Example sentences of "[prep] this [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there is no dispute about this there may nevertheless be disagreement as to the nature and level of service to be provided . |
| 2 | About this there can be no doubt or dispute . ’ |
| 3 | If you joke about this I 'll put a rope round your neck . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If there was anyone else I could possibly talk to about this I would . |
| 5 | The letter was carefully worded — it hinted that the offer might be regarded as a debasement of his talent , but if he were not too sensitive about this he might be prepared to accept the fee which was negotiable . |
| 6 | If Amanda Pennington ever heard about this he would die of shame . |
| 7 | If you think about this you can think of a kite as two isosceles triangles glued together . |
| 8 | Yes Chairer , why do n't we pat ourselves on our , on the back about this it would it be useful i in in the the report , a further report that 's gon na come forward if there could be some indication as to actual format that was adopted when a person goes to one of his welfare panels , cos I 've been to three and there does n't seem to be any consistency whatsoever in the way that things occur or whatever ! |
| 9 | Well Jennifer I think it 's er viburnum lanterna and it 's quite an interesting er bush because it was in the sixteenth century a er gave the tree its poetic name as he frequently come across it in old drove roads er over and across the old drove roads in the chalk downs of er from Winchester to Epsom and London but sorry about this it can grow to fifteen feet and in May it opens up its cluster of white flowers and it 's really quite an attractive thing but the berries I do n't think are so attractive so I think erm |
| 10 | The Council may also try to draw up a science policy for Europe , if it is serious about this it will have to soil its hands a little more with the sharp end of applied research . |
| 11 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 12 | Whether this is the case or not , even the more special crimes such as this one can not automatically be assumed to be outside the scope of the postclassical perspective . |
| 13 | A book with a title such as this one could have concentrated on narrative and analysis of the political , military , and diplomatic aspects of the Hundred Years War . |
| 14 | A bow-fronted tank such as this one should be OK . |
| 15 | Developments such as this one will be of considerable importance in the context of Scottish participation in the survey of activities and policies relevant to the topic of education and local development which the OECD is currently studying . |
| 16 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 17 | Of course , this alone did n't meet the cost of the hats or the debt owing , but she said if we could find a buyer for such as this it would , in a way , alleviate some of the debt … ’ |
| 18 | In a book such as this I can not say more than that about how the modern fieldworking anthropologist conducts his research . |
| 19 | For this they would receive $315,000 . |
| 20 | But then soldiers are supposed to put their country above their personal interests and but for this they would not have to obey their commander . |
| 21 | For this they would require the written permission of the owners , and a police permit . |
| 22 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 23 | For this they could blame their own indiscipline as much as Llanelli 's eagerness to take advantage of it . |
| 24 | for this one ca n't I then ? |
| 25 | It is an elegant structure of the local grey sandstone , with a balustrade and cornice , and was one of the works of the canal 's engineer John Rennie , one of the great exponents of stone bridges , though much of the credit for this one must go to the architect , Alexander Stevens . |
| 26 | I suggest that we substitute for this what might be called a ‘ relative autonomy ’ rule . |
| 27 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 28 | And for this we would use Two Face Commit technology . |
| 29 | And for this we would use object based technology , object oriented technology to enable us to have this business processes modelled inside the desktop . |
| 30 | Yeah , we wo n't charge you a pound for this we 'll charge you nineteen and eleven |