Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along with others , Gassendi obviously felt that this whole elaborate conceptual structure was obstructive to , rather than productive of , knowledge . |
| 2 | The Inland Revenue eventually decided that this practice was contrary to the legislation on PRP schemes , and put an end to it in a Statement of Practice ( SP7/92 , see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 103 ) . |
| 3 | Although exporters fairly complained that this made their goods less competitive in price , it helped to lower the cost of imports and thus the prices of foreign goods sold in Britain . |
| 4 | The gas industry legitimately complained that this competition was sometimes far from fair : the Electricity Boards were using the leverage provided by the necessity of electric lighting to try to exclude gas and deprive consumers of a free choice . |
| 5 | Our first criterion then suggests that this is a process about which arts teachers should be aware , and in which they should not collude . |
| 6 | Gould always argued that this perception of the use of recording technology divided by generation . |
| 7 | Moscucci further argues that this historical situation is fully comprehensible only if we take into account the 19th-century debates about femininity . |
| 8 | And very soon after that , Matilda was moved up into the top form where Miss Plimsoll quickly discovered that this amazing child was every bit as bright as Miss Honey had said . |
| 9 | Pooley clearly felt that this conversation was getting out of bounds . |
| 10 | Hall appeared with a letter from the Duke , who perhaps not unexpectedly said that he had some ‘ pressing business in Scotland ’ and , therefore , regretfully had to resign his duties , 2 although Burn later said that this was due to the death of the Duke 's uncle . |
| 11 | Brenda often thought that this was the part of the working day she liked best , the hour before the staff arrived and the work of the Lab got really under way , when she and Inspector Blakelock worked together in the quiet emptiness of the hall , still and solemn as a church , making up a supply of manila folders ready to register the day 's new cases , repacking exhibits for collection by the police , making a final check of the Laboratory reports to courts to ensure that the examination was complete , that no relevant detail had been omitted . |
| 12 | In May 1950 the Cabinet Defence Committee guardedly agreed that this should be " one ultimate aim " of Nato . |
| 13 | And Troilus immediately confesses that this was his real motive behind his defence of the present Trojan stance . |
| 14 | The planners cheerfully calculate that this works out at only 60 cents a day per person — and that this cost will be offset by people having to spend less on doctors and medicines . |
| 15 | The County Council fully recognizes that this would be appropriate , inappropriate sorry , and unacceptably constraining . |
| 16 | The Earth is over 100 times more flattened than this upper limit . |
| 17 | Repealers quickly grasped that this parliamentary language surrounding prostitution and venereal disease increased their difficulties in launching an effective campaign . |
| 18 | [ In the Court of Appeal Pickin successfully argued that this case was authority for the House of Lords refusing to give effect to a private Act obtained by fraud . ] |
| 19 | The by-election gains in Manchester in 1912 and in Ipswich on the eve of the war perhaps showed that this recovery was at hand . |
| 20 | The next day , instead of counting their blessings , officials apparently decided that this was the moment to announce the ending of price controls for oil and grain and new taxes . |
| 21 | I thought that Basil appreciated more than most the essential magic of the child 's experience of the world and the expression of this in art — not that he ever said this , but his own manner as a teacher always implied that this was a special , essentially elevated kind of activity — but one in which everyone had the capacity to join . |
| 22 | The number is assumed to be of a certain maximum field width and the process also terminates if this field width is reached . |
| 23 | Independence three years later meant that this arrangement had to be altered . |
| 24 | the security contracts that have covered Wakefield , Drury and Norwich Houses for some years now show that this is an effective method of providing security to Stamford and Rennie House . ’ . |
| 25 | The political argument for conventionalism I set out a moment ago supposes that this kind of situation is inevitable , that no theory of adjudication can prevent it . |
| 26 | Er another scripture here to suggest whether this , this is on the same sort of er apart from that 's it , chapter thirteen and Luke |
| 27 | Custom then demanded that this person should hand over three gifts for the child , with his good wishes . |
| 28 | Meryl privately doubted that this phraseology was accurate . |
| 29 | However , American experience also suggests that this awareness may remain rather abstract : relatively few people become able to translate differences in APR into differences in the money cost of credit . |
| 30 | ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . ) |