Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must appeal to Government and those charged with political responsibility to treat this intolerable situation with the urgency and priority it deserves . |
| 2 | In fact there was ample opportunity to achieve this objective . |
| 3 | I 'm talking about having the bloody money to do this , you know . |
| 4 | Some degree of influence can not be avoided , and in fact many sociologists would now argue that the sociologist has a definite responsibility to disseminate this knowledge in order to criticise delusions and misconceptions . |
| 5 | ‘ It is wishful thinking to see this as unlikely to persist . |
| 6 | It was that speculation and accompanying doubts about the ability of the private practitioner to meet this need which led to the rapid growth of interest in alternative means of providing legal advice . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , this admirable attempt to streamline this vital area has been all but defeated by the bafflingly thick four bolt neck plate . |
| 8 | In Figure 6.3 the rapid increase of speed with depth in the outer 10 or 20 km is due largely to the increasing compaction of a fragmented medium as the overburden increases : it is not possible for solid rock to give this behaviour . |
| 9 | As with the NHS , the public overwhelmingly want care in the community to be a matter of pride not parsimony , and will support adequate funding to make this possible . |
| 10 | The great pity of this is that most pubs are old , yet the proper opportunity to celebrate this has already been squandered . |
| 11 | Strong words were exchanged with the latter band by the organisers , who demanded a quick piece of historical rewriting to expunge this accidental slur on the workers ' state . |
| 12 | I 'm very concerned that if we do n't get some urgent remedial action to do this brickwork , that we 're gong to have a major problem down there . |
| 13 | There was no detailed plan to guide this work , nor could there be ; but it would certainly avoid the command-administrative methods of the Soviet past and the capitalist methods of the West . |
| 14 | Indeed it requires a strong effort of historical imagination to understand this intensity . |
| 15 | A sensible place to begin this endeavour is with the mainspring of the story 's action , the Ring ( here capitalised to distinguish it from the relatively insignificant stage-prop or ‘ Equalizer ’ of The Hobbit ) . |
| 16 | In 1986 , Peter Hillary — son of the famous Sir Edmund — became the first foreign tourist to repeat this route since that great mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton , 40 years previously , on his way to take up a consular appointment in the Chinese outpost of Kashgar . |
| 17 | It is our hope that the Department of Social Security will move in keeping with the findings of the all party parliamentary select committee on social security to correct this underfunding before the responsibility for meeting the cost of residential care in the community is transferred from the D S S to local authorities a year from now . |
| 18 | Like a constipated mathematician , you may need an old pencil to work this one out ! ( © Old jokes dept. 1934 ) |
| 19 | A signal may therefore be provided by TCR -β gene rearrangement or its RNA or protein product which is required for TCR -α gene rearrangement , but there is no direct evidence to support this hypothesis . |
| 20 | I hope that there may be other opportunities for the hon. Gentleman to raise this matter this week . |
| 21 | Who are we in a free democracy to condemn this ? |
| 22 | Our belief is that if there is any change it is likely to be a change requiring a certain proportion of the grant to be spent in the domiciliary day care area rather than the residential area to enforce this wish of developing those sort of services . |
| 23 | We look to Government for a public commitment to maintain this principle . ’ |
| 24 | Nor is it flippant liberalism to point this out — though there may be significance in the fact that anyone who does so has immediately to excuse himself , as I find myself doing . |
| 25 | Wellcome therefore adopted a different approach to meet this problem and developed a separate management information system using extracts from the address . |
| 26 | It would be a grave mistake to identify this estate in the 1930s , and indeed at any time before the 1980s , as a locale in space of the residuum . |
| 27 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 28 | Whether anyone in Berlin seriously expected the French government to believe this is certainly open to question in view of the preceding events . |
| 29 | Scottish legislation to do this is already on the statute book , and legislation for England and Wales is before Parliament . |
| 30 | Caradryel orders the recall of the Elf armies from the Old World to combat this new threat . |