Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few months later , as Emile de Laveleye goes on to say in this essay of 1871 , the Franco-Prussian war broke out , setting in motion the sequence of European conflicts which led , ultimately , to the obliteration of the centre of Berlin in 1945 . |
| 2 | The narrator then goes on to tell of this divorcee , Brenda Goring , who arrives in their village and who latches on to his quite mouse of a wife , whom he dearly loves , fills her ears with tales of the fast life she has always led and still leads in visits to London and , worse , is always to be found in his home when he gets back exhausted from the office . |
| 3 | Certain human rights treaties grant individuals access to international arenas , when the State in question has expressly agreed to this procedure . |
| 4 | By the mid-century , the novelist 's art has entirely changed in this respect : extensive description of living space is no longer the rare exception but the rule . |
| 5 | I am just sorry it has all ended in this way . |
| 6 | The Independent Labour Party has long warned against this . |
| 7 | Regular NI readers will be pleased to note that frogs ' legs get a mention — our Briefly page has long campaigned against this gruesome trade . |
| 8 | If it has not completed within this time , the transfer run will stop shortly after the transfer duration has expired . |
| 9 | Although the name Shaw has not arisen before this date , from here onwards it was never to be far from the Lakeland milling scene . |
| 10 | Those readers who like the gossip found in ‘ Heard on my Rounds ’ will have noticed that the column has not appeared in this issue . |
| 11 | The Hon. Lady 's old trick of quoting one item as an example for all the valleys has not come off this time . |
| 12 | Kaunda said that " Zambianization has not succeeded in this particular area . |
| 13 | Sir , — Now that the dust has finally settled on this election we may pause to reflect on what has undoubtedly been one of the dirtiest , and most depressing of exercises in political chicanery . |
| 14 | ‘ The Impressionist and the City : Pissarro 's Series ’ opened at the Dallas Museum of Art last month ( until 31 January 1993 ) and will be shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art ( 7 March-6 June 1993 ) and at London 's Royal Academy of Arts ( 2 July-10 October 1993 ) , which has already contributed to this debate with its recent exhibitions of ‘ Monet in the Nineties ’ ( 1990 ) and ‘ Alfred Sisley ’ ( 1992 ) in which the later works were strongly featured . |
| 15 | Michael Burr ( West of Scotland Agricultural College ) in his Report ( September 1982 ) on Tourism and Farming in the French Alps has already written about this subject in detail . |
| 16 | In particular it will help to resolve the deep paradox that has already surfaced in this book and will continue to do so : how it is that the same features of individuality can be expressed in such totally disparate forms . |
| 17 | Head comes in , has already thought of this , and agrees to organize a collection from staff for fruit or whatever . |
| 18 | The reputation of the universities and polytechnics has hardly recovered to this day . |
| 19 | That maxim , one could say , is the core of The Lord of the Rings , and it is reinforced from the start by all that Gandalf says about the way Ring-bearers fade , regardless of all their ‘ strength ’ or ‘ good purpose ’ , and further by his violent refusal to take the Ring himself : His renunciation makes sense in an age which has seen many pigs become farmers ; no reviewer has ever balked at this basic opening move of Tolkien 's . |
| 20 | ‘ The merit of Mr. Audubon 's work yields only to the size of his book , ’ he said , ‘ while Mr. Gould 's work on the Birds of Europe , inferior in size to that of Mr. Audubon 's , is the most beautiful work on Ornithology that has ever appeared in this or any other country . ’ |
| 21 | Musica Reservata , perhaps the most influential ( and certainly the most controversial ) ensemble that Britain has ever produced in this field , began in London 's Hampstead during the 1960s , when record shops were stocked with ‘ folk ’ and ‘ ethnic ’ music ; today the heady perfume of those years can still be caught in Tony Bingham 's emporium of rare and unusual musical instruments in that quarter of the city ( illus.4 ) . |
| 22 | However , no one except a Christian anarchist or a Tolstoyan has ever deduced from this that socialism is against revolutionary violence . |
| 23 | Although earlier crude categories survive in some influential textbooks on ageing , a subtler stance has gradually emerged from this controversy . |
| 24 | He also has no hesitation in reminding capitalism , in its spooky hour of triumph over communism , that the ‘ culture of contentment ’ has always depended on this underclass — indeed , has happily imported it when necessary to do the menial and distasteful jobs at the cheapest possible wage . |
| 25 | Thus , in relation to the ordination of women , the question to be asked is : ‘ Is this the opportunity God has deliberately created for this new development in the life of Christ 's Church ? ’ |
| 26 | Although our patient is only 6 months post-transplantation he has had a remarkably trouble free postoperative course , and immunosuppression with FK506 has probably contributed to this good early result . |
| 27 | Domestic tourism has also increased within this period . |
| 28 | South African rugby has really come to this : a game for 90 players from the Transvaal , Northern Transvaal , Western Province , Eastern Province , Orange Free State and Natal who get wonderfully reimbursed for the expense of now playing 23 or more first-class fixtures in a season against one another while the rest hardly get a look in . |
| 29 | The Association has fully participated in this new initiative to draw together opinion and comment from across the widest spectrum of our industry , in a bid to provide the industry with a united voice to Government . |
| 30 | But in this instance , comrade Preobrazhensky has completely forgotten about this fundamental methodological demand of Marxism . |