Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kent Armstrong offers this service at a reasonable price . |
| 2 | Minton used this setting for his drawing , Jam Session , which he produced as a cover design for the July-August 1949 issue of Our Time , a left-wing arts magazine . |
| 3 | Mr Justice Drake used this power to full in summing up in the Donovan case , warning the jurors that they should not think they had to ‘ fix sums with lots of noughts on the end because it 's fashionable ’ . |
| 4 | ( Victoria has this sensation about a variety of apparently innocuous substances : she claims to be poisoned daily by wheat and dairy products ; she can detect the presence of fertilizers in carrots and mercury in shellfish . ) |
| 5 | Durkheim shared this concern with the failure of modern civilization to produce the happiness promised by the philosophies which had emerged as the feudal period ended . |
| 6 | In 1981 , Prime Minister Robert Mugabe made this comment on the goals of education : |
| 7 | Years later ( 5 April 1710 , described in a contract of ‘ vente d'heritages ’ ) Jean sold this property to Nicolas ( dit Colin ) Hotteterre . |
| 8 | Gorbachev underlined this proviso in discussing the Afghan problem with the UN Secretary General , Javier Perez de Cuellar . |
| 9 | Ramsey entered this conference with a reputation outside England as well as inside it ; and the proceedings of the conference confirmed the opinion of a lot of bishops that he ought to be their next leader . |
| 10 | Gorbachev described this vision at the April 1985 plenum , hardly in the most memorable of terms , as a ‘ qualitatively new state [ sostoyanie ] of society ’ . |
| 11 | A study of long-firm fraud , one form of corporate crime , by Levi illustrates this type of criminal activity ( Levi , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | This head has the typically Iberian ear , with a scroll or shell-like shape at the top , but it is grotesquely exaggerated in size — a comparison of a side view of this head with a watercolour in the Museum of Modern Art in New York shows that Picasso found this feature of it particularly fascinating . |
| 13 | When Daniel Defoe came this way during the first quarter of the eighteenth century he observed that : |
| 14 | Gregory recalled this curse in the context of Avitus 's election in 571 , when Hortensius 's descendant , Eufrasius , was the leading challenger . |
| 15 | AWI uses this algorithm by presenting three separate utilities — a Cel Editor , a Background Editor , and a Movie Editor . |
| 16 | Freud sees this aspect of Judaism as marking an advance away from sensuality , from what can be seen or touched , towards intellectuality , thought processes about unseen things , such as God . |
| 17 | Taskopruzade and Mecdi assign this event to the reign of Bayezid I ( 1389–1402 ) , saying that as a result of a quarrel between Molla Fenari and that sultan , the former abandoned his posts and went off to Karaman where the emir gave him a salary of 1,000 akce a day and each of his pupils 500 akce a day . |
| 18 | Marcel Morongiu captured this idea of modesty in his recollections of Swedish roots . |
| 19 | Hilton sees this destruction as a continual process , but he also recognises in it a major stage that other mystics call the " dark night of the senses " a particularly sharp period of suffering during which the will is firmly dislodged from false values and reoriented towards God . |
| 20 | Edward showed this letter to Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Michael Morley calls this group of lidded goblets in laburnum and boxwood ( below ) ‘ Elevation ’ , as ‘ the bowl rises successively on the stems ’ |
| 22 | Mr Gorbachev began this week to inch in that direction . |
| 23 | Moreover , Corbett loved this time of the year and realised how much he missed Maeve and the serenity of his own manor house . |
| 24 | His argument deploys the old jargon of authenticity , now combined with the jargon of otherness ; despite his Hegelian framework , Scruton deploys this jargon as an exalted metaphor which does little more than bestow a spurious profundity on a normative sexual politics which is at heart timid , conservative , and deeply ignorant . |
| 25 | The United States saw this war as an opportunity to change things in the Middle East , and celebrated the Lebanese-Israeli Withdrawal Agreement by lifting its year-old ban on the sale of seventy-five F-16 jet fighters to Israel . |
| 26 | Gilligan relates this difference to the differing social roles and relationships of men and women . |
| 27 | Bryan Adams saw this lot in action in The Olympia last weekend and was well impressed . |
| 28 | The PLO leader Yassir Arafat discussed this proposal with King Hussein of Jordan in Amman on Nov. 13 , but the initiative foundered quickly over Iraq 's insistence that the Arab League cancel the resolutions of its Cairo meeting in August [ see p. 37635 ] , requiring immediate withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait . |
| 29 | Directly after Brezhnev outlined this proposal in Delhi he reiterated the Soviet readiness ‘ to work actively with other interested states ’ to transform the Indian Ocean into a zone of peace . |
| 30 | ‘ What do you think Heather did after Cunningham put this idea into her head ? ’ |