Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russians applied to enter this country and less than half of them were allowed in ? |
| 2 | Verbal abuse was traditionally a crime among the Sinhalese , but the courts stopped trying this offence in the 1820s in the Low Country and a decade later in Kandyan districts . |
| 3 | Our solitary eyes had arranged this meeting at the restaurant of Hostal Rosario , La Paz . |
| 4 | It led through still more lofty halls and winding corridors quite big enough for a dragon ( and dragons had come this way once , it seemed ; there was a room lull of rotting harness , dragon-sized , and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants ) . |
| 5 | The Russians learnt to adapt this system to their climate as they adapted roof and dome pitches for the same reason . |
| 6 | Some later Acts endeavoured to meet this problem by making an allotment to the ‘ Rectors , Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor ’ of the forest parishes , who were as trustees to apply the income for the benefit of the poor . |
| 7 | Nowhere was the stolid exceptionalism of the British more evident than in the rejection of constitutional reform and in the way in which Conservatives sought to portray this reform as the road to chaos — as if the US , Australia , Germany , Spain and other developed democracies had not prospered with more representative systems . |
| 8 | Industry regulators proposed giving this information greater prominence and adding new features . |
| 9 | The defendants decided to enter this market and they made a drink called " Keeling 's Old English Advocaat " which was made from Cyprus sherry and dried egg powder , an inferior but cheaper drink . |
| 10 | Fleischmann and Pons in their lectures liked to use this example to present electrochemistry as ‘ high energy chemistry ’ . |
| 11 | He reached this conclusion notwithstanding the fact that the defendants had received this information as agents for Mr. Brant and that they owed accordingly a duty to Mr. Brant not to disclose the information to others . |
| 12 | His parents had neglected this aspect of his upbringing , having largely abandoned their religion but for a few outer forms before he was born . |
| 13 | Thousands of feet had tramped this route in times past before railways and military invasion . |
| 14 | Others present included , who , with her Party Planners had organised this party for our host . |
| 15 | Earlier some engineers had derided this side of the business as mere ‘ ironmongery ’ , and there had also been political constraints on development . |
| 16 | Later chroniclers attempted to compile this information into histories of the Empire , and some ventured to make lists of reigning Emperors . |
| 17 | But they were able to do so only because — by chance — monkeys and apes failed to reach this island . |
| 18 | AS trade-union officials came to recognize this ability they swung their organizations behind the only Party which has ever secured any significant working-class representation in the British parliament . |
| 19 | In this they were similar to Wester Ross but contrasted with Norway where the use of extra grants and subsidies had overcome this problem . |
| 20 | Stiff westerly winds made forward passage difficult , and the little boats had to tack this way and that within the narrow confines of the Strait 's exit , before the funnel began to widen and the open sea to present itself Magellan , now perfectly confident of his discovery , named the waters Estrecho do Todos los Santos — All Saints ' Strait . |
| 21 | Although in public statements the Boards tended to minimise this effect , their own load experts reckoned that space heating accounted for a significant proportion of the load at peak times . |
| 22 | It is unnecessary to give more than the following sketch of the widespread litigation which has attended the efforts made to bring this case to trial . |
| 23 | In the twentieth century , experiments devised to test this idea did indeed find that a beam of electrons could be diffracted like light ; the electron microscope depends on this analogy . |
| 24 | Large families began to threaten this prosperity because expectations of consumption kept rising while costs of children , especially for middle-class education , also rose . |
| 25 | The north wing of the school would have made three extra units , but as it was rented out to the health club , the new owners decided to maintain this arrangement . |
| 26 | Two things appeared to affect this assessment independently . |
| 27 | Previously , the 1969 and 1977 NOP surveys had broached this problem , with a question asking people whether they had considered using some form of credit but had not actually done so — and exploring their reasons . |
| 28 | While an earlier generation of writers had noted this feature of the period , it was not until the recent work of Cairncross that the significance of this outflow was realized . |
| 29 | By March 8 an estimated 20,000 Albanians had travelled this route in around 15 vessels . |
| 30 | Kevin Wilson and Jim Magilton also hit the target in the first half , after the Albanians had started this Group Three qualifier with a bang . |