Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How dare this blanc try to interfere with the way things have been done for centuries ? |
| 2 | This study seeks to build on the foundations thus laid and to take the assessment of the importance of the railway station a step further . |
| 3 | This chapter seeks to examine at a small-scale the variations in deprivation and investment in an urban area of Pittsburgh . |
| 4 | Massively symbolized by the uniform itself , as Douglas ( 1973 : 16 ) indicates , this obsession tends to focus on the body , for ‘ the more value people set on social constraints , the more value they set on symbols of bodily control ’ . |
| 5 | Obviously one does n't believe everything one sees in the media , but this programme seemed to capture in a nutshell what is wrong with our economy . |
| 6 | This divergence began to emerge at a very early stage . |
| 7 | Er at the moment there are no savings identified and it seems to me that this Committee needs to deal with the budget as it finds . |
| 8 | I will attempt to show that answers to this question have to do with the almost hidden insidious nature of modern life . |
| 9 | Reference to annual series of population estimates indicates that in Great Britain , this process began to accelerate in the mid 1960s and has waned since reaching a peak in the early 1970s . |
| 10 | Combinations of this sort continue to appear in the work of a younger generation of British novelists . |
| 11 | This scenario seems to apply to the position in The Netherlands , otherwise seen as being in the forefront of community care . |
| 12 | This conclusion serves to dispose of the only question of principle raised in relation to the Barclays ( Asia ) prosecution . |
| 13 | I expect demand for this service to continue to grow over the coming year . |
| 14 | Any decent reform of this nonsense has to start with a firm recognition that it is better to take money from taxpayers than from consumers . |
| 15 | ‘ At one level — and leaving out the executive stress — this woman has to cope with an enormous sense of personal threat , ’ he said . |
| 16 | This prospect appeared to recede after the Washington talks , however , as both sides reported little progress on outstanding issues , particularly on the provisions dealing with air- and sea-launched long-range missiles , with the Soviet side still seeking a treaty to cover air-launched cruise missiles carried by tactical fighters as well as by heavy bombers . |
| 17 | If this exhibition means to report on the whole of twentieth-century American modernism then it has left out a great deal in the period between the two world wars ; work that is historically important and good even though sometimes ‘ provincial ’ with respect to Europe . |
| 18 | This week hopes to emerge with a large Birmingham law firm to strengthen its hand further . |
| 19 | The report also rules that genetic manipulation of sperm , embryos or their parts is unethical , and that surrogate motherhood is not acceptable , The BMA this week refused to comment on the leaks . |
| 20 | This hedonist tends to live for the moment , because if one is constantly distracted from present experience by designs for the future nothing will ever be fully enjoyed . |
| 21 | Science in this sense came to stand as a meta-discourse , framed by the broader contours of the conjuncture . |
| 22 | This Government has decimated the housing stock of this country and the Tories in this Chamber dare to talk about the right to choose and the power to buy . |
| 23 | This firm continued to prosper during the more difficult postwar years , and by the time of Samuel 's death in 1829 was operating extensively as owner , charterer ( especially for the East India Company ) , sailmaker , and chandler . |
| 24 | This duty appears to overlap with the other duties vis-à-vis education which are imposed by the Act . |
| 25 | Solland is overrun and Eldred Count of Solland slain — after this Solland ceases to exist as a separate land . |
| 26 | To redress the balance , this project seeks to build onto the earlier work an understanding of the role of ideologies of love , sharing , domesticity , familism etc. in intimate couple relationships . |
| 27 | This project seeks to look at the question of labour regulation and economic performance in a more rigorous manner by undertaking a secondary analysis of the 1980 and 1984 Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys and by incorporating into the analysis additional economic data . |
| 28 | This project aims to go beyond the individual firm boundary to examine the relationships between manufacturers of the technology and their customer firms . |
| 29 | This project aims to contribute to the empirical analysis of the relative concept of poverty . |
| 30 | Thus the flow of this information began to decline in the 1890s reaching a trickle , mainly on peripheral issues , by 1914 and ceasing totally after 1918 . |