Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in this [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Organic molecules broken down in this way release virtually as much energy as they are capable of releasing — so such ‘ oxidative ’ breakdown is extremely efficient . |
| 2 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 3 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 4 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 5 | The disappointment Haslam inevitably felt at being let down in this way led to a second turning point in his career and one of those ‘ negative accidents ’ that ultimately proved to have a positive outcome . |
| 6 | Married women were more likely than single mothers to be let down in this way , and such women were particularly likely to develop depression . |
| 7 | In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria . |
| 8 | They will certainly have the fullest support of my Department and the Government in that and I hope that they will have the fullest support of Opposition Members , too , although that has not come through in this debate . |
| 9 | The Liverpool manager was seething with rage after his defender David Burrows was carried off in this Coca-Cola Cup tie with a severe knee injury that will keep him out for at least three months . |
| 10 | ‘ All Bonanza has to do now is stay out of sight until a good tale is dreamed up to account for two of his boys getting mixed up in this thing last night , and a few unimpeachable witnesses to make the tale stick , and we all go back where we started . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ So your next natural thought was that the only short fat man who could be mixed up in this shooting was me ? |
| 12 | This is not the first time the issue of control has come up in this column but because yours is a sign that tends to resist going with the flow , all too often you meet people and circumstances that appear to block your path . |
| 13 | For girls caught up in this nexus of processes , the effect is that the feminine role , the ‘ little housewife ’ role and self-definition are blended together in an ‘ unselfconscious complex of unobstructed behaviour ’ . |
| 14 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 15 | Drinking is caught up in this debate because of the health and social problems associated with alcohol abuse — even though these problems have probably always affected a small minority of people in most societies . |
| 16 | There is a network of disadvantage in society in terms of income , access to housing , educational and employment opportunities , etc. , and large numbers of families caught up in this network are relatively deprived and vulnerable to breakdown . |
| 17 | The reason it 's come out in this way is that you had the debate on the er original proposals for this extra money which did n't go as was recommended er and you made a decision on that and then later in the agenda , and I ca n't find the , the exact point now but you had a discussion and a suggestion was made and agreed that if there was any money left over investigations should be made and that the surveyor should give erm consideration Madam Chairman to using any of that , perhaps for a camera , and that was agreed , and it is noted somewhere , and that 's what Mr has done . |
| 18 | Now the way it 's sorted out in this competition is that er it 's points first , if two teams are level on points then it 's the number of goals scored , then it 's goal difference and if they 're all level after that then it 's drawing lots and the top team in the group have a home game in round two and the team that finishes runners up are away in round two . |
| 19 | Despite being picked out in this way there were still failures and difficulties . |
| 20 | Or at any rate , with higher education as sketched out in this book ? |
| 21 | Next year two-thirds of all motorway maintenance work will be carried out in this way . |
| 22 | Because the transaction was carried out in this way , the loser was Derbyshire 's pension fund . |
| 23 | However , when the company was considering the service and repair of machinery and was thinking of sending it abroad to Scandanavia , it was willing to listen and to ensure that the work was carried out in this country . |
| 24 | The final shaping of the whole assembly was actually carried out in this case after the two were glued together , before final fixing to the chair . |
| 25 | Significant research has been carried out in this field . |
| 26 | In fact Peasgood suggests , in one of the few surveys which have been carried out in this area , that selection in academic libraries from the ‘ book in hand ’ was found to be no more effective than selection from lists ( effectiveness being measured in terms of subsequent issues ) . |
| 27 | Numerous MEG supported projects have been carried out in this area , especially by Noranda-Kerr , and all data are available on Open File . |
| 28 | But now a lot of work is being carried out in this area ; in future the use of biological agents for control will be far more widespread and the use of chemicals reduced even further . ’ |
| 29 | The analysis of the search space carried out in this chapter should help to focus attention on the discriminating requirement of top-down information in terms of the number and similarity of hypotheses competing over a stretch of the utterance , and of the distance between pruning points ( i.e. the grammar ‘ chunks ’ ) , the two factors which determine the potential combinatorial explosion of hypotheses . |
| 30 | It will be treated rather as a set of conditions relating to the sale of goods or the supply of work and materials for the purposes of the comparative analysis carried out in this chapter . |