Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finding of anaemia at presentation in almost half our patients is worth noting as it is still widely taught that this is an indicator of chronic rather than acute renal failure . |
| 2 | I do n't know what I think in view of what you say , Mary , go into to great detail as to what went wrong with this , erm because I can cut that short because the fact is that Russell eventually admitted that this programme simply was n't viable . |
| 3 | Clause 7 of Precedent 1 expressly specifies that this is to be the case . |
| 4 | The phraseology may at times seem a little stilted but this is necessary to avoid misleading people . |
| 5 | Lewis was subtle enough to see that this was at best a half-truth , and perhaps he was beginning to sense that what Tolkien 's friendship had to offer him was something rather more important than a regress to me nursery . |
| 6 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 7 | The district judge in Hong Kong was far better placed than this Board to make such a judgment , as part of his assessment of the situation as a whole . |
| 8 | They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century . |
| 9 | Be that as it may , I suddenly realised that this was not a game of cricket any more . |
| 10 | Mr had better remain while this is going on . |
| 11 | We much regret that this involved a net loss of some jobs but if we are to remain competitive against increasing overseas competition , it is essential that we operate with the lowest possible cost base and the most efficient facilities . |
| 12 | He had only to wait until this conference of sacred and secular powers was over . |
| 13 | This is a major boost to the Northern Ireland quarry industry and the Port of Belfast means to play its full part in seeing that this export trade is expanded even further in the years ahead . |
| 14 | Conrad rightly emphasises that this was a consensus about what should be happening . |
| 15 | But I hope you are amiable and fair-minded enough to accept that this switch was not in any way part of my original purpose . |
| 16 | But although the structure of the city still defeated him in detail , he had got his bearings well enough to know that this could not be their destination . |
| 17 | A comparable version of this is the face made by someone who barges into a room unannounced expeeting to speak to a friend , only to find that this friend is engaged in an intimate professional consultation with another colleague . |
| 18 | Curriculum managers reading this discussion may rightly feel that this magisterial balance has rather little to offer to their own pressing concerns . |
| 19 | The next day , instead of counting their blessings , officials apparently decided that this was the moment to announce the ending of price controls for oil and grain and new taxes . |
| 20 | It has considerable agility , and its powers of dry staccato have been so much exploited that this form of musical humour has quite lost its savour nowadays . |
| 21 | Most support workers worked with only one client ; but the figures below show that this was not true for ail . |
| 22 | I can only assume that this continuing violence to musical instruments is being pursued in the interests of ‘ entertaining ’ the majority of the audience ( who are non-musicians ) . |
| 23 | One can only assume that this puppy 's there so Olympic hosts Spain at least get a sniff at a medal . |
| 24 | We now understand the day before another young boy af about nine saw a amn dressed exactly the same some distance away in the Sparcells estate so we can only assume that this man is lurking around in the area . |
| 25 | One can only assume that this is another example of the popular press indulging in unwarranted smears , this time against the Mission Impossible Party of Labour and the loyal supporters of Darlington FC . |
| 26 | Under its constitution West Germany ( like Japan — see below ) could take no part in external military activities , and by Aug. 20 Chancellor Kohl had apparently accepted that this was a definitive barrier , the view of both Foreign Minister Genscher and Defence Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg ( both Free Democrats in Kohl 's Christian Democrat-led coalition ) . |
| 27 | I just hope he 's better looking than this . ’ |
| 28 | ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . ) |
| 29 | R placed great emphasis on the Government 's efforts in education , perhaps believing that this approach would evoke a sympathetic response from its recently educated African readership . |
| 30 | It so happens that this troublesome question , or complex of questions , is not raised by the piece in Eliot 's selection that I shall take to represent Pound 's criticism at its irreplaceable best . |