Example sentences of "this [noun sg] and [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Receiving maintenance payments would perpetuate this link and also gives him unwelcome paternity rights . |
| 2 | On the level of er drugs and alcohol though we 're concerned to provide more social work time and support for the voluntary er agencies that are working in this field and also to provide direct services to people who are using drugs . |
| 3 | Riding the Boy is Adrian Maguire who had two winners this afternoon and now has a lead of over thirty in the race for champion jockey … |
| 4 | Erm , that is , how can we make sure that erm Plato , or Socrates , does n't descend to this level and then ascend to the one , as everyone else is , erm and then having got up this side somehow come down this ? |
| 5 | A third study of the effects on dreaming of watching a film successfully demonstrates the limitations of this technique and also indicates some important factors in determining what becomes incorporated into a spontaneous dream . |
| 6 | But exactly what is this creativity and how do you ensure you are providing it ? |
| 7 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 8 | They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper . |
| 9 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 10 | I had considerable difficulty in dissuading him from this course and only did so when I was able to convince him that , far from assisting Aitken , it would damage his cause . |
| 11 | On 5 July 1966 that Congress , which had made him president For Life , revoked this decision and also handed over the authority to appoint Cabinets to General Suharto . |
| 12 | IBM was waiting for this decision and quickly became more aggressive at home and abroad . |
| 13 | Answer guide : If the business owns the shop it also owes this money and therefore has a liability , in this case it is a long term liability . |
| 14 | We do not wish to pre- judge this review and therefore ask for the composite to be referred . |
| 15 | We have decided to keep away from a theoretical treatment in this chapter and simply to give you well-tried practical techniques that have been found to work . |
| 16 | … there is some practical convergence between ( i ) the anthropological and sociological senses of culture as a distinct ‘ whole way of life ’ , within which , now , a distinctive ‘ signifying system ’ is seen not only as essential but as essentially involved in all forms of social activity , and ( ii ) the more specialized if also more common sense of culture as ‘ artistic and intellectual activities ’ , though these , because of the emphasis on a general signifying system , are now much more broadly defined , to include not only the traditional arts and forms of intellectual production but also all the ‘ signifying practices ’ — from language through the arts and philosophy to journalism , fashion and advertising — which now constitute this complex and necessarily extended field . |
| 17 | Thus there is some practical convergence between ( i ) the anthropological and sociological senses of culture as a distinct ‘ whole way of life ’ , within which , now , a distinctive ‘ signifying system ’ is seen not only as essential but as essentially involved in all forms of social activity , and ( ii ) the more specialized if also more common sense of culture as ‘ artistic and intellectual activities ’ , though these , because of the emphasis on a general signifying system , are now much more broadly defined , to include not only the traditional arts and forms of intellectual production but also all the ‘ signifying practices ’ — from language through the arts and philosophy to journalism , fashion and advertising — which now constitute this complex and necessarily extended field . |
| 18 | Smaller and more volatile businesses do not have this luxury and often find themselves unable to attract the best people , and therefore have to go outside to recruit for senior management . |
| 19 | It was common in Kenya for Masai to allow Kikuyu to cultivate a patch of ground within their grazing circuit in return for services rendered ; but administrators seeing this practice and not realizing its customary nature tried repeatedly to get rid of the Kikuyu and leave the Masai in undisputed possession of what they supposed to be their sole territory . |
| 20 | We have recently altered this practice and now use a multiplex polymerase chain reaction that detects 98% of mutations , and we use Southern blotting analysis for confirmation . |
| 21 | ‘ But she is an adaptable and intelligent girl and will survive this episode and hopefully go on to lead a trouble-free life . ’ |
| 22 | Got time to help her with this shopping and bloody come and get your mail ! |
| 23 | Some respondents answered ‘ no ’ to the first part of this question and then quoted a figure for the second part — making it difficult to discern their real attitude to the issue of capping institutional claims , and complicating the interpretation of the statistics . |
| 24 | Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri , who is our source for this story , goes on : ‘ Pope John paused for a moment , as though surprised at this question and then said , with a calm but decisive voice : ‘ The Pope presides over the Council ( Presidente del concilio è il papa ) ’ ' ( Riccardi , 1987 , p. 153 ) . |
| 25 | But my strongest surviving impression is of a large team of teachers , several of them coming specifically to Banbury to undertake this work and now scattered in headships across the country , determined to carry change through — not because it was imposed by politicians or bureaucrats , but because they believed it to be right and wanted it to work well . |
| 26 | Debbie , who has a daughter with spina bifida , had not had this test and only discovered her baby 's condition when she was nearly eight months pregnant . |
| 27 | How did you build up this vocabulary and how do you maintain it ? |
| 28 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 29 | We 've attempted , Chairer , to assess this proposal and then to set a criteria I think it 's important for members to understand that currently there is a consortium that er , is in operation , fully operational that is carrying out the tasks erm , that are identified in the consultation document mainly erm the consultation document itself does erm show exactly what the health authority is doing erm , the proposal now before you is to extend that erm to one merged unit of health authority with one executive board erm based with three local health clinics erm , to provide the service . |
| 30 | would suggest that the only reason for this application is one of profit , there has been no attempt to recognize or implement the views of the village in terms of the type of accommodation which is required , I would suspect that it 's Grant Development 's intention to develop this site and then walk away , and leave the villagers to suffer the consequences . |