Example sentences of "[to-vb] this [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woolf seemed to ascribe this to the ignorance of English sentencers about prison conditions on the one hand and other countries ’ practices on the other . |
| 2 | It will be interesting to compare this to the speed of the user fittable Cyrix 386 pin compatible 486 device that is rumoured to have a release date towards the end of this year . |
| 3 | To include in teacher training ‘ respect for others ’ as a first principle and to support this by the development of teaching materials and activities which foster a practical understanding of its significance |
| 4 | Apparently she was not prepared to risk this for the sake of pleading Russell 's cause . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , is it too far fetched to include this in the collection of stories of guardsmen , telephone engineers and building site workers who went to Ken 's home ? |
| 6 | If ethical considerations are such that it is appropriate to include this in the engagement letter , the following wording may be appropriate : |
| 7 | John Hume returned to the head of the march to ask the demonstrators to accept this as the limit of their defiance . |
| 8 | If you have a joystick and a games port for your PC it might be interesting to try this as the input device for a train controller . |
| 9 | Now what is God saying to me through this passage ? … and you find yourself ruminating on the things you are anxious about , and you start to relate this to the person you are . |
| 10 | Again like Calvin and his later disciples , Dame Julian agonises about the eternal damnation of those who are not numbered among the elect and struggles to square this with the goodness and love of God . |
| 11 | But it 's the clear duty of a seller 's conveyancer to recognise the nature of any plan required , and to obtain this from the seller , or , with authority , to instruct a professional draughtsman to prepare one . |
| 12 | He was not supposed to know whether the dealer was buying or selling on his client 's behalf , but nonetheless he attempted to guess this from the runner 's facial expression and comments . |
| 13 | It is possible for the offline operator to indicate this at the operator terminal when asked to mount a media item on the unit , and no further requests will be made of that unit during that particular offline run . |
| 14 | The reason was that we were touching three million unemployed at that particular point in time , and it was felt that the best way of making an impact was to highlight this in the way in which it was done . |
| 15 | If he hears a form / gene / , is he to render this in the orthography as gon na ( which for some readers may have a peculiarly American association ) or gointuh or going to ? |
| 16 | If it was considered that a parent was fabricating symptoms and manipulating recorded data a decision could be made to discuss this with the parent and family doctor . |
| 17 | I am away on a short holiday in Scotland between August 14th-26th but would be pleased to discuss this over the telephone when I 'm back . |
| 18 | I would be happy to discuss this over the telephone , although a written response is really essential . |
| 19 | The Prince of Wales has an obvious love of the countryside and for 20 years he has somehow found some private time to express this through the medium of watercolour painting . |
| 20 | Do you want me to play this to the lot on the way to Bournemouth next week ? |
| 21 | Consider what you can do to avoid this in the future . |
| 22 | It is a relatively easy matter to achieve dramatic reductions in protein deposition but much more difficult to combine this with the prevention of lipid penetration . |
| 23 | I have seen what graphics packages on more sophisticated computers were able to produce , but I wanted to be able to use this with the knitting machine . |
| 24 | In a simple case of the sale of registered land ( such as transfer of whole ) it 's common now to assume that your draft will be acceptable without alteration , and therefore to type the top copy on an engrossment print , and to invite the buyer to use this as the engrossment . |
| 25 | Like this resolution I would urge all of you when you go back to your congregation those ministers who are following the moderator 's request , those ministers from the South who will not be conducting morning worship tomorrow because of the long journey request whoever is conducting worship to use this in the service in the prayers ! |
| 26 | One afternoon the Governor summoned me to Government House and informed me that he had instructions to institute proceedings against Aung San for an alleged murder in the early days of the Japanese invasion of Burma , and instructed me to prepare the case to justify this to the country . |
| 27 | Let me try to illustrate this from the career of one notable Christian . |
| 28 | He was to regret this in the future , even to the extent of denying on occasion that he had ever become a naturalised American . |
| 29 | If you want to put this to the test , simply present your membership , attendance and income and expenditure figures to the church committee in graph form without comment beyond that of simple clarification . |
| 30 | Rain could not bring herself to put this to the test . |