Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly the answer " No " is rarely given to this question and because of this a great many releases go out which are of marginal interest to the recipients . |
| 2 | I may be a little biased about this one , but I now consider it to be of a very high standard . |
| 3 | The new benefit will be widely publicised from this week onwards . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , there are clear signs of the continued exemption of Hitler from blame and the belief — as it happens not altogether misplaced in this particular case — that he had had nothing to do with the ‘ action ’ and would disapprove of it . |
| 5 | China was conspicuously omitted from this scheme since it had already rejected it . |
| 6 | For example , Brunsdon notes that ‘ Hollywood , as the world-dominant cinema , exports ideals of White femininity worldwide ’ , yet feminist critics have rarely looked at this aspect of the Hollywood dream-machine in their copious critiques of it . |
| 7 | A close friend who was gay — we were never quite lovers but we were inseparable for a while — went off with a woman and I was incredibly devastated by this . |
| 8 | These pungent performances are a signal reminder of why Barbirolli was so favoured by this composer . |
| 9 | Exultation comes and goes , but here again for the while I suppose it has returned to me in preparation for that step back into the radiant arc of omnipotence which is only given on this earth to the narrator in or of a novel . |
| 10 | He probably tells you that it is all arranged at this end , whereas in point of fact nothing has been laid on except by verbal arrangement with him , and then we have a frightful period such as is now going on . |
| 11 | The fortification of staple foods with folic acid to prevent neural tube defects may be unwisely delayed on this account . |
| 12 | I was somewhat fascinated by this German gun . |
| 13 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 14 | So could I therefore ask the minister to , on another matter , to ensure that later in his remarks would he agree to the proposal that the right to a postal vote should be highly publicised in this country , perhaps by putting the R P F nine A form in the newspapers well before the closing date of May the twentieth . |
| 15 | Those whom we call ‘ self-made men ’ are much given to this hideous barbarism … |
| 16 | For example at Edgehill , a GIST pack for discussion of sex roles — Gender in Our Lives — was used in the personal and social education lessons , with teachers talking honestly and openly about their personal experience ; as it happened they found themselves in the middle of a discussion about fathers being present at childbirth , and the children were obviously fascinated by this new view of their teachers as emotional beings . [ … ] |
| 17 | Concepts of similarity and difference can be naturally developed from this starting point . |
| 18 | But for each one so highlighted in this way there are many others just out of sight contributing equally to the Club 's welfare and success . |
| 19 | I 've only come across this with perception . |
| 20 | Seven Types of Ambiguity , on the other hand , is entirely occupied with this sort of explanation , through the ‘ verbal analysis ’ of ambiguity in poetry , ambiguity being defined ( in the second edition ) as ‘ any verbal nuance , however slight , which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language ’ ( Empson 1965 : 1 ) . |
| 21 | It is the rapist who is morally degraded by this appalling act . |
| 22 | The figures are better grouped on this version and the bull-woman is more in proportion . |
| 23 | As for Sarah , she is entirely forgotten in this story . |
| 24 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 25 | ( In fact , the corporation had been wrongly reported on this score and had issued no such edict at all . ) |
| 26 | Armin Jordan is still somewhat under-rated in this country , yet has always struck me as one of the most intuitively musical conductors around . |
| 27 | We learn that Cosroe is trying to get the throne from his brother , and we are constantly reminded of this fact : ‘ To crown me Emperor of Asia ’ . |
| 28 | Mythological stories about them suggest they are necessarily seen in this simplistic way to reaffirm to ‘ real polises ’ that it is they who are the true inhabitants of the pragmatic world of conflict and action . |
| 29 | Things are not necessarily done in this order , however , and for good reason . |
| 30 | Hamburg 's reputation as a ‘ sin city ’ is entirely owed to this street in the St Pauli area , and rest assured its reputation is fully deserved . |