Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a shocking situation , and I am spending every single minute of every single day and every last dollar of my father 's money to correct this evil . ’ |
| 2 | If Mr. Collins had sought to base an argument on the omission from the rules which I have characterised as unfair , we should have had to consider whether the opportunity given to Winchester on 6 November 1990 to make representations to Lautro 's board rectified this defect . |
| 3 | Unless a Christian 's faith includes this level of understanding , he is short-changing himself . |
| 4 | Anna 's sister has this message for him . |
| 5 | Two regulars , Messrs Dodman and Harrop , arrived but most were new faces following Peter 's decision to opt this time for newly graduated advisers . |
| 6 | While Hewitt 's decision to use this term is based partly on his belief that there is no characteristic variety of English used solely by ethnic Caribbeans , it is also motivated by the lack of symbolic meaning attached to this variety : it was not the case that the London English of young blacks took on any specialized symbolic meaning of race or ethnicity . |
| 7 | TWO MILLION employees and directors of British firms will face higher bills for the privilege of using their company cars following the Chancellor 's decision to tax this perk at its true value . |
| 8 | John Prescott , transport spokesman , has largely been frozen out of the national campaign , which is surprising given his adept performance on BBC 's election call this week . |
| 9 | It was seen as healthy for the British-American relationship and a good omen for Mr Bush 's re-election hopes this autumn . |
| 10 | Nonetheless , it was Major 's readiness to use this language ( which , interestingly , Mrs Thatcher , in her effluvial megalomania , regards as Marxist ) that allowed people to vote Conservative , albeit not with a clear conscience . |
| 11 | would suggest that the only reason for this application is one of profit , there has been no attempt to recognize or implement the views of the village in terms of the type of accommodation which is required , I would suspect that it 's Grant Development 's intention to develop this site and then walk away , and leave the villagers to suffer the consequences . |
| 12 | The legitimisation in the Maastricht Treaty of the EEC 's attempt to promote this identity represents an acknowledgement of the ultimate goal which inspired it . |
| 13 | Despite Citrine 's attempt to settle this issue by firmly rejecting the proposal , this organisational option still had many advocates within the industry whose views were to surface in later years . |
| 14 | However , Hirsch and Leff 's attempt to replicate this study , also reported in their book ( 1975 ) , failed to find the same degree of gross communication disorder as that claimed by Singer and Wynne . |
| 15 | Apparently Reader 's Digest do this kind of thing all the time , though nobody that anybody has ever known or met has won a brass halfpenny . |
| 16 | Vaquero 's creator offers this explanation : ‘ In every Mexican there resides an idyllic feeling for the countryside his ( sic ) parents knew . |
| 17 | It is the Group 's job to consolidate this bank of knowledge and to match the know-how and skill of staff across a wide variety of disciplines to externally funded research projects . |
| 18 | The plaintiffs sued for the defendant 's failure to honour this promise and the defendant pleaded lack of consideration , the plaintiffs being already under a duty of delivery by the contract with A. The Court of Exchequer ( Martin and Wilde BB. ) found for the plaintiffs : Wilde B. thought that the plaintiffs might have found it advantageous not to comply with their contract with A so that their agreement with the defendant was a detriment to them ; in any event , they agreed to part with the cargo to the defendant which was a benefit to him . |
| 19 | The United States permanent representative at the UN , Thomas Pickering , reiterated the USA 's refusal to support this target . |
| 20 | The reason ; President Chamorro 's refusal to cite this man as head of the army , he 's Umberto Ortega , brother of the out-going president , Daniel Ortega , and as inaugurations go , it was an inauspicious first day in government for Senora Chamorro . |
| 21 | Ukraine 's and Moldova 's refusal to sign this agreement led to threats from Russia that they would be treated as foreign countries . |
| 22 | There had been plenty of pornographic literature and photographs found in Charley 's room to support this view . |
| 23 | Such considerations led to the general use of the term Down 's Syndrome to describe this association of physical features and mental characteristics . |
| 24 | The commissioners said they denied Mr Stone 's request to use this floor for fear of disrupting museum visitors . |
| 25 | The manufacturers have incorporated some of the ideas introduced by software houses into their own offerings , and the facilities provided by IBM 's VSAM illustrate this process . |
| 26 | Top left : Elizabeth Jane 's father installed this shelf above a kitchen window and it now makes a colourful setting for a blue and white plate collection . |
| 27 | Suppose Vic 's father chose this moment to spray his apple tree , Mungo thought , or cut the grass ? |
| 28 | ‘ I learned , quite by chance , that when Sir Nelson 's father willed this farm to Mr Timms , he also officially recognised Christian as his natural son . |
| 29 | That after the conquest of Norway Swegen was put in charge of it under his mother 's tutelage reinforces this conclusion . |
| 30 | The successful delivery of the party 's policy review this week was capped when the conference agreed yesterday to the next major change Mr Kinnock intends to carry through : a diminution in the overwhelming dominance of the union block vote . |