Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 Jo Durie , who has again carried the ladies game , made her own thoughts very clear and at this rate it could be some years until she is beaten regularly by a British girl .
2 It proved very popular and from this start began the exportation of wicker furniture .
3 Fortunately the wedge of cheese was thick and tasty and for this she was grateful .
4 He will say , ‘ On this song I think you should play bass and on this song I think you should play guitar … ’
5 Just because you 're looking for win win relationships all the time that does n't mean that you 're gon na get walked over all the time because by being assertive and by this is this is really what I want , what is it that you want and looking , listening to the other person 's point of view as well as making sure your point of view goes across as well somewhere , somewhere in all of that through all this down here , there 's a way of finding something for both people .
6 ‘ Many companies , however successful , tend to be somewhat inbred and for this reason people often welcome an injection of new thinking into their affairs . ’
7 Once it disappeared altogether , and although a fair degree of brightness remained in the sky , the land became very dark and in this pathless place it was not easy for Stephen to find his way .
8 However this is not usual and for this reason , LIFESPAN give a warning .
9 She did what she thought was right and in this country she said a price .
10 Although there are differences in the method of removal favoured by different surgeons ( Goodall , 1957 ) , it is usual to spare as much of the thalamus , basal ganglia and hippocampal cortex as possible and for this reason Austin and Grant ( 1955 ) , among others , have pointed out that the operation might be better described as hemi-decortication , reserving the term hemispherectomy for those cases in which subcortical structures are also destroyed .
11 Forty five patients had previously been pregnant and in this subgroup , there were 11 recurrences compared with only one in the 10 patients who were nulliparous — corresponding to LTA rates of 31.2 ( 9.0 ) % and 20.0 ( 17.9 ) % respectively at 42 months ( NS ) .
12 Answer guide : This raises the question of when the earnings process is complete and in this case it would seem that the process is not going to be completed therefore no entries need to be made .
13 These were indestructible and to this day I regret ever falling for the slick adverts for trendy green ones .
14 The curds are now quite hard and at this stage resemble a chunky cottage cheese crossed with the homemade cheese or paneer as used in Indian cookery .
15 The issue of military corruption thrown up by the Pinocheques and La Cutufa cases [ see pp. 37852-53 ] had severely damaged the image of the army , which had projected itself as incorruptible and on this basis had hoped to defend itself successfully against charges of human rights abuses during the military dictatorship .
16 In the first place , the informal modal meaning tends to be restricted to the grammatical environment of first person singular and present tense and in this respect to have limited productive generality .
17 Then there were the child 's eyes , grey , clear , large and at this moment expressing fear , if she had ever seen it .
18 The Republic also pointed the way to the future in its attempts to regulate English trade in a way that would help English shipping though its efforts were not immediately successful ; the monarchy took the same legislative approach , but was able to make its laws effective and on this basis set up a system of control of trade in the empire that survived until the middle of the nineteenth century .
19 There were three other men present and at this point , they joined in the argument .
20 Unfortunately such a solution is rarely available and in this and the next chapter we shall examine ways of ‘ solving ’ such problems , which are typically grouped together under the title multiple-objective or multiple-criterion problems .
21 Answer Guide : Historic cost — normally technology will lower prices as better alternatives are available and in this situation unadjusted historic cost will overstate the asset worth .
22 Intermittent tamarisk jungle grew along the banks of the Awash and in this I saw several herds of waterbuck , many warthog and an occasional bushbuck .
23 It may be that , for them , the attraction of SSE in general and of this scheme in particular lies in the opportunity it appears to offer for them to take part in decisions about school policy .
24 Well plans as such , I think , will revolve round the forwards because every time we 've done well against Bath we 've done well up front and at this moment in time the Gloucester pack is going extremely well .
25 The gravitational separation of helium is negligible and in this model always would have been , because the evolutionary sequence that yields this present state has a hot start from formation 4600 Ma ago , the atmospheric regulated loss of the heat of formation bringing Jupiter to its present state .
26 ‘ The British have a long history of being inventive and in this current climate we are being inundated with new ideas , ’ says Richard Paine , marketing director of Inventalink , one of Britain 's biggest agencies which sells the ideas to commercial companies .
27 However the final report was prepared earlier than expected and for this reason consideration of the rest of the self-appraisal by governors was abandoned .
28 ‘ We 've always tried to keep the game open and in this respect for many of the younger players it has been a learning experience , ’ said Gray .
29 The night was still young and at this point David suggested that , as Carole had pushed off home , they should go back to his room at the Grand and watch television .
30 It was in fact the little river Enborne , twelve to fifteen feet wide and at this time of year two or three feet deep with spring rain , but to the rabbits it seemed immense , such a river as they had never imagined .
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