Example sentences of "this [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because this ruled out all danger or adventure , Eternity became destructive to the spirit , and the bureaucrats had themselves to be destroyed . |
| 2 | this goes down each time until finally |
| 3 | This laid down specific objectives for each party in A Squadron in three phases , specifying that the squadron would come under the command of the Eighth Army on 16 October . |
| 4 | The talking that accompanies play with such materials as water , sand , clay , junk materials , and bricks , with dramatic role-play in the Wendy house and the model shop , and with imaginative play with miniature animals , people , and vehicles — all of this builds up spoken vocabulary . |
| 5 | Stereotypes like this flatten out important details : they disguise the exceptions to the ‘ women speak more standard ’ rule , or else are unable to account for them . |
| 6 | Er , and this came up several years ago , when this council went into conversation with the Goddard Estate , and the Goddard Estate wishing to dispose of our assets . |
| 7 | If think I 've got this written down wrong , classes of occupation one , two and three can only have a four week deferred period , that 's no |
| 8 | Needless to say this churned up all the water and when I asked him politely what he was doing — he ignored me ! |
| 9 | This rules out radical new ventures . |
| 10 | The use of eqn ( 10.18 ) shows that this monster would only radiate 10 -30 W of gravitational wave power : this rules out any laboratory equivalent of Hertz 's experiment for the production and detection of gravitational waves . |
| 11 | All this rules out any causative connection between biography and literature , but there are cases where the Formalists allow biography a legitimate literary function . |
| 12 | This includes around one hundred works painted between 1780 to 1850 , when Copenhagen was a major European art centre . |
| 13 | Linked to video materials , this opens up all kinds of possibilities for learning by individuals or small groups . |
| 14 | This opens up possible discussion about dramatic structure . |
| 15 | If rebates are extensive this takes on some aspects of an income tax too . |
| 16 | There were other questions he might have asked , such as , What do you know about potassium cyanide ? or : Did you have any reason to hate the Pitt family ? but somehow this popped out first . |
| 17 | Is n't that what we 've come to expect from this worn out useless Government , that at the moment of decision making they run away ? |
| 18 | My theory has always been that since Martin and I loathe losing to one another at games , this burns off any other rivalry between us . |
| 19 | I can feel this coming back much more rather than , Tell me that again . |
| 20 | This brought on such a bout of weeping and incoherence that the old man shuffled forward to lend his support . |
| 21 | This brought in new people such as Robert Hunter as head of the Department of Energy Office of Basic Research , and one of his first acts was to reorder some of the research funds.l This caused some research activities to be trimmed at Oak Ridge , Los Alamos and Princeton , where the dt experiment was postponed for at least another three years . |
| 22 | This brought in new allies , particularly from inland Karia , and new revenue . |
| 23 | However , it is difficult to find evidence that this brought about fundamental ideological shifts on the part of different groups — notably , within Whitehall . |
| 24 | As they were fanatically tidy this took on enormous importance . |
| 25 | When women do try to make such claims , this sets up predictable antagonisms between brothers and sisters . |
| 26 | Now this will affect a vast area of atmosphere , because the air moving over that sea surface tends to take up the characteristics and if the temperature 's higher on the sea surface than normal , the air becomes warmer than normal , and this sets up all sorts of reactions , it will probably produce a lot more clouds , for instance , and erm this in turn will cut off the sun 's rays from that area of atmosphere , and this will have an effect on the whole erm heat engine of the atmosphere as we know it so erm we 're now studying how far afield this is affecting the weather . |
| 27 | This sums up all of Owen 's thoughts on the futility of war . |
| 28 | This sparked off two days of rioting , with widespread looting and burning : it was put down only after the declaration of martial law . |
| 29 | Drying may be accelerated by flooding the surface with acetone several times ; this carries off some water when it evaporates . |
| 30 | Clicking this brings up another dialog box , where you can set which directories should be chosen , and specify the details that should select the file or files . |