Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , even when research came to recognize this exaggeration and to examine the diversity of local service provision , local politics remained shrouded in mystery . |
| 2 | His languid mind began comparing this moment to the noise and confusion of Arnhem , the battle that had ended his war . |
| 3 | The line h-d is the conventional engineering action needed to realize this solution . |
| 4 | There was a pause while Gavin 's duty-neuron struggled to assimilate this information . |
| 5 | In Scotland , the electorate had to pay this tax for an extra year . |
| 6 | What mind had created this mythago , she wondered in astonishment . |
| 7 | The professor had treated this book with proper severity , and Himmler wanted me to dispose once and for all of this type of scientific mischief-making . |
| 8 | Today 's results show that many teenagers have been hit by the recession , with the average pocket money received falling this year . |
| 9 | Experience seemed to justify this view , for the period saw many indecisive encounters of this kind ; while the naval battles which produced some decisive result — Cape Passaro ( 1718 ) ; Hawke 's victory over the French Admiral Du Bois de la Motte ( 1744 ) ; Lagos and Quiberon Bay ( 1759 ) ; Rodney 's ‘ midnight chase ’ of the Spanish Admiral Langara in 1780 — were nearly all marked by a preponderance of strength on one side . |
| 10 | The Museum agreed to bring this exhibition forward to coincide with the National Gallery 's . |
| 11 | The Parish Council agreed to fund this part of the refurbishment of the hall . |
| 12 | The County Council failed to seize this opportunity . |
| 13 | This opportunity was lost when the District Council failed to determine this application but granted detailed consent to Phases 1 and 2 . |
| 14 | A budgie found found this morning in the Bobsmill area it 's yellow and green , two nine three eight two five two nine three eight two five can you call after four o'clock and er last one a cat found in Standhill Road in Carlton found last night it 's black and white and it 's got a pink collar on , five two six six seven one five two six six seven one . |
| 15 | Negative perceptions of wilderness helped to reinforce this process of agricultural expansion by , in effect , making a virtue out of necessity — by turning cultivation and agriculture into a form of semi-religious crusade ( Thomas , 1983 ; Serpell , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | Fig. 1 shows how an eight bit binary number can be bar coded using this system . |
| 17 | After several hearings between November 1817 and April 1818 the court decided that the appellee did have this right . |
| 18 | ‘ When the government first proposed moving people from institutional care into the community , a government committee appeared to investigate this matter and reported in 1988 , warning that ‘ care in the community is not a cheap option ’ , ’ said Ms Laird . |
| 19 | ( The sanctions committee had referred this issue to the Security Council on Sept. 12 after exploring ways of specifying whether food needs in iraq should be categorized as humanitarian . |
| 20 | At the Albert Hall in January 1912 Law had made this point with characteristic bluntness : Liberals were expert only " in electioneering , in the small trickery of politics " . |
| 21 | The boy had refused this show of illness and the Sheikh had agreed . |
| 22 | Oh yes , the interesting part there , in those days , was that the majority of the children were in the same boat , we were all poor and er m the Town Council had got this skating ring at Mansfield , roller skating ring , near the Gas Works , where they provided a school meal for all the children that could there during the hour lunch . |
| 23 | The noise she made was like a cry from hell , and James knew her suffering had turned this place into hell itself . |
| 24 | The girl had come this way , she was sure . |
| 25 | The Privy Council refused to decide this point in Chan Man-sin , where the accused assumed the rights of the owner by drawing on the account . |
| 26 | Such inroads as modern culture made into the village tended to fortify this conviction . |
| 27 | The ‘ Care in the Community ’ initiative sought to extend this cooperation to help people who have been hospitalized for long periods . |
| 28 | Some of the patients assigned to prednisolone did receive this drug for more than four weeks . |
| 29 | To ask whether the meeting had caused this conversation is meaningless , for spontaneously arising conversations can be said to have many different causes . |
| 30 | As a consequence of the creation of the new presidency , Gorbachev 's former post of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet was restyled , effectively being restored to the function of parliamentary Speaker ( the post had served this function prior to becoming a de facto executive presidency and occupied by Gorbachev in May 1989 — see pp. 36486 ; 36659 ) . |