Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [to-vb] 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 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 .
7 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 .
8 Whatever happens in this match now , Hick has surely earned the right to start this summer 's Ashes series with Australia .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 . ’
13 ( 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 .
14 The public choice school again has the opportunity to explain this inconsistency .
15 Each student then has the opportunity to apply this experience in an individual research project supervised by a member of staff .
16 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 .
17 Opening the case to confirm this suspicion is easy .
18 It sounded fascinating so I decided to find the book to write this essay .
19 Option 9.4.0 , Update Availability of Units allows the user to specify this information .
20 What could be causing the Tank to act this way ?
21 During that term , the deputy head was pushing the committee to expand this work in the direction of his vision of study skills across the curriculum and for the whole age range .
22 but , but that 's , that 's that 's easily remedied if you could get a er a driving licence holder to take them oh a volunteer driving licence holder among one of the parents or somebody who could take the children , er , periodically in the bus to visit the hospital to do this sort of thing .
23 But that 's that 's perhaps easily remedied , if you could get a er a driving licence holder to take them , who , a volunteer driving licence holder , among one of the parents or somebody who could take the children at periodic intervals to visit the hospital to do this sort of thing .
24 At the very least the Purchaser will expect the Vendor to give this warranty so far as it is aware .
25 Like , why did you feel the need to do this research on the RUC anyway ? …
26 Public outcry over what was widely seen as an attempt to intervene in the judicial process , however , caused the party to withdraw this threat almost immediately .
27 In the light of all that , ladies and gentlemen , the choice of a speaker for the Charles Darwin centenary was not difficult , and indeed I know that he welcomed the opportunity to give this lecture , not least I 'm sure because of the controversies and the general noise that have erupted once again over the issues of evolution , both in the academies of the civilized western world , and even in deepest Arkensaw
28 Of course she was glad she 'd had the opportunity to savour this experience , but it was also curiously frightening , because it was stirring something deep inside her that she had n't realised existed .
29 I am glad to have had the chance to record this act of kindness on the part of a man who is more often remembered as having installed a pay-phone for the use of his week-end guests .
30 ‘ I remain confident about my ability to do the business at Premier League level , and suddenly I 've got the chance to prove this self-belief is not misplaced .
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