Example sentences of "this [noun] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Starting with Homer and finishing with Virginia Woolf , Auerbach uses this framework to characterize the different ways in which a selection of writers represented reality across the centuries , and in so doing traces the gradual abandonment of the principle of decorum in favour of a more modern standard , according to which seriousness and realism are wholly compatible .
2 However , if the mail message has two or more pages , you can use this field to inspect the remaining pages .
3 The study draws together the results of five years ' work by the investigator and the findings of the ESRC 's extensive research programme in this field to provide the first comprehensive account of central-local relationships in the UK for nearly twenty years .
4 I should like to take this opportunity to thank the vast majority of our shareholders who have clearly recognized Palatine 's potential and have remained unimpressed by the attempted takeover .
5 We would like to take this opportunity to thank the many people who have written to us .
6 May I also take this opportunity to wish the new United Nations Secretary-General success in his efforts to prepare recommendations for improvement in the preventative diplomacy , peacemaking and peacekeeping capacities of the United Nations ?
7 And so it seems self-evident that the subject of language should also draw on a cognate disciplinary source even though it happens in this case to have the different name of linguistics .
8 Will my right hon. Friend take time this afternoon to watch the recent interview by Mr. David Frost , which revealed the success of the Government 's health service provisions , and also that the Opposition 's figures are totally bogus ?
9 But before taking the action some members will begin a vigil in Cardiff this afternoon to give the Welsh Language Education Committee ( PDAG ) one last chance not to co-operate with what they claim are the Government 's education ‘ quangos . ’
10 The college 's governing authority voted this afternoon to end the hundred and thirteen year old women-only tradition at Somerville College .
11 Retrace this route to rejoin the main leisure route .
12 It was as if the Party had failed in this instance to honour the tacit bargain and had allowed heavy-handed politics to intrude seriously upon fun .
13 Though it would be fair in this instance to absolve the Scottish Liberal Democrats from charges of time-wasting .
14 Undoubtedly this struggle to define the postwar settlement and preserve France 's international position was uppermost in de Gaulle 's thoughts in the summer and autumn of 1945 .
15 To a historian of the health services this decision to rationalize the two hospitals on to one site could be seen as rather disappointing .
16 If the government then uses this money to repay the national debt by buying back more bonds and Treasury bills than it issues , this will release the money back into the economy again .
17 For this recession to equal the previous record of 16 months it would have to drag on for another six months .
18 Male Wistar rats weighing 250–300 g , were used in this study to examine the pancreatic secretion and pancreatic blood flow during infusion of caerulein and to examine the involvement of platelet activating factor in the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis .
19 Table IV gives the results for multiple regression analysis using all the variables shown in this study to influence the random haemoglobin A 1 value .
20 Greece was obliged this spring to accept the new country 's admission to the United Nations with ‘ Macedonia ’ in its name , and the New Democracy rebels swallowed their fury when they realised that voting against the government would cause an election their party would probably lose .
21 Thus We can now rearrange this equation to give the unknown molar mass in terms of experimentally determined values , thus
22 They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate .
23 It is not the purpose of this chapter to examine the detailed operation of sales incentive schemes as this is covered later in the sales management section ( Part Four ) .
24 I have made few attempts in this chapter to give the first references to ideas or discoveries .
25 It is this attempt to redesign the genetic instructions of living organisms and utilise them on an industrial scale that is creating so much excitement and concern " .
26 Add one to this figure to give the total number of spaces , bearing in mind that one extra space will be needed to balance the heading at the sides .
27 We might have expected this switch to reinforce the downward trend in the ratio of direct to indirect tax receipts .
28 Again , we choose the matrix A of Equation ( 2.2.1.4 ) : ( i ) The leading minor of order 1 , b1 , is the element 6 : reciprocal 1/6. ( ii ) Using ( i ) , we apply the formulae ( 3 ) , ( 4 ) to find the reciprocal of the leading minor of order 2 , viz : unc Here unc and we deduce unc ( iii ) We now use this result to examine the third order minor unc Then unc similarly , unc Also unc Note that , in Equations ( 4 ) which we now evaluate , unc is a matrix of rank 1 .
29 to extract and expound the most ordinary beliefs about the constitution of the world as pictured in the Elizabethan age and through this exposition to help the ordinary reader to understand and to enjoy the great writers of the age .
30 Action outside the school system is necessary also ; though it is outside the brief of this work to investigate the wider social arena in detail .
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