Example sentences of "this [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This belongs to the last days of 1870 , more than a year after the murder in the park .
2 ‘ Does all this account for the proposed development at the pottery ? ’
3 All this testifies to the extreme importance attached to every status-symbol in an avidly status-conscious age .
4 This got over the critical problem of the ‘ double running ’ costs : the extra expenses of developing community services while having to support the infrastructure of the institution closing .
5 The ‘ new angle ’ must be sought to retain reader interest , and this goes beyond the cynical .
6 This goes beyond the intrinsic error due to the device ( about 2% when measuring an inanimate object ) and is not random .
7 This goes beyond the statutory requirements against discrimination on grounds of sex , marriage and race , to include age , disability and sexual orientation .
8 This goes over the old arguments .
9 For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race .
10 This goes to the six charities chosen by the Princess Royal , the Duke and Duchess of Kent , Prince Edward , and Princess Alexandra the Hon.
11 This goes to the Inland Revenue Accounts Office along with the NI contributions and tax deducted in the previous month .
12 Pedulla 's stated aim is to produce an instrument which will sound ‘ alive ’ even at flat tone settings , and credit for this goes to the Bartolini powerhouses and Pedulla 's tone-shaping circuitry .
13 I resume my explanation of the Bill , and this goes to the very heart of the issues raised by the two hon. Gentlemen .
14 This goes against the general rule that says the bigger the band , the longer and more excruciatingly dull , the soundcheck .
15 This goes against the general trend of the rest of the survey ( which suggests that these groups are less well informed and less accurately informed about credit ) .
16 This developed after the French Revolution of 1789 when many french dancing masters fled to Spain to become dancing masters to the aristocratic families .
17 Charles I and his Parliament quarrelled , and this led to the Civil War of the 1640s which ended with the defeat and execution of the King and , in 1649 , the establishment of a republic .
18 This led to the second phase of the emergence of headhunting , in which management consultants , and with them accountancy firms , developed their own in-house headhunting functions .
19 This led to the usual ‘ drinking bout …
20 This led to the usual talk of dismissing coach Luis Gradin , the man in charge throughout this period of successive defeats , but he will stay on at least until the end of the year when the present Argentine RU committee changes .
21 This led to the early discovery of soldering .
22 This led to the highest possible in Rugby League other than actually playing for a good team : I began to be invited to games by the committee .
23 This led to the partial abandonment of physical controls and a move towards financial disciplines for the nationalised industries .
24 This led to the everyday use of microphones which were mounted on the end of a short boom extending from one of the ear-pieces of the pilot 's radio headset to a position in front of his mouth .
25 This led to the Little Vestry where she would hang up her coat and to the kitchen where she would wash out the vases and arrange the fresh flowers .
26 This led to the Sexual Offences ( Amendment ) Act in 1976 .
27 This led to the rapid growth of the private courier industry , with substantial benefits to business users .
28 The division was about four men to one woman , and this led to the inevitable result , in those days before The Pill — a baby boom .
29 This arose from the unsatisfactory location of the College , which was on the edge of a rapidly expanding urban area increasingly remote from any true farm practice .
30 All this arose from the wise and fortunate decision to study the biosynthesis of nucleic acids .
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