Example sentences of "[adv] this [noun] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the nineteenth century a comparatively high proportion of the population was aware of its own mortality ; today this sense has almost vanished from everyday life . |
| 2 | On most local roads today this width has hardly varied . |
| 3 | Add the JESUS AND MARY CHAIN masterminded ROLLERCOASTER package takes to the highways and student halls of America , what was once a moulding musical chrysalid on its underpowered UK outing earlier this year has verily pupated into a sun-blocking butterfly of excellence — or so reckons a well and truly won-over ANDREW COLLINS . |
| 4 | Sean Penn , who earlier this year vowed never to act again , has been tempted out of his short lived retirement to play another mean , moody rebel … er … |
| 5 | THE round of applause which the Prime Minister attracted at the European summit in Strasbourg earlier this month has already entered the folklore of Thatcherism . |
| 6 | Yet this trend has also stimulated resistance . |
| 7 | It is surprising how much 20th-century choral music is based on textures of the early Renaissance , yet this fact has almost passed unnoticed . |
| 8 | Yet this expense seemed little justified . |