Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I made a last minute decision to go to this game .
2 She told the judge that she now believed that Mr Ahmed , a Pakistani national , used the passport copy and subsequent marriage certificate to remain in this country .
3 It is particularly concerned with investigating how a manager 's self concept , or self perception will affect his/her work motivation and reactions to work in this environment .
4 My hon. Friend brings a great deal of expertise to bear on this issue .
5 We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on this draft PPG Note .
6 He was executed in 1535 , the first of seven Chancellors of the university to suffer in this way , and canonised in 1935 .
7 To help the less developed member states to adjust to this process the study recommends greater use of the structural Funds .
8 John , as a child , loved dressing up ; he and his friends played with old clothes kept in a big trunk , and his cousin Petrie writes that the costumes of his father 's club gave him opportunities to indulge in this game .
9 Their intention to continue with this strategy remains .
10 No sooner do you suggest a trad/rap crossover record be released than Brendan Shine comes out with the biggest load of crap to fall on this earth since Bros recorded their limited edition live L.P. ‘ Live From Mars ’ .
11 Apart from very old and antique items , the only contemporary rugs to fall into this category are masterworkshop rugs , and possible a handful of the very finest items produced by a few " high category " groups .
12 I just come back er ladies and gentlemen to apologize for this morning 's cock up , I mean it was totally inexcusable of me .
13 There are several methods of extending our rule to cope with this problem , all of which are essentially ways of considering programs restricted so that we only need worry about a finite set of values at a time .
14 The principal new result to come from this work is that bright-point flares are often associated with increased emission in much larger structures .
15 I plead with our commissioners and their counterparts in the Roman Catholic side to concentrate on this issue and not to dally for this I believe is the golden key to that greater , completer , richer and more effective church that is surely coming under God .
16 Your concern about the ability of commodity exporters to adjust in this way is understandable .
17 ‘ Our intention to ballot in this way was already known , but we hoped to get the assurances we wanted from British Rail .
18 The Environment White Paper — ‘ This Common Inheritance ’ announced the Government 's intention to consult on this amendment along with various others proposed to the 1979 Act .
19 Indeed , few files seem in practice to conform to this requirement .
20 It was easy for the Jews to comply with this custom because Hecataeus of Abdera had produced a little model of what was expected of them .
21 And Jesus was going across to the other side to look for this man .
22 You have already proved to yourself that you can find enough willpower to stick to this programme for three days .
23 There 's been very little for United fans to cheer about this season .
24 In an attempt to deal with this issue , Goss ( 1953 ) introduced a control procedure in which subjects were simply allowed to observe the stimuli ( in one case being instructed to attend to them , in another given no special instructions ) during the first phase of training .
25 In an attempt to deal with this discrimination against public patients , the 1992–3 federal budget plan is introducing bonus payments to those states which increase the proportion of public patients treated .
26 You want some extraordinary words to put in this dictionary like that
27 And I 'm not so sure that portrait is the best possible erm medium to use , or the best possible photograph to use for this type of er trick .
28 From the imperative to refrain on this occasion the child may advance , as he observes the situation recur in his own or others ' experience , to his first general principle :
29 In the meanwhile she took steps to settle in this country and the children were sent to school here .
30 This article comes out of the familiar experience of being drawn to a particular image , or set of images , without at first knowing why , and the attempt to account for this feeling .
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