Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The revised Defence plan , with its greatly reduced demands on manpower and its emphasis on highly trained mobile forces , now makes it possible to contemplate putting the Services on to an all-regular basis ; and the Government will endeavour to bring about this change as soon as practicable . |
| 2 | They listened to the representations that were made and , in their wisdom , decided to make this change as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | At the end of the public road is a notice prohibiting cars from going further , and I am told that the new owners of the Killilan estate are enforcing this ban fairly strictly but not in all cases . |
| 4 | The BSO is not likely to support this function very successfully because it is a relatively broad and unspecific classification scheme , with only sufficient specification for the classification of organizations concerned with the control of information ( for example , libraries , clearing houses , abstracting and indexing agencies ) and not to support the indexing of , say , individual periodical articles . |
| 5 | I 'd be grateful if you could let me have this cheque as soon as possible . |
| 6 | They bear this responsibility not only that the patients may receive safe and competent nursing care but that the nurses working in those settings are not rendered vulnerable by excessive pressure . |
| 7 | Read this story as often as the child likes hearing it . |
| 8 | The priest repeats this response twice more and the congregation respond in song . |
| 9 | Some sources suggest that as much as 4.5% of the Aube was planted with this variety as recently as ten or I 5 years ago . |
| 10 | This has enabled the north to weather this recession far better than any previous recessions and in a way that bears the best comparison with the south . |
| 11 | A bad year was a disaster to the small peasant while it might well benefit the large farmers or merchants who could store grain for ten years , ‘ observing this rule so consistently that they would pawn their last jewels or load their lands with mortgages until years of high prices ’ . |
| 12 | I want to take this tape out really when I gone out to Asda . |
| 13 | I remember this fear quite distinctly as that of being swallowed up into some great emptiness : the struggle for individual identity , central to phenomenon of anorexia nervosa , had already begun , and already I was using the appropriate metaphor . |
| 14 | I do n't wish to take this analogy any further but if the teacher-research movement can succeed in raising the profile of research in everyday teaching , I am sure that it would lead to not only an improvement in the status of teachers but also act as a spur to research itself . |
| 15 | The effectiveness of a measure of word length is very writer dependent , and alternative methods of calculating this figure more accurately and consistently need to be evaluated . |
| 16 | All this variability both within and between people suggests that the story of how the Stress Syndrome comes about can not be as simple as the Hay Fever Theory would have us believe . |
| 17 | One might be tempted to argue that the photon is absorbed by the microscope and that by measuring the latter 's consequent recoil , due to acquiring the photon 's momentum after its collision with the electron , we could evaluate this momentum as accurately as we wished . |
| 18 | Resolved that this meeting concurs in Apinion [ sic ] with the said Committee — that it will be necessary to carry on the Business of this Institution as perfectly as possible , that there should be two Professors appointed & that as soon as the proposed plan for the College is executed , which , from the Encouragement already given , 't is hoped will be speedily accomplished — The members will avail themselves of the Offer made by the Committee and refer the Merits of Candidates for the second professorship to their investigation . |
| 19 | Singers are called upon to exercise this talent more often than instrumentalists but Mr Cliburn realised that his success depended in large part on boyish charm . |
| 20 | Normally subjects were able to detect the presence of this gap equally well whether the square was presented to left or right of the fixation point . |
| 21 | For this passage very accurately and very succinctly encapsulates the characteristics of the Scots of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 22 | To quote that part of this Act so far as it affects a member of a local authority may be useful . |
| 23 | It will be confirmed in this column as soon as possible . |
| 24 | Try practising this one slowly at first , and then gradually increase your metronome setting , playing this exercise both horizontally and vertically . |
| 25 | You should do this exercise as honestly as possible . |
| 26 | alright well we 'll ask this question again then after gone on holiday to the States and see whether |
| 27 | A recent work on political theory in ancient Greece has pursued this question more explicitly than has traditionally been the case in classical scholarship and provides a further check to our ready acceptance of Goody 's grander claims for the consequences of literacy in classical Greece . |
| 28 | We have publicly stated that we believe the Government should address this issue sooner rather than later and have suggested that a flexible approach to State pension age could be achieved with little additional cost to the State . |
| 29 | We shall discuss this issue further below after we have examined the nature of the ECJ 's reasoning . |
| 30 | She never could have done in Europe what she did in New York ; I can not think of an artist who points up this issue more clearly and I can not understand why she of all people was left out of the show . |