Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I wish to exercise my rights as Chairman to re-take this vote . |
| 2 | This need enables him to persist in his laborious task ( the author is indebted to Dafydd Edward Spink for permission to use this story ) : |
| 3 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : For permission to publish this paper , the authors thank the Department of Economic Development , Northern Ireland , on whose behalf the study was made . |
| 4 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : The author is indebted to Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij and The Koninklijke Shell Exploratie en Produktie Laboratorium for permission to publish this paper . |
| 5 | Cllr Cooper , a buyer for Littlewoods , said : ‘ I have taken a year off work to do this and there is no point if at the end I have made no difference at all . |
| 6 | We advertised , in fact , for people who wanted to smoking but could do with a little help , because I really do think that women do need a little help , a bit of support to do this . |
| 7 | If we are concerned with the variation in taxation and benefits according to ‘ ability to pay ’ , then there are a number of difficulties in the choice of index to measure this . |
| 8 | It is common in this type of contract to use this curve in fixing the prices for further batches . |
| 9 | ‘ We get a lot of money to do this job , ’ he reasons . |
| 10 | It might otherwise cost a good deal of money to do this . |
| 11 | Let me take this opportunity to say what a wonderful thing it is that for almost fifty years now , the British government has spent huge sums of money to keep this unique library up to date . |
| 12 | The United States , which like Germany had hitherto strongly favoured maintaining Yugoslav integrity , made it clear on July 2 that it did not support the use of force to preserve this integrity , and on the same day President Bush indicated in a letter to the recently installed ( Croat ) head of the Collective State Presidency , Stjepan Mesic [ see p. 38275 ] , that it would accept the republics ' independence if achieved peacefully . |
| 13 | When , in November , it blessed the use of force to achieve this goal , the fanfare was forgivable . |
| 14 | Another early contributor , A. W. Reed , sees it as the task of research to illuminate this spirit : |
| 15 | In addition to a simple visual analysis of the print , we can use our knowledge of orthography to guide this analysis . |
| 16 | Penguin is ‘ happy to talk to anyone ’ along similar lines , although it sees Dillons as ‘ having the right profile and style of management to do this ’ . |
| 17 | You might have expected a howl of derision to greet this cry , but it did not come . |
| 18 | If the type of foods you eat means that all your meals are heavily loaded with fat then they will contain a lot of energy — and if you do n't take a lot of exercise to burn this up , you will inevitably put on weight . |
| 19 | Sandys hoped to reduce the risks of failure to reach this figure by making regular military service a more attractive long-term career . |
| 20 | But then it requires a fair amount of imagination to picture this place without seeing it . |
| 21 | Although no-one has explored the human visual cortex in the fine detail that the anatomists and electrophysiologists have studied the visual cortex of monkeys , there are a number of indirect sources of evidence to support this position . |
| 22 | " As for the evidence that cholera is spread in drinking water , there is , as Dr Dunstaple should be well aware , a considerable amount of evidence to support this view . |
| 23 | There is a certain amount of evidence to support this contention , which does , however , show the importance of glacial control in the later stages . |
| 24 | The use of propaganda to make this behaviour unfashionable again has been suggested ( Stanley 1969 ) , but no health education programme has ever been put forward to this purpose and it is difficult to know whether such an approach would be feasible . |
| 25 | We have to have several different kinds of spade to do this successfully — hence the features of ITMA units . |
| 26 | A useful piece of advice to avoid this is to tell users that they should be trying to decide how attractive the industry is for some SBU that is strong in that industry . |
| 27 | In fact , most girls entering science are probably at this stage as they will need some self-examination and sense of commitment to make this unconventional choice . |
| 28 | Ace appeared to have gone to a great deal of trouble to make this place so pretty and welcoming . |
| 29 | In popular discussions of private education , grandparents emerge as people very likely to pay school fees ( Guardian 27 May 1986 ) and it certainly has been the case for some time that it is advantageous in taxation terms for them to do so , since grandparents can take out a deed of covenant to cover this payment whereas parents can not . |
| 30 | The peculiar nature of this journey , that the willed progress is experienced as a divine gift , is a consequence of this theology : In chapter twenty-four Hilton uses the repetitions and cadences of rhetoric to convey this recognition of the activities of a God whose powers are conceived in Trinitarian terms of creating giving and responding in love at the heart of the self : At this point Hilton widens the scope of the metaphor of the journey to Jerusalem — the knowledge of Christ in the soul — by warning that the way from the light of the world to the light of heaven leads through darkness which he describes as " a tymeful space bitwix two daies " ( 24.89v. – 234 ) . |