Example sentences of "this [pers pn] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this she meant society women who were compelled by their roles as wives and hostesses to live empty and meaningless lives . |
| 2 | And this you know sort of more flowers on as well . |
| 3 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 4 | If you get this you go top of the class . |
| 5 | This we call self-image . |
| 6 | For this we need material which provides as much visual support as possible and situations where the language is highly predictable . |
| 7 | The Council and the Drug Control Centre are in the process of planning for the year from 1 April 1988 and to do this we need information on your plans . |
| 8 | As an example of the consequences of this we consider flow close to a horizontal upward-facing heated or cooled surface — sufficiently close that the velocity scale is determined entirely by the wall stress and is t τ as discussed in Section 21.5 . |
| 9 | Following this they release blood into their eyes which turns them a dull red colour . |
| 10 | To do this they obtain money from the banks by borrowing money at call and short notice and by selling them bills . |
| 11 | For this they used flax grown in Northern Ireland and so they were able to cut their costs . |
| 12 | Disney and Eisner denied the rumours but one stock market source said : ‘ Whenever you get a clearing of the decks like this it sparks concern in the market . ’ |
| 13 | From the latter , he derived the proposition that intent is the mens rea of rape and to this he added recklessness . |
| 14 | This he calls climatotherapy . |
| 15 | In all this he found time to address meetings for these and many other bodies , hold weekly classes for teaching the youth of his synagogue post-biblical history and related subjects , write articles for the Jewish press ( he founded an Anglo Jewish Journal called The Jewish Times later to be absorbed into the Canadian Jewish Chronicle ) . |
| 16 | When the Cid heard this he gave command to store all his Castles , and had them well repaired . |