Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [conj] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the BBC is to be persuaded to buy more drama from the independent street traders outside the building the merchandise will need to be a little better finished than this . |
| 2 | Thus I learned that Chaplin was dead and so was Elvis ( I 'd thought the former long since gone but this intelligence of Presley startled me ) , that Iranians had held Americans hostage , administered show trials and televised humiliation ; that a geriatric cowboy had become President of the mightiest nation on earth all in all , show biz news . |
| 3 | It has considerable agility , and its powers of dry staccato have been so much exploited that this form of musical humour has quite lost its savour nowadays . |
| 4 | It is not perhaps generally realised that this practice began as early as the late seventeenth century and that many of the splendid coloured aquatint books of the nineteenth century first reached the public in this way . |
| 5 | I have only just understood that this logic was so . |
| 6 | Let's pretend we 've only just met and this is our first date . |
| 7 | We are only just realising that this is the first calling from which all else must flow . |
| 8 | The DES was somewhat curtly informed that this was a matter for the LEAs concerned . |
| 9 | The measurements so far suggest that this will be far too ambitious . |
| 10 | Prestel Education started its own software service in the Autumn term of 1985 and the feedback so far suggests that this is a service which schools find most welcome . |
| 11 | The process of recruiting support may be much more subtle and less consciously planned than this . |
| 12 | Er well er I think , I do n't think they are so politically activated and this is where you have n't got your forthcoming erm members on committees . |
| 13 | Sir , I am not to be caught by a bait so poorly covered as this ! |
| 14 | Most schools are in such poor physical condition and are so poorly equipped that this is unlikely to be a viable option . |
| 15 | It just so happens that this region includes the heartland of Charles the Bald 's kingdom . |
| 16 | A quick flick of a plastic ruler lying handily nearby ensures that this particular fly will not run much further . |
| 17 | The finding of anaemia at presentation in almost half our patients is worth noting as it is still widely taught that this is an indicator of chronic rather than acute renal failure . |
| 18 | In the case of the cash withdrawal the case is much more clear cut as this is a personal transaction rather than a business transaction . |
| 19 | With regard to the first lies my group has come to the conclusion that there is a way in which the employment development budget can be augmented to specifically reserve at least the part of the current posish provision provided by the cooperative development erm we stand by our opinion that there are ways in which that service can be more efficiently administered that this is a sensible way forward . |
| 20 | The contradictions between the Criminal Justice Act and the Children Act are no more accurately highlighted than this example . |
| 21 | Such diachroneity may be very real and much more subtly controlled than this . |
| 22 | The substances responsible for this are not known , though they are clearly unequally distributed and this is somehow linked to the circulation of the Cytherean atmosphere though the mechanism is unclear . |
| 23 | The few who discovered this later naturally felt that this part of their training was not helpful . |
| 24 | Edward , who had probably shrewdly observed that this pretentious lordling , though haughty in manner , was a vacillating and easily manipulated nonentity , did not trouble even to be civil to his puppet or to Scottish laws and traditions . |
| 25 | My predecessor took me carefully aside to explain that this device was part of a plot by the Director of Education either to drive him from his place or to impose comprehensives on the whole campus . |
| 26 | When people think of giving help or support to those in trouble they nearly always imagine that this help will need to be of an intense and emotional nature . |
| 27 | The other potential problem was what would happen to Gloucester 's authority after the young king 's coronation , but even this seems to have been settled to the duke 's advantage and John Russell , in his draft speech for the opening of parliament , assumed that Gloucester would remain in overall control — although he clearly also felt that this was a departure from precedent which needed to be justified . |
| 28 | The other potential problem was what would happen to Gloucester 's authority after the young king 's coronation , but even this seems to have been settled to the duke 's advantage and John Russell , in his draft speech for the opening of parliament , assumed that Gloucester would remain in overall control — although he clearly also felt that this was a departure from precedent which needed to be justified . |
| 29 | They will probably correctly object that this theory of mine seems to get things round the wrong way , and that even if we grant my argument that growth in the power of the state detracts from that of the individual 's superego , there is every reason to suppose that in most cases the total power came first , and the deterioration in personality , however we like to describe it , later . |
| 30 | France has also publicly stated that this year it will introduce moderate reforms to its laws on Sunday trading . |