Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the |
| 2 | One Soviet writer argued in this vein that the EEC proposal was not directed at the neutralisation of Afghanistan at all but at hiding the ‘ undeclared war against the Afghan people ’ . |
| 3 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |
| 4 | As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car . |
| 5 | As for the reform of the National Health Service , it is already well established that every hour devoted to this subject plays into Labour 's hands . |
| 6 | Heavens , if her heart beat like this at the sight of Luke 's stepmother , how would it react when she came face to face again with him ? she thought despairingly . |
| 7 | No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies . |
| 8 | The whole of the synthetic dyeing industry arose from this and subsequently completely replaced natural dyes . |
| 9 | How the lighting industry got from this point in its technology to today 's sources is a tale of technical give and take . |
| 10 | He looked at the stiff unbending features of the recruiter for a moment : the dark hollows around his eyes and his dry , parchment-like skin betrayed a long addiction to opium , and Duclos guessed that hid irritability stemmed for this . |
| 11 | The labour cost of this work would be presented to the Camphill Building Fund as our gift/donation . |
| 12 | The boys were waiting to cross the road here and the horse came down this lane , galloped straight across the road in front of the traffic then onto the pavement , tried to jump over the boys and jumped onto the boys . |
| 13 | That is why it disgusts me to see the nobility of grief caricatured in this way . |
| 14 | The collapse of the Husayn-Arafat accord led to a new phase of cooperation between Israel , the United States and Jordan aimed at objectives similar to those of the early seventies : the erosion of support for the PLO in the territories , the reinforcement of the normality of occupation by a programme to improve ‘ the quality of life ’ , a term coined in this context by US Secretary of State George Schultz . |
| 15 | During filming in Spain , there had already been a hint of what was to come when a journalist heard about this ‘ controversial ’ picture being made and managed to steal a script from the set , escaping by throwing beer glasses at cast and crew . |
| 16 | In the health area , the old fashioned general practitioner functioned in this way ( in contrast to the support structure of a centralised health system ) . |
| 17 | This oversight resulted in this cartoon appearing on mill noticeboards . |
| 18 | Their outreach programme went beyond this and held meetings in gay clubs where scores of gay men , including working-class gay men , were able to hear about the council 's Equal Opportunities policies on their own ground , and to express their viewpoint about their experiences of service provision by the council . |
| 19 | For the Jur Modo computer entry above the card entry looked like this : The grave accents on alato mark low tone , which was shown in the computer entry by lll after the word . |
| 20 | The ritual went like this : Whenever Labour made news — at a conference , during a policy dispute , before a tense meeting of the National Executive Committee — politicians and commentators would be sat in front of a microphone and asked : ‘ Will the left defeat the leadership ? ’ |
| 21 | The mulch went on this year in March ( together with the Growmore , as ever ) , and only the keenest weeds have managed to struggle through . |
| 22 | It was as if she had accepted the fact that her mother had gone out of her life and that her future lay with this big fat woman , who alternately yelled and cajoled , and the nice man called Ben . |
| 23 | Her own future lay in this small town . |
| 24 | Perhaps the part played by wine in the excesses of Canaanite religion lay behind this ruling . |
| 25 | Although a picture of NCC confusion emerged from this study it still held out the hope , if only by implication , that more rigorous thinking would achieve better results . |
| 26 | The State Department reacted to this hint of interference with peaceful navigation by expressing the US administration 's ‘ grave concern ’ . |
| 27 | What if an enemy appeared at this moment ? |
| 28 | A major defence by many of those prosecuted was that the enclosures had taken place before the practice had been made an offence , and although the practice continued after this date there is good reason to believe that this was often the case . |
| 29 | The canteen ran in this form , with a day and night shift throughout the war and after until around 1960 , when the night shift was withdrawn through lack of support and a skeleton staff supplied tea and snacks to order to the Works night shift . |
| 30 | ‘ I think that a valid reply to this objection would be that it is a political objection to the passing of a statute worded in this wide way , not a legal objection to the validity of the Order , it a statute worded so widely has been passed . |