Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recognition of expenditure incurred in areas such as product and market development , especially where this expenditure does not yield a positive return by the end of the accounting period . |
| 2 | The lights went out during the two world wars and the austerity years which followed , so although this year is actually the 80th anniversary , it 's only the 60th display . |
| 3 | Reviewing the novel in the London Times , A. S. Byatt noted approvingly that this theme of identity and difference was neatly encapsulated in the names of the two women , Hilary being derived from the Latin hilaritas , or Joy . |
| 4 | His first election was 1959 , when the polls did rather better than this year . |
| 5 | To be fair , some stations , for example the one at Hinkley Point in Somerset , have worked much better than this description suggests , and the two latest examples , at Heysham in Lancashire and Torness in Scotland , look more promising . |
| 6 | Some of the AGR stations have worked better than this description suggests . |
| 7 | I liked it far better than this North Africa , which is more ‘ civilised ’ and cultivated . |
| 8 | It 's the biggest con that Poll Tax thing go er the amount going down that this lot have pulled on us and everybody 's fell for it hook , line and sinker |
| 9 | But , perhaps unfortunately , the causes and consequences of the dilemma go deeper than this suggestion implies . |
| 10 | We are therefore committed to educating everyone so that this freedom is a reality . |
| 11 | For any real change to take place , therefore , there has to be a massive increase in government expenditure on public housing , so that this sector can be greatly extended . |
| 12 | On the one hand , the protection of fundamental rights is an established source of law for the ECJ , so that this decision should perhaps not be taken to exclude the interpretation that the Directive places the decision on opting out in the hands of the workers themselves . |
| 13 | There is no need to attract readers by displaying books in good condition — so that this motivation to bind is removed . |
| 14 | If , on the other hand , it is not clear by established principles of our law that the council has the right to sue in libel for alleged injury to its reputation , so that this court must decide whether under the common law that right is properly available to the council as a local government authority , then , as is not in dispute , this court must , in so deciding , have regard to the principles stated in the Convention and in particular to article 10 : see Reg. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department , Ex parte Brind [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 696 . |
| 15 | This applies even where ( as was usual ) the stable incorporated a loft for the storage of hay so that this fodder could be pitched readily into the racks in the stalls below , because the loft exploited the roof space and was rarely built as a full-height upper storey . |
| 16 | And this old chassis had been built up so that this bearing lay on that and it was turned by and electric motor and all that and the boring bar went tool went and bored this bearing out and travelled along on its own its own It was fed off course . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , it would not be an easy matter to construct a home-made optical system using digital signals so that this technique could be compared with the analogue one . |
| 18 | He expects that sacked workers will occupy their factory , sooner or later , ‘ so that this farce , orchestrated from the United States , will be quickly brought to an end . ’ |
| 19 | It might be held so that this currency in turn could be used at a later date to make foreign purchases of goods or services , a method often used to hedge exchange risk . |
| 20 | Mica is an ionically bonded mineral in which , because of the arithmetic of the electrical charges in the molecule , every so often there is a layer of metal atoms in the crystal in which each atom has to share a single electron 's worth of charge with several near neighbours , so that this layer in the crystal is a weak one . |
| 21 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 22 | It would also mean that the Nullity of Marriages Act , section 2(c) , must be interpreted so that this type of fraud comes within its terms . |
| 23 | As the decades have gone by , scholarly work has piled up , so that this category of book has taken a larger , longer and much more expensive form than before . |
| 24 | But Wordsworth does not use any dialect expression , so that this difficulty need not be exaggerated . |
| 25 | And so that this tendency you see for us to see how well our world has been , rather than the depot , and in many cases they do it |
| 26 | In fact few library authorities make a serious attempt at tackling problems of stock logistics , so that this factor is rarely quantified , except in a very general sense . |
| 27 | Spending far too many nights staring wide-eyed into the dark , growing hungry for rest , and irritable , so that this morning she had even spoken sharply to Odette . |
| 28 | Erm there was a big scandal about it and there was a report by um Butler Schloss which recommended , among other things , a whole range of safeguards and checks and balances of procedures so that this sort of , oh my God , this tragedy must n't happen in future . |
| 29 | I will await you outside so that this matter may be finalized |
| 30 | The second question is the second certainly made by the Noble Earl was that the Department of Transport were urgently examining the situation , I trust with the Home Office at the same time and I would suggest that we might in fact discuss this matter if I might make er if I might make this suggestion to the Noble Earl , between now and the report stage , so that this matter can be clarified but I am sure that he will understand that we would not in fact be er feel able to erm ignore this issue er in the period between the beginning of the committee stage today and the third reading of this Bill , we do expect Government amendments to be introduced . |