Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] this " in BNC.

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1 Okay let's see your essays spend er twenty or thirty minutes talking about the essays and the remainder of the tutorial talking about er the exams because this is the last time I see you before your exams in the tutorial anyway erm so just a few hints and tips on exam technique .
2 Overtime pay has accounted for approximately 6 per cent of average earnings since the mid-1970s and this too varies with firm size due to differences in the length of scheduled working hours .
3 A good part of that is I think , a consequence of the delay that we 've had in implementing the wishes that this council has expressed before .
4 Among the dangers that this could bring about would be the emergence of small concessional states governed by the militias . ’
5 The original proposal had been for PR in the cities but this was opposed by Unionists who were concerned to protect the efficacy of the business vote ; Central Office also opposed the alternative vote when it was put forward in the debates , and the majority of Unionist MPs and the National Union never backed either system .
6 We are here to serve people of Cambridge and it 's quite clear that the people of Cambridge do want good services , they want , they want services which which improve the quality of life in in in the cities and this is precisely what is erm spending is there to do .
7 A cooling-off period of , say , six weeks could be imposed by application to the courts and this would allow negotiations and talks to continue .
8 I , I , well let me start first of all like most companies this has been erm er concentrated wonderfully in er reconsidering the plans and this means that quite seriously that erm er the cost can not be precisely in the accounts because there 's a redesign .
9 One of the reasons that this report has taken so long to appear is that , scanning the literature arriving in my library , I kept coming across new relevant areas of work .
10 Do not shake hands in a limp manner or use just the tips of the fingers as this gives the impression you are a weak character .
11 Er they had a lock , made it a good lock and sent it to all the clients and this is what we can supply , and it used to meet the needs of clients and they 'd er they 'd erm buy it and it kept them in business , you see what I mean ?
12 It was acknowledged by the schools that this narrowness was precarious , given staff mobility .
13 So often the push is in the opposite direction , to doing research which does n't involve one in long-term contact with the schools and this , of course , is one of the reasons why this type of research is n't so often done , but I hope to do some more work in classrooms , yes .
14 Its case was based both on the opportunities that this route offered for regional development in the northern Negev , and on the destructive effects on the environment that any of the other routes entailed .
15 We 're now looking forward to teacher appraisal and the opportunities that this will give s school staff to enhance their own future development .
16 And to make this centrality of Christ even more emphatic the apostle ends his paragraph by reminding the readers that this mighty , risen , ascended Christ is the head of the body constituted by the Church , and his fullness fills their lives ( or , perhaps , their lives are the complement of his fullness , Eph .
17 Information has to be taken in to the brain — often through the eyes but this is only because humans rely so much upon this sense .
18 When the mind contemplates mystic and sublime objects , there is a tingling behind the eyes and this signals the welling of the eyes ' fountains .
19 Er there were none of the incubators and this sort of thing for them like we 've got today .
20 Similar to the Roly-Polies but this was a sort of erm an amateur group .
21 And this helps to foster it because the tourist contribute well to the funds and this gets the children more prize money and so on .
22 The third solution to the natural monopoly problem is to order the monopolist to produce at the socially efficient point E ' ; and the corresponding price P C but to provide a government subsidy to cover the losses that this will inevitably imply .
23 Then his warm , naked body was against hers beneath the covers and this time everything was magically different .
24 ‘ We looked through all the books and this was still the one we liked best , ’ they explain .
25 If I said to you the communication right these are the methods that this is what actually communication is .
26 ‘ I think you just have to have a flexible mind , ’ said Masklin , knowing even as he said the words that this probably was n't going to be a lot of help .
27 It is not difficult to fill the stands and this creates an electrifying atmosphere , which is something I thrive on .
28 Without democracy we would n't be able to say who should rule , with democracy we can we can say these people because we voted for them and that 's it , we ca n't say these people interests we ca n't say that these people act in common good although if they do very badly we 'll try and recall them , all we can say is they 're there we need , what we need is authority structures , we need the structures more than the people occupying the roles , someone 's got to occupy the roles and this is the only way we 've got of appointing them .
29 Stray whispers in a hundred distant-cousin tongues twittered through the ship , as if voices were trying to inform him of his fate , the ghost echoes from a million previous passengers , ten million down the centuries that this ship had been in service .
30 The lower status of their own customs could then well lead to a general loss of interest in the arts and this could gradually spread throughout society .
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