Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [that] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I mention native speakers ' feelings in this connection , and since I am elsewhere rather sceptical about appeals to native speakers ' feelings , I had better explain that in this case my evidence comes from the native speakers of English I have taught in practical classes on transcription over many years . |
| 2 | It so happens that in this example , ( 1 ) and ( 3 ) are false . |
| 3 | It so happened that about this period the trend was towards vestments on more simple lines . |
| 4 | Here , in the valley , the world seems to be constructed on a smaller and more delicate scale ; the fields are mere paddocks , so reduced that from this height their hedgerows appear a network of dark-green threads overspreading the paler green of the grass … such is the vale of Blackmoor . ’ |
| 5 | And I should perhaps add that to this day I am practically innumerate . |
| 6 | Cunningham rightly remarked that with this appointment Main was placed ‘ intirely in the power of his superior officers upon the coast , and if he should happen not to be favoured by them , his employment is not worth one shilling ’ . |
| 7 | Ministers might justly argue that in this case the dissent is also politically ambiguous , given the diverse support for the amendment . |
| 8 | On the point of commenting scathingly that not everyone could be expected to be as cold-blooded as he was , Gina hesitated , finally deciding that in this case discretion was certainly the better part of valour . |
| 9 | Is the Minister aware that he has just admitted that under this Government there has been a trade-off between income tax cuts and increases in VAT ? |
| 10 | No , I sha n't , no water in the washing up bowl , I 'll just sit that into this bowl |
| 11 | Had a word with Vic about the script and he says not to worry but they always say that at this stage , do n't they ? |
| 12 | George continued with deliberate diffidence : ‘ It 's all rather confidential I know of course you 'll respect that ; the problem is rather whether you feel you can disclose anything from your side without an official request from Security and I 'm sure you 'll understand why we 'd rather avoid that at this stage … ’ |
| 13 | Other reports also suggest that in this disease there are circulating antibodies against antigens common to biliary and colonic epithelia . |
| 14 | Events have also shown that in this day and age the exercise of a right to silence affords protection for the guilty and is unnecessary to safeguard the innocent . |
| 15 | The GUTs also predict that at this energy the different spin-1/2 matter particles , like quarks and electrons , would also all be essentially the same , thus achieving another unification . |
| 16 | But it now appears that in this form the ‘ Treasury view ’ was a transient formula . |
| 17 | It is strongly recommended that after this operation the unit should be allowed to reform up to strength and be retrained as a parachute unit , and it should not be required to operate again before May . |
| 18 | It may simply mean that at this moment only one entrepreneur has taken the step of presenting this particular opportunity to the market . |
| 19 | It is sometimes argued that direct persuasion applied by A to B not to perform his contract is itself the procurement of breach by unlawful means , but the argument is circular and it seems better simply to say that in this form of the tort no use of unlawful means is required . |
| 20 | The careers of other scholars of the period who reached the highest mevleviyets likewise suggest that by this time teaching on at least two levels of medreses beyond the Sahn had become customary , the top level being composed of the Suleymaniye medreses and the later imperial medreses , such as those of Selim II and Murad III . |
| 21 | I would therefore hold that in this respect Handscomb was wrongly decided . |
| 22 | I can not therefore deny that in this context a settled and preponderant public demand ought to be taken into account or that at a certain point it would have to prevail . |