Example sentences of "[verb] this " in BNC.

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1 A number of factors have been identified which distinguish this sort of country :
2 If we study the annual function of social capital — hence of the total capital of which the individual capital forms only fractional parts , whose movement is their individual movement and simultaneously integrating link in the movement of the total capital — and its results , i.e. , if we study the commodity-product furnished by society during the year , then it must become apparent how the process of reproduction of the social capital takes place , what characteristics distinguish this process of reproduction from the process of reproduction of an individual capital , and what characteristics are common to both .
3 The other aspects of the package were fundamental to the successful development of a high-performance system , and distinguish this approach from previous applications of quality-of-working-life techniques .
4 As we distinguish this specific character of cultural production we should hesitate before attempting sociological analysis of modern cultural corporations , which in other respects resemble contemporary large-scale manufacturing and administrative organizations .
5 The film ’ Jurassic Park ’ premieres this week , and trading standards officers say they 're already on the look-out for counterfeit copies .
6 United States judges also have gone abroad on rare occasions , e.g. , to England in the Westinghouse case , but it is understood that the United States now discourages this practice .
7 Tod discourages this — but he 's usually pretty sympathetic .
8 Women in Love , as Lawrence himself says , is a war book , and that conflict itself helped to induce this conviction .
9 But the inspired wraparound decor inside transforms this workaday pub into a Tardis-like temple of Caligulan dimensions .
10 The museums and art galleries of England 's Midlands will be playing host this spring to a series of exhibitions featuring the often bizarre collections of local residents .
11 The Royal Flying Corps aerodrome at Rendcombe near Cirencester is playing host this weekend to a display of vintage aircraft , and some vintage flying .
12 And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should .
13 When they met this month , Mr Kohl made it clear that he wanted an agreement on EMU that does not oblige Britain to accept a single currency before it is ready to do so .
14 I met this bloke in August who said , ‘ I 'll only consider going out with you if you lose three stone ’ .
15 We met this same idea in Chapter 3 ( p.46 ) , when discussing the amount of plants in the sea .
16 She realised from the quizzical looks that met this further information that she had made matters worse rather than better .
17 Anyway , this mate of his and his wife — things went from bad to worse , seems he met this woman from Dundee who travelled down regular on the same train and one day he just Got Off with her and the upshot of the whole thing was a Dear-Jeannette-Letter from Sullom Voe .
18 Scientists from Europe and from NASA met this month to determine whether Spacelab could operate with just one TDRS satellite .
19 ( I met this boy , he 's living on the streets , we stole a boat . )
20 Her philosophy of life changed when she was 17 and met this girl who was from a really weird and fucked-up background , but who was ‘ so positive ’ .
21 Then one night I went out and I met this DJ from Taboo , which was a club at the time .
22 Luckily , the moment she met this cute little owl she came under her spell and fell in love with her , too .
23 SHE MET THIS BLOKE ON HOLIDAY IN SPAIN — HER FIRST BOYFRIEND .
24 By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later .
25 ‘ Over the next couple of months he got his life together and he met this girl and they got engaged .
26 That was until I met this fellow Johnson and we went to Kyrle Hall .
27 I first met this pretty parasite in a string of pork sausages ( how romantic ! ) and fell in love at first sight .
28 She points to the newcomer and explains , " I met this woman at the council housing department and she said I could stay with her . "
29 When you met this man you say you loved , surely you could have told me . "
30 The industry met this threat in 1922 by appointing its own censor , Harding 's former Postmaster-General , Will Hays .
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