Example sentences of "this [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This belongs to the last days of 1870 , more than a year after the murder in the park . |
| 2 | ‘ Does all this account for the proposed development at the pottery ? ’ |
| 3 | All this testifies to the extreme importance attached to every status-symbol in an avidly status-conscious age . |
| 4 | This got over the critical problem of the ‘ double running ’ costs : the extra expenses of developing community services while having to support the infrastructure of the institution closing . |
| 5 | This goes beyond the intrinsic error due to the device ( about 2% when measuring an inanimate object ) and is not random . |
| 6 | This goes beyond the statutory requirements against discrimination on grounds of sex , marriage and race , to include age , disability and sexual orientation . |
| 7 | This goes over the old arguments . |
| 8 | For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race . |
| 9 | This goes to the six charities chosen by the Princess Royal , the Duke and Duchess of Kent , Prince Edward , and Princess Alexandra the Hon. |
| 10 | This goes to the Inland Revenue Accounts Office along with the NI contributions and tax deducted in the previous month . |
| 11 | Pedulla 's stated aim is to produce an instrument which will sound ‘ alive ’ even at flat tone settings , and credit for this goes to the Bartolini powerhouses and Pedulla 's tone-shaping circuitry . |
| 12 | I resume my explanation of the Bill , and this goes to the very heart of the issues raised by the two hon. Gentlemen . |
| 13 | This goes against the general trend of the rest of the survey ( which suggests that these groups are less well informed and less accurately informed about credit ) . |
| 14 | This goes against the general rule that says the bigger the band , the longer and more excruciatingly dull , the soundcheck . |
| 15 | This developed after the French Revolution of 1789 when many french dancing masters fled to Spain to become dancing masters to the aristocratic families . |
| 16 | Charles I and his Parliament quarrelled , and this led to the Civil War of the 1640s which ended with the defeat and execution of the King and , in 1649 , the establishment of a republic . |
| 17 | This led to the second phase of the emergence of headhunting , in which management consultants , and with them accountancy firms , developed their own in-house headhunting functions . |
| 18 | This led to the usual talk of dismissing coach Luis Gradin , the man in charge throughout this period of successive defeats , but he will stay on at least until the end of the year when the present Argentine RU committee changes . |
| 19 | This led to the early discovery of soldering . |
| 20 | This led to the partial abandonment of physical controls and a move towards financial disciplines for the nationalised industries . |
| 21 | This led to the everyday use of microphones which were mounted on the end of a short boom extending from one of the ear-pieces of the pilot 's radio headset to a position in front of his mouth . |
| 22 | This led to the Little Vestry where she would hang up her coat and to the kitchen where she would wash out the vases and arrange the fresh flowers . |
| 23 | This led to the Sexual Offences ( Amendment ) Act in 1976 . |
| 24 | This led to the rapid growth of the private courier industry , with substantial benefits to business users . |
| 25 | The division was about four men to one woman , and this led to the inevitable result , in those days before The Pill — a baby boom . |
| 26 | This arose from the unsatisfactory location of the College , which was on the edge of a rapidly expanding urban area increasingly remote from any true farm practice . |
| 27 | The necessity for this arose from the catastrophic collapse in mining employment . |
| 28 | This centred on the ambitious proposal by the South of Scotland Electricity Board to build up to four nuclear power stations on a stretch of farmland outside the town of Dunbar , thirty miles east of Edinburgh . |
| 29 | The compacted mudflow presents a much more serious problem to archaeologists than the relatively soft pumice of Pompeii , and this coupled with the awkward presence of the new town on top of it makes it unlikely that it will ever be completely excavated . |
| 30 | Therefore the flower is ultimately linked to the earth itself , which is thought of as part of a ‘ sphere ’ — this refers to the Ptolemaic system , already out of date in the seventeenth century . |