , and I 'm a high critic of the government er , for many other reasons , but I would like to know where these people think the money would come from . |
| 18 | Moshe Gerstenhaber , chairman of Kall-Kwik Printing , has been using this as a promotional feature : ‘ If ever evidence was needed to prove the merits of franchising , the present difficult trading conditions have to be an example . ’ |
| 19 | A decision by parents to initiate resuscitation is subjective and some patients will have received this without a real need , as illustrated in patients whose subsequent and similar events were due to skin perfusion changes . |
| 20 | When the Data Protection Committee was set up in 1976 , to redeem a pledge made by the Home Secretary when Younger reported , It had no such limitation put upon it — it was in fact the first body empowered to investigate information systems in the public sector , and the Committee came to see this as a major aspect of its work . |
| 21 | Except in the case of Mary of Guise , however , it is going too far to see this as a general affirmation of enthusiasm for the Auld Alliance , and total alienation from England , or as a means of eradicating Protestantism . |
| 22 | And of course it 's very hard to see this as a neural network . |
| 23 | Alfonso chose to see this as a further sign of Rodrigo 's pride ; once again the two men parted without reconciliation . |
| 24 | It is tempting to see this as the first occasion when the judges insisted on independence on this principle . |
| 25 | This did not mean that unity was ruled out however , for the Americans , far from opposing European economic unity , began to see this as the only way to create a firm barrier to communist expansion . |
| 26 | We must train staff to teach as effectively as possible and should encourage them to see this as an important part of their job . |
| 27 | It is easy to see this in the nineteenth century because the development of local government reflected economic organization and the political processes which derived from it . |
| 28 | When war broke out in 1914 , Harrison was sent to France to join the British Expeditionary Force and regarded this as a heaven-sent opportunity to move away from the subject of the venereal diseases . |
| 29 | When in February 1983 the General synod of the Church of England debated the nuclear threat , only the then Archbishop of York , Dr Blanch , thought fit to remind his hearers that the early church had not only held that the world would soon end , but had regarded this as a desirable consummation . |
| 30 | The Pakistani parents in Rochdale were very anxious to bring up their children in an Islamic culture and regarded this as the key issue in decisions as to whether or not to stay in Britain . |