Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her income support entitlement ended when she obtained maintenance at £5.00 per week but only one payment has been made this year . |
| 2 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 3 | Sir Thomas Wentworth was informed in 1635 that ‘ The Justice seat has been kept this Easter week and all Essex has become forest and so they say will all the counties of England but three — Kent , Surrey and Sussex ’ . |
| 4 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 5 | The very words ‘ modern art ’ still carry by themselves a charge strong enough to disturb , dishearten , or even repel , some before they 've read a line or listened to a note of whatever work has been given this label . |
| 6 | The lad who made a big impact as a 16-year-old has been ignored this season . |
| 7 | ‘ The council has been capped this year and we felt it would have been incredibly insensitive to spend money on road races when some council workers are facing the prospect of losing their jobs . ’ |
| 8 | A further gift of £1000 has been received this year for this purpose . |
| 9 | Mr Crawford added more than 600 illegal nets had been seized this year . |
| 10 | Once the senior clerk in the Chancery , Nigel had been given this assignment as a benefice , a reward for long and faithful service to the Crown . |
| 11 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 12 | Webbe 's appearances for Bridgend have been limited this season and he has only five tries so far . |
| 13 | Millions of parents have been saying this for months . |
| 14 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 15 | Tod 's been doing this quite a bit lately — grunting : Shtib . |
| 16 | MORE than 600 illegal nets have been confiscated this year from poachers who are stealing thousands of pounds worth of salmon from the River Foyle . |
| 17 | ‘ Hundreds of companies have been duped this way , ’ said a detective with the Northumbria Fraud Squad , which is investigating the Brandmakers ' case . |
| 18 | The small voluntary TRANSAID team has been strengthened this year by the addition of Eric Schumacher , formerly a senior manager with I.C.I. Eric brings with him extensive general management and transport experience , which is already proving to be valuable . |
| 19 | Once the right focus has been identified this will be applied to a range of Appeal materials from posters to T-Shirts . |
| 20 | Okay if I could say good evening and welcome to the theatre this evening the reason the meeting has been convened this evening quite clearly is part of the process and art structure for Harlow having undertaken by the Council , the Playhouse is keen as it says quite clearly on the leaflet is to get the publics view on how best to plan this programme and it 's , and facilities for the future . |
| 21 | In 1988 , the Sunday Times Insight team had been sent this dossier , read it and chose not to rely on it . |
| 22 | The IBM announcement had been expected this month , and the delay is thought to have been occasioned by the need to respond to the Hitachi announcement . |
| 23 | At 0430 there are no civilians about , and if a bomb had been planted this would be an ideal time to detonate it . |
| 24 | At present no other organisations have been given this status . |
| 25 | BANKS have been reeling this week with the news that customer complaints to the industry 's Ombudsman have risen by 60 per cent . |
| 26 | On the other hand , the coastline 's area is zero , so neither a one-dimensional nor a two-dimensional picture is appropriate , and in fact the way in which the length increases with resolution suggests a dimension D of about 1.2 The mathematics of sets of points with fractional dimensionality was developed in the early years of this century , but associated geometric objects were considered as ‘ pathological ’ and not corresponding to anything in Nature , Mandelbrot 's massive and single-minded achievement has been to convert this abstract formalism into a flourishing branch of applied mathematics , in three ways . |
| 27 | Another free kick has been given this time against big Mike Whitlow Lively start to the game and a lively start for the referee . |
| 28 | British Rail tell us that the 6.30 Aylesbury to Marylebone train service has been cancelled this evening , while the buses continue to operate a trouble-free service . |
| 29 | ( Similarly , Datir ( 1978 : 245 ) found that only five of 644 released prisoners in a sample in Maharastra had been granted this . ) |
| 30 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |