Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from a few straightforward effects ( slow motion , freeze frame ) , art movies tend to fall outside this area , because by and large SFX are expensive and time-consuming , whereas art movies of limited appeal tend to be made on relatively low budgets . |
| 2 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 3 | We can not abandon people to the horrors of primitive siege warfare , so the ramshackle institutions of the United Nations will have to be drastically overhauled to cope with this crisis and others like it which are festering in an increasingly unstable world . |
| 4 | Some people will want to quarrel with this analysis ; but for our present purposes its accuracy is less important than the use Miller makes of it . |
| 5 | Mr Mowatt agreed to proceed with this . |
| 6 | Why would she want to go with this man ? |
| 7 | Did you want to go on this side ? |
| 8 | On page 12 Whit Deschner explains why you would not want to go to this prime honeypot river . |
| 9 | ‘ Do we really want to go to this bash ? ’ |
| 10 | Do I want to go to this wonderful balloon festival ? |
| 11 | Craigendarroch 's information pack — which can be found in your room — is a mine of information on the many activities and placed to see in this fascinatingly diverse area . |
| 12 | As children we tend to work on this and practise asking for what we want at every available opportunity . |
| 13 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 14 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 15 | So er I , I b basically go to the office one day a week , that 's my admin day , and the rest , I , I tend to work within this area . |
| 16 | Why do you want to work with this company ? |
| 17 | She was still struggling to adjust to this love , this , the biggest happening of her life . |
| 18 | ‘ Having regard to the terms of the contract , the conduct of the parties and the circumstances of the case , I have no doubt that the property was not intended to pass in this case on contract but only in exchange for a valid building society cheque , but even if it may be regarded as intended to pass in exchange for a false , but believed genuine , building society cheque it will not in my view avail the insurers . ’ |
| 19 | However , if you intend to work at this ‘ subtle ’ level all the time , it may be helpful to learn one or two ‘ psychic protection ’ techniques ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ If needs be , and I hate to stoop to this , I can take steps to override your obstruction , from which you might find it difficult to recover ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I thought you 'd want to know about this , sir . ’ |
| 22 | The press , again amazingly , failed to jump on this fact but this was the beginning of the Morrissey press explosion . |
| 23 | Those who are interested in doubt only from a practical standpoint may want to pass from this definition of doubt as doublemindedness directly to an examination of the categories of doubt in part two . |
| 24 | We do n't want to leap into this without being totally sure that every point is acceptable , ’ he said . |
| 25 | I did not want to come to this council , but I came hoping that we could save blood . |
| 26 | There was a faint sticky feeling to it , as if it might trap you if you tried to struggle against it — but no one would want to struggle against this , thought Fenella , bemused with delight . |
| 27 | Both Mr. Beloff and Mr. Richards , who appeared as amicus curiae , sought to extract from this passage , and from a comparable passage at p. 175B–C of that judgment , a proposition that the judicial duty to ensure that only fit and proper persons appear before them as barristers , which they perform through the machinery of the arrangements they have made , at their direction , with the Inns of Court , is somehow different in kind from the judicial duty , which existed until it was taken away by Parliament in 1990 , of determining who had the right of audience in different courts : see Abse v. Smith [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 28 | I was recommended to go to this lady who 's Irish and then she 's gone back , , and I 've never , I mean , the examination was quick and painless he said , but just keep an eye on that double on there , erm , there 's a little tiny crack in it |
| 29 | It goes as follows : " So man is approaching a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world . |
| 30 | One is to include corporate dummy variable of the intercept and see whether it 's T ratio or significantly different , is , sorry it 's greater than two right or we can use an F test , right , now that F test that 's given me that formula in the middle of the page is a very important test which was developed by a chap called Chow and as a result it become known as the Chow test and it 's a , it 's a test for parameter constancy , er do we have constant parameters in our model now it tells you how to compute this Chow test , in this particular case we 're only dummying the intercept , the Chow test gives exactly the same results of T tests , right , erm we wo n't bother going through it , if you want to go through this er sheet in your own time calculate that , that Chow test and essentially what it involves is splitting with the s the whole sample now into two sub-samples , right , the first sub-sample , right , is peacetime , the second sub-sample wartime , right , and you just compare the residual sum of the squares on the unaccounted for variation , right , between actual and fitted values , just compare the residual sum of squares between these two sub periods , right and if you use the formula that 's given there that will come out with exactly the same result , well in actual fact you can square , if you square the F statistic you get calculating one formula you will get T value , got from er the computer right , the er , the sheet goes on to say how we can er use dummy variables in slightly more complicated ways , right , we could see actually see whether the income or price elasticities of demand changed . |