Example sentences of "[vb pp] this [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legislative changes have given this a further momentum at a time when , says Mr Harrison , ‘ there is a greater awareness among fund managers that this is a growing sector ’ . |
| 2 | Whether you have given this the same consideration of the increase in , er , directors ' salaries I do n't know , but I think y it 's worthy of , er , a further consideration . |
| 3 | My mother who did virtually nothing except cooking and the housework Mrs Raffald did n't do , and who went hardly anywhere , clearly considered this a terrible waste of time . |
| 4 | A great detective might have considered this an astounding coincidence were it not for the fact that the hostelry was the only place in the whole of King 's Magnum Parva where a lady or a gentleman might obtain a meal . |
| 5 | He might have done this a good deal earlier if he had wanted for it was completely blank . |
| 6 | I 've only done this a little while . |
| 7 | Video technology has made this a frequent topic of male sporting conversation . |
| 8 | Formal planning has been a feature of many schools and local authorities for a number of years now , and for those who have yet to embark , DES Circular 7/88 , The Education Act : Local Management of Schools has now made this a statutory requirement . |
| 9 | It has made this a Special Development Area . |
| 10 | The excavations in the early part of this century have made this a difficult building to interpret , but it is clear from the published plan that alterations had been made to the original structure , which probably dates from the third century . |
| 11 | However , not many studies have made this the specific focus of attention in outcome measurements ( Bass and Windle , 1972 ; Goldman et al. , 1992 ) . |
| 12 | In practice the difficulty of rigorous identification of a latent issue and the looseness of the concept ‘ mobilisation of bias ’ have made this an unrewarding line of enquiry . |
| 13 | Constance , who felt that he had said this a thousand times before , usually shrugged impatiently . |
| 14 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 15 | I 've got this the right way round have n't I . |
| 16 | ‘ Napoleon , ’ he murmured , ‘ called this the finest drawing-room in Europe . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If I 'd known this a few days ago , it woulda saved a lotta trouble . |
| 18 | By 1914 , the Germans had found that they could conduct most of their correspondence with village headmen in Swahili , and the British also found this a great advantage . |
| 19 | Erm , if somebody could spend a little bit of time with Ilias because we 've got this language problem and I know that he 's found this a little bit difficult , I think he would appreciate it tonight , when you get together please . |
| 20 | On the whole he seems to have found this an unrewarding period professionally as well as personally , which drove him , like George Somerset in A Laodicean , to indulge in ‘ an old enthusiasm for poetical literature ’ . |
| 21 | Who would have believed this a short time ago ? … |
| 22 | During his first official visit to Bonn on June 12-13 Soviet Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh had confirmed that Soviet nuclear weapons were still on German territory , although Soviet Defence Minister Marshal Dmitry Yazov had denied this the previous week . |