Example sentences of "[adj] this [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From March 1973 ( when the scheme started ) until October 1980 this figure stood at £25 worth of advice . |
| 2 | Admittedly we also noted how hollow this observation rang in view of the fact that expansionary policies would entail accelerating inflation . |
| 3 | It was a cruel irony that that this movement coincided with a muddled , patronising reluctance to admit that working-class life was culturally impoverished . |
| 4 | Was summer longer than usual this year to fit in six Test matches against the Australians ? |
| 5 | But we might reasonably doubt whether the requirement that the method be reliable this time amounts to any genuine addition to the tripartite account . |
| 6 | At night , on a dark moon , lying on my raised sleeping-platform at coconut level , the stars are reflected in the paddies as strongly as if down was up , and half this universe dances round me as the mating fireflies move through the trees and the house . |
| 7 | The largest group of immigrants came from within a 5-mile radius , but almost as many came from 5–10 miles and as many again from beyond 20 miles ; only half this number came from between 10 and 20 miles . |
| 8 | fact it might be apposite this year to suggest to them that they might like to introduce one or other of the things that we were looking at in there . |
| 9 | 1 So what do you think happened ? 2 This passage comes from the beginning of a long story . |
| 10 | Until the nineteen-fifties this stream continued alongside Harcourt Bridge Road to join the River Nadder at Long Bridge , but has now been diverted , looking more like a canal as it dissects Elizabeth Gardens . |
| 11 | Because such a scenario is plausible the sort of nightmare we 've all contemplated at some time or another this movie makes for far more frightening entertainment than the most graphic of shock horrors . |
| 12 | Because such a scenario is plausible the sort of nightmare we 've all contemplated at some time or another this movie makes for far more frightening entertainment than the most graphic of shock horrors . |
| 13 | It had such fire and brilliance that even when the church was dark this diamond glowed like a flame in the sanctuary . |
| 14 | ‘ I was out there at six this morning seeing to the horses . |
| 15 | 2.1 This proposal applies to all full time staff who secure a job as a Council Tax Assistant . |
| 16 | In 1920 this figure dropped to twelve , despite the fact that this area suffered less in the Civil War than Smolensk guberniia . |
| 17 | At its most ambitious and sophisticated this strategy aimed at bringing the raw subjectivity of the student or pupil into palpable contact with that very stuff of life considered to inhere within the " sacred " text . |
| 18 | In 1941 this battalion transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps . |
| 19 | the prosperity of this land daily decreased , so that felicity was turned into misery and prosperity into adversity and the order of policy , and of the law of God and Man , confounded ; whereby it is likely this Realm to fall into extreme misery and desolation , which God defend , without due provision of couvenable remedy be had in this behalf in all goodly haste . |
| 20 | the prosperity of this land daily decreased , so that felicity was turned into misery and prosperity into adversity and the order of policy , and of the law of God and Man , confounded ; whereby it is likely this Realm to fall into extreme misery and desolation , which God defend , without due provision of couvenable remedy be had in this behalf in all goodly haste . |
| 21 | THE TWENTY-NINTH annual Belfast Festival which runs from November 4th to 23rd this year promises to be the biggest and most wide-ranging event to date . |
| 22 | To improve the quality of our work , these are erm , when I say though the current position is the technical quality is variable , these this assessment comes from internal reviews which are carried out and we have annual quality control reviews in all parts of the of the practice and the answers that have been come back coming back from those quality control reviews have and they 're pretty strict reviews it seems , strictly in accordance with the book , strictly in accordance with all the reg rules and regulations and , so if one has deviated from those and it 's hardly surprising how very high standards B S five seven five O would have , be quite easy to obtain in most of our practice areas , so it 's hardly surprising that there will be occasions when we do n't actually er come up with ten out of ten on a on an assignment . |
| 23 | leverosatory rotating to the left you find these this prefix appearing in front of a name if it 's the compound is optically active . |
| 24 | MAKE SURE THIS CAP GOES IN NDOWN EDITION . |
| 25 | So straight away you see what 's happened in this case his code becomes two eighty one H whereas previously we 've got quite a high code and yet his total income is er not er comparative to the change in code numbers and this is what has that effect , that all that tax on all this income has to be collected against his works pension , thereby causing a lot of confusion and difficulty for er people becoming retired . |
| 26 | And I have n't come all this way to listen to the same complaint , Irina . |
| 27 | Which was exactly why , of course , he had taken the trouble to come all this way to look into my eyes as he asked for my help . |
| 28 | ‘ Does n't all this junk get in your way ? ’ |
| 29 | As the Ambassador to El Salvador said ( munitions piled round him ) , ‘ I did n't say ‘ Hey , how is all this stuff getting in here ? ’ |
| 30 | a nightmare week is still not over — with all this stuff going on i ca n't see us win tomorrow … |