Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No purely internal linguistic explanation can account for the fact that the change happened in this way in some dialects and in different ways in others . |
| 2 | As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car . |
| 3 | The canteen ran in this form , with a day and night shift throughout the war and after until around 1960 , when the night shift was withdrawn through lack of support and a skeleton staff supplied tea and snacks to order to the Works night shift . |
| 4 | The labour cost of this work would be presented to the Camphill Building Fund as our gift/donation . |
| 5 | A major defence by many of those prosecuted was that the enclosures had taken place before the practice had been made an offence , and although the practice continued after this date there is good reason to believe that this was often the case . |
| 6 | The boys were waiting to cross the road here and the horse came down this lane , galloped straight across the road in front of the traffic then onto the pavement , tried to jump over the boys and jumped onto the boys . |
| 7 | The mulch went on this year in March ( together with the Growmore , as ever ) , and only the keenest weeds have managed to struggle through . |
| 8 | Yeah , the way the ice formed on this car when I was trying to get the snow off off the windscreen and the ice and everything that was er , no I personally think it 's too cold . |
| 9 | The Council had by this stage resolved the issue of its degree classification , so that separate degrees with separate admission for honours and ordinary students were no longer to be offered . |
| 10 | It emphasized that many people considered that direct contact between boards and course teams was ‘ one of the most valued aspects of the Council 's operation ’ , and the Council concurred with this view as long as boards worked within the policies laid down by the committees . |
| 11 | ‘ So the folk of the village capitalized on this gift from the gods , that had come to them in their darkest hour . |
| 12 | The newspaper complied with this request . |
| 13 | But as I have said to you , the Banbury School 's decision to opt out was not taken on the grounds of the education offered in this county . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly the safety-pin opened under this onslaught and landed Mr P in a painful and difficult situation which needed the ministrations of a surgeon to sort out . |
| 15 | The Captain wondered at this hatred which was stronger even than family loyalty . |
| 16 | The Commission continued during this period with its efforts to secure uniform rates of value added tax ( VAT ) and excise duties within the EC ( see pp. 36153 ; 36493 ) , particularly in the light of the proposed abolition of border controls which , it felt , could encourage cross-border shopping in low-rate countries and thus perpetuate market imbalances . |
| 17 | The Commission continued during this period to press for the creation of a single EC market in energy , particularly in response to appeals from France , which sought larger export markets for its nuclear-generated electricity . |
| 18 | While it appears beyond dispute that ‘ a massive immigration and a strong economic upsurge ( meant that ) all sections of the economy profited from this growth ’ , Paris nevertheless remained during the whole of the period an area in which ‘ hand industry ’ predominated ; it was a capital associated with the production of articles of high fashion and luxury goods rather than a centre of heavy industry . |
| 19 | The Principal had by this time become almost as fluorescent as the neon sign outside his academy , and we eyeballed one another in a spirit entirely lacking in camaraderie . |
| 20 | The dualism implied by this statement can be related I think directly and appropriately to Proust himself . |
| 21 | The logic instantiated in this research design has been used to effect in some branches of psychology and medicine as a method for testing causal explanations . |
| 22 | The Government adverted to this problem in its White Paper , recognising that ‘ it is not easy to define in a manner which conforms with the normally precise definitions of the criminal law , but which at the same time is sufficiently general to catch the variety of conduct aimed at . |
| 23 | Everything the government did from this date onwards had privatisation in mind . |
| 24 | AS THE deadline approached for this quarter 's issue of Wood News , there was a certain amount of nervousness at John Wood House , since only a few stories had come through from our new network of Correspondents . |
| 25 | The carving had by this time become careless and clumsy . |
| 26 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 27 | In legislative terms the reverse occurred in this period . |
| 28 | By the time the matter came to this court , it was impossible to take any other view . |
| 29 | One thing said in support of the idea that we take effects to be probable events , and , more particularly , said against the analysis expounded in this chapter that we take them to be necessitated events , is relevant enough , although likely to be disdained by the high-minded . |
| 30 | Lovers of freedom throughout the world looked to this vision with hope and it is with profound sadness that they see the vision momentarily dimmed , and with this dimming has come a confusion of purpose and a sense of despair that was never known before in America . |