Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE ARE SO many people who helped to make this time special that I am sorry not to be able to mention them all by name . |
| 2 | Before I hand over to Dave to tell his side of the story , I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dave , Richard , Liz and all the JM staff at sites around the country who helped to organise this event which has raised so much for our Charity of the Year . |
| 3 | I 'm good at my job and anybody who wants to run this place would have to recognise the fact . |
| 4 | Although the pejorative term ‘ correlational sociolinguistics ’ is sometimes used by non-practitioners of the subject who appear to make this assumption , Labov himself has expressed the fear that his methods might give rise to a flood of replicated ‘ correlatory ’ studies of little theoretical value . |
| 5 | For those students who expect to graduate this year , the prospects for employment seem no better than last , with around 12 per cent of last year 's crop still without jobs nine months after graduating . |
| 6 | There is little evidence to support the effectiveness of either acupuncture or hypnosis as a means of eliminating smoking behaviour but such methods may suit some smokers who want to try this form of treatment [ 6 ] . |
| 7 | Those who seek to interpret this increase as a reflection of rapid social change which led to increased lawlessness must still consider the changes in administrative arrangements and popular attitudes which may have distorted the relationship between the reported and ‘ real ’ rates of crime . |
| 8 | Many people have seen Charlotte waiting for Albert , or her ghost who refuses to leave this station . |
| 9 | As for the rest of the staff , I will miss each one of the people who served to get this magazine on its feet . |
| 10 | It 's inserted into the poem in two ways : first the devils are identified with the pagan gods — they are introduced , indeed , with a great fanfare in the first book and given all sorts of classical erm and oriental names , and Milton explains to us that of course it was the devils themselves who managed to disperse this tradition that that 's who they really were ; and second , and though less central and less impressive in its poetic results , is perhaps the second device which is more interesting when we think of the poem in terms of Milton 's personal involvement . |
| 11 | Lord Mayor , I would be the last person to criticise either Councillors or offices who attempt to represent this district on foreign shores , whenever and wherever such trips are perfectly legitimate . |
| 12 | The first firms , such as Boyden and Handy , who emerged to accommodate this demand did not appear overnight . |
| 13 | In performance , the first two are prone to bouts of noisy , head-splitting virtuosity , and Third mercilessly shows up those who fail to integrate this volatility into music of a more obviously poetic nature , and the Fourth is one of those elusive late pieces , whose rarefied world is closed to all but the most sensitive of artists . |
| 14 | To those who wished to have this discretion , his message was always the same : It is quite clear from several sources that general opinion among the bishops was in favour of relaxations for ‘ reasonable ’ causes , but Anselm resisted every appeal for moderation : for him no relaxation could be ‘ reasonable ’ . |
| 15 | And , at p. 1016B : ‘ there must be a heavy burden of proof on the person who seeks to invoke this remedy . ’ |
| 16 | There is a sign in the entrance to the Great Hall notifying those who wish to use this facility to alter their hearing aids to the ‘ T ’ setting . |
| 17 | Those Catholic teachers who are already qualified who wish to take this course , and are considered by St Andrew 's College suitable candidates to be admitted to the course . |
| 18 | Many feminists , including Millicent Fawcett , who continued to hold this view , left the NUSEC in 1926 . |
| 19 | No candidate who fails to see this point can get a first class on that question . |
| 20 | Money also serves to bribe the officials who have to take this decision . |
| 21 | It is the action of that tiny minority , day in , day out , which terrifies residents and corrupts the lives of young children who learn to accept this behaviour as normal . |