Example sentences of "[prep] this [verb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since shareholders controlled the company they should be entitled to the profits and the managers obliged to act in their interests , for this ensured that the shareholders had the incentive to exploit wealth-maximizing opportunities . |
| 2 | The appearance of the countryside — uplands included — has always been changing and the Farming Unions , in particular , make great play of this suggesting that the losses of rough grassland and moorland in recent years are merely a part of continual agricultural change . |
| 3 | One prominent analysis of this maintains that the interaction between political institutions broadly defined and media institutions is one of ‘ dependence and adaptation ’ . |
| 4 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 5 | A special analysis of this showed that a quarter of all people entering unemployment in May 1980 who had found a job within 10 months had taken one which they knew to be temporary . |
| 6 | It was out of this floundering that a new Hollywood emerged . |
| 7 | The logic of this means that the majority of directors tend to be account executives — the people with the main responsibility for maintaining contact with the client ( see page 46 ) — rather than heads of departments . |
| 8 | None of this means that the German text is ‘ better ’ or ‘ worse ’ than its English counterpart . |
| 9 | All of this means that the case for actively encouraging co-operative R&D is strong but not exactly overpowering . |
| 10 | None of this means that the element of intellectual conviction was negligible in the policies of many of the rulers of Europe in the generation before the French Revolution . |
| 11 | Of course , none of this means that the equipment is taking anything away fromm the chef 's own individual skills which are irreplaceable . |
| 12 | None of this suggests that the NUAAW is going to sanction any widespread militant activity other than a little judicious sabre-rattling by its left-wing faction during negotiations on the AWB . |
| 13 | A failure to comply with this entails that the agreement is improperly executed and can not be enforced without a court order ( s65 of CCA 1974 ) . |
| 14 | 2.3 " Adjoining Property " means any neighbouring or adjoining land or premises ( excluding the remainder of the Centre ) in which the Landlord or a Group Company has a freehold or leasehold interest or in which during the Term the Landlord or a Group Company shall have acquired a freehold or leasehold interest There is no objection to this provided that the existence of any adjoining property does not have an adverse effect on the tenant 's contribution towards service charges or other costs referred to in the lease and the tenant should therefore be vigilant in this regard when amending the lease . |
| 15 | Plus this means that the strike committee can go public with it 's grievances , and in the past few days , the farmers and the authorities have been debating the issues on local television . |