Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term " business secrets " , where used in this book , is intended to cover any confidential information of value used in business . |
| 2 | 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take |
| 3 | Lutyens 's ideal of an orderly life run by efficient , invisible servants is more than realised in this immaculately appointed domain . |
| 4 | It would , in my opinion , in many ways be more logical for an application to be released from custody on the ground of non-service or delayed service of a committal notice to be made to a first instance judge rather than direct to this court . |
| 5 | I sit on the side of the bed and decide maybe Rachel is right : I 'd be better off between the sheets than listening to this dross . |
| 6 | : encouraging for Festival director Nikki Milican , and an indication that her vision in bringing less well-established but visually exciting performers to Scotland is more than paying off this year . |
| 7 | Your new ‘ Global Sections Used ’ count will be 4 more than shown on this output , ie. , 41 + 4 = 45 in this example . |
| 8 | They more than pulled at this point — they just stopped communicating . |
| 9 | There could be few better ways of becoming tolerably wellinformed about Matteo Ricci , Hugo Grotius , Matthew Wren , Prince Rupert or Rapin de Thoyras ( among others ) than to turn to this collection . |
| 10 | the yard automatically became obliged to increase the return letter of credit pro tanto and were therefore doing no more than undertaking in this respect to fulfil their existing contractual duty . |
| 11 | Thus , the whole thrust ( of what in fact is a much more extended " retrospect " than indicated in this summary ) is towards the constriction of English as a sufficiently compact cultural instrument with which to refound the system of education : |
| 12 | What could be easier than to succeed in this business ? |
| 13 | I was more than encouraged by this , and even more uplifted when in a space of less than 5 yards , an Edward VI ( 1547–53 ) shilling came to light . |
| 14 | The label ‘ hard look ’ developed in essence because the United States ' courts began to desire more control than allowed by this limited test . |
| 15 | There 's the ‘ I 'm so fat I could be a turkey ’ type of robin ; the ‘ Is n't there more to life than standing on this stupid twig ’ robin ; and , the special favourite , the robin with the ‘ How come the cattle always get to go in the stable ? ’ look . |
| 16 | Self-abuse is worse , because more animal ; but those who really must have amatory excitement will find it ‘ better to marry ’ and expend on real lovers those sexual feelings now worse than wasted on this its ‘ solitary form ’ . |
| 17 | Sex is more like eating than breathing in this regard — and interestingly , the word " appetite " is often used in relation to both activities . |
| 18 | Rather than speculate on this increase here , the reasons for female involvement in heroin use will be examined more fully in Chapter 4 . |
| 19 | In the GDR , the Wachsregimente of the Ministry of State Security ( MfS ) and the Bereitschaftspolizei of the Ministry of the Interior have more than sufficed for this purpose , enabling the NVA to keep its hands clean and its morale high . |
| 20 | It is best to use lime rather than cement for this type of infill |
| 21 | Anything would be better than feeling like this . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , the daughter and her husband were less than thrilled at this and the further suggestion that they could rent their home back ! |
| 23 | If having encountered , say , the Rite , Petrushka , and Firebird , you wish to make further inroads into Stravinsky 's compositional genius , you could hardly do better than invest in this splendid disc . |
| 24 | Against a mobile enemy such as Bretonnian knights you must be careful of their charge — a unit of Goblins will be swept away in one turn if caught like this . |
| 25 | as if to compensate for this , he applied military techniques in the colony . |
| 26 | If interpreted in this light , the argument becomes not so much an onslaught on the idea of identity as an attack on the idea of empirical things as basic particulars . |
| 27 | They frown upon the tight and restricted and will react if used in this way . |
| 28 | London 's leading pair , as if piqued by this , turned 30 September into the longest afternoon . |
| 29 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 30 | Mother and daughter were glad of each other 's company then , while the electric storm boomed and crashed around them in the black night , as if aiming for this one exposed place . |