Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on the other hand , a soldier wants someone who he can talk to in complete confidence and I think the padre fulfils this sort of , if you like , avuncular , presence in the battalion . |
| 2 | Turner 's view that migrants move into the city slums and then out to the shanty towns , is not so much the case now since the large number of spontaneous housing settlements and the widespread knowledge of their existence make this sort of housing immediately available . |
| 3 | Camp integrates this aspect of gender with aesthetics ; in a sense it renders gender a question of aesthetics . |
| 4 | As we have seen , the inheritance of wealth and educational advantage make this ideology of ‘ free competition for unequal reward ’ a very dubious claim , but in studying social mobility we are still comparing the actual amount of social mobility with the ideal of totally free movement through totally equal opportunity . |
| 5 | The monumentally crass decision to include this item in the Environment Bill reflects badly on the judgement of ministers and the competence of their advisers . |
| 6 | I once attempted to read his first book , Alex Through The Looking Glass , but stumbled and fell at page 10 where the Hurricane made this observation on the subject of literature : ‘ My favourite read is Robert Ludlum . |
| 7 | A welfare ideology develops this function beyond the narrow , protective remit of the residual model to encompass rehabilitation and prevention ( Hardiker , 1981 ) . |
| 8 | Rollin emphasises this aspect of them . |
| 9 | Anna 's sister has this message for him . |
| 10 | ‘ The Welsh accent has this connotation of mendacity . |
| 11 | He scooped it out and moved on , never breaking his rhythm , the expression on his face never changing , like a robot pre-programmed to perform this sequence of movements until someone clicked the ‘ Off ’ switch . |
| 12 | Luciano Bartocci had been shuffling papers about noisily on his desk in an attempt to disrupt this exchange from which he was excluded . |
| 13 | Had Puddephat provoked this storm by propositioning the boy ? |
| 14 | The industry met this threat in 1922 by appointing its own censor , Harding 's former Postmaster-General , Will Hays . |
| 15 | When The Scotsman 's music critic reviewed this production in Paris last month she was overwhelmed by its beauty but others have taken the view that two pianos no matter how superbly played can never be as effective as a great orchestra . |
| 16 | When The Scotsman 's music critic reviewed this production in Paris she was overwhelmed by its beauty , but others have taken the view that two pianos , no matter how superbly played , can never be as effective as a great orchestra . |
| 17 | The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos . |
| 18 | You can use algebra shorthand to rewrite this sentence by letting a letter stand for the number being thought of . |
| 19 | For example , a male tutor from the local college used this technique to cajole some of the male users into joining the bridging course . |
| 20 | The Philippine side described this development as a " breakthrough " , since the current agreement contained " contentious issues " . |
| 21 | She had not expected his mind to contain this kind of landscape . |
| 22 | But there is also another sense in which narrative is pertinent to the concept of undecidability , for the narrative of cybernetics as a field of study has this concept at its source . |
| 23 | The motorcyclist beat this time by five minutes , but conditions were unusual ; many institutions such as the University and the Art College remained closed for a second day of holiday , which meant traffic was unusually light . |
| 24 | A case in the feasibility study illustrates this type of work . |
| 25 | Depending on the reputation of the artist , the agent makes a deal to split this percentage of the ticket money from 70:30 up to 90:10 or 95:5 in the artist 's favour . |
| 26 | So please council when you have the money will you take action to remedy this blot on our lovely park which is being destroyed by mindless yobs at night time . |
| 27 | These will then have to be damped by paralleling each capacitor causing this problem with another of higher value and higher series resistance . |
| 28 | The other is that the investigator needs to know what the agent intended by and in performing the action : why this agent played this move in the ‘ game ’ . |
| 29 | His mind noted this fact among others , ticking efficiently on like a water-clock . |
| 30 | ( Interestingly , one of the functions of art is the attempt to refine this process of communicating mental states and the accounts of the artist can sometimes be a more useful guide to the nature of cognitive processes than naïve introspection . ) |