Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should this noise become louder suddenly and be heard in the nearby town , it was an evil omen . |
| 2 | Nor does this case involve any accredited representative of a foreign state in this country . |
| 3 | ‘ Will this assessment provide appropriate evidence of … ’ is the key question — and if an exam or test can do so , fine ! |
| 4 | Is this , does this shirt look stupid ? |
| 5 | It is the movement of the verse which makes this sonnet come alive , as was brilliantly demonstrated by F. R. Leavis at some length ( Scrutiny vol. xiii , pp. 119–34 , especially pp. 125 ff ) . |
| 6 | Not only does this action involve hand-eye co-ordination but it also involves information received by the other senses . |
| 7 | Nor did this distribution change much as the level of trade accelerated . |
| 8 | The fact that Jesus referred to God as ‘ Father ’ made this move seem axiomatic . |
| 9 | The inherent uncertainties of future public acquisitions — no plan can be so definite and inflexible as to determine which sites will ( or might ) be needed in the future for public purposes — made this distinction appear arbitrary and unjust . |
| 10 | Similarly , we have already encountered the question posed by The Architect 's Journal when Cramlington was first proposed in its modern form : will this place have any industrial , and hence employment , base which will make it more than merely a dormitory suburb ? |
| 11 | why should this person need five hundred pound a month more . |
| 12 | BRITAIN 'S biggest sock maker and second largest bra maker , Sherwood , will this week announce pre-tax profit of £14 million plus , a 4-for-1 scrip issue and plans for a full market listing . |
| 13 | Before its other Pentium-ready systems — see front page — Unisys Corp will this week announce three new additions to its U 6000/35 Unix server line based on Intel 's 66MHz 486DX2 chip , expected to enhance the old 33MHz box as a workgroup or departmental LAN server and as a distributed server node in an enterprise-wide OLTP network . |
| 14 | Wyse Technology Inc , San Jose , California , will this week add new models to its mid-range and high-end Intel Corp-based , symmetric multi-processing Unix systems . |
| 15 | Does this arrangement have problematical history ? |
| 16 | So he wanted it me to make this man hold this cow . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , you shall have it as you wish , though it goes against the grain with me to see this fellow go free . |
| 18 | Administrative considerations , which look for the best assignment of tasks within a hierarchical structure , can in this way augment other considerations outlined above . |
| 19 | Playing a leading role in all aspects of new production developments — from conception through to commissioning and post-operational servicing — is the project engineering department , which will this year dedicate much of its time and expertise to the installation of capital plant and equipment . |
| 20 | CONTINUING the spirit of last year 's Red Hot And Blue fundraiser for AIDS , Red Hot Again will this year combine some of the biggest names in music with up and coming artists from around the globe . |
| 21 | It is time we invested seriously in education and training and stopped letting this misery grow worse and worse . ’ |
| 22 | Why does this country import more champagne per head than any other country ? |
| 23 | If you look at the report , White Paper , you 'll notice that it 's sticking to a , a freezing of the nineteen-ninety levels by the year two thousand and five , and you may feel that you would like to see this country come more into line with the other E E C countries and ask for a freezing by the year two thousand . |
| 24 | Why can not this country afford social justice when the Governments of Portugal and of Greece have no doubt where the balance lies ? |
| 25 | Did this energy have some objective reality or was it merely a way of looking at known processes from a different viewpoint ? |
| 26 | ‘ Do you think we should let this guy go first ? ’ said Ted . |
| 27 | The rest of Europe could at this time show little lute music comparable with that of the Spanish and Italian lutenists . |
| 28 | So speedily did this reversal occur that A la Carte magazine , the glossy guide to fashionable guzzling , was neatly caught twixt correct positions in just one issue . |