Example sentences of "[vb pp] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have witnessed this expansion in parts of North America for nearly 60 years , first working as a student with a pitchfork on the harvest in Alberta . |
| 2 | By March 8 an estimated 20,000 Albanians had travelled this route in around 15 vessels . |
| 3 | Other work in progress has examined this issue in one district where it seems that the other community services are so much less well organized than the special service that managers have found it impossible to prevent that service being undermined by lack of staff , continuity , training , and good practice leadership . |
| 4 | ( Samuel Scheffler has recently examined this matter in an especially interesting way . ) |
| 5 | Er there is a technical report that has examined this sort of information erm for the year nineteen eighty one nineteen eighty eighty one , specifically for this county . |
| 6 | Had Puddephat provoked this storm by propositioning the boy ? |
| 7 | He argues that if anyone questions the suitability of a designer as a captain of industry it displays the lack of understanding about the true nature of design that has plagued this country for many years . |
| 8 | Tennyson would have frequented this lane in his youth for he liked to visit the Woodman 's cottage which nestles beside a wood and has an astonishingly colourful cottage garden . |
| 9 | It has been identified as the Alauna of the Ravenna list by Rivet and Smith , although Richmond and Crawford earlier assigned this name to Alchester , which in some ways makes better sense , since its neighbours quoted in the list would indicate that it lies on the road from Silchester to the south Midlands ; nevertheless the derivation of the name of the River Alne from Alauna , and hence the name of the town on or near that river , is an attractive argument in favour of Rivet and Smith . |
| 10 | Other researchers have criticized this test for being insufficiently rigorous . |
| 11 | Healy ( 1993 ) has criticized this study on the grounds that as those selected had previous histories of poor response to neuroleptics , this unfairly weighted the trial against chlorpromazine . |
| 12 | Hong Kong 's stock market has soared this week after months in the doldrums on a belief among investors that the worst of the row with China has passed . |
| 13 | She has also been painted this year by Howard Morgan , for Unilever . |
| 14 | NSS writer Saeeda Khanum was honoured this week in Britain 's top magazine journalism awards . |
| 15 | Our solitary eyes had arranged this meeting at the restaurant of Hostal Rosario , La Paz . |
| 16 | Williams had completed this document in 1946 , while still resident in the United States , and in the meantime the University College of the West Indies had been established in Jamaica . |
| 17 | Once students have completed this part of the course , they will have attained a standard of English which well prepared them to undertake Cambridge First Certificate work . |
| 18 | No sooner had I completed this act of , shall we say , mercy , than a wonderful feeling of peace and calm came over me . |
| 19 | WORK should be completed this week on safety measures being put in place on a busy road outside an infants school where a crossing patrol was axed . |
| 20 | On the other hand , he points out that Devlin had in fact answered the question in the affirmative , and had justified this response by suggesting that , just as society can take steps to preserve itself against acts of treason , then so it may protect itself from attacks on established morality , for this too can threaten society 's existence . |
| 21 | For my part I think that there is abundant evidence which would have justified this court in substituting findings that Miss T. was not in a physical or mental condition which enabled her to reach a decision binding on the medical authorities and that even if , contrary to that view , she would otherwise have been in a position to reach such a decision , the influence of her mother was such as to vitiate the decision which she expressed . |
| 22 | Employers have justified this argument by pointing out that they are also responsible for making good any shortfall if the pension fund can not meet its liabilities . |
| 23 | What sort of character would have sustained this setting for six years , Theodora wondered , as she parked the car in the hedgerow and lifted the wicket gate six inches in order to swing it open . |
| 24 | ( The sanctions committee had referred this issue to the Security Council on Sept. 12 after exploring ways of specifying whether food needs in iraq should be categorized as humanitarian . |
| 25 | Hannington clearly resented this domination by the almost defunct and hopelessly sectarian Minority Movement which was currently antagonizing union officials by supporting " breakaway Red unions " . |
| 26 | It reminds us of the Ibanez headstock , without the little scoop on the tip , but Starfield have cleverly disguised this similarity by opting for three-a-side Gotoh locking tuners as opposed to six . |
| 27 | We had developed this principle by joining lumps of plastic explosive together with some machine gun cartridges to make a simple anti-personnel charge . |
| 28 | Ferguson had developed this notion of ‘ half a loaf ’ in reply to those left-wing critics who condemned both Hollywood 's lack of political detail and its slickness . |
| 29 | Many salespeople who , to an outsider , seem naturally quick-witted have developed this skill through careful preparation beforehand , imagining themselves as buyers and thinking of objections that they might raise if they were in such a position . |
| 30 | Some sites may have developed this type of location for reasons of overall convenience ; others were clearly attracted by the economic potential of the crossroads . |