Example sentences of "of this [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of this are nowadays quoted in most of the newspapers — the 25–30 year-old trader who is earning £200 000–£400 000 whilst the person who runs the whole department may be on a salary of only half this . |
| 2 | The full implications of this are best indicated if we observe that far more is involved in it than merely the uniqueness of the revelation in Jesus , solely the issue whether there is genuine access to knowledge of God in any other place . |
| 3 | At present 90% of this is simply put into holes in the ground , landfill sties , and covered over . |
| 4 | Nowadays it is thought that not much new water is generated by volcanoes or by hot springs and vapours , which speeded up in time through land-ocean changes and continental drift ; the vast majority of this is today believed to be recycled hydrospheric water . |
| 5 | All of this is already covered in the Takeover Code . |
| 6 | However , because deprivation is also associated with excess mortality some of this is already picked up by including standardised mortality ratio . |
| 7 | The political context of this is well discussed in Levi ( 1987 , Chapters 4 and 5 ) who argues that with the proposed deregulation of our prime export earner , the insurance , money and securities market , Britain has to be seen by prospective investors to have the power to eliminate financial fraud . |
| 8 | The effect of this is generally to knock the opponent over and earn you a full point . |
| 9 | His none of this is ever mentioned about , you know , mention to anybody , and there 's er , you know , er , you know , he 's one of the good guys . |
| 10 | The selectivity and control of conscious attention remains poorly understood ; very clearly it is not at all coextensive with information processing for much of this is never observed and can not be summoned up for examination . |
| 11 | The importance of this is often underestimated but it is essential that not only do you get applicants but applicants who genuinely fulfil your requirements . |
| 12 | The purpose of this is usually to allow students the opportunity to use language they know in a less controlled situation . |
| 13 | Though America 's economic hegemony ended 20 years ago , the consequences of this were little appreciated within America , for the country 's military and geopolitical power went unchallenged until 1989–91 , when its old enemy threw in the towel . |
| 14 | From 1334 to 1343 the clergy voted for no fewer than eight tenths , or from the combined provinces — and at a conservative estimate — roughly £140,000 ; in the next decade almost as much , seven tenths or some £124,000 were conceded ; during the second half of the 1350s only two tenths were granted , £35,000 ; the peace of Brétigny brought a respite from royal taxation until 1370 , after which until the end of the reign £100,000 was raised by traditional subsidies , £50,000 was sought as a special grant in 1371 ( though little of this was effectively collected ) and a graduated poll tax was imposed in 1377 . |
| 15 | A figure not far short of this was also found in the biological parents from whom they had been separated , though not in their adoptive relatives , in whom the incidence was much lower . |
| 16 | All of this was already mapped out in a very decent and proper piece of research that I had just written up . |
| 17 | The final horror of this was yet to come — because Grace McNeil was not entitled to legal aid , she was required to pay over £10,000 court costs ! |
| 18 | But little of this was clearly known at the time , and so some observers concluded that Paul VI secretly connived with the minority . |
| 19 | She still could n't quite believe any of this was really happening , but she had the feeling that Julius was about to make her believe it — and in the most delightful way possible . |
| 20 | All of this was fully recognized when he was awarded an honorary LLD by the University of Glasgow in 1892 . |
| 21 | Much of this was then recycled to MPs through careful abridgement of the evidence given to parliamentary committees . |
| 22 | But very little of this was actually measured , much was theoretical and , it later transpired , much or all of the claimed evidence for radiation was incorrect . |