Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I hope that you will be able to spare the time to complete this form .
2 Mrs Chalker echoed Mr Brady 's comments when she told the bank 's board yesterday : ‘ It is not clear to me that new facilities are needed to enable the bank to address this problem [ of defence conversion ] .
3 With that in mind , the officers rightly in my opinion made the decision to bring this incident to a halt in this way .
4 Is n't there something suspicious about making the performance of intentional actions the acid test of objective knowledge when it is quite possible that young babies have a very rich knowledge about the unseen existence of objects but that they lack the capacity to co-ordinate this knowledge with their motor skills at object removal ?
5 Parliament will be given the opportunity to consider this issue again .
6 If , in 1979 , the then Labour Minister responsible for housing had given the assurance offered this evening by the hon. Member for Hammersmith , the decline in private rented accommodation might have been arrested .
7 Harland 's chairman , Dr John Parker , was n't sad to see the ship go this week when he handed it over to the Navy in a ceremony at Cammell Laird shipyard on Merseyside .
8 He had mentioned to them the possibility of a deal and even the likelihood of profit , and proposed that one of the laundress 's sons come with a ladder and pick the tree clean this autumn , before the mulberries matured to that soft ripeness that threatened any laundry hanging near .
9 On examination , the car had been cut badly and now instead of a neat hole which the teeth of the cog could grab , the hole was broken and nothing would make the machine accept this card .
10 Liability is anticipated except where the seller is not in fact selling in the course of a business and prior to contracting the transferee knows this fact , or reasonable steps have been taken to bring it to his notice .
11 The language of the statute in the Central Bank case led the court to rebut this presumption and to conclude that the Registrar of Companies could make certain binding decisions on issues of mixed fact and law .
12 But this explanation is achieved only at the cost of excluding a very wide range of other factors , and offers us no coherent , integrated answer to the question ‘ What causes the peasant to observe this ethic ? ’ — a question that can not really be answered in this methodology .
13 Whatever happens in this match now , Hick has surely earned the right to start this summer 's Ashes series with Australia .
14 Fearing that Germany might win the race to develop this weapon , the US government set up the Manhattan Project , costing $2 billion and involving some 150 000 people , including most of the world 's most outstanding physicists .
15 I urge the assembly to accept this amendment to depart from this statement , to commend to our churches the use of the apostle 's creed and to wait for a day of broad theological agreement which in the providence of God and by the work of the holy spirit will surely come and then agree upon a statement of faith which we shall all agree and be able to commend enthusiastically to the church but until then to depart from this one .
16 But seriously , I follow this report along with the Lancashire Region , the comments made by the mover of this motion and in the interests of financial commonsense , I urge the conference to support this motion .
17 As the economy recovers and the unfavourable short-term effects of the fall in the exchange rate feed through , I expect the deficit to widen this year to £17.5 billion . ’
18 ( iii ) When the actor coerces the victim to submit by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim , or any other person , and the victim believes that the actor has the ability to execute this threat .
19 The public choice school again has the opportunity to explain this inconsistency .
20 Each student then has the opportunity to apply this experience in an individual research project supervised by a member of staff .
21 Man , by contrast , has the potential to make this ability subject to conscious control , and it is this very difference which clearly divides him from the animal world .
22 Why has the murderer chosen this moment ?
23 Opening the case to confirm this suspicion is easy .
24 It sounded fascinating so I decided to find the book to write this essay .
25 You do need a mouse to run this program but it is that good it is worth buying one just to play .
26 To then ask our members to accept a pay increase this year of between 0 and 1.5 per cent on the basis that they are in secure employment adds insult to injury . ’
27 Nebes , Madden and Berg ( 1981 ) found no evidence to support this hypothesis .
28 How if we draw from the records of our knowledge to find a way to drive this ship of yours without the use of machines ? ’
29 Retarded intrauterine growth has been proposed as the link between hypertension and diabetes , but our data provide no evidence to support this hypothesis .
30 No , because right has a tummy bug this week and she did n't phone or nothing like to say I do n't wan na phone Margaret she do n't wan na know so I do n't know why you 're bugging her for !
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