Example sentences of "and this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a Bastille in every glen and firth , and this Act is the final fetter ’ ( but it would not be , there would be plenty more ) . |
| 2 | One single-handed edged weapon — not a two-handed weapon or an axe — can be sharpened with this tool , and this act drains the last magic from it ( other weapons can be sharpened subsequently , but this will not enchant them ) . |
| 3 | Jacob 's jacket had been used to cover Anna 's body from the waist down and this act told its own silent and ominous tale . |
| 4 | At the United States-Soviet summit meeting off Malta on Dec. 2-3 ( see pp. 37110-12 ) , the US President , George Bush , indicated that he would support an application by the Soviet Union for observer status at GATT , and this support was reaffirmed by the US delegation to the immediately following 45th session of GATT contracting parties . |
| 5 | Over the years , however , the Palestinian mainstream had become accustomed to financial support from GCC states like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and this support would now be called into question . |
| 6 | It should be noted , however , that several of these studies used non-tumour epithelium adjacent to colonic carcinomas and this epithelium may not be functioning normal . |
| 7 | He obtained recognition for his art as ‘ a liberal art like those of painting , architecture and sculpture ’ , and this portrait shows him wearing his own specially embroidered uniform , and holding a cartoon for an embroidery design . |
| 8 | In the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 206 the two transactions which threw up the profit , namely the purchase and resale of the certificates of deposit , both took place outside Hong Kong and this Board held that the profits did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong , notwithstanding the fact that all the instructions to buy and sell originated in Hong Kong and that there was no independent branch office interposed between the head office in Hong Kong and the following transactions . |
| 9 | The present of one level is , so to speak , the absence of another , and this co-existence of a ‘ presence ’ and absences is simply the effect of the structure of the whole in its articulated decentricity . |
| 10 | This year Ian McCartney took up the new post of Student Enterprise Officer and this addition to the staff has greatly facilitated student enterprise activities . |
| 11 | And this press was there to be read because under a range of pressures from open repression to financial disadvantage some men took initiatives to use the technology for their own as opposed to the dominant social purposes . |
| 12 | Last November , Collins launched its ‘ Plus 20 ’ series of contemporary British music on CD singles at £4.99 for a playing time of around 30 minutes , and this January they too entered the mid-price arena with ‘ Quest ’ , a new digital label at only £6.99 — DDD Ambisonic masters using 20 bit technology . |
| 13 | My general conclusion is that the pro-classical themes are the more important : they have opened up the opportunity for an extensive development of the unnecessarily narrow focus of Beccaria 's original formulation of classical criminology , and this opportunity will be taken up in Part Two . |
| 14 | If we had not provided you this delay , and this opportunity , what would you have done ? ’ |
| 15 | The Company has offered shareholders the opportunity to elect to receive new ordinary shares of the Company in lieu of cash for the final dividend for each of the last three years and this opportunity will again be offered in respect of the final dividend for 1993 . |
| 16 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 17 | At the age of seven , he was sent away to boarding-school and this event more or less coincided with his father 's remarriage . |
| 18 | Event organiser and wine expert Jean Francois Jamet of Guinness Northern Ireland said : ‘ The trade here work very hard to get it right for their customers , and this event will give them an unequalled chance to sample probably the widest range of wines ever assembled for buyers in Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 19 | Her tragedy is that her boyfriend Jamie ( Alan Rickman ) died young and this event has disturbed the balance of her mind . |
| 20 | And this Fulham woman who was administering arsenic , only all that was happening was her hubby was getting a tingling in his feet . " |
| 21 | But the current curator , Dr. Helene la Rue does have a few she can demonstrate to visitors , like this singing bowl from Tibet … and this rain-maker from Mexico … |
| 22 | Only one of the control subjects was similarly positive , and this sample was from the upper lobe of a lung with clear apical capping suggestive of old asymptomatic infection with M tuberculosis . |
| 23 | Any mental picture will require interpretation , and this interpretation will be another mental operation , which , on the view that thinking is having mental pictures , will be another picture , which itself will require interpretation , and so on and so on . |
| 24 | Similarly , early humans are always portrayed as hunters , surviving largely on a diet of meat , and this interpretation is still being taught to schoolchildren . |
| 25 | Whereas the interrogative form of the first utterance might be claimed to encode a question , that is not all that is intended : it would be strikingly uncooperative if B were to say yes ( meaning just " yes I am able to come " ) and then not go to A. Somehow , the interrogative form can also convey a request , and this interpretation is strongly reinforced here by the presence of the word please ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 26 | You and this Steve deserve each other . |
| 27 | And this maxim seems especially appropriate for the seed trade , in spite of it insatiable appetite for novelty . |
| 28 | Many of you will be aware of the launch of the Brecon Beacons National Park Society a few weeks ago and are perhaps wondering what effect this will have on the activities of CPRW and this branch in particular . |
| 29 | A spokesman said : ‘ Darlington has got the most ethnic minorities in the county and this branch will cover the whole of the county . ’ |
| 30 | A spokesman said : ‘ Darlington has got the most ethnic minorities in the county and this branch will cover the whole of the county . ’ |