Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact we made rubber stamps for people in the office — the departments to go in , the bureau , and the stamp was the J because they were all photostated to that made this stamp just loved it . |
| 2 | Few expected this year 's spring sales at Sotheby 's and Christie 's to do much to revive spirits , or prices . |
| 3 | ‘ the ATB does not promote itself well enough ’ ( 20 to 30 made this comment ) |
| 4 | The French used this period of waiting to obtain up-to-the-minute intelligence about Portsmouth . |
| 5 | American critics of the $25 billion buy-out of RJR Nabisco in 1988–89 lamented this treatment of a ‘ fine old American company ’ , yet conveniently forgot that it had only been formed in 1985 when R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands , which in turn had only been formed in 1981 when Nabisco merged with Standard Brands . |
| 6 | Some used this expertise to work in the private sector as consultants advising on urban policy ; in one case a firm that employed no Black people was selected for its ‘ inner city expertise ’ to evaluate the Handsworth Task Force in inner Birmingham which it had previously also been paid to advise but which was now being shut down to make room for a newly fashionable Urban Development Corporation , this time in the Birmingham Heartlands ( sic ) . |
| 7 | Personal observation of a number of Health Authorities suggested that few attained this level of almost sublime detachment . |
| 8 | The upward trend in the numbers of unemployed getting supplementary benefit , for example , continued in the 1980s ; the numbers trebled until two-thirds of all the unemployed received this benefit , despite the fact that it was never designed for them . |
| 9 | The floating of the pound in 1972 symbolized this turnaround in favour of sustaining expansion regardless of the inflationary cost . |
| 10 | Everything was okay till this happened this C S A |
| 11 | The simple truth is that if the British withdrew this country would become an economic wasteland and whether there is a Catholic voting majority at some point in the future or not there will not be a united Ireland as no one would want to pay the enormous costs involved . |
| 12 | Clinical trials in which comparable patients received either one kind of treatment or another confirmed this belief . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll get this finished this week . |
| 14 | Although the British needed this route to support Egypt , many of them saw Pan American as opportunistic and poised to exploit its advantage in the postwar years . |
| 15 | The big house ( Brigade H.Q ) received another hit this evening , it could have been a German or British shell . |
| 16 | Because the questionnaire was conducted in strict confidence some took this opportunity to express their thoughts . |
| 17 | Antall on May 22 presented this team , and his outline " programme of national renewal " , to the Országgyülés , which on the following day approved both simultaneously , by 218 to 126 with eight abstentions , and the government was then duly sworn in . |
| 18 | Few supported this principle as a means of reducing inequality between rich and poor , or between men , women and children ; many did so as a means of achieving other objectives . |
| 19 | Although often associated with structuralism , semiotic analysts is involved in the details of representation and signification , while structuralism proper eschewed this concern with a drive towards more abstract models of cognition and culture . |
| 20 | Some said this loss of funds was what lay behind a recent broken engagement between the rather unattractive Miss Pinkney and the third son of a titled but impecunious family . |
| 21 | ‘ I mean , ’ Corbett said forcefully , ‘ that for two decades Alexander III ruled this country with little or no assistance from the French . |
| 22 | A representative from Channel 7 visited this office in September with the same story as your article described , following a very aggressive sales pitch during a telephone call the previous week from the UK . |
| 23 | The Procurator-General , however , on Jan. 10 declared this agreement null and void because it contravened an October 1989 ruling of the federal court in Brasília [ see p. 37292 ] . |
| 24 | The survey also found that three out of five companies use contract hire because of ease of administration , while , for outright purchase , three in 10 gave this reason . |
| 25 | They will come pre-loaded with the Altos/SCO System V/386 3.2 version 4.1 introduced this month and enhanced to include greater reliability under heavy user loads , autoconfig , a multi-volume back-up utility and disk performance improvements . |
| 26 | Ah , now these watched this trick before . |
| 27 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ school is further illustrated by quoting from respondents interviewed by the author , though fewer of these took this position than were committed to a ‘ defence of kinship ’ view and their views tended to be less strongly and less explicitly-stated . |
| 28 | So natural had this practice become that only in the past fifteen or twenty years has there grown up in Britain the idea of conserving redundant industrial and commercial buildings and putting them to new uses . |
| 29 | The Welsh all rated this option highly . |
| 30 | Have you all , by the way have you all tried this C D rom thing |