Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Devlin expanded on this in the lorry accident case in 1969 : |
| 2 | But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the |
| 3 | He has winged his way across the world in pursuit of his hobby , a mission that has included Venezuela , Thailand , Africa and Israel among others — with Costa Rica planned for this year . |
| 4 | As long as he lived Nizan clung to this fundamentally manichean view of existence . |
| 5 | One Soviet writer argued in this vein that the EEC proposal was not directed at the neutralisation of Afghanistan at all but at hiding the ‘ undeclared war against the Afghan people ’ . |
| 6 | The travellers were trying to get into a rock festival at Long Marston airfield near Stratford on Avon planned for this weekend.Roads around the site were blocked by the travellers as they confronted the police for most of the night . |
| 7 | Twentieth Century-Fox agreed to this but made Crawford sign a legal document making him personally responsible for any resulting injury or loss of life . |
| 8 | What we do know is that I M R O asked for this information in June nineteen eighty-eight and not long afterwards I M R O granted recognition to B I M and other Maxwell Companies , all the more surprising perhaps having raised the questions whether the question must come about , did they continue with their investigation , or did they let the matter drop and perhaps you might to comment in that context . |
| 9 | In the second two pairs devoted to this relationship the same pattern emerges . |
| 10 | It was cold comfort to realize after the event that the drama had been played out by three sick men , whose judgments contributed to this deeply wounding incident in Anglo-American relations : Eisenhower was suffering from ileitis ; Dulles had cancer ; and Eden had a recurrence of the abdominal obstruction that had laid him low once before in 1953 , and was to do so again after he resigned . |
| 11 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |
| 12 | As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car . |
| 13 | As for the reform of the National Health Service , it is already well established that every hour devoted to this subject plays into Labour 's hands . |
| 14 | Heavens , if her heart beat like this at the sight of Luke 's stepmother , how would it react when she came face to face again with him ? she thought despairingly . |
| 15 | Physiologists capitalized on this instrumentation to demonstrate that the electrical activity of the brain and its nerve cells was a function of what the individual was doing , or not doing , or how sensory receptors were stimulated . |
| 16 | No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies . |
| 17 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | The widespread enjoyment derived from hearing stories well read is clearly apparent in the continuing popularity of programmes devoted to this on radio and television . |
| 19 | Branson made of this what he could . |
| 20 | Gorbachev expanded upon this vision of a ‘ qualitatively new state of society ’ in an address to senior party functionaries in July 1989 . |
| 21 | The whole of the synthetic dyeing industry arose from this and subsequently completely replaced natural dyes . |
| 22 | How the lighting industry got from this point in its technology to today 's sources is a tale of technical give and take . |
| 23 | In the statement Freud made about this activity , he sometimes avoided the errors of his own account of the scientific nature of psychoanalysis . |
| 24 | He looked at the stiff unbending features of the recruiter for a moment : the dark hollows around his eyes and his dry , parchment-like skin betrayed a long addiction to opium , and Duclos guessed that hid irritability stemmed for this . |
| 25 | Her eyes misted at this heroic image , and she poured herself a brandy . |
| 26 | Friends of these schools rejoiced in this subtle mixture of independence , fee-paying , support for deserving pupils with poor parents , academic excellence , and adequate support from the tax-payer . |
| 27 | Sheldon Krimsky 's book stems from this study , but in the light of the other books devoted to this same goal that have appeared over the past five years , it is worth considering what Genetic Alchemy adds to previous efforts . |
| 28 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 29 | The labour cost of this work would be presented to the Camphill Building Fund as our gift/donation . |
| 30 | The boys were waiting to cross the road here and the horse came down this lane , galloped straight across the road in front of the traffic then onto the pavement , tried to jump over the boys and jumped onto the boys . |