Example sentences of "in this [noun] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She threatened them , she menaced them , and one day in this vein she would marry one of them . |
| 2 | But of course there are other things in this passage which will put English teeth on edge . |
| 3 | In this state it can seem as if there is a drive not to know too much about the other person . |
| 4 | You got a lot of people slacking up because there 's no real punishment … there 's a lot of people in this school what would have worked if they 'd been pushed . ’ |
| 5 | But I think that in this company I can dare to make a few observations without being thought altogether gaga . |
| 6 | Tom told himself that beggars could not be choosers and if he jibbed at playing the flute in this company he could always sing . |
| 7 | Once again , faith is understood as offering certainty , in this case what might be called ‘ intellectual certainty ’ , the consequence of accepting that a particular line of argument is overwhelmingly convincing . |
| 8 | In this case one might ‘ commend ’ something to somebody 's care . |
| 9 | In this case one could argue that I and Thou automatically imply We , since the two of us are sharing between ourselves the field of discourse . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) In all the circumstances is it more appropriate that a court of the country to which a child has been wrongfully removed or in which it is being wrongfully retained ( country B ) ’ — in this case one can say England — ‘ should reach decisions and make orders with a view to its welfare or is it more appropriate that this should be done by a court of the country from which it was removed or to which its return has been wrongfully prevented ( [ Australia ] ) ? ( 2 ) If , but only if , the answer to the first question is that the court of [ England ] is the more appropriate court , should that court give any consideration whatsoever to what further orders should be made other than for the immediate return of the child to [ Australia ] and for ensuring its welfare pending the resumption or assumption of jurisdiction by the courts of that country ? |
| 11 | In this case everything will go ahead as planned . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've no wish to hold up the tour a minute longer than necessary , Mr Ashenden , but I 've got certain duties in this case which will involve your co-operation . |
| 13 | In this case they may not add anything at all to the message . |
| 14 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 15 | In this case they would not both get off , but would most probably get less than 10 years each , possibly as little as five . |
| 16 | West Dorset District Council , for instance , was refusing to house people evicted from winter-lets unless they qualified for housing prior to entering such accommodation , even though in this case they would presumably have sought council accommodation in the first place ( Larkin 1979 ) . |
| 17 | The effect of failure to resolve a factual problem will vary with the circumstances , but their Lordships need not decide how in this case they would have viewed such failure , seen in isolation . |
| 18 | The following paragraphs pointed out that in unlimited competitions , although successful competitors can reasonably expect to be employed , the Government can not bind itself to employ them , but in this case they should be employed on the new Foreign Office . |
| 19 | In this case they can present a different appearance , a host of little tubes combining together into branching twigs or nets . |
| 20 | In this case they will follow anywhere in the Castle to get it back . |
| 21 | People always protest against new forms of taxation , and in this case they will protest now when it is threatened , and again next year when half is imposed and half is threatened , and again in 1995 when the full effect is felt on fuel bills . |
| 22 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 23 | In this case we may have either no steady state ( Fig. 8–1b ) or two steady states ( Fig. 8 — 1c ) . |
| 24 | We might , of course , do the opposite , and try to explain the depictions of temples on coins or patterns of coin loss from our knowledge of surviving temples or official statistics for the money supply , but in this case we would be using coins as secondary evidence and not as a primary source of new information . |
| 25 | Very often we are only interested in θ satisfying θ ≤ U. In this case we would stop as soon as a tableau is reached in which θ ≥ U. |
| 26 | When records are randomized to larger buckets — in this case we will examine ten record buckets — this will cause fairly long chains . |
| 27 | In this case we can calculate that the average output per obverse die must have been between 23,000 and 47,000 . |
| 28 | This has often been criticised because we are told that in drawing an analogy we normally know ‘ both sides ’ that we are comparing ( eg ‘ does n't he look like a horse ? ’ , where we can look at both and judge ) , whereas in this case we can only look at one side , the object that we are comparing with God . |
| 29 | Even in this case we can consider the translation to be a special case of rotation about a centre infinitely far away . |
| 30 | In this case we can immediately develop the up-problem and declare the node on the down-branch inactive . |