Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] this " in BNC.
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1 | Today , entire journals are given over to this work . |
2 | But uncertainties are smoothed over by this idealization of a historically and socially specific , juridical concept of power ( Hussain 1981 ) . |
3 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
4 | In Latin America , relationships are built up in this way not just for personal support but , also , to promote commercial and political ends . |
5 | Candidates from both the UK and overseas are accepted on to this full-time programme . |
6 | Radial means that the Artificial Horizon ( AH ) is regarded as the master instrument and scans are made out from this radially to each of the performance instruments , returning to the Horizon in between each performance instrument check . |
7 | one pound for every two over the limit , and you 're abated back to this level of allowance . |
8 | Young adult males are driven out of this group and form separate bachelor parties that must bide their time until they can steal young females and set up an oligarchy of their own . |
9 | Sexually mature males are driven out of this group once they grow big enough to constitute a threat to the dominant male ( although occasionally an ageing dominant male will allow a younger male to take over his harem and will be tolerated by his successor for a while ) . |
10 | The way in which the above activities are set out in this handbook is deliberately quite detailed in order to suit those who prefer to know how to do everything step by step . |
11 | I therefore give due notice to the Government Whips who are on duty that when we examine the bill in Committee and consider some of the things that are set out in this illustrious treaty , I may not be able to support the Government . |
12 | Ida McAninly , of St Albans Street , Tow Law , says it 's years since she stood on Witton Park Station , but the memories are brought back by this photograph . |
13 | ‘ I 'm fed up with this . |
14 | I says , Aye , but I 'm fed up with this I says , I 'm learning nothing . |
15 | I 'm fed up with this weather . |
16 | I 'm fed up with this stage altogether . |
17 | Well I said to him look , I said I know I 'm fed up with this thing next door , and I do n't want to stay there , but Alan said that I 've got to stay there , right , so I said to him , you know , we have to start doing something and I said to him something permanent because he ai n't a handy man , I mean he 'll do it , because I mean it 's something like measuring steel in n it ? |
18 | Look , I 'm fed up of this . |
19 | He came out of the bedclothes and said , ‘ While I 'm laid up like this , why do n't you do a few concerts on your own ? ’ |
20 | In a way , the very roots of music are touched on in this work . |
21 | Whether and how we can emerge from these turbulent times , depends on the kind of political debates , actions , choices and alliances that are worked out during this period in the United States , Japan , the Middle East and especially here in Europe . |
22 | The extent to which personality characteristics are passed on in this genetic way is less certain . |
23 | The colleges of South Kensington were involved in this along with other groups which , unfortunately , are passed over in this account . |
24 | The chief issues that are singled out in this debate are : that the growing proportion of retired people will impose a burden of increasing cost upon a shrinking population of working age in terms of pensions and services ; and the fact that a growing proportion of these will be very old and therefore more in need of medical and other care will make this burden more onerous still . |
25 | In the traditional realist novel the plot provides a principle of organization , while symbolic structures are fitted in around this frame . |