Example sentences of "this [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you putting this on tomorrow or not ? |
| 2 | On the eighteenth of June attended this meeting erm perhaps this on rather than you jotting down |
| 3 | Well I put this on yesterday and I could smell it ! |
| 4 | She has considered this most carefully and all her tutors are agreed she would suit the course admirably . |
| 5 | At the Geneva motor show earlier this year , the president of GM Europe , Robert Eaton , articulated this most clearly when he warned it was vital to make ‘ substantial progress ’ towards improving productivity and presenting a united political front against Japanese import penetration . |
| 6 | It is possible to see this most clearly when some local or national tragedy occurs . |
| 7 | Syl 's mother disapproved of this most bitterly and rebuked me for waste . |
| 8 | english linesmen/refs for some reason tend to blow offside on players not interfering with play — you see this most often when there is the long ball from defence/keeper towards the other penalty area with attackers running against the midfield clearly with no possibility of reaching the ball or trying to do so . |
| 9 | He said this suspiciously blandly and Meredith glowered at him . |
| 10 | He did n't feel this so strongly when a corpse was far advanced in decay . |
| 11 | Now in nineteen er nineteen fifteen , the the of course the War 'd started and I can remember this so well because the day after me birthday er there was a raid , a Zeppelin raid on and I saw this Zeppelin and that day the thirty first of January nineteen fifteen when this raid was , I wen I went to work at six in the morning and I finished work at quarter to nine at night . |
| 12 | He did this so effectively that it is to this day referred to as the Wallace Line . |
| 13 | Graham Greene does this so thoroughly that the country of his imagination has been dignified by the name of ‘ Greeneland ’ . |
| 14 | She said this so seriously that Oliver decided it must be true . |
| 15 | He had failed in this so far but then he had hardly tried very hard . |
| 16 | Do not worry about this so long as all or most of the important symptoms of the case are in the remedy . |
| 17 | Realistically , there may be little prospect of making better progress than this so long as the systems themselves remain largely no more than promises rather than commercially available products . |
| 18 | We write this so fully because we need and should value any guidance you can send us . |
| 19 | Felipe told Maggie this somewhat grudgingly as the city came in sight . |
| 20 | I put this down only because I have heard her daughter 's friends call her ‘ mannish ’ , and her own generation ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 21 | cos , had her twopennorth , put this together brilliantly before he left |
| 22 | They seem to come to terms with the reality of this much easier than a lot of other girls . |
| 23 | Here again , the use of heavy GRP blades and a ‘ driven tail ’ make this much easier and safer . |
| 24 | The moral authority of law gets a foothold in the idea that it is rational to give special consideration to views which result from a process of impartial , informed and capable reflection , and this not simply because this process helps us to know more precisely what will promote independently ascertained moral goals but also because it is liable to result in superior judgements about what goals we ought to pursue ( Campbell , 1971 ) . |
| 25 | Only the music created slight differences and this not markedly because the composers used the best of commonly recognised traditional musical idioms . |
| 26 | He knew this not just because Uncle Titch said he had — you could n't believe anything a grown-up told you , and Uncle Titch belonged to the world of grown-ups even if he was n't — but because of the tricks he could do . |
| 27 | I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated . |
| 28 | I mean by this not merely that it can be represented mathematically , but that , such is its concern with the quantitative aspects of reality that it consigns all the qualitative content in our conception of the world to the realm of conscious experience . |
| 29 | It often used to be said that Britain had a two-party political system , meaning by this not merely that the electoral system favoured the two major parties , but , less contentiously , that these two parties between them nearly monopolized the votes cast . |
| 30 | Obviously , repayment of the loan at some future date , particularly at retirement , will be desirable , so the borrower should make provision for this sooner rather than later . |