Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there were times when he had to hold his tongue , if only to ensure that he could keep on using this fool for his own ends . |
| 2 | It is in snowy weather that owners of buildings roofed in this way most regret this form of construction because wind-blown powdery snow easily enters narrow chinks in the roof surface , and where there is no underslating felt ( as applies in most old constructions ) , the snow settles between the ceiling joists , later melting and saturating ceilings and other internal finishes . |
| 3 | Thru enacts this strategy of ‘ wild jay-walking ’ between theories by side-stepping their systematicity and making them into stories . |
| 4 | It is not proposed to include such software in the current program , but rather to treat this instrument as an intelligent data gatherer and use mainframe facilities to assess the results . |
| 5 | This change of diet should not , of course , be attempted by diabetics except under medical supervision , and so far no juvenile diabetics have been treated successfully using this type of diet . |
| 6 | Thinly veiled portraits of actual people in fiction vastly outnumber this type of unlucky strike . |
| 7 | Norm referenced measures of learning , always a dominant , presently an overbearing , influence on the education scene , do little to encourage this approach to human development in both student and teacher populations . |
| 8 | Over the longer period changes in population , income etc. shift this relationship in measurable ways . |
| 9 | Thomas ( 1923 , p. 38 ) nicely overstates this point in relation to his postulated needs ( or ‘ wishes ’ as he calls them ) : |
| 10 | She ate as directed by Taggy , and made no fuss when that dame looked after her much as she had herself done for her deceased employer — nursing her and acting as lady 's maid , and combing out her troublesome copper hair , until Theda felt strong enough to perform this office for herself . |
| 11 | Now I 'm not I like I like the thought of but I prefer the thought of in work and how people can work together using this type of thing and think about it in the context of work rather than in the context that it talks about erm and it 'll be interesting to talk to you tomorrow so if to see what you think have the think about the things we 've talked about . |
| 12 | went down to like this kind of stuff here . |
| 13 | It is best to hide scale patterns by introducing leaps which not only hide this weakness in the system , but also allow stronger , more memorable phrase contours . |
| 14 | However , as with the English infinitive , the speaker is not merely accepting this happening as a fact but is passing judgement on the appropriateness of its occurrence : the verb regretter here expresses a " critical idea " through which the happening être venu is " viewed " ( Guillaume 1971a : 218 ) . |
| 15 | Many converters of churches which incorporate this arrangement have naturally regarded this space as a zone in which living-rooms might be accommodated , and the beneficial use of such roof space has largely been made possible by the widespread employment of standard reversible ventilating and double-glazed roof windows . |
| 16 | Maurice Melloul says ‘ Obvously , we only build this sort of special relationship with a limited number of selected suppliers but it is mutually beneficial . |
| 17 | But he impatiently dismissed this line of thought . |
| 18 | Gently touch this drop onto the surface of the spreading solution . |
| 19 | Being a mere composite from charnel houses , I fear that I alone undergo this sorrow behind the eyebrows . |
| 20 | ‘ And how long has this news about me been known , Parson Tringham ? ’ |
| 21 | Indeed , when a police authority has instructed its local constabulary not to purchase stockpiles of baton rounds nor to undertake training in their use , the Home Office has stepped in to circumvent this instruction by allowing police forces to hold such devices on permanent loan . |
| 22 | Classification had always been based on the recognition of structural resemblances , and the advent of evolutionism merely transposed this enterprise into a search for real ( i.e. historical ) rather than purely formal relationships . |
| 23 | ‘ I only want this farce to be over so I can get on with my life . ’ |
| 24 | So applying this concept to the Registration and Inspection Service I can report that since April 1991 we have introduced Guidelines for the Registration of Adult Services . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm expecting something from an old friend and I just remembered he only has this address for me . ’ |
| 26 | It will release a dozen or so films this year with an average cost of $5m , all aimed at audiences too small for the big studios to chase . |
| 27 | But there was one isotope released in the accident that is highly mobile , that does have a high take-up by the human body , has a half-life of 140 days , and — though this was only revealed this week by the NRPB after New Scientist 's inquiries — was released in significant quantities . |
| 28 | Specialist Old Testament study has long answered this question by saying that we have differing traditions of the early history of the people of God : one tradition in which the divine name was known from the earliest times , and another — contradictory — tradition that it was first revealed to Moses . |
| 29 | Robin Fox ( 1971 , 1972 ) and Lional Tiger ( 1969 ) in influential books have perhaps pushed this approach to an extreme , but they have thereby generated an important renewal of interest in biology among anthropologists . |
| 30 | Paper A. Perhaps merely to receive this paper from the Appeal sub-committee , fifteenth of October . |