Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now , bent over a box , she nearly choked at this reference to her daughters ' poverty . |
| 32 | The employee should also be asked to complete a Consent Form ( also appended to this memo ) . |
| 33 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |
| 34 | During one excursion which probably occurred at this time Tom Poole took his friends to Walford 's Gibbet on the Quantock slopes between Holford and Stowey , and there recounted John Walford 's tragic history . |
| 35 | ‘ Lower inflation and interest rates also contributed to this year 's increase in profit . |
| 36 | The invention of the zodiac , the belt round the sky in which the sun , moon , and planets lie , also occurred about this time . |
| 37 | But this is followed by the rather more specialist firms listed in Table 11.8 , Hotel Plan ( under the Inghams and Swan Plan labels ) , and Blue Sky which also specialised in this area . |
| 38 | Metal studded watch straps , sharpened coins , Kung Fu stars with the edges filed down , also came into this category . |
| 39 | However , it also seemed at this stage that science depended on uniformity and invariance . |
| 40 | Indeed , the movement for total abstinence from alcohol , which also flourished at this time in Protestant and puritan countries , illustrates this clearly . |
| 41 | The mammals also existed at this time , starting a little later in the mid-Triassic , but in very insignificant numbers and they were tiny until after the death of the dinosaurs , after which they had more fully evolved from the pelycosaurs and therapsids . |
| 42 | But both the Bedford and Egerton manuscripts were produced by French artists working in Britain and we have to ask ourselves if what we see in these illuminated manuscripts also existed in this country . |
| 43 | If Jennens thought that Leapor had a future as a poet , Leapor also relied on this woman 's criticism and encouragement . |
| 44 | Possibly the direct effects of war on the Flemish cloth towns , which suffered from the campaigns , may have been a further benefit to English producers ; indeed this may have been a more important factor in the decline of Flanders than the tariff protection enjoyed by England , because the Dutch cloth industry , which used English wool , also developed at this time at the expense of the Flemish . |
| 45 | In its fashion , the Labour Party also subscribed to this nostalgia , albeit directed towards Labour 's alternative ‘ people 's history ’ . |
| 46 | Oil related activity in the North Sea also increased at this time , and helicopter flights to offshore sites reached record numbers in 1978 . |
| 47 | ‘ This is not surprising , ’ notes Correll , ‘ because nitrogen oxide emissions due to fossil fuel combustion also increased during this time . ’ |
| 48 | Naturally , he listens to recommendations from the local councils , as he clearly did on this occasion , but he was absolutely right not to adopt all their suggestions . |
| 49 | Spoke machines were acquired , sent to Wolverton for alteration and the fitting of cutter blocks and , together with drawings and fixtures for the other operations , sent to other firms also engaged on this type of work . |
| 50 | They both accounted for this outcome in terms of the rigidity of the block contracts they had been recommended to make by the regional health authority . |
| 51 | He also wrote at this time The Advocate ( 1652 ) , in defence of the Navigation Act , and a related economic tract , Free Ports ( 1652 ) . |
| 52 | A farmhouse probably stood on this site at the time of the Great Plague . |
| 53 | Mr W. M. Haggarty of Ayr was unanimously elected Vice-Chairman in place of Mr C. Smith who also retired at this time , and Mr A. D. Lamond of Perth was unanimously elected to the Committee . |
| 54 | The materials which eventually evolved from this study include a questionnaire devised by the group and which has subsequently been used as a basis for further in-service training sessions in their schools . |
| 55 | Mademoiselle was n't quite sure whether she really believed in this spider or not . |
| 56 | Her never-failing enthusiasm and dedication helped to build the strong support now enjoyed in this area , and although she is now retired , she still attends a weekly class . |
| 57 | During the next three and a half years I often thought of this meal and of the amount I had to leave on my plate because I could not eat any more . |
| 58 | Lack of space in which to build laterally resulted in this characteristic Edinburgh townscape of early tower blocks , often with additional lower floors invisible from the street , clinging to the cliffs and reached through narrow wynds , vennels and closes overshadowed by the dark flanks of buildings stained by the smoke of those ‘ Auld Reekie ’ years . |
| 59 | What Hollywood had been doing was living off its wits and trying to survive as best it could but it now responded to this challenge not necessarily by taking Dr Dale 's ‘ entire world ’ as its range but at least by ensuring that there were values in its films . |
| 60 | ‘ But getting back to your question , what I really wanted from this album was for anyone who hears it to say they like it or they do n't like it , but that it 's pure Steve Harley . ’ |