Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Mackay of Clashfern LC held , on a construction of section 63 without the aid of reference to the parliamentary material , that the tax-payers were only assessable on the extra cost of providing the in-house benefit , and in reaching this finding regarded it as crucial that , on the facts , as found , the teachers ' sons occupied only surplus places and their right to do so was entirely discretionary . |
| 2 | But this grant cut across the claims of the Nevilles , who already held two thirds of the honour 's land in Richmondshire in tail male and had the reversion of the other third . |
| 3 | But this grant cut across the claims of the Nevilles , who already held two thirds of the honour 's land in Richmondshire in tail male and had the reversion of the other third . |
| 4 | We usually have some warning when one of these changes is about to happen and we may also have the worry about this change balanced by the excitement that a change in circumstances often brings . |
| 5 | Dr Spufford 's book has successfully demonstrated that the timing of this change depended in large measure upon the farming system and the social and economic structure of the communities that were affected . |
| 6 | This change affected not only the instrument 's sound but also the player 's technique . |
| 7 | This change applied to the obligatory foreign exchange intervention , i.e. when exchange rates moved to their limit . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This suggests that it is the major influence of the transmural pressure on this parameter calculated according to the Law of LaPlace . |
| 10 | The largest single load ever carried on the tramway was this boiler transported from Bispham to Rigby Road in March 1925 . |
| 11 | But that 's exactly the same me and Ady having this bungalow built , I mean some people been ever so funny . |
| 12 | This link accounted for Osprey 's directors ' interest in Crane Holdings which was part of the same network . |
| 13 | The Conservatives want to see this link restored as they believe the present situation leads to extravagant and irresponsible local spending . |
| 14 | There was however some danger of developments of this kind given the resources of the powers that were active in the region . |
| 15 | The restrictions which ideas of this kind imposed on the French navy were particularly serious , and can be seen influencing France 's strategy at sea throughout the century . |
| 16 | In 1982 it arrived five months early and , in addition , was one of the strongest events of this kind observed in the present century . |
| 17 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 18 | The most complete bibliography available lists thirty-three works of this kind published in the quarter-century 1626 – 50 , sixty-six in 1651 – 75 and seventy-seven in 1676 – 1700 . |
| 19 | It may be difficult deciding when sentences of this kind come to an end — in some cases , several dozen clauses might be linked by and or other devices , lasting several minutes — but , it is unusual to find a problem understanding what is being said . |
| 20 | There is plenty of evidence in the Review that taking a professional stance of this kind helped sustain the discursive architecture of English studies in the interwar period , especially in taking the disputative and judgemental stance of Parliament and the Law and borrowing the language from those discourses . |
| 21 | Mr Clarke , speaking on ITN 's News At Ten last night , tried to limit the damage from the disclosure , saying : ‘ All ministers , including David Trippier , agree with me that it can not be right that National Health Service pay can be determined by industrial action of this kind taken by militant trade unions . |
| 22 | Only when unemployment rose , however , were policies of this kind put into practice and this was at a time when there were insufficient jobs . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This pastime attracted such an enthusiastic following that several of the better equipped European brothels provided chambers decorated like railway carriages which shuddered and vibrated mechanically when they were occupied , as well as resounding with chugging and whistling sound effects . |
| 25 | I 'd like to get this underbrush cleaned out now . |
| 26 | This difficulty associated with the justification of induction has traditionally been called ‘ the problem of induction ’ . |
| 27 | This story led on to another one . |
| 28 | He tricks his Auschwitz guards just as , in the first instalment of this story published in 1986 , he regularly hopped on to trams reserved for German officers in the Polish town where he was virtually the sole surviving Jew . |
| 29 | The water treatment polymers will open up new markets for FMC , which at present only has a small business in this field based on commodity chemicals . |
| 30 | By October 1964 in the complex shifting sands of Ugandan parliamentary politics this alignment changed to one in which Obote felt strong enough to break his alliance with the kabaka , with whom he moved into a position of open enmity . |