Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | D. From long experience the Wills family know that cereal crops ( wheat and barley ) normally grow better in this region than in other parts of Britain . |
| 2 | Other examples appear elsewhere in this chapter . |
| 3 | In discussing texts we idealise away from this variability of the experiencing of the text and assume what Schutz has called ‘ the reciprocity of perspective ’ , whereby we take it for granted that readers of a text or listeners to a text share the same experience ( Schutz , 1953 ) . |
| 4 | The first shift away from this kind of deixis is where the centre of orientation ( origo ) but not the related objects are part of the canonical situation . |
| 5 | We say more about this later in the Annual Report . |
| 6 | We apologise sincerely for this clerical error , and regret the confusion and inconvenience it has caused . |
| 7 | There are many examples which fit well into this area , including fluidized bed engineering , freeze drying , laser technology and smart cards . |
| 8 | Pope and Mays 's cognitive approaches fit well into this framework ( figure ) . |
| 9 | Other members of the group shift awkwardly at this picture of Arcadia in Southall , until an economist announces coldly that ‘ it is axiomatic that anything the state does it does worse than the private sector . ’ |
| 10 | In the lower glacial sea levels the straits in this region would have been narrower and shallower and the water comparatively warm even for this latitude . |
| 11 | The Smiths fit neatly into this strategy as the exception to the rule . |
| 12 | CAB advisers are accustomed to finding themselves in the position of mediators , and although they usually sit comfortably in this role , many dislike the role of mediator between client , Department of Social Security and charity foundations that has been thrust upon them . |
| 13 | But look around you and see how many people sit just like this ! |
| 14 | And he shall not , he shall not , walk onward like this over my discomfiture , secure that his foot can not slip . |
| 15 | A few States benefit most from this expenditure , notably those around Washington DC itself ( where potential contractors may gain advantages from locating in proximity to the Pentagon ) , plus Massachusetts , Texas , California , Washington , Maine and Missouri . |
| 16 | Thus , those who benefit most from this gender-blind legislation are non-manual male workers . |
| 17 | Many plants spread naturally in this way , their flexible stems arching down and rooting where they rest on the ground , and gardeners have adopted this method for woody subjects otherwise difficult to propagate . |
| 18 | I remove the fry just before this stage ; gently syphoning them from their leaf , and then treating them as for fry hatched artificially . |
| 19 | PLEASE do all you can to encourage potential teachers to attend , as we depend largely on this event for the new intake to the course , now postponed until the Autumn . |
| 20 | Between 1971 and 1991 , the most popular substances for abuse were gas fuels ( primarily cigarette-lighter refills and bottled domestic gases ; 35.1% of deaths ) , aerosols ( primarily deodorants/antiperspirants and pain-relief sprays ; 20.9% ) , glues ( mostly contact adhesives ; 19.2% ) , and ‘ other ’ ( typewriter correction fluid and anaesthetic gases figure prominently in this group , which also included petrol , plastic remover , and dry-cleaning fluid ; 20.7% ) . |
| 21 | Hold still in this position for 20 counts and feel the stretch in your spine and legs . |
| 22 | Hold still in this position for 5 counts . |
| 23 | What I 'll do is I 'll read you the first paragraph of rule six and actually bend the rule and put those words in and it really does n't make any sense at all , so listen carefully on this one and do n't be surprised if you do n't understand me . |
| 24 | ‘ Listen carefully to this News , ’ he said , with no expression in his face . |
| 25 | There will always be a need for reacting after the event , but many public relations executives depend solely on this kind of activity . |
| 26 | If , in briefly tracing the development of the idea of democracy from its Greek beginnings , and in exploring some of the problems which the idea of democracy involves , we hold fast to this central principle of popular power , much that might otherwise seem puzzling ought to become clear and comprehensible . |
| 27 | His explicit sense of personal grief and reactions to their deaths range musically in this vast symphonic threnody from a virulent anger and furiously hollow rhetoric to hauntingly elegiac meditation . |
| 28 | There were several reasons put forward for this rather modest use of economic information . |
| 29 | Galloway ( 1982 ) identifies three reasons put forward for this increase . |
| 30 | Bad associations cling unfairly to this troupe . |