Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liley spent a season playing in the second team with just half a dozen first-team appearances before the opportunity came this season , and so far it has gone remarkably well . |
| 2 | Wimpey Plant and Transport took the opportunity to celebrate this achievement on the occasion of the retirement of George Maisey as chief buyer . |
| 3 | My Lords , I took the opportunity knowing this question was coming up last Friday to spend an entire morning on the site in the building |
| 4 | Of course she was glad she 'd had the opportunity to savour this experience , but it was also curiously frightening , because it was stirring something deep inside her that she had n't realised existed . |
| 5 | In the light of all that , ladies and gentlemen , the choice of a speaker for the Charles Darwin centenary was not difficult , and indeed I know that he welcomed the opportunity to give this lecture , not least I 'm sure because of the controversies and the general noise that have erupted once again over the issues of evolution , both in the academies of the civilized western world , and even in deepest Arkensaw |
| 6 | I am very grateful to the Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence for giving me the opportunity to give this paper as a lecture at the Accademia on 1 May 1992 . |
| 7 | The opportunity to do this research arises from the programme of change management adopted by SGE aimed at assimilating its new subsidiary . |
| 8 | Obviously our readers are among the best machine knitters around but this month we take the opportunity to demonstrate this fact . |
| 9 | The public choice school again has the opportunity to explain this inconsistency . |
| 10 | And last but not least on these issues of planning which I think is very important , I 'm glad to get the opportunity to put this thing over to people ; I very much regret the way that planning laws have been weakened so that the local authorities do n't have the power they used to have . |
| 11 | The opportunity to gain this type of employment on the island encouraged a number of young people to return from the mainland of Scotland and use the off-farm income to help set themselves up in farming . |
| 12 | Parliament will be given the opportunity to consider this issue again . |
| 13 | ‘ The council already had the opportunity to buy this land and would n't . |
| 14 | Each student then has the opportunity to apply this experience in an individual research project supervised by a member of staff . |
| 15 | I am extremely grateful to have the opportunity to raise this issue and I am glad that my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs is present , because I know that he will listen with his usual thoughtfulness , great knowledge and understanding of the problems that I will enunciate . |
| 16 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 17 | The ideology underpinning this report , therefore , promotes the ideals of the family as the main source of care and the home as the appropriate place to receive such care . |
| 18 | I once attempted to read his first book , Alex Through The Looking Glass , but stumbled and fell at page 10 where the Hurricane made this observation on the subject of literature : ‘ My favourite read is Robert Ludlum . |
| 19 | Mr Linklater said : ‘ It is a tremendous honour for The Scotsman to have this train named after it . |
| 20 | Quite a few are waiting to be unveiled at the bike shows this autumn . |
| 21 | The writer acknowledges this difficulty but thinks that the most recent novel fits the screen more easily . |
| 22 | The decision opens the way for the trial to begin this autumn pending approval from the French drug agency and the local ethics committee . |
| 23 | Sparc add-on house Integrix Inc is jumping into the clone fray this week with a $3,000 , 28.5 MIPS Sparcstation 2 compatible labelled the SS2 Basic System . |
| 24 | The Board rejected this view as it considers that only shareholders are owners of a company and hence the issue of warrants which are not subsequently exercised represents a gain . |
| 25 | John Watson dislikes trade unions , and the rest of the Board share this view . |
| 26 | ‘ I have the authority necessary from the board to build this company over , ’ he said , adding that he was not sure that breaking the company up would be the right approach . |
| 27 | ‘ I have the authority necessary from the board to build this company over , ’ he said , adding that he was not sure that breaking the company up would be the right approach . |
| 28 | ‘ Only the other day I was at the vicarage , seeing Mrs Ainger about my stall at the bazaar-I 'm doing the fancy work this year , you know — and there was pussy , bold as brass , if you please , walking into the lounge as if she owned it . ’ |
| 29 | All I need , ’ he repeated , ‘ is the money to move this business . ’ |
| 30 | Opening the case to confirm this suspicion is easy . |