Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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1 | Radiating out from the speaker are a number of concentric circles distinguishing different zones of spatial proximity ; through the speaker passes a " tame line " , on which events prior to his present utt rance , and events prior to those , can be linearly arranged , and similarly events at points and spans in the future ; while the discourse to which the speaker contributes unfolds along this same time line . |
2 | In places , it defies understanding to this day . |
3 | It goes as follows : " So man is approaching a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world . |
4 | This festival has developed from this . |
5 | Through subsidies the state has established a vast ‘ social salary ’ to make life easier for workers and it takes a pride in the extensiveness of the welfare system that has developed from this . |
6 | Quite a lot of guesswork and estimation has to go into this , but the margins of error are not so great as to nullify the whole enterprise . |
7 | Right let's super , now then what else needs to go in this floating one ? |
8 | good boy that 's lovely , wood , cork , plasticine , plastic spoon , sponge , I think the cork actually needs to go in this one , so what happens when we put the cork in , can you remember ? |
9 | Frank Mort has commented on this kind of separation between the new intellectuals who are happy and confident to mix genre and ignore qualitative and semantic difference ‘ because they already know the map of Western culture ’ and are distinct from those ‘ who do not carry with them those levels of cultural capital . ’ |
10 | Paul has commented on this in several places . |
11 | The Commission has commented on this ‘ problem ’ in a way which is rather surprising given the stated free-market aims of the EEC : |
12 | In her book on Jewish feminist theology , Standing Again at Sinai , Judith Plaskow has pointed to this paralleling of the impurity of gentiles and the impurity of ( Jewish ) women in biblical and rabbinic thought . |
13 | Since John wrote , Wrigley and Schofield 's calculation of the consumption — production ratio has pointed to this period before the industrial revolution as having been " very fortunate " in that the age structure meant a smaller dependency burden of non-working children than was to become the case in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
14 | Much lies hidden behind this sensational growth . |
15 | I can summarise his submissions as follows : ( 1 ) Walker v. Great Northern Railway Co. of Ireland , 28 L.R.Ir. 69 correctly stated the position at English law up to 1976. ( 2 ) As the legislature has intervened in this field it is neither necessary nor appropriate for the judiciary to alter the position at common law . |
16 | has fallen over this period from seventy eight per cent to twenty eight per cent . |
17 | Murray wants to opt out of the deal but two deadlines have already passed for Kiam to raise the money and now a third , and perhaps final , one has fallen due this month , the end of the football season . |
18 | We are aware of the campaigning work your section has undertaken in this regard and would like to express to you our genuine appreciation for your efforts . |
19 | Everything has conspired towards this gloomy conclusion . |
20 | He wants to go beyond this testable assertion and maintain that there is a real difference , not simply one of perception , between different languages in their ability to ‘ allow their users to approximate to neutral , objective description ’ and that English has this ability . |
21 | Ergas ( 1987 ) has referred to this as a ‘ deepening ’ model of technological development , in which ‘ learning by doing ’ and making the best organizational and technical use of ‘ what you 've got ’ are far more important than acquiring the latest ‘ state of the art ’ process technology ( Ewer et al. , 1987 : ch. 4 ) . |
22 | As is well known — the hon. Member for Bolsover has referred to this — the Liberal Democrat party was not content with all the provisions in the social chapter of the Maastricht drafts . |
23 | The two approaches to the study of the mother and child relationship we have discussed so far-that based on physical care and that dealing with attitudes — each originally hoped to reveal the major determinants of children 's personality development ; neither , however , has succeeded in this task . |
24 | Ultimately the law has responded to this problem by intervening to try to ensure that the market resembles as closely as possible the paradigm of perfect competition , outlawing monopoly and trade practices that deviate from that paradigm . |
25 | And the borough council has responded to this situation by adopting a number of policy objectives including the one which seeks to attract appropriate inward investment projects . |
26 | After all , law and order has collapsed in this country . |
27 | DOLPHINS AND SEAGULLS , silence and laughter David Sylvian and Charlie Parker John Cleese and Buster Keaton … who wants to write to this woman . |
28 | Although the wound circumference has shortened by this stage to about ⅓ of its initial length , the individual cells at the wound margin do not appear narrowed . |
29 | He has come to this conclusion after studying teeth from 124 individuals in a pre-agricultural group dating from 1000 BC to AD 1150 and 188 individuals from an agricultural group dating from AD 1150 to AD 1550 . |
30 | ‘ It is jolly sad that it has come to this but I am not surprised , ’ she said last night . |