Example sentences of "this [noun] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This change paved the way for Protestantism , which first took hold where French was spoken — in a number of towns , and in the socially' atypical mountains of the Cévennes — and then spread to other rural areas . |
| 2 | There was however some danger of developments of this kind given the resources of the powers that were active in the region . |
| 3 | Funding an operation of this kind required the authorisation of the office of France 's prime minister , Laurent Fabius , and he was certainly not going to give that without the president 's approval . |
| 4 | This study justified the use of villus height as an indicator of the nutritional state in rats . |
| 5 | This study assessed the effect of antioxidant vitamin supplementation on colonic crypt cell proliferation in patients with adenomatous polyps of the colon . |
| 6 | In contrast with other vitamin supplementation studies , this study assessed the effect of single vitamin supplements only , the study was prospective with a control group , subjects with familial polyposis coli were excluded and subjects were sequentially assigned to each group . |
| 7 | This study assessed the effect of metronidazole on the gastroduodenal mucosa , intestinal permeability , blood loss , and inflammation in patients on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) . |
| 8 | This study determined the location and tissue density of cells immunoreactive for tumour necrosis factor α ( TNF α ) in intestinal specimens from 24 patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease ( 15 with Crohn 's disease , nine with ulcerative colitis ) and 11 controls . |
| 9 | This programme required the removal of Government subsidies from basic food-stuffs , school books and drugs . |
| 10 | The two lowest bands in this range fitted the description of the target group for this project . |
| 11 | This Act abolished the negotiating procedures set up in the 1965 Remuneration of Teachers Act , replacing them until 1990 by authorising the Secretary of State to appoint an interim advisory committee and to impose teachers ' pay and conditions . |
| 12 | This trademark nicknamed the two cheeses was an acronym for civil clothes nineteen forty one . |
| 13 | It thus gained a considerable audience , including many people who would not normally have watched a film of this type given the subject matter . |
| 14 | This walker solved the problem . |
| 15 | Why was this place called the Star Zoo ? |
| 16 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 17 | Furthermore this match marked the end of an era in English rugby for a record-breaking team which will never play together again . |
| 18 | But I may monitor the progress of this team called the ‘ Cheats ’ along with our other entries . |
| 19 | From this sect called the Nizar Ismailis . |
| 20 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 21 | I 've got this other called the New Warriors , it 's Namoree versus Nova it 's rough . |
| 22 | East Kilbride development corporation has this morning rejected the planning application by Elm Energy in the face of strong public opposition . |
| 23 | Exports worth up to £0.5m. a year in the late seventeenth century were taken from India to England , often for re-export to the rest of the world , and this trade determined the flow of dividends . |
| 24 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 25 | He entertains this game called The Movie Game . |
| 26 | GILBERT ADAIR is a contributing editor of Esquire and writes our regular Last Word column , two examples of which are included in a collection of his journalism published this month entitled The Post-modernist Always Rings Twice . |
| 27 | Many proponents of reform ( of a kind known as ‘ positivists ’ : see later in this chapter ) have favoured a particularly strong version of this ideal called the ‘ treatment model ’ . |
| 28 | This policy preserved the independence of the smaller breweries . |
| 29 | This mechanism paved the way for two ‘ Financial Advisers ’ to be appointed ( ‘ pro tem ’ ) , but who were in fact to run the Club 's affairs — along with Barclays Bank as Treasurer — for 10 years . |
| 30 | This approach influenced the Scottish Court ( Lord Ordinary Ross presiding ) when considering an interim interdict ( injunction ) in Emerald Stainless Steel Ltd v South Side Distribution Ltd [ 1983 ] SLT 162 . |