Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet Union may eventually accept a loosely formulated neutralisation of this country if Vietnam proves tractable . |
| 2 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 3 | Thus if the first purpose of a particular religion is to help people to a sense of the presence of God and express a response to God , then the study of the ritual which helps them towards this goal must constantly draw attention to this significance . |
| 4 | Indeed , the most naturally farmed animal in this country is the mountain ewe : at the end of a long hard winter and late cold spring her lamb will depressingly often be stillborn , and she herself moribund or even dead . |
| 5 | These clubs continue to run successfully and provide a much appreciated service for this area . |
| 6 | These clubs continue to run successfully and provide a much appreciated service for this area . |
| 7 | His column ‘ Listen Here Awhile ’ was a regular and highly praised feature of this newspaper for years — a column which mirrored Ulster life as he wandered into the highways and byways of the province meeting what he called ‘ the old worthies ’ . |
| 8 | This analysis of the dominant building styles of our society suggests that a set of representations derived from the interests and perspectives of a particular group in society not only denies access to this aspect of culture to alternative perspectives , but at the same time causes these representations to appear to be the image of those who have been excluded . |
| 9 | So it literally means taste in this case . |
| 10 | Legend finishes the year laughing , it hopes , with a second Andrew Harman , The Frogs of War ( £4.99 ) — it obviously means business with this guy . |
| 11 | The national Church does not entirely escape responsibility for this situation ; within living memory the bishop of one major see let it be known that he would not be available to officiate at services on Good Friday since he had to start the boat race at his old school . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that as time moves so does opinion on this matter in England , Scotland and Wales ? |
| 13 | Not only does development of this kind damage the setting , it very often fails to produce the promised restoration . |
| 14 | In most instances these are not close or significant enough to merit comparison at this level of affinity : the mosaic of room LXIV , Lydney ( Wheeler 1932 , pi . |
| 15 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 16 | While there is some justification for arguing that industries never mature ( or only over an extremely long time-span ) , there is also every justification for arguing that products often do have life-cycles short enough to make sense of this type of analysis . |
| 17 | The presence of Henry and his sons , together with their army , made a considerable impression on the Limousin , though it is also clear that in the months between June 1176 and October 1177 Richard had effectively wielded power in this region , quartering his Brabançons on monastic estates as he chose . |
| 18 | But instead of relieving their misery , they 're just lying rotting in this Worcester storage centre . |
| 19 | Halliday argues that one does not normally meet non-text of this sort in real life . |
| 20 | Although it is by no means certain that the courts would uphold such a contention , groups should nevertheless exercise care in this area . |
| 21 | Illegal pirate stations , operating on locally-free channels and low-power transmitters already fill part of this gap . |
| 22 | Best known element of this operation is Air Atlantique , operators of a fleet of nine DC-3s and two DC-6s on specialist cargo and charter work anywhere they are required . |
| 23 | 2.14 Lord Wright in Davies v Power Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1942 ] AC 601 provided perhaps the best known expression of this fact . |
| 24 | The best known version of this theory of functions is Jakobson 's ‘ Closing statement : linguistics and poetics ’ ( Sebeok 1960 : 350 — 77 ) delivered to a conference in America in 1958 , which builds on a set of categories proposed by Mukařovský some years earlier ( 1938 : 100 — 1 ) . |
| 25 | The best known example of this kind of stylistics , indeed the best-known example of stylistics in any sense , is the work of Leo Spitzer . |
| 26 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 27 | Zero-based budgeting is probably the best known aspect of this rationalist approach . |
| 28 | Perhaps the best known exponent of this model of general education in the UK is Hirst ( 1969 ; 1974 ) , but it is familiar in most countries , and results in the relatively academic type of secondary school curriculum that one finds in the English grammar school , the French Lycée or the German Gymnasium , with appropriate national differences of emphasis ( the English have always stressed ‘ process ’ rather than ‘ breadth ’ ) . |
| 29 | Even though there were many writers before Leapor who had made a similar affirmation , not least Katherine Phillips and Mary Astell , it must be recognized that to make such claims was to dispute a widely held belief , based on Aristotelian physiology , that women were by nature soft and therefore inconstant The best known statement of this view of women is Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 30 | He was wet , cold and irritable and he was already losing patience with this case . |