Example sentences of "[prep] this [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often it takes meetings such as this to reveal the pervasive nature of culturally determined behaviour . |
| 2 | For this to take the appropriate forms in the particular cases of longitudinal and lateral correlations , |
| 3 | Yet the exchange had been all gain , for this became the happiest , the most rewarding period of his life , when to lose himself utterly in God and His Work was truly to find himself . |
| 4 | The sheer quantity of calculation and printing required for this stretches the modest administrative processor to its limit for two days . |
| 5 | Taking the river Loire as a boundary the lands north of this reflected the Norman influence — that same influence which produced England 's Norman architecture also that of Sicily and southern Italy . |
| 6 | Mammals keep track of this using the pineal gland which also regulates their bodies ' circadian rhythm . |
| 7 | But none of this alters the ethical issue and the consequent injustice done in 1985 . |
| 8 | All of this made the rural village an extremely close-knit society . |
| 9 | On top of this came the sundry depredations of military and civilian authorities desperate to feed the armed forces and urban population in the face of totally inadequate harvests . |
| 10 | All of this creates the fractured rivalry which has existed during the whole of my service and which has survived attempts by management to ‘ weld the uniform and C.I.D . |
| 11 | Much of this reflects the entrenched acute-service bias of the National Health Service , and major change would have far-reaching implications . |
| 12 | One example of this concerns the deadly sea snake and a variety of predatory fish . |
| 13 | One of the most interesting examples of this concerns the electronic arms race , as shown in the brain sizes of fossil animals . |
| 14 | All of this supports the growing insistence of many gerontologists that we should conceive of the elderly as a resource not as a burden . |
| 15 | None of this means the socialist objective of equalising power and spreading choice and freedom should be abandoned . |
| 16 | Naturally enough , all of this placed the working-class organisations in a cruel dilemma . |
| 17 | ( In none of this do the geographical or military details matter , which is why the background has not here been explained : what matters is the constitutional issues raised . ) |
| 18 | Much of this bore the unmistakable stamp of guild thought and policy . |
| 19 | Cases like this indicate the general validity of the method , although there is still a need to establish the limits of its accuracy . |
| 20 | He did n't mind spending the money if it brought a result , but something like this put the whole world out of balance . |
| 21 | ‘ It would probably take a week of rain like this to reduce the forest-fire hazard . ’ |
| 22 | Taking anti-depressants to get you over a hump like this makes the same sort of sense as using a crutch to get around on while a broken leg heals . |
| 23 | Above this lies the usual hierarchy found in all police bureaucracies . |
| 24 | In this lay the historical peculiarity of the capitalist mode of production . |
| 25 | But in this meeting the absolute difference between the two sides remains : it is not dissolved away in a ‘ coincidence of opposites ’ , an ‘ identity in difference ’ , an ‘ eternal God-man unity ’ . |
| 26 | In this setting the qualitative was constantly under evaluation at the expense of the quantitative measure , for the ‘ wise ’ amongst us who were present knew that the statistical return often gives a skewed version of complex social events , although it speaks volumes about the way our systems of control are generated and maintained . |
| 27 | From this stems the historical importance of the ordinances of war issued by kings on campaign : by Richard II during the Scottish war of 1385 ; by Henry V in France in 1419 ; and by his brother John , duke of Bedford , in Normandy in 1428 , all three attempts to control the illegal or ‘ un-peaceful ’ activities of soldiers , in particular in their relationships with non-combatants . |
| 28 | From this follows the first point : the existence of illegal concert parties is enormously hard to prove . |
| 29 | Objections to this caused the central board of the Co-operative Union to decide to withdraw its £400 annual grant to the Guild unless the divorce law campaign were dropped . |
| 30 | Perhaps the one exception to this concerns the unsatisfactory cleaning of the Pottery Hut . |