Example sentences of "[prep] this [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful for this opportunity to clarify any uncertainty that may have resulted from this case , the specific circumstances which lay behind it and the way in which it had to be decided . |
| 2 | BY crossing the Irish line six times at Twickenham , England in one fell swoop exceeded the total number of ties scored last year when winning the Grand Slam — and it 's time for this columnist to eat humble pie , after criticising England , along with the other Home Unions , for inferior standards of back play to Southern Hemisphere sides . |
| 3 | With the above proviso in mind , the results for this question suggest overwhelming support for initiating an automatic inspection visit to all firms late in delivering their accountants report . |
| 4 | In order for this court to have proper regard to article 10 , it is necessary to state first what test is to be applied . |
| 5 | This was not found to be the case , although the number of people in each profession was far too small for this finding to carry much weight . |
| 6 | Chairman , less than one year ago since the report prepared for this committee recommending that work should commence on the preparation of the new bypass scheme of the town of Brandon , and since that date considerable progress has been made . |
| 7 | Still plenty of time for this game to go either way though . |
| 8 | However , as I have already remarked , I do not consider that it would be appropriate for this House to make new law in this instance . |
| 9 | The Seagate drives I used for this article required 2 jumper connections made on the master drive , and all the connectors removed from the slave drive … |
| 10 | Mechanisms for this effect needs further elucidation . |
| 11 | Second , it would be appropriate for this institution to emphasize economic analysis of market dominance and conduct , rather than conformity to legal definitions of anticompetitive market situations and/or conduct . |
| 12 | Most patients who bleed after this procedure have normal blood clotting , however , indicating that other risk factors are more important than minor coagulation abnormalities . |
| 13 | And after this sort spending one month there . |
| 14 | The priestess in question wears the knot at the back of her neck , and it is likely that she is one of the celebrants in a rite of sacred communion : other fragments of this fresco show alternate standing and sitting celebrants , mostly women , some offering , some ( the seated ones ) accepting the communion chalice . |
| 15 | For registry staff to monitor effectively the accuracy and completeness of this operation requires detailed record-keeping and effortless access to data . |
| 16 | The 40th anniversary of this event occurs this year on Thursday , October 8th . |
| 17 | For example , we have already held a seminar for administrative staff in colleges mounting 1988 pilots ( a short account of this event follows this article ) . |
| 18 | In conditions of high mortality , they recognize that attainment of this goal requires continuous childbearing , although the scientific evidence is that this defeats the drive towards the goal . |
| 19 | In initial training the tone was established as a CS for food , but in the test task a correct response in the presence of this cue yielded food plus shock ; the clicker was initially trained with food plus shock in the first stage , but in the test a correct response in the presence of this cue yielded just food . |
| 20 | AFTER all he 's been through , movie veteran Clint Eastwood was real glad of this chance to meet British beauty Jacqueline Bisset . |
| 21 | This involves not only reflecting on why certain types of behaviours are defined as criminal in some historical periods and not others , but also why a particular criminal law comes to incorporate from relatively homogeneous behaviour patterns only a portion and exclude the remainder , even though each and every instance of this behaviour causes avoidable harm , injury , or deprivation . |
| 22 | The nature of this development needs closer attention . |
| 23 | As 80–85 per cent of patents are generally held to derive from inventions made by employees in the course of their employment , the resolution of this issue had direct impact on the thousands of workplaces generating patent applications each year . |
| 24 | The application of this knowledge involves sensitive judgement and skill . |
| 25 | The language of this approach emphasises this sense — using ‘ US ’ , ‘ we ’ and ‘ our ’ rather than ‘ yours ’ , ‘ I ’ and ‘ my ’ . |
| 26 | Using WHO national mortality rates for both colonic cancer and coronary heart disease , Rose et al showed a direct relation between these two diseases , and on the basis of this finding anticipated that serum cholesterol values could be used as a predictor of colon cancer . |
| 27 | A newspaper account of this incident makes fascinating reading , written as it is in the florid , expansive style of the day to extract every ounce of drama . |
| 28 | Braverman ( 1974 , 81 ) quotes J. R. Commons ' description of a meatpacking conveyor in the USA in the early part of this century to illustrate this point : |
| 29 | The divergence is important , perhaps crucial , because Pound and Eliot , American expatriates of roughly the same generation , in the London of the second decade of this century made common cause and thereafter — despite ever wider ideological disagreements — remained friends , mutually respectful and mutually supporting , until Eliot 's death in 1965 . |
| 30 | We 'd obviously , we 'd like to get the agreement of this committee to continue that work and to take it up to the various bodies and consultation . |