Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can find expression in ‘ I must get him to make a will before he dies ’ — a basic desire to get things sorted out — and may extend to attempts to resolve family quarrels , an anxiety that the sun should not in this case go down fur ever on wrath . |
| 2 | The debtor in this case carried on business in this country running a nursing home in the course of which she incurred a tax liability in the sum of about £500,000 which remains unpaid . |
| 3 | 6 October : The Princess Margaret , Countess of Snowdon this afternoon visited Up Hatherley , Cheltenham , and was received on arrival at Staverton Airport by Her Majesty 's Lord-Lieutenant for Gloucestershire ( Colonel Martin Gibbs ) . |
| 4 | Knitters who have machines with a mirror image facility could use this technique to match up patterns at the centre , but remember that you lose the two centre stitches plus the one on each side which goes under the band — it would never do to have two ducks without heads facing one another , would it ! |
| 5 | This research carries out laboratory measurements of the way members of the general public solve problems of this kind , to find out what happens without a computer ; it also looks at what happens when people are given a simple expert system to use , and what problems profit from , or are hindered by , the aid from the machine . |
| 6 | The result being , this episode wiped out Father Christmas and Our Father in one flash of green wool . |
| 7 | Local education authorities in Northern Ireland were required by this Act to set up management committees for further education institutions , with some degree of autonomy , instead of managing them directly . |
| 8 | This issue comes up time and again for example there is an equally divided community in Britain , a divided position on matters like abortion . |
| 9 | Microphones of this type pick up sound which is mainly from sources within the picture area , and the nuisance of unwanted noises-off is much reduced . |
| 10 | The investment financed by this borrowing stoked up demand for commodities , permitting sales to be maintained at higher and higher prices . |
| 11 | In contrast to this move to open up broadcasting to the free market , there is the desire to monitor and control output . |
| 12 | Why was Ell 's husband authorized to come to this place to carry out tests on the atmosphere and water ? |
| 13 | Talking at all above the screech of the wind was difficult and he had to make his explanation short : ‘ Mariana , the men running this coup set up roadblocks this morning to pick up any of the Government trying to get into Belpan City . |
| 14 | All this stuff dates back years , to Old Mother Walsh and her Sisters . |
| 15 | I think that this whole opting out system is exactly what Jack said . |
| 16 | However , Central this month brought out plans for a new primary building for the town , replacing St Mary 's and the 640-pupil Dunblane primary school . |
| 17 | In Brussels yesterday NATO sources said the alliance had completed plans to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia , with the United Nations expected to approve the use of allied fighters this week to shoot down Serb or other planes flying over the republic . |
| 18 | Waste is transported overland in this manner to keep down costs , but environmentalists are extremely concerned that there is a high risk of disaster should an accident occur during transportation . |
| 19 | The anti-trade union laws which we face in October are just another attempt by this government to wipe out socialism and break the trade union movement . |
| 20 | This shoot em' up game has very good graphics and supports sound blaster . |
| 21 | This behavior brings back benefit to the change master . |
| 22 | Is this print picking up people who have n't had a price increase then ? |
| 23 | Over the next three years it will be helping and encouraging authorities to gather information about the needs and preferences of local carers , to use this information to work out plans for improving carer support , and to ensure that caring for carers becomes an integral component of mainstream community care services . |
| 24 | This ability to summon up images , both photographic and diagrammatic , and explanatory texts within a matter of seconds is quite hypnotic , and very much in line with the television mind-set of the computer generation . |
| 25 | This weekend sees over runners from Ulster hospitals taking part in a province-wide 320-mile relay to raise cash for a counterpart in war-torn Ethiopia . |
| 26 | That 's the nickname of Spain 's giant Christmas lottery , El Gordo , which this year paid out £836 million in thousands of prizes . |
| 27 | We came on this trip to take back children . |
| 28 | Interestingly , this activity set up references to two different reading contexts : reading television , the context in which the characters originally appeared ; and reading pictures , the format in which the characters were presented . |
| 29 | This classification sorts out Johnson 's compound class by splitting it on visually dominating features into his emergent and submergent classes . |
| 30 | There 's this guy walking down Piccadilly , when suddenly — woomph ! |