Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once this trend for the relaxation of the 1970 legislation began , the EPA considered that the only way in which it could slow down or stop this erosion , short of a resurgence in the environmental movement , would be to show more flexibility in its administration of the Act , especially towards new industry . |
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| 3 | To order , simply call — FREE — on with credit card details or fill in and return this coupon . |
| 4 | The Felder was as I had left it ; I climbed in and put this account in my portable tape-memory . |
| 5 | remember going in and seeing this film and , it just it did n't it was so to my mind , and you know thinking back now , my memory of it was of a sort of very dark and dreary |
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| 7 | ‘ We 'll all go in and try this miracle , ’ her mother said , now gentling the eldest of her daughters . |
| 8 | He came in and trampling this brake fluid all over the carpet . |
| 9 | It was as if Ruth were truly Emma 's child and for some reason Rachaela had had to come down and witness this scene . |
| 10 | ‘ You sit down and wrap this towel round your neck . ’ |
| 11 | And I said I 've bought a box of matches for him to go down and light this fire thinking you know he might need two or three matches at a time . |
| 12 | Why do n't you come down and see this place . |
| 13 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 14 | I 'd go it alone and rid this cinema of the bums who terrorise it every Sunday night . |
| 15 | If you feel like withdrawing from the hurly burly and being reclusive , then do so and take this opportunity to recharge your batteries , and your energy will return soon . |
| 16 | And just a reminder for anybody that wants to go along and watch this game , where is it going to be played ? |
| 17 | what they are doing you see , an authorized dealer , well even a non-authorized dealer get hold of a piece of kit and then somebody say want this system , right okay , and they just have a big load of forms for maintenance agreements and all they do the dealer 'll go along and put this kit in , B T 'll come along and say yeah that conforms to regulations , sign here , the customer er sign here , the dealer send the maintenance agreement to us , we signed it , send it back , we 've never even seen it , then we turn up and find that the main control unit 's high up in the attic or in a damp cellar , in a cupboard where you ca n't see it , there 's no light and stuff like that and we 're taking jobs on like that and it you know , it 's just impossible to work on them |
| 18 | He paused and then said , not realising the effect his words would have , ‘ I may go along and see this Vigo . ’ |
| 19 | Can the General Secretary give this Conference assurances that a speaker from Timex can come along and address this Conference before the end of closing . |
| 20 | It is suggested that in the context of a monogamous union , adultery was elevated to the status of a sin ( or indeed a crime ) and grounds for divorce so as to reinforce this concept of marriage and , in the absence of birth control , to prevent the social ‘ untidiness ’ caused by the production of children not the product of a couple married to each other , with all the inheritance and support complications which could follow . |
| 21 | Obviously when considering this process of loss we have to remember that an individual seldom goes through these stages as neatly as might seem to have been suggested . |
| 22 | One explanation for this might be that , rather than using this method to bring in temporary labour , service establishments with a predominantly low skilled labour force rely on casual workers . |
| 23 | Rather than accepting this end point , they want to push on and ask how individuals got the properties — including their desires , intentions and so forth that are regarded as root causes by individualists . |
| 24 | Rather than answer this question , Marjorie reverts to an earlier one . |
| 25 | But ironically the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the 1880s accentuated rather than diminished this tendency , for police and judicial measures , combined with the efforts of moral reformers , were making ever clearer that distinction between respectable and unrespectable behaviour . |
| 26 | In addition , the access and use of the medical services reinforce rather than counteract this tendency . |
| 27 | But rather than meet this challenge , entitlement theorists simply take for granted that if original acquirers deserve any rights they deserve the full rights of liberal ownership , and hence assume , rather than demonstrate , the legitimacy of that which has to be justified : the institution of private property . |
| 28 | The other answer is that erm certainly some trials have been done with patients not being diagnosed by a computer , but by giving initial information like their age , their date of birth , erm where the pain is , etc. erm actually interacting themselves with the computer , and studies have shown curiously that patients actually prefer to use a computer rather than to give this information to a doctor . |
| 29 | had supported League of Nations sanctions against Italy and Cripps resigned from it rather than accept this decision . |
| 30 | ‘ Rather than have this turn into a trial of strength between the Government and some sections of the press about my future , I have decided to resolve it myself by resigning . |