Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , this study aimed to discover as much as possible of the information which is potentially available to drivers , not just the occasional item of particular interest . |
| 2 | This research aims to investigate how such factors shape the way this key group of employees are responding to their labour market situation and the career opportunities provided for them within high technology firms . |
| 3 | Because this programme tried to do so much in limited time , it seemed to some observers to be somewhat thin or superficial . |
| 4 | Well yeah I guess I did he gets confidence and he walks up with this he 's getting cockier by the minute and he 's well proud and he 's got he sees this , his in this bar trying to chat up this woman , he says I need a , I need a did n't he say I need a smoke or something , so he looks for a woman |
| 5 | ‘ Bearing in mind that the essence of the proceedings is whether or not this lady had to give up these premises , it seems to me that , although he may not have been correct in thinking that the relief sought in the counterclaim was a matter for judicial review , the issue could without doubt be better dealt with by separate proceedings . |
| 6 | I have at this point tried to bring in some preliminary notions of stress and prominence without giving a full explanation ; by this stage in the course it is important to be getting familiar with the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables , and the nature of ‘ schwa ’ , but the subject of stress is such a large one that I have felt it best to leave its main treatment until later . |
| 7 | This person had to cut out several pocket linings , because she kept on getting them wrong . |
| 8 | This video tries to cover too much in just one hour . |
| 9 | Children of this age want to do so much , but do n't yet have the ability to tackle many things — which makes them feel frustrated . |
| 10 | Excavations such as those of the German excavator Heinrich Schliemann ( 1822–90 ) at Troy and Mycenae , of the British archaeologist Arthur Evans ( 1851–1951 ) at Knossos , and of many others at this time began to prove that much more than objects for display in a museum could be recovered from these sites . |