Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] this [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The test items developed for this project added further details to the picture . |
| 2 | I could not understand how anyone could act as this man did towards another human being suffering as I then was . |
| 3 | ‘ But then the young man who was slotted for this spot had to back out . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's the season of goodwill to all mankind but its looks like this man had had enough of womankind , ’ added PC Weal who ordered them a taxi . |
| 5 | The wearers of boots shod in this way came into their own during icy weather when they were able to outslide everyone else . |
| 6 | The studies reported in this table did not control for maturity or seasonality effects in the distribution , that is , they studied the distribution of futures price changes or returns across all seasons of the year and for a variety of contract maturities ( maturity effects on the distribution are discussed in Chapter 8 , while seasonality effects are considered in Chapter 9 ) . |
| 7 | The evaluation reported in this chapter attempted to quantify three aspects of Lexical Access 's performance : ( i ) success in identifying words , ( ii ) reasons for failure and ( iii ) contribution to the overall recognition process . |
| 8 | Algebra was not tested in this project as it is not explicitly included in the foundation list , and so is the only content category of the framework missing from the topics considered in this chapter listed below . |
| 9 | Here , the largest of the towns considered in this volume grew at the centre of an extensive pottery industry which came to supply widespread military and civilian markets . |
| 10 | At the inquest on the killings , one of the witnesses interviewed on This Week retracted his evidence . |
| 11 | Colby Simpkins is one of the elect , above familial ties or mundane circumstances , like Harry in The Family Reunion and Celia in The Cocktail Party — although Eliot has on this occasion eschewed the Furies or martyrdom as a way of emphasizing Colby 's difference from those who are content with a secular existence . |
| 12 | The Court of Appeal has on this basis refused an interim injunction against " Private Eye " when it published details of convictions which had been " spent " under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act ( see below , p60 ) . |
| 13 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 14 | The crucial nature of the questions addressed at this seminar resulted in our receiving the backing of a number of organisations . |
| 15 | Exceptional Photoplays labelled it as ‘ an uncompromising film ’ and was quite sure it gave proof that ‘ motion picture art has by this time attained its majority ’ . |
| 16 | Although the cable has by this stage disappeared , the cells in the mound still contain a great deal of filamentous actin in a disorganized arrangement ( Fig. 4 h ) . |
| 17 | Areas considered by this group included the telecommunications and construction sectors , transport and tourism services , and financial and professional services . |
| 18 | The fact that almost nobody had heard of this prerogative turned out to one of the judges to be a point in its favour : |
| 19 | Support for this approach came from the government department responsible for assessing safety in the nuclear industry — the Health and Safety Executive , which incorporates the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate . |
| 20 | As a result the mechanisms by which new teaching practices were disseminated during this period remained problematic . |
| 21 | Economic historians writing during this period did not escape these powerful influences . |
| 22 | Those who sailed in this week brought the population of Vietnamese in Hong Kong to more than 50,000 . |
| 23 | Most who had previously suffered in this way reported a definite improvement and only a very few said they did suffer from constipation at first . |
| 24 | Moreover , the economic cleavage that was perceived to be developing in this society did appear to correspond to the religious tensions that were generating party strife , and to anxious High Church Tories seemed to be yet another part of the process whereby Dissenters were thriving in the changed political climate after the Revolution at the expense of the Anglican interest . |
| 25 | The general pattern of pausing in this experiment proved to be very similar to that found in the earlier experiment ; subjects tended to pause at clause boundaries . |
| 26 | The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 27 | A detective listening to this story nodded gravely , for it confirmed his beliefs , and as he said , ‘ these academics can not operate in the cut and thrust of the real world , can they ? ’ |
| 28 | Not till you came to this barrier did you realise that you were in a cage , reinforced to contain humans . |
| 29 | The work done at this time did , however , serve to educate the permanent officials in the new approach to economic policy . |
| 30 | A British report on the American occupation written at this time commented scathingly that the Koreans employed by the military government were ‘ almost hopelessly incompetent ’ . |