Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The success of ‘ Darwinism ’ shows that the majority of biologists recognized this point , and the only significant area of debate remaining centred on the problem of heredity . |
| 2 | The panel of experts signing this letter were recruited by the pharmaceutical companies involved in Spain . |
| 3 | Part of the campaign against any form of discrimination has this problem : part of the success of any such campaign carries with it , by the yardstick of some , disbenefits . |
| 4 | The immense significance of the bureaucracy , politically , economically and socially , in the political systems of countries in the Third World has produced a variety of attempts to explain this phenomenon , including a theory of the post-colonial state which relates the pivotal position of the bureaucracy to the unique role of the state in conditions of underdevelopment ( Hirschmann 1981 ) . |
| 5 | The history of the poor law between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries was one of attempts to make this formula work — for local initiative with broad guidelines laid down centrally — despite social changes . |
| 6 | ‘ Producers were prepared to pay good money for quality stock and the number of sheep sold this year was higher than in 1990 . ’ |
| 7 | Surveys of houses showing this kind of distress should be left strictly to the structural engineer , as should prefabricated concrete houses , and those made of wattle and clay ( there are some ! ) . |
| 8 | The work of T. S. Kuhn ( 1963 ) , and others since , has of course challenged this belief ; although Kuhn talks of science in general terms , most of his examples are taken from physics . |
| 9 | ( We can not , of course employ this argument on behalf of anencephalics , although mongoloids could benefit from a variant of it . ) |
| 10 | It is common in this type of contract to use this curve in fixing the prices for further batches . |
| 11 | A number of proposals addressing this issue have been considered including the " Fifth Directive " concerning company structures and the powers and duties of governing bodies . |
| 12 | There is talk of Clannad headlining this year 's Redcar Folk Festival to be held in August . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've got a couple of hours to spare this afternoon . |
| 14 | A training database is created by encoding samples of handwriting using this technique , and at run-time the input is similarly encoded and then compared with the characters stored in the database . |
| 15 | The satellite states of Moscow followed this lead — no Bulgarians , nor Romanians , nor Yugoslavs . |
| 16 | And the capacity of institutions to achieve this end was the criterion of their moral development and progress . |
| 17 | ‘ We get a lot of money to do this job , ’ he reasons . |
| 18 | They continued to proliferate in the Ordovician , although many of the Cambrian kinds had died out ; in terms of the variety of forms present this period was perhaps their heyday . |
| 19 | A lot of walkers take this fact for granted , striding about in the sure and certain knowledge that nothing will drop from a tree and start to devour their head . |
| 20 | But studies by teams from the University of East Anglia and the University of Illinois put this suggestion into perspective . |
| 21 | A boat called Dodo 's Delight sailed out of Falmouth harbour this week … on board a crew of old boys from Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire … they 're off to make history as the first school group to sail around the world … they 'll be gone for twenty months … so we 're waving them goodbye in our Friday Feature |
| 22 | The United States , which like Germany had hitherto strongly favoured maintaining Yugoslav integrity , made it clear on July 2 that it did not support the use of force to preserve this integrity , and on the same day President Bush indicated in a letter to the recently installed ( Croat ) head of the Collective State Presidency , Stjepan Mesic [ see p. 38275 ] , that it would accept the republics ' independence if achieved peacefully . |
| 23 | When , in November , it blessed the use of force to achieve this goal , the fanfare was forgivable . |
| 24 | It was impossible to see in the dark whether the habitual spark of irony accompanied this remark . |
| 25 | Ninety-two per cent of those in old people 's homes compared with 82 per cent of those in other sorts of homes had this amenity — a difference which fell short of statistical significance — but more of those in old people 's homes had a room of their own , two-thirds against half . |
| 26 | Many of our typical reactions in the presence of animals acknowledge this disparity in the language-games and is further fortified by what we say of them . |
| 27 | The tempo of living quickens this week and it will be difficult to avoid getting caught up in the frantic pace of events . |
| 28 | That the Board of Review made this assumption appears also from the reference in their first determination to the profits accruing to the taxpayer from the fees derived from the sub-licencing being sourced in the countries to which the sub-licences related . |
| 29 | The draftsman employed several different forms of words to achieve this result . |
| 30 | Anyway , news reaches me of how the most loyal of husbands handles this kind of situation without falling unconscious at the table . |