Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We remember who first performed that deed or developed this technique . |
| 2 | It was the circumstances that made this achievement even more outstanding . |
| 3 | My real interest — beyond my own cancer — was the world I had just entered , those twin factors that made this visit so very different from my last one , age and illness . |
| 4 | Last Wednesday 's heavy New York papers , the Times and the Wall Street Journal , devoted acres of newsprint to the disastrous turn taken in the tide of IBM Corp 's affairs — but alongside , IBM still ran a chirpy RS/6000 ad with a picture of computer-generated bubbles , with a blurb entitled The Computer That Made This Picture is Also Making History . |
| 5 | But it was not only the work of Vredeman de Vries that made this garden so remarkable . |
| 6 | PERHAPS it was the power of positive thought that produced this Thistle win , perhaps not . |
| 7 | The committee that produced this report was set up to consider how public schools ( defined as those belonging to the Headmasters ' Conference or the Governing Bodies Association , together with ‘ comparable schools for girls ’ ) could develop and extend their association with the general education system . |
| 8 | He slumped , then turned slightly , staring through the gloom of the house towards the north , as if he could see through the walls , through the wood , to that place of battle , that cold place , which lay northwards and to which he and Tallis — as everything that passed this way seemed to be moving . |
| 9 | Sutherland continued : ‘ But lately , in his perpetual need to IRRITATE , to keep The Smiths APART , Morrissey 's taken on a cosmetic political stance which could be a dark mirror intentionally reflecting the pathetic propaganda that polluted this nation just prior to a general election . ’ |
| 10 | Do n't be fooled by the hugely entertaining test in South Africa — it was only the brilliance of Australia that stopped this show piece game — played under the new laws — from turning into a shambles , says STEPHEN JONES ( Sunday Times ) . |
| 11 | Biochemical indicators of renal tubular stimulation predicted response to treatment , but these indicators depended on the response criteria used : low serum phosphate and low TmP correlated with a poor response when length of response was examined , whereas TmCa correlated with a fall in CCa from day 0 to day 6 , and accord with other studies that used this response criterion . |
| 12 | Her heart thudded painfully as he leaned over the high beige bench top that bordered this part of the nurses ' station and spoke absently to Deana . |
| 13 | The Johnson Matthey contingent in this year 's Royston Fun Run raised a superb total of £2,000 and the four JM employees that entered this year 's London Marathon have raised a total of well over £1,500 . |
| 14 | The sight of the two customers that entered this time stayed her hand holding the small brass scoop that was about to transfer a minute amount of coconut chips to the scale . |
| 15 | The revolution that toppled this edifice in 1979 was not the work of any single organized movement . |
| 16 | Yet the club has avoided the kind of foul-up that ruined this year 's Grand National steeplechase because of primitive starting procedures supervised by another archaic British body , the Jockey Club . |
| 17 | His little blue bright eyes , hard and round , that seemed this morning to be protruding out of the shallow creamy lakes around them , were full of hate for her . |
| 18 | Our present study supports the view that whole protein based diets are clinically effective , as suggested in three previous trials that compared this type of diet with elemental formulas , although in one of them the sample is small and the conclusions are only indicative . |
| 19 | From a different political viewpoint , may I congratulate the Prime Minister on his ability and the authority that he demonstrated during the negotiations that secured this agreement , which , despite all the odds , will be beneficial to the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | When the Friar left the children beneath the tree he went hurriedly but surprisingly lightly for a man of his bulk through the bushes until he came out on a narrow path that twisted this way and that into a deep ravine both sides of which were dark with yews . |
| 21 | Well I do n't know whether I want let's see what this is in this parcel that came this morning . |
| 22 | Them that caused this war and them that 's getting fat on it should be made to fight it out between them , not our fellers . ’ |
| 23 | She dug in her shoulder-bag for dark glasses and retreated behind them , staring in some awe at the magnificent medieval jumble of forts and palaces and strongholds that comprised this stretch of coastline . |
| 24 | John Gorst , Conservative MP , intimate of Samuel Barnett , and a supporter of this programme , captured the emotions that motivated this ideology when speaking at Glasgow University in 1894 . |
| 25 | And Proctor Firenze proceeded to explain the plan that motivated this cabal of Hidden Masters gathered there in the hulk … |
| 26 | Open for Business and Pleasure Fiona Hackney visits some of the London studios that opened this summer and meets fluff collectors , show girls and bag ladies |
| 27 | The velvet curtains had dropped over the stage , and someone had thrown open the doors that separated this room from the next . |
| 28 | Was there some kindred spirit that linked this Samburu tribesman with a group of walkers from Sheffield ? |
| 29 | Stead 's dramatisation of the issue of sexual exploitation not only stilled for the moment many fundamental conflicts of interest between participants in the agitation , but it also obscured the contradictions inherent in the ideology that informed this agitation against child prostitution . |
| 30 | All that we are concerned to ensure is that the present applicants have a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they seek so that the grave allegations which they make — the very same allegations that troubled this court sufficiently to allow the appellant 's appeal — can be properly tested in the courts . |