Example sentences of "[prep] this [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the ‘ non-marketable ’ sector provides a range of social and administrative services which are not sold on markets , and which therefore must be financed ‘ externally ’ , the necessary revenue for this having then to be raised by taxing the output of the marketable sector via taxes on both profits and wages . |
| 2 | Despite this stirring up of architectural disorder into what one unkind French critic called a ‘ cultural Chernobyl ’ , the powers at Disney , led by its dashing chief executive Michael Eisner , have managed to persuade a handful of élite and influential American architects to participate . |
| 3 | All of this racketing around with has-beens and yet-to-bes , filming on rented sets in disused warehouses , ought to have been doomed to failure , even laughed off the screen . |
| 4 | Right because we 've picked that three sixty a penny for each degree makes it easy then no problem none of this messing about with fractions and all the cancelling and ooh dear , which is where all the hard part is that 's where all the hard work is this doing the fractions . |
| 5 | None of this playing around with it like we do with our family services at the moment . |
| 6 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 7 | More recent extensions include office units built along with extra hardstanding , around 1980 , all of this blending in with the character of the remainder of the site . |
| 8 | One of the least anticipated results of this working out of opinions , morals , and institutions under the guidance of positive philosophy , is the development which must take place in the modes of expressing them . |
| 9 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 10 | Everyone 's house , and that 's another thing , if you wanted to paint as your house inside , the cupboards and the doors , they were painted brown and that was a lifetime 's job , they were never done again , not like you do now with this freshening up of paint every so often . |