Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met the equivalent of this knife-edge , you will remember , in the story of the Grudgers and Cheats in Chapter 10 . |
| 2 | I really can not stress the desirability of this area strongly enough . |
| 3 | Many people abhor the extremity of this view . |
| 4 | Insurance companies are more likely to improve their sales methods if Sir Bryan tackles the Government on this issue . |
| 5 | You will have ample time for questions when I have completed the reading of this statement . ’ |
| 6 | What they 're actually asking for is that whether we would be able to help them by arranging for a loan on their behalf , they would service the debt at this time , so I might suggest chairman that we revert it to the finance committee for |
| 7 | However , some sites which have received the software under this deal have not requested any data , which suggests that they do not have the resources to run a properly supported 1991 Census data service . |
| 8 | The Radio 5 commentators were building the game up this morning typically talking about the 1973 FA Cup debacle but that is crap . |
| 9 | To the casual observer the layout of the plant and the flexibility introduced by the carriers are striking improvements over the traditional assembly plant with the track making its inexorable progress past every fixed work station , and Volvo claim that the increased cost of building the plant in this way is covered by improvements in quality and productivity . |
| 10 | The Directive made the adoption of this defence optional and , despite strenuous attempts by the consumer lobby to have it rejected , the government included it in the Act . |
| 11 | Notwithstanding the difficulties which many members of the agrarian community faced in the new Japan , the continuing economic significance of agriculture and the numerical importance of the rural population made the maintenance of this reputation easier . |
| 12 | The best way to place the liner on this edge is to put a row of bricks directly onto the collar , bring the liner over this row of bricks and then lay another row . |
| 13 | In these six we have proof that not all inhabitants of Jamaica , Sweden and Spain lack the temperament for this country 's robust style of play . |
| 14 | The Oxford dictionary gives minimal comfort for using the word in this manner and it surely strikes the UK ear as pompous or worse , over-zealous . |
| 15 | The smugglers were taking a chance in using the Dunlin for this type of passage in mid-winter as she was hardly built for open sea work although she was sound enough . |
| 16 | The librarian had to carefully plan aspects of the project , in which the students would create their own information database on local pubs and clubs using the MICROVIEWDATA software , to cover aspects such as the involvement of other staff , the amount of supervision needed by students , the appropriateness of using the software for this kind of information i.e. was the project information-led or technology-led ? |
| 17 | Gail Thompson has composed and arranged the music for this blockbuster of an evening . |
| 18 | From the spring of 1934 onwards in a series of reports MI5 evaluated the significance of this intelligence . |
| 19 | NCp7 has been found to bind to strong stop cDNA , the initial product of reverse transcription , and to promote the annealing of this cDNA to HIV-1 RNA corresponding to the 3' end of the genome . |
| 20 | At a ceremony attended by Chris Green , managing director of InterCity , locomotive 91003 which operates on the high-speed East Coast route will be given the name of this newspaper which has been celebrating its 175th anniversary . |
| 21 | Given the success of this system to date , it is likely that firms will press for much wider adoption of this strategy for pollution control in the United States ( refer to section 8.11 ) . |
| 22 | Given the centrality of this theme of the life study , the question which is raised by the exhibition but which is left unanswered is , how does if affect the viewing/appreciation of the image ? |
| 23 | All I would claim is that given the existence of this phenomenon of extensive , very long-term memory of the campaigns of successful brands , the onus is on the mathematicians to disprove the existence of any long-term effect : the fact that they can not find such an effect , with the somewhat rudimentary apparatus at their disposal , is not enough . |
| 24 | Given the complexity of this task there is always a time lag in the publication of mortality by cause of death data . |
| 25 | There were certainly ‘ imponderables ’ , however , and Shultz had a shrewd solution for those : ‘ Given the nature of this matter , I am inclined to think it should be managed by you personally . ’ |
| 26 | Given the topic of this book this does not lessen the usefulness of their formulation for our purposes but there remains a whiff of' western-centricness ' about any account which suggests that fewer people are experiencing that ‘ social being ’ which ‘ determines consciousness ’ through organized industrial labour . |
| 27 | Given the challenge to this claim by those who label the country ‘ totalitarian ’ , the state of the prisons takes on a special significance . |
| 28 | Bearing in mind the rate of growth , these are not a fish to be fattened up and passed on quickly , living well in excess of ten years and hopefully being given the respect during this time that any animal deserves . |
| 29 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 30 | Certain members should be targeted : induction for new members and training for clerks to the board , given the importance of this position , were identified |