Example sentences of "this [noun] [vb -s] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This storm has knocked out the telephones . |
| 2 | Obviously a lot of this racism has seeped down from the top ; for example the police are part of a racist legal system so you 've got to expect them to hold those views . |
| 3 | The ministry is spending about £1 million a year on lasers — and some of this money has gone on buying equipment from Spectra-Physics for Japanese companies to try out . |
| 4 | I was thinking about becoming a doctor beforehand , but I still was not sure — I did n't know about the hours of work , the jobs done , the environment , and the stamina needed to last through a full day 's work — but this experience has made up my mind . |
| 5 | You will understand that I can only employ you meantime in the capacity of reader , till all this notoriety has died down . |
| 6 | In tracing the antiquity of Langridge we find that this manor has come down to Robin Wood via Henry Golding , Barber , Leveson , Whornes , Watson , Melford and Roger Bavent who held it with John de Langereche and finally back to Adam de Bavent during the reign of Edward I. Robin Wood died 14th July 1738 and is buried in Hailing Church . |
| 7 | The only water course in this area of which this department has carried out a flood study is the Gogar Burn , which discharges to the River Almond at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 8 | ‘ Everything we 've planned with this horse has come off . |
| 9 | The accident level in this industry has come down consistently , year , by year , by year , every year . |
| 10 | To counteract this problem , subjects are given sufficient practice tests before the experiment to ensure that this effect has worn off . |
| 11 | This chapter has laid out some general elements for an understanding of the ‘ logic ’ of state enterprises in an era of increased commercialism . |
| 12 | This practice has died out , and the student should write a fifth higher than the required note whether in treble or bass clef . |
| 13 | We can usually show that social organization correlates closely with a species ecology yet we are often far from clear about the processes by which this association has come about . |
| 14 | This separation has gone on for far too long . |
| 15 | I do n't wonder whether it would be helpful just step back a bit and just look at the county council 's view as to how it should treat migration in the light of what the Secretary of State has approved on two occasions , when this issue has come up . |
| 16 | Had a lot of lead in his pencil , that boy ’ — the image of the photographs flashed across Charles ' mind — ‘ Anyway , this girl gets knocked up , and when Steenie finds out about it , he do n't want to know . |
| 17 | And that 's got something that 's conne this bloke 's come up with something |
| 18 | Sixty million pounds this Council has got out of Europe . |
| 19 | This group has carried out a large multicentre study on glucose tolerance in normal pregnancy . |
| 20 | In our case this iteration has gone on at great lengths and I and my colleagues have had to struggle to ensure that we have allocated enough time to deciding the direction in which the company should be going , and the changes that have to be carried out in order to get it there . |
| 21 | Since then , this relationship has broken down and architects have enjoyed lower rates of unemployment relative to the national situation . |
| 22 | ‘ There is to be a redistribution of training places because the number of unemployed in this constituency has gone down since 1987 while in the south there has been an increase . |
| 23 | ‘ There is to be a redistribution of training places because the number of unemployed in this constituency has gone down since 1987 while in the south there has been an increase . |
| 24 | Very great odium T. Poole incurred by bringing me here … when Wordsworth came & he likewise by T. Poole 's agency settled here — You can not conceive the tumult , calumnies , & apparatus of threatened persecutions which this event has occasioned round about us . |
| 25 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 26 | Superficially attractive and officially , if implicitly , condoned by UNESCO , this theory has come in for severe criticism from Western media interests and journalists . |
| 27 | Yes this beef 's come out very well has n't it ? |
| 28 | This month has brought in another bumper crop of mail and , in an attempt to deal with as many of your queries as possible , I have tried to include quite a few topics this month . |
| 29 | Also recalled is Woodham head greenkeeper Mark Hodgson , whose decision to play his competitive golf at his old club Brancepeth Castle this season has paid off with some good early season form . |
| 30 | Anyway , with the topsy-turvy results this season has thrown up , it 's anybody 's guess what we 'll end up with after Man U v Forest has run its course on The Match on Sunday ( ITV , 3.25pm ) . |