Example sentences of "this [noun] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jürgen Habermas in Theorie des kommunikativen Handels ? has used this framework specifically to analyse the cultural realm , and the sketch below follows partly from Habermas . |
| 2 | The sophistication of this turn is indicated in its formal lexicon and its syntactic and semantic complexities ( both visible when he reverses Wittgenstein 's famous statement to produce his own aphorism , " Whereof we can not speak , thereof we are by no means silent " ) but he uses this complexity deliberately to obfuscate the sense of his utterance and to enable a swift escape to the World Cup qualifier . |
| 3 | I 'm also changing the Description to read ‘ NATO — The great Hack ’ — I show you this trick only to emphasize the control you have over Windows ; not so you can sneak onto a friend 's PC and swap all their icons around ! |
| 4 | We take this opportunity also to wish Margaret Charlwood and Ann Langford well , as they take over Rita 's duties on the Training Course . |
| 5 | It is usual in this case also to implant two buds , or even three with weepers , in order to get a nice full and evenly balanced head . |
| 6 | To conclude , in order to examine an area which is rarely focused upon in itself , it has been necessary in this chapter artificially to abstract the object , considering it in rather universalistic terms , and in relation to a perhaps overdrawn dichotomy with language . |
| 7 | Even if we adjust this figure downwards to say 20 per cent for the pre-1914 period , this still represents quite a large number of women ( 160 out of 800 ) who were in the trade for life , which usually meant until well over 60 . |
| 8 | Try this exercise alone to begin with , then check it out with your boss so you can be sure that your assumptions are correct . |
| 9 | I find this attitude hard to understand but it still prevails today . |
| 10 | The proper word is , come from a very long word , a real mouthful , phenylketonuria , known as P K U for short P U , and Mr Guffbry developed this test specifically to diagnose this condition , but in nineteen ninety two there are other conditions which they diagnose at the same time with the same blood test , do you know what they are ? |
| 11 | Let me , let me ask this lady here to come in , up there on the aisle , third row . |
| 12 | It is the practice in this article mainly to concentrate on the coverage of members of staff who are still in service . |
| 13 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 14 | If I wanted I could tear this place apart to find him . |
| 15 | But bef before we start issuing that we ought to get the members of this this group here to agree what the objectives are . |
| 16 | We have this meeting tomorrow to decide whether we go ahead with the tournament or not . ’ |
| 17 | The erm , we did invite Ingy to come to this meeting just to report about the festival things , but er she , when I saw her , down at the Lyceum , she was sort of doubtful , erm just because you know |
| 18 | It may be useful at this point simply to list the three main differences between the Near Eastern and the Indian religious traditions as they are often presented . |
| 19 | The polytechnics were from this point onwards to have greater opportunities for development than other colleges , as a result of the operation of two factors . |
| 20 | To this day just to see or hear the word ‘ hermaphrodite ’ is sufficient to make those luminous pictures shimmer before my eyes . |
| 21 | Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages . |
| 22 | All that we are concerned to ensure is that the present applicants have a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they seek so that the grave allegations which they make — the very same allegations that troubled this court sufficiently to allow the appellant 's appeal — can be properly tested in the courts . |
| 23 | The Museum agreed to bring this exhibition forward to coincide with the National Gallery 's . |
| 24 | An organisation called the Foundation for Ethnic Biology ( FEB ) was officially launched at Oxford University earlier this month specifically to provide a central clearing house for information on how natural substances and ancient cultures can help modern medicine . |
| 25 | I hardly think you went to all this trouble just to check the plumbing . |
| 26 | I phoned up this week just to say I 'm getting on with it and they sort of like she said she 'd |
| 27 | Two Springbok officials , Nick Labuschagne ( Natal ) and Louis Luyt ( Transvaal ) , are in Wellington this week privately to assist in putting South African point of view to interested parties . |
| 28 | So on his next few field trips to Mexico he searched this area properly to find out just what the range is for this species . |
| 29 | She had conquered this feeling sufficiently to allow her to accept visits from her friends , and had overcome the apologetic murmurs that used to assail her as she opened her bedroom door ; she felt , in part , absolved by the wonderfully institutional shape of her room , which was on the third floor of a large block in the middle of Regents Park . |
| 30 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |