Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | However , the rationale for using this paradigm as a way of investigating perceptual units was established by Ladefoged and Broadbent ( 1960 ) who showed that the position of clicks is not reported accurately , because they are heard as displaced from their original position to the boundaries of perceptual units . |
2 | It would be a good idea to develop a formula for using this kind of programme so that you know precisely what kind of item you are looking for and , if you can arrange for a regular supply , you do n't need to spend a lot of time viewing it to work out how you are going to use it . |
3 | MINIS , at its simplest , represents ‘ an … attempt to collect information about a Department 's activities and to place responsibility for using this information with the Department 's top management , Ministerial and official ’ ( Richards , 1987 , p. 26 ) . |
4 | The Conservative government of Edward Heath was criticised for accepting this position in 1973 , and in 1974–5 the new Labour government renegotiated British membership . |
5 | Some wariness is in order , then , about accepting this distinction as no more than uncontentious conceptual clarification . |
6 | What , it occurred to him , was the difference between accepting this contribution to his expenses and taking the kind of bribe Jonathan Minter had offered him ? |
7 | We are interested here in finding out what the norms are within a single social stratum and how they function for the speakers : at this point in our work we have no justification for relating this pattern to social class differences . |
8 | By the same token the essential requirement for tackling this kind of problem is to gather and to analyse as much relevant information as you can . |
9 | The income — expenditure model has been used as a framework for justifying this role for fiscal policy because government expenditure and taxation directly , and fairly reliably , influence national income levels . |
10 | If we 'd a carried it on for say this time of the year now you with this erm Whitsun Holiday now , we 'd have had to do it seven days a week , cos you 'd have to be there Saturday and Sunday to stop anything going in there . |
11 | The Greeks strew their common thyme liberally all over roasted or kebabbed lamb , to its great enhancement , and it is worth applying this principle to all the cooking herbs . |
12 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
13 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
14 | The justification for applying this Figure to Mercury with roughly the same time scales will be made in Chapter 8 . |
15 | Figure 3.1 shows a decision tree for applying this sort of approach to analysing the functions of the monkey inferotemporal cortex . |
16 | She even claims to be the government 's science policy coordinator — a role we should n't attach too much weight too , according to Mrs Thatcher , who once told New Scientist off for inflating this part of her job beyond what she really had in mind . |
17 | After submitting this paper for publication we received a copy of the paper by M. Davis et al. |
18 | Those interested in Provençal paintings should move on after seeing this show to the newly reopened Musée national des Monuments français in Paris , which is showing some of the same artists in an exhibition on Marseille until 5 July ( see p. 8 ) . |
19 | After opening this campaign with a 6-0 , 6-1 win over Greece 's Christina Papaduka , Evert said : ‘ I feel I let the team down in that match two years ago . |
20 | Specialists from 16 countries said after meeting this month in Geneva that ‘ for the first time , unique opportunities exist to prevent a frequent cancer by vaccination ’ . |
21 | After considering this aspect of the case for some moments the Substitute remarked : ‘ You chose your man well . |
22 | Not two hours after digesting this news over their breakfasts , the same industry officials made their way to the Federal Court of Australia to receive the decision on their appeal over the February 1991 judgment by Justice Morling on a Tobacco Institute of Australia advertisement concerning passive smoking that was run throughout the Australian press in 1986 . |
23 | In fact , Joe , er , Mark Little has upped and left Oz in favour of England — after touring this country with his one-man show ( he fancies himself as a bit of a new age traveller ) , he wants to settle down in near Manchester . |
24 | The girl was attacked after leaving this club in Northampton just after 11 p.m. last night . |
25 | When asked how they felt about writing this occupation on a form , twenty-one housewives ‘ minded ’ and nineteen did not see anything disadvantageous in it . |
26 | At this time I did n't have a clue about fitting this type of equipment and had to pay somebody to do it for me . |
27 | The strategic planning goal is to produce plans that will present a credible set of proposals for filling this gap with sales of new products or services . |
28 | A wide variety of devices is available in English for developing this type of cohesion , including additive ( and ) , adversative ( but ) and causal ( so ) conjunctions . |
29 | The predominant motive for writing this type of history is to demonstrate chronological sequence . |
30 | These are linked to the first new component of the family , the OpenServer Directory Exchange Server , DXS , which provides a centralised repository of all user addresses on the network , and is responsible for propagating this information to the other electronic mail systems . |