Example sentences of "[adv prt] this [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might well ask why the violinist Felice Giardini should have wished to take on this administrative burden , celebrated as he was as one of the principal virtuosos in London 's concert life . |
| 2 | Everything hung on this final event of the year . |
| 3 | Do you think they would allow me to pass on this ultimate truth ? ’ |
| 4 | JE : Joan , were you at all reluctant to take on this major role so late in your career ? |
| 5 | Emlyn had some difficulty in persuading Rank and the producers , Alexander Korda and Anatole de Grunwald , to take on this new boy . |
| 6 | Second , whether adoptive parents could be found who are willing to take on this new challenge . |
| 7 | It is unfair , however , to expect nurses to take on this new role and responsibility without adequate training and supervision . |
| 8 | Come on this mental intrigue it is n't doing you no good ! |
| 9 | My wife and children have felt that their vocation in life was to carry on this early training so that I have had a lifetime 's pressure towards humility , reinforced by the effect of biblical meditation and involvement in the worship of the Church . |
| 10 | In doing so , she also shows how a literary education took on this curious status in India before the state took any role in popular education in England and before literary studies had been institutionalized as ‘ English ’ . |
| 11 | Brecht carried on this collective principle in the course of his later productions ( Willett 1978 ) . |
| 12 | It is little wonder then that social research is equated with ‘ clap trap ’ in police magazines , for they aim to support the beliefs of those who have taken on this unconscious cosmology , and for whom as Bourdieu ( ibid. ) indicates , such challenges would defy ‘ the most natural manifestations of submission to the established order [ and abolish ] lateral possibilities ’ . |
| 13 | This is again due to arterial spasm and deoxygenated ( blue blood ) pooling in the veins and making them take on this abnormal hue . |
| 14 | Women swoon at the sight of the moustache sported by Hesione 's husband ; later on this reluctant roue appears as an Arab sheikh . |
| 15 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 16 | For the moment , the credibility of the characters , and therefore of the film , hangs on this bizarre elision of nations and voices . |
| 17 | Feminist psychologists have taken on this feminist interest in sexuality . |
| 18 | Nursing colleagues who take on this important role are known as associate nurses . |
| 19 | So hurry , pass on this special envelope today ( with your address label attached ) , and while your friends and family look forward to receiving their prints , you can look forward to your free film . |
| 20 | And that she , you know her , her , since she 's taken on this special needs and I think before with Colette as well , that this special needs role has really mushroomed . |
| 21 | The six whose names have been put forward for election have to be informed before election night , as they have to agree to take on this responsible job and they must be there on the night to take the oath before the close of the meeting . |
| 22 | Three hundred metres down this narrow road , opposite a red sandstone church , are the meadows . |
| 23 | Yet it was , I think , a tragedy for both parties that the whale of London could not keep down this nimble Jonah who distracted , but so well stimulated , her lethargic stomach . |
| 24 | ( left ) Dressing up or down this versatile outfit can be as simple as changing your shoes — comfy espadrilles for daytime , sophisticated heels for evenings . |
| 25 | Not deterred the offer price was raised and raised again , until the family could no longer turn down this fabulous offer . |
| 26 | Before embarking upon such a course of action , heads and governors must decide how far down this entrepreneurial road they wish to go , what scale of profits they seek and at what possible cost to their pupils . |
| 27 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 28 | They want the Prime Minister to use the Conservative Party conference next week to slap down this turbulent priest . |
| 29 | There was little time for thinking as they progressed lower down this new valley . |
| 30 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |