Example sentences of "this [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please could you have this checked by a Doctor and treat him with the appropriate shampoo before sending him back to school . |
| 2 | Is this regarded as a refutation of Newtonian science ? |
| 3 | In e-mail systems it is possible to receive a number of related messages from different people on screen , to then go into a statistical package and do some calculations , and on the basis of this come to a decision which one communicates to a different set of people . |
| 4 | The decline in world interest rates , the slight improvement in commodity prices and the relative weakness of the dollar ( the unit in which nearly all debts were denominated ) meant that the total burden of interest and capital payments now represented about 26 per cent of total export revenues for the 20 most severely indebted middle-income countries which between them accounted for 44 per cent of world debt ; this compared with a debt service ratio of nearly 50 per cent in 1983 . |
| 5 | President Hashemi Rafsanjani , who declared three days of national mourning , in early July announced that the death toll was between 35,000 and 36,000 ; this compared with a figure of 40,000 bodies so far recovered , given by the Red Crescent ( the Moslem equivalent of the Red Cross ) on June 27 , and much higher estimates initially . |
| 6 | Best argues that in the early 1920s there was a conversion of land from rural to urban uses at a rate of 9,100 ha per annum , but that this increased to a level of around 21,000 ha during the 1930s . |
| 7 | Previously , allocation of funds had been on a per capita student basis , but this changed to a research project grant system . |