Example sentences of "this [noun] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Will my right hon. Friend take time this afternoon to watch the recent interview by Mr. David Frost , which revealed the success of the Government 's health service provisions , and also that the Opposition 's figures are totally bogus ? |
| 32 | The Princess Royal this afternoon attended the Annual General Meeting and Conference of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux at the University of York and was received on arrival by Major-General H. Woods ( Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of Yorkshire ) . |
| 33 | Her Royal Highness this afternoon attended the Annual General Meeting of the National Association of Victim Support Schemes at Central Hall , Westminster , and was received by the Lord Mayor of Westminster ( Councillor Simon Mabey ) and the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 34 | But before taking the action some members will begin a vigil in Cardiff this afternoon to give the Welsh Language Education Committee ( PDAG ) one last chance not to co-operate with what they claim are the Government 's education ‘ quangos . ’ |
| 35 | Her Royal Highness this afternoon opened the new Head Office Building for the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , Watling Street , Bexleyheath , and received a donation from employees for the Save the Children Fund . |
| 36 | The college 's governing authority voted this afternoon to end the hundred and thirteen year old women-only tradition at Somerville College . |
| 37 | Virtually noone at this level uses the high elbow that we commonly teach in the UK . |
| 38 | This yacht spends the whole year in the Caribbean . |
| 39 | It is a good idea to practise this technique using the same piece of music each time and the length of one side of a cassette or record ( usually about twenty minutes ) is just about right for this exercise . |
| 40 | This technique retains the constant mean heat input but instead of measuring the temperature difference during a change a servo-system immediately increases the energy input to either sample or reference to maintain both at the same temperature . |
| 41 | This technique records the exact points in the sentence which the reader fixates , and the time of each fixation . |
| 42 | Coupled with the almost equally difficult situation in Hungary this resistance disrupted the fragile unity of the Habsburg dominions . |
| 43 | This Preface summarises the main respects in which the proposals of the FRED differ from those of the Discussion Paper , and explains why certain proposals were retained although some commentators pointed out difficulties or expressed objections . |
| 44 | To say however that this route supplies the only reliable way to knowledge is grossly to overstep its boundaries . |
| 45 | Retrace this route to rejoin the main leisure route . |
| 46 | This route follows the former Innocent Railway for part of the way and then the Niddrie Burn to Brunstane . |
| 47 | It was as if the Party had failed in this instance to honour the tacit bargain and had allowed heavy-handed politics to intrude seriously upon fun . |
| 48 | Though it would be fair in this instance to absolve the Scottish Liberal Democrats from charges of time-wasting . |
| 49 | This enigmatic man — one reluctant to disclose his plans even to his closest associates and so often the military miscalculator — in this instance judged the French national character correctly : if the Germans attacked Verdun , the French would resist . |
| 50 | The specific concerns of this bargaining cover the following areas : 1 Concern that the productivity gains from new technology are equitably distributed by improving wage and other benefits , and , as an alternative to job losses , by increasing/diversifying output and reduced working time . |
| 51 | This course provides the required knowledge and skills to plan and conduct improvement programmes for tree species . |
| 52 | This certificate produced the desired effect and I was allowed to stay at home on parade days . |
| 53 | This orbit intersects the top face of the box B in two points , one of which lies to the left of the stable manifold of the origin and which is represented by the doubly infinite sequence ( with mark ) … |
| 54 | Undoubtedly this struggle to define the postwar settlement and preserve France 's international position was uppermost in de Gaulle 's thoughts in the summer and autumn of 1945 . |
| 55 | For the purposes of this present appeal the following propositions can , in our judgment , be stated . |
| 56 | To a historian of the health services this decision to rationalize the two hospitals on to one site could be seen as rather disappointing . |
| 57 | This decision divided the independent types from the gregarious ; some thoroughly enjoyed staying at the hostel for years : |
| 58 | The resources on which they call in making this decision include the above typifications , as well as local knowledge of the area and its crime , and contextual and time variables . |
| 59 | This decision established the general rule that if an applicant for judicial review seeks to protect rights or interests recognized only in public law , he or she must do so by AJR under Ord. 53 . |
| 60 | And on this decision rests the greatest porter and stout brewery of all time . |