Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] this [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The association 's chief aim is to ‘ improve the professionalism of the security industry ’ , and it goes about this in a number of ways . |
| 2 | one entry looks like this on the screen : In this particular entry \w is the word ; \c the tone , which in this case is low-low-low ; \p the part of speech , in this case a noun ; \d the definition ( meaning ) ; \s a subentry . |
| 3 | The result of a reversal programme looks like this for the Jur Modo entry above : cotton alato lll Since there were three separate definitions for alato in the Modo-English section of the dictionary , similar entries appear in the English-Modo under " thread " and " kapok " . |
| 4 | Along the inferior border of the mandible may be seen the roseate shaped groups of grooves that occur when the rodent anchors its lower jaw on one side of the mandible and pivots against this with its upper jaw to produce a series of grooves converging downwards to a single point . |
| 5 | The pluralist approach is repeatedly criticised ( and not just by Marxists ) for its neglect of ‘ objective factors ’ , and Pizzorno adds to this with his charge that Banfield is both superficial and culturally inaccurate . |
| 6 | The tack adds to this by rubbing the cheek against the sharp teeth . |
| 7 | no idea what so ever because erm he starts on this on Monday . |
| 8 | Somebody somewhere thinks of this as home , |
| 9 | Olsburgh 's district has confirmed its agreement with this , and in any case the current system allows for this with mandatory payment for emergency extracontractual referrals . |
| 10 | The manufacturer allows for this by upping the voltage . |
| 11 | She goes like this with her paws You know how they come in and out and they |
| 12 | you know , you know the way he goes like this with it , he goes |
| 13 | and you 're calling it for ages but you ca n't go near it cos it will run away and it goes like this to you , it goes |
| 14 | However , the decline of public transport and the far-from-universal availability of private transport militates against this in practice . |
| 15 | A controversial aircraft , the Starfighter gained notoriety during its career and the Author deals with this in an objective way , helping to dispel the Widowmaker myth that has surrounded the type . |
| 16 | The Act deals with this in sections 1 to 7 under the heading ‘ the strict liability rule . ’ |
| 17 | Well I , I took the liberty of the Lord Lieutenant 's appointed me to something called the Sussex Rural Options Land Bank and I brought you a copy of the leaflet , having notice of your question and I did ask the officer who deals with this in the Sussex Rural Community Council if he could give me the latest score on housing I thought that the news was bad from what he had said , but having said that , I mean every effort is being made to deal with the issues you raise in this council which is now chaired by Peter . |
| 18 | Active life , keeping the commandments and loving one 's neighbour as oneself , is compatible with , indeed may express , the first degree of love , while contemplative life grows from this to the more inward experience of all three degrees of love . |
| 19 | Ray gets round this by building a support ‘ spider ’ from a cross-fitting with elbows and straight pipework ( see diagram over page ) . |
| 20 | The female , if receptive , responds to this by a ‘ head up ’ display . |
| 21 | Enterprise democracy differs from this in that ( a ) workers can begin to fight for such an objective in the absence of a socialist government and ( b ) it is by nature impossible for even the most ‘ socialist ’ of governments to develop enterprise democracy ‘ from above ’ . |
| 22 | The history of social action accounts for this to a considerable extent and all students of social administration must turn to some reading of the development of social policy . |
| 23 | Our language testifies to this with words such as ‘ lunatic ’ , ‘ moonling ’ and ‘ moonstruck ’ . |
| 24 | The result is that , whereas , for the passive reader , the novel effectively ends with Oliveira seemingly about to commit suicide by throwing himself out of a window , the active reader goes beyond this to the understanding that Oliveira 's jump into the void is a metaphorical leap into a metaphysical state , where conventional categories are abolished and dualistic contradictions reconciled . |
| 25 | A capital shares tax uses the concept of a wealth tax as a starting point — that is , as a means of raising revenue by a levy on wealth — but goes beyond this by proposing how this revenue could be used . |
| 26 | The concept of referential rigidity in the sense in which it is used in the above theory , on the other hand , goes beyond this in that it already presupposes the idea of " per se " existence . |
| 27 | Klockars refers to this as the ‘ Dirty Harry ’ syndrome ( 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Bruner ( 1983 ) refers to this as a ‘ communicative ratchet ’ which enables adults gradually to increase the demands which are placed upon linguistic communication , while at the same time minimising the consequences of misunderstandings . |
| 29 | Cynthia Cockburn is probably quite right when she refers to this as a way of getting women to recognize that they were inferior beings . |
| 30 | Chamberlain refers to this in the same breath as mentioning an argument between the Marquess Buckingham and Hamilton over ‘ the selling of honours and abasing ancient nobility , by new advancements ’ . |