Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The planners could determine the availability of finance : ‘ Every single externally financed project was therefore meant to be scrutinized for conformity with the targets and if the projects passed this test the Commission would see to it that sufficient tax and credit incentives would be made available ’ ( Estrin and Holmes , 1983 , p. 179 ) . |
| 2 | No ghost haunts this apartment . |
| 3 | But on the other hand , a soldier wants someone who he can talk to in complete confidence and I think the padre fulfils this sort of , if you like , avuncular , presence in the battalion . |
| 4 | BORIS Yeltsin chose the best word to describe the economic recovery plan which the Congress of People 's Deputies passed this week . |
| 5 | Turner 's view that migrants move into the city slums and then out to the shanty towns , is not so much the case now since the large number of spontaneous housing settlements and the widespread knowledge of their existence make this sort of housing immediately available . |
| 6 | Opening the case to confirm this suspicion is easy . |
| 7 | The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out . |
| 8 | Once the ice shifted , 250,000 years ago , nomadic hunters made this region their own — we know , for they left a trail of hewn flint artefacts . |
| 9 | But the ability of such institutions to perform this role has become increasingly difficult . |
| 10 | The duo face competition from at least five bank-led consortia , all vying to operate the network , which should be up and running by 1995 , with the licence award expected this autumn . |
| 11 | Prices of industrial products doubled this week and rising prices of bread , milk and meat will worsen the already fast-declining living standards of the population , two thirds of whom live on the poverty line or below . |
| 12 | There can be no guarantee that head teachers and parent governors have the necessary skills to perform this task effectively . |
| 13 | Camp integrates this aspect of gender with aesthetics ; in a sense it renders gender a question of aesthetics . |
| 14 | A training database is created by encoding samples of handwriting using this technique , and at run-time the input is similarly encoded and then compared with the characters stored in the database . |
| 15 | Among the several groups pursuing this route is that of Steven Jones of Brigham Young University , Provo , Utah . |
| 16 | Children seem to have little difficulty accepting this convention because it is so like the action replays they will frequently have seen on television . |
| 17 | Liberal deputies countered this argument by pointing out that " rampant privatization " was already in progress at all levels , including the state administration [ see dacha scandal below ] . |
| 18 | ‘ Producers were prepared to pay good money for quality stock and the number of sheep sold this year was higher than in 1990 . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got a couple of hours to spare this afternoon . |
| 20 | To the Englishmen who have used their time and talents to restore this control tower , we are most grateful . |
| 21 | Indeed , there had even been plans to connect this area of South-East Asia by railway to India and China . |
| 22 | The only evidence offered by the Israeli authorities to support this allegation was the accusation made by a Palestinian caught in possession of 150 PFLP leaflets . |
| 23 | Nobody walks on a slope like this for choice , only sheep , and they do n't let sheep graze this lot . |
| 24 | Kent Armstrong offers this service at a reasonable price . |
| 25 | Broome Manor also has the Women 's champion in 16 year old Vicky Hanks … she 's broken three course records this summer … |
| 26 | If you missed out last year , you will have another opportunity to attend this seminar which is scheduled to take place again this Autumn on Saturday and Sunday , 24th and 25th October . |
| 27 | … Even courts accepting this defence as an adequate safeguard have recognised the difficulties of adducing legal proofs that the alleged libel was true in all its factual particulars . |
| 28 | Capper wished to develop both airships and aeroplanes for military use , and took advantage of Cody 's mechanical and practical skills to promote this work . |
| 29 | As we have seen , the inheritance of wealth and educational advantage make this ideology of ‘ free competition for unequal reward ’ a very dubious claim , but in studying social mobility we are still comparing the actual amount of social mobility with the ideal of totally free movement through totally equal opportunity . |
| 30 | I personally have not had any problems with over-reaction using this method . |