Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] this [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 2 | But to go down this path of analysis is to put things in an unreasonably negative light . |
| 3 | Sometimes he helped along this impression of participation by opening his mouth and shovelling his chin forward until someone interrupted him . |
| 4 | Knowing that she simply had to shake off this mood of dreamy awareness , she turned on her heel , some grit beneath the leather soles of her flat white sandals grating harshly . |
| 5 | The intention is not to write off this side of life as " dirty " , as is plain elsewhere in Scripture . |
| 6 | Provided a mains transformer has a single primary winding there should be no difficulty in wiring up this section of the supply . |
| 7 | There will be moves to tighten up this part of the bill in the Commons to try to stop some of the waste imports from countries which can dispose of them but find it politically expedient to export them . |
| 8 | ADVANCED trenching equipment has speeded up this aspect of a project to such an extent , |
| 9 | I mean , it er portrait really is the right sort of subject to , to try out this kind of technique because er , it does n't have impact , and here because the green and the erm er , this , th for want of a better colour , it 's really red , it 's a sort of purply colour , they 're very dark and th the , the actual head does n't really stand out very much from the from the background , I think the background |
| 10 | By that time we should have sorted out this business of the poison pen letter and you 'll be able to get back to a normal life again . ’ |
| 11 | The only way to find out this sort of information , short of using the photographer once , is to talk to other people who have used him or her . |
| 12 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 13 | The House of Commons Employment Committee proposes the establishment of a ‘ decade of retirement ’ between the age of 60 and 70 , which would allow people to choose for themselves when they wished to retire over this period of time . |
| 14 | I know in our case , and therefore probably in a lot that it is n't always possible , they 'll always find a way in , but if there was some perhaps advice to people it might bring down this number of complaints , that you could perhaps do before the wasp season begins , I do n't know whether that 's a possibility or not . |
| 15 | The discount is on all massage treatment and courses — all you have to do is bring along this copy of RUNNING MAGAZINE and quote your race number . |
| 16 | You walk down this sort of , you go through some woods and this is how we ended up where these geese |
| 17 | Oral tradition played a major part in transmitting and passing down this culture of superstition . |
| 18 | Admitting that ‘ a ‘ row ’ ’ at Cremorne on the night of Derby and Oaks day' was ‘ too ordinary an occurrence to deserve any comment ’ , The Times nevertheless lingered over this scene of young gentlemen at play : |
| 19 | If I press the Control key whilst picking up this range of cells using the mouse , this tells Excel to copy the cells instead of simply moving them |
| 20 | Do n't you have any proofreaders or subs capable of picking up this sort of elementary mistake ? |
| 21 | It was during the night that she would conjure up this picture of herself ; in the daytime she was practical . |
| 22 | Clearly , if we are expecting our advertising to work in a particular way , against a particular sub-group of consumers , we should do our research in such a way that it will show up this sort of effect . |
| 23 | She needed space and time to think , time to sort out this mess of mixed emotions . |
| 24 | ‘ I can see that it 's going to take me some time to get an answer from the hospital , and I have yet to sort out this business of the air-conditioning . |
| 25 | just trying to sort out this business of this the offices that we 're being let in the Strand Theatre that er people are moving in this week and they 've got no authority to move you see . |
| 26 | I think in a way we were all Ziggy Stardust and we were all living out this myth of Ziggy Stardust and treated him as if he was Ziggy Stardust . |
| 27 | As a consequence , only laboratories with immediate access to particle accelerators can carry out this sort of work . |
| 28 | Cut out this picture of Rainbow Rabbit or if you do n't want to cut your magazine , you can trace the picture and colour it in . |
| 29 | It is , therefore , all the more important to round off this discussion of the privileging of the gaze by looking at the work of critics who positioned themselves outside the psychoanalytical framework . |
| 30 | Why do we not throw off this hangover of socialism and instead celebrate a free enterprise day , a British export day or , better still , a low taxation day ? |