Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in this " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 2 | Also , the local MP has taken it upon himself to look personally into what goes on in this prison . ’ |
| 3 | Hey , what goes on in this one , though ? |
| 4 | I know he talks to you about what goes on in this office , but I get a feedback about you . ’ |
| 5 | We 're supposed to know what goes on in this country , and the PM 's health is a national asset , so … |
| 6 | ‘ I ought to have found this out before , especially as I usually know everything that goes on in this village , but they 've managed to keep it secret . |
| 7 | This centre looks like a huge barracks in the hills and no one knows what goes on in this place . |
| 8 | We can therefore interpret our findings as evidence that what the community agrees on in this case is a pattern of stable differentiation over two generations between male and female usage . |
| 9 | If Prince Charles wants to go on in this exhorting role , he has to understand architecture . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's hardly fair I should be required to go on in this way . |
| 11 | The normal way of classifying a child is by his Or her father 's profession , and this is essentially all we have to go on in this case . |
| 12 | I refuse to sit on in this house and be treated like Christopher Robin by her . ’ |
| 13 | If you deviate substantially and importantly from the conditions laid down in this letter of engagement , we will be free to terminate the engagement by immediate notice at any time and to engage additional and/or alternative directors to perform some or all of the functions set out here . |
| 14 | If you deviate substantially and importantly from the conditions laid down in this letter of engagement , we will be free to terminate the engagement by immediate notice at any time and to engage additional and/or alternative directors to perform some or all of the functions set out here . |
| 15 | If you deviate substantially and importantly from the conditions laid down in this letter of engagement , we will be free to terminate the engagement by immediate notice at any time and to engage additional and/or alternative directors to perform some or all of the functions set out here . |
| 16 | The job description shall be consistent with the contractual duties laid down in this agreement . |
| 17 | ( I ) The desirability of contesting the constituency for parliament shall be considered by the Executive Committee of this party in consultation with the National Executive Committee or its officers prior to the procedure laid down in this clause being set in motion . |
| 18 | The standard of care laid down in this case has been doubted in subsequent cases . |
| 19 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 20 | Organic molecules broken down in this way release virtually as much energy as they are capable of releasing — so such ‘ oxidative ’ breakdown is extremely efficient . |
| 21 | Erm the Labour Party is absolutely furious that unemployment goes down in this country and they keep trying to say to the public that it 's all hooey and , and , and , and the figures are distorted etc. , etc. , The fact is unemployment is going down , we are overcoming the recession , er faster than any other member of the er European Community or the European union as it 's now concerned and , and these are the facts but having said all that , we on this side er certainly support a continuing strategy whether we 'll er have to continue spending money at this level , er I do n't know , hopefully er the , the recession will be overcome and the spending can be reduced , but the strategy we believe . |
| 22 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 23 | And , of course , the scientific approach through general laws and formulae has nothing to work on in this sort of context . |
| 24 | All brood parasites show a range of fascinating adaptations in support of their unorthodox life style , but the best-known and most fully studied is undoubtedly the European cuckoo which is the species we shall concentrate on in this chapter . |
| 25 | She grumbled on in this vein as she prepared the food and I ran about as the scullion . |
| 26 | The research reported on in this book consisted of semi-structured , tape-recorded interviews with ninety-six students ( forty-eight male , forty-eight female ) , and twelve members of academic staff , in three different institutions . |
| 27 | The idea of using this matter-of-fact item as a matter of fashion has been slow to catch on in this country . |
| 28 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |
| 29 | Few would have dared to predict in the late 1960s that duvets would ever catch on in this country , but today it would be hard to find a British household that does n't have one . |
| 30 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |