Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upward trend in the numbers of unemployed getting supplementary benefit , for example , continued in the 1980s ; the numbers trebled until two-thirds of all the unemployed received this benefit , despite the fact that it was never designed for them . |
| 2 | The Vanishing puts this vibe to good use by matching the metaphysical feel of the European road movie with the narrative pace of the post-Hitchcock thriller to come up with an intriguing , slightly disjointed meditation on death , desire and motorway café culture . |
| 3 | Although the British needed this route to support Egypt , many of them saw Pan American as opportunistic and poised to exploit its advantage in the postwar years . |
| 4 | The simple truth is that if the British withdrew this country would become an economic wasteland and whether there is a Catholic voting majority at some point in the future or not there will not be a united Ireland as no one would want to pay the enormous costs involved . |
| 5 | The French used this period of waiting to obtain up-to-the-minute intelligence about Portsmouth . |
| 6 | resources should be allocated to the subordinate to enable him to carry out his tasks at the expected level of performance , and authority should be delegated to enable the subordinate to do this job ; and |
| 7 | The prudent escaped this fate , and their possessions showed it , not least in the wide range of glorious Elizabethan and Jacobean tombs scattered through local parish churches . |
| 8 | PS I would n't be so sure about the away win this week-end … |
| 9 | At first the Vietnamese resisted this pressure . |
| 10 | For stationary axisymmetric solutions , it is usual to impose the condition that the space-times are asymptotically flat , and techniques for generating new solutions of Ernst 's equation in which the space-time satisfies this condition have been developed . |
| 11 | The largest animals are quite brown in their worn coats , especially after they have dried out on the rocks , while the young born this year are still dark greyish-black . |
| 12 | I think the real nitty gritty of this question is , given a T tumour can you pick out the good from the bad using this technique ? |
| 13 | When the Anonymous wrote this doctrine was under a cloud and his writings are a fascinating mixture of the new logic of the late eleventh century and views of kingship of an extreme conservatism . |
| 14 | We would like to hold a National Draw this year , and this is only possible with your wholehearted support . |
| 15 | A rude awakening this morning as water flooded into this house at Wendlebury in North Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | Now I 'm a governor of two schools and from this perspective in particular , I 'm very pleased to see that as a result of the legacy of previous Conservative administration and the generous S S A proposals for this year , that the Conservative group have been able to put forward a budget which enables schools budgets to be increased fully for demography and inflation and certainly I know that was a great worry this year in many of our schools that that might not be possible so it 's good to see that it is possible . |
| 17 | I was in Winchester for St Giles ’ Fair last month — ' he paused and shook his head ‘ — but ‘ t was a poor showing this year , half the town still needing to be rebuilt , and the other half with scarce two farthings to rub together . |
| 18 | Siobhan gives a good laugh this time . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's great to be back , ’ Adrian confessed during a two-day stay this week prompted by an invite to open Fermanagh 's new Tourist Information Centre . |