Example sentences of "this [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah so I mean with , with younger people it 's , although th they 're still not , it 's still not going to be easy-easy er like with the older people , there 's still the , the disturbance element that in years to come they are not going to have this to fall back on because by the time that they retire it 's just not going to exist . |
| 2 | The two men died as this pick up truck burst into flames . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll get this checked right away . |
| 4 | So this summarizes then the two processes of gating , here , and inactivation , here . |
| 5 | This influences not only the nature of volcanic activity and landforms produced but also the processes tending to initiate back-arc spreading behind the volcanic arc . |
| 6 | The most fundamental is the type of magma present since this influences both the type of eruption and the nature of the erupted material . |
| 7 | On the other hand this meted out only a very rough justice to owners . |
| 8 | This fits well with the pain-avoiding hedonistic and utilitarian elements of modern consumerism . |
| 9 | This fits neatly with his initial remark that the social sciences study social action and that action is connected with the subjective meaning which the acting individual attaches to it . |
| 10 | The child who is abused or belittled will often , when an adult , seek out others who will treat him in the same way as this fits in with his inner image of himself . |
| 11 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 12 | All this fits in with Catherine Prince 's professed anti-housework ideology , in contrast to Barbara Lipscombe 's evident dedication to the housewife role . |
| 13 | It seems that girls may be given fancier names because this fits in with a traditionally feminine image while the common masculine-sounding names for boy babies , like Richard , David , James and Alexander , would ostensibly give a boy fewer problems than Tarquin or Marmaduke . |
| 14 | This fits in with the traditionally tight control that local authority finance directors like to keep . |
| 15 | A verse by Sighvat says that famous princes have brought their heads to Cnut from Fife to buy peace ; where this fits in is not clear , although as it also refers to St Olaf , and in the past tense , his death in 1030 had evidently occurred before it was composed . |
| 16 | Our officers say that this fits in perfectly with our plans for existing and new projects and I believe the officers . |
| 17 | 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328 |
| 18 | This fits in with our strategy to expand our health care and defence contracts . |
| 19 | This fits all over Europe and correlates remarkably with the Two Creeks horizon of the same kind around the Great Lakes in North America . |
| 20 | The system ignores all this formatting completely and , virtually automatically , tides up the copy into a common format once transmitted . |
| 21 | Why should this make so great a difference ? |
| 22 | But this did n't stick , and because his style was as I have said to always sit and wait , and never to make the first move , we began to call him The Older Man ; and then this became just Older , and finally just O. |
| 23 | This became even more apparent to us when we tried to devise an intelligence test for horses . |
| 24 | This became most strikingly clear when the encyclicals Lamentabili and Pascendi in 1907 condemned the ‘ modernists ’ . |
| 25 | The significance of this became clear later , because this was one of Mac 's great seasons , when he reached the Olympic final in Los Angeles . |
| 26 | For so many gifted writers of the Soviet period , this became both liberation and vocation — with all the narrowness the latter term implies . |
| 27 | This became both the cornerstone of future government policy and the unquestioned assumption of subsequent government reports , including the Barlow Report in 1940 which made the strongest and most comprehensive case for regional development . |
| 28 | By the mid-1980s , this became increasingly the accepted view of what the Thatcher years had meant for Britain as a society and a polity . |
| 29 | Plans to improve the whole line were under discussion since the 1880's , and during the 1890's this became increasingly feasible as a result of the purchase of the Grand Junction . |
| 30 | This became increasingly focused on the anti-Liberal , anti-Prussian and anti-semitic elements in the Die-hard tradition , which was elaborated in a simplistic conspiracy theory . |