Example sentences of "this [verb] [adv] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This forced even the most raucous Malthusian pill-pushers to tone down their rhetoric and ‘ integrate ’ family planning into health and development programmes — though their hidden agenda was still to get people to use contraceptives . |
| 2 | This reflected both the very high cost of land on Tyneside and the very high wages of the skilled workers for whose families they were built ( see North Tyneside CDP , 1978a ; Byrne , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | This makes even the most honest of answers seem indecisive and uncertain . |
| 4 | This makes perhaps the most inportant breeding area in Britain for this threatened bird — and bitterns can be seen from the hides here more regularly than anywhere else . |
| 5 | This makes all the more remarkable the eagerness with which Argentina is now proposing to sell Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales , its state-owned oil firm . |