Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a deep breath and prayed that Ranulf was somewhere where watching this small drama being played out . |
| 2 | Beryl meant that Adam had been among the previous owners of Wyvis Hall while her husband had not , but she knew better than to point this out . |
| 3 | So that means this the effect of having this extra gravity means that the extra gravity is n't equally dispersed in the whole system the extra gravity is located in one particular spot where the moon is . |
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| 5 | I 'd go it alone and rid this cinema of the bums who terrorise it every Sunday night . |
| 6 | If you feel like withdrawing from the hurly burly and being reclusive , then do so and take this opportunity to recharge your batteries , and your energy will return soon . |
| 7 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 8 | Look at what they 've done given nine billion to their wealthy friends to move them into private pensions supported pension holiday because company funds are so big increased national insurance so we 're all paying more , even though we get less and compare this with the disadvantage , women first . |
| 9 | And when we 've finished er I 'll come and hopefully pull everything together and take this onto the next stage which is the evaluation of the plan . |
| 10 | My brother and I used to sit together and drive this old horse up and down the field and throw the hay all over the place to get the sun . |
| 11 | Mentally , she gave an ironical bow to whatever maliciously sadistic fate had done this to them , throwing them together and adding this towering , ungovernable desire to the other emotions existing between them , the hatred and resentment on her side , contempt on Luke 's . |
| 12 | What we can do , however , is take a sufficient number of adult males chosen randomly and use this as the basis of the calculation of the average , and take this as an estimate for the average of the population . |
| 13 | And he all but confirmed this was his last match , saying : ‘ I basically feel the same way as I have all year , and although I am not going to announce my retirement , I guess that is it . |
| 14 | His routines were organized so as to facilitate this intellectual process : weekends were reserved for Colombey , where he could take long walks and mull over problems ; workday schedules at the Elysée were strictly adhered to ; he insisted on absolute punctuality and an atmosphere of unruffled calm . |
| 15 | It is suggested that in the context of a monogamous union , adultery was elevated to the status of a sin ( or indeed a crime ) and grounds for divorce so as to reinforce this concept of marriage and , in the absence of birth control , to prevent the social ‘ untidiness ’ caused by the production of children not the product of a couple married to each other , with all the inheritance and support complications which could follow . |
| 16 | The literary context in our culture creates a situation where relevance may be achieved in alternative ways , so as to constitute this " openness ' for criticism . |
| 17 | I varied the days and the times of my visits so as to catch this resourceful woman at her different occupations , for example making the wild boar and hind sausages , for which she was renowned in the neighbourhood , and the tarts filled with medlars that grew against the wall of her stable . |
| 18 | Obviously when considering this process of loss we have to remember that an individual seldom goes through these stages as neatly as might seem to have been suggested . |
| 19 | Rather than face this , they would sooner crush and kill — in the danger , there is pathos , as Havel has the humanity to see . ’ |
| 20 | Rather than copy this ‘ accidental ’ compound radius , Fender have chosen to equip the reissue with a simple 12″ radius board and .098″ wide medium jumbo frets — big , but not as big as the .110″ wide ‘ jumbo bass frets ’ referred to by the man himself . |
| 21 | One explanation for this might be that , rather than using this method to bring in temporary labour , service establishments with a predominantly low skilled labour force rely on casual workers . |
| 22 | Rather than accepting this rather pessimistic view of human nature , social scientists have suggested two other reasons for surveys reporting such apparently high levels of satisfaction . |
| 23 | Rather than accepting this end point , they want to push on and ask how individuals got the properties — including their desires , intentions and so forth that are regarded as root causes by individualists . |
| 24 | Rather than answer this question , Marjorie reverts to an earlier one . |
| 25 | Rather than calling this a paradox ( as others did ) the authors preferred to think of it as an indication of the incompleteness of quantum theory . |
| 26 | But ironically the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the 1880s accentuated rather than diminished this tendency , for police and judicial measures , combined with the efforts of moral reformers , were making ever clearer that distinction between respectable and unrespectable behaviour . |
| 27 | In addition , the access and use of the medical services reinforce rather than counteract this tendency . |
| 28 | But rather than meet this challenge , entitlement theorists simply take for granted that if original acquirers deserve any rights they deserve the full rights of liberal ownership , and hence assume , rather than demonstrate , the legitimacy of that which has to be justified : the institution of private property . |
| 29 | So rather than use this overworked word a more precise description of the artist 's style and concepts will be attempted with the help of his own text . |
| 30 | However , rather than seeing this as an excuse for living as they pleased , the Calvinists believed that success in work and in trade was a sign that they were one of the elect rather than one of the damned . |