Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This story did the rounds some years ago , when Romanians already had the measure of their leader , but while the West was still honouring President Ceausescu for what was considered to be his independent stand on foreign policy issues . |
| 2 | These findings indicate something of the importance of counselling in the health of older people , and this chapter outlines the way this might be achieved . |
| 3 | This insistence pushed the waverers such as Kukanjao towards the clutches of unashamed Serb nationalists like the acting Yugoslav defence minister , General Blagoje Adzoic , and the acting chief of staff , General Zivota Panic , who said baldly this week that the army will stay in Bosnia to prevent ‘ the genocide of any nations , especially the Serbs because they are the most threatened ’ . |
| 4 | Mistakes of this sort made the movement many enemies and hastened its demise to the fairground , and having one 's bumps read for sixpence . |
| 5 | I am sure no WEA tutor would pass open criticism on the essays … this habit lost the class several students this year . |
| 6 | However , says Freud , ideally , morality and social order should be based , not on the pleasure principle , but on the reality principle , and , and , and he ends up with this book invoking the idea that science should replace erm , religion in , in this respect . |