Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not at all improbable that Hitchcock also followed this system , but in the absence of a single manual from him we can not be sure . |
| 2 | Ramsey instantly scrapped this plan . |
| 3 | Hilton also assimilates this imagery to his under- standing of the Christian life as an extension of the Incarnation . |
| 4 | United States judges also have gone abroad on rare occasions , e.g. , to England in the Westinghouse case , but it is understood that the United States now discourages this practice . |
| 5 | ‘ Zam , Penumbra virtually owns this sector . |
| 6 | With Gorbachev consistently refusing this summons , despite a 100-rouble fine , the Court had then apparently imposed an effective ban on his travelling abroad , by requesting the Foreign and Security Ministries to ensure his appearance at the hearing . |
| 7 | Ellen never returned this caress . |
| 8 | Antony cleverly exploited this principle when he told them of Caesar 's will . |
| 9 | Cicero still read this work ( Tuscini. 3.54 ) ; and , being rather thick-skinned in these matters , did not feel the horridness of the situation . |
| 10 | Many informed commentators in England also take this view that the GCSE relates to an approach to secondary school curriculum and selection which social change is rapidly rendering inappropriate ( see , for example , Nuttall , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | Purcell probably completed this piece late , and supplied it on a separate sheet ; the part-copyist would have been able to gauge from the skeleton provided in the score how much space to leave in the second violin and viola parts . |
| 12 | Enoch Powell later cited this indication of my position as a kind of pledge from which , when events turned out as they did , I should have had the whole Cabinet 's leave formally to withdraw . |
| 13 | Look — what it comes down to is , Jake and Fand both want this Undry thing . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he said ‘ you do n't look as though you 'd give Joe Louis much trouble this morning . |
| 15 | Labov apparently sees this interview format as extending over several sessions in meetings with individuals and pairs , the interview structure finally dissolving as greater familiarity with neighbourhood residents allows the fieldworker to conduct group sessions . |
| 16 | This year sees the centenary of Peter Rabbit and since Wedgwood already dominates this characterware market segment the company has added a special range of items to celebrate the first appearance of Beatrix Potter 's famous character . |
| 17 | Christian Schiller also had this gift in his discussion groups . |
| 18 | Dickens also has this habit of making people out to be machines , or making objects become alive . |
| 19 | ITV also announced this week that , with the agreement of the Football League , they had taken out the Arsenal v Liverpool match from the fixtures for February 24 and it would be played at a later date , invoking a clause in their contract with the League that allows them to use three matches a season in this way . |
| 20 | ATTENDANCES on Boxing Day totalled some 556,000 , an increase of about 82,000 on last year , and ITV also announced this week that viewing figures for live matches were up . |
| 21 | Mr Patten partly concedes this point in recognising that new settlements can offer ‘ exciting opportunities for imaginative , high-quality design ’ . |
| 22 | Einstein then generalized this form of the equivalence principle to cover both electromagnetic and mechanical experiments . |
| 23 | Althusser therefore employs this method to recover from Marx 's work something its author never clearly expressed . |
| 24 | I have always detected that an absence of humour is reflected in a very loud laugh , as if it is necessary to set in motion some violent mechanism before anything funny ultimately tickles the fancy , and Crossman certainly displayed this mannerism . |
| 25 | But since it is quite unfair that the intention of the deceased should be deceived by a freedman , he ought to make over to the testator 's sons the hundred left to him , as in a similar case our late Emperor Marcus also made this ruling . |
| 26 | Eventually GCCS in London and Singapore was in a position to read all Japanese naval signals , right up to the attack on Pearl Harbor , although Churchill carefully kept this information from the Americans . |
| 27 | I would also like to nail the lie that the Conservatives do n't care about nursery education as put forward by Chris as Mrs already said this morning , Hertfordshire County Council has one of the best records of nursery education in the whole of the country , something like seventy five per cent of the client group currently have part time nursery places . |
| 28 | Their meeting in this year could have been chilly , then , but fortunately it was not : " Possum more relaxed this year , " Pound wrote to Ernest Hemingway , " last year rather edgy … " |
| 29 | Since Jasper and Bienvida never went to bed until Tina did but fell asleep wherever they happened to be , Jarvis hardly took this protest seriously . |
| 30 | The civil war between Renamo guerillas and the government in Mozambique also reflects this sense of deprivation — Renamo has been particularly strong amongst the Makonde of the north , who were most affected by the communal village programme of the 1970s . |