Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But if that is our conclusion , then we miss perhaps the most profound contribution this story has to make to theology and to faith .
2 This study aimed to analyse in detail the serum lipid concentrations in patients with primary colorectal carcinoma drawn from such a population , with an evaluation of the influence of tumour activity on altered serum lipid values .
3 A number of agencies , including Government , are taking action to stimulate high quality design by British manufacturers , and this research aims to contribute to knowledge about how high quality design is achieved .
4 Believe me this law seems to come into operation unfailingly at about 3.20pm every day !
5 In December of the previous year the Leaders had paid an equally affectionate and touching tribute to a neighbour of Mr Ramsey 's , Mr James Lyske : ‘ This meeting desires to put on record their deep sense of a loss upon the death of Mr James Lyske , a Class Leader for many years , a life-long member of the Memorial Church and an official of the CE Society .
6 Do nuances within this relationship continue to reverberate throughout life ?
7 Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down .
8 This love seems to vary in intensity from near non-existence in some creatures , turtles for example , to the intense feeling which can reach its highest value in the love of the human parent for a child .
9 None of them seemed to include the tube in their itineraries , but there was some useful advice on how to secure the best berths on a Nile river cruiser and an interesting complaint about the lack of leg room on Concorde which assured him that the R and the F of this world had to contend with life 's little niggles just like everybody else .
10 Although this project failed to come to fruition even with Apple behind it — it was to lead us indirectly into more than a decade of adventuring in some of the most remote regions of Indonesia .
11 This project aims to draw on court roll evidence to answer similar questions in Wales .
12 This project aims to produce for publication by the University Library the text of a revised and enlarged ‘ Sources Booklet ’ on this theme , through research in the Centre 's lists and indexes , examination of its holdings , especially uncatalogued accessions , and with the benefit of the knowledge of its holdings possessed by existing staff .
13 Teachers of this persuasion wished to accept for admission to higher education , and to English studies , only those students possessing a sufficiently high level of " qualitative literacy " and sufficiently hard-working and disciplined as well as competitively motivated to " benefit " from university education .
14 Much thought is required to smooth the path if this scheme hopes to meet with success .
15 One week later another such envelope popped mysteriously through the letter box , this time addressed to STAR OF STAGE , SCREEN AND TRAMPOLINE .
16 The prose in this section starts to function like poetry , ordering images and rhythmical cadences to convey an intimation of the way that Rolle believed that things are .
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