Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was her first visit to a city and she was taken aback by the volume of traffic — ‘ I had heard about this kind of thing , but it 's quite frightening close to like this , ’ she said , as she stood on the pavement in City Square and watched four lanes of vehicles jousting strenuously for position . |
| 2 | You 've heard about this symbol of the brotherhood of man set in welcoming Perugia with its ancient traditions of hospitality , where every year bright-eyed , bushy-tailed youngsters come from the four corners of the world to study Italian culture and promote peace and international understanding . ’ |
| 3 | Fiona ; Yeh I 've heard about this Council Tax , so then it 's true if you 're all students living together then you do n't have to pay ? great ! ! |
| 4 | Driving through Kilmartin , south of Oban , I saw two notices calling public meetings to discuss pollution — the first I and many others had heard about this problem . |
| 5 | I had already heard about this plan because the doctor had discussed it with my father ; but it was apparent that Eric himself was not at all enthusiastic about it . |
| 6 | I 've never I 've never heard about this thing called cos squared X , you explain it to me what do what 's it all about ? |
| 7 | Then one day , I was in this car with some blokes , and one of them said , ‘ Have you heard about this band , with a really good one-legged woman bass player ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've heard about this sort of thing before , ’ he said , as if realizing what he 'd stumbled on , or at least what he thought he 'd stumbled on . |
| 9 | I have known of some spectacularly successful relationships that have developed through this medium , particularly amongst the elderly . |
| 10 | The working of the Contagious Diseases Acts themselves also served to mobilise many a radical working man against the exploitation of working-class women , and an important alliance developed between this radicalism and feminists , which had the additional effect of providing for the latter a social support which enhanced their authority within the repeal movement . |
| 11 | In the case of the 1,800 which Book Trust received for this year 's Smarties Prize , they found good homes . |
| 12 | The fall in pocket money received for this age group contrasts with a rise from £1.40 a week to £1.48 shown in a Halifax survey of the under-12s last month . |
| 13 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 14 | A sophisticated burglar-alarm system has aided overnight and weekend security and although the caretaker is not on call from 11am to 3.30pm the levels of demand have fallen during this time as a direct result of his monitoring skills . |
| 15 | David is consequently punished for this action . |
| 16 | Other reasons for depopulation were also examined during this period . |
| 17 | I said , ‘ Let me go , Syl ’ , because I felt ridiculous , crushed between this man and the garden hedge . |
| 18 | Delegates from Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth told a meeting in Manchester hosted by a group of ‘ nuclear free ’ local authorities that they would be pressing the Government to ensure the money is not diverted for this purpose . |
| 19 | The visitors ' centre also describes the pride of the Spanish Armada , the galleon Girona , which was wrecked off this coast in 1588 with the loss of over 1,000 lives . |
| 20 | Meetings already arranged for this year include ‘ Changes in the wind — the end of the traditional British holiday ? ’ and ‘ The retail and catering consortium ’ . |
| 21 | There remains one last letter dated September 1767 amongst those examined for this chapter . |
| 22 | Although the authority given for this proposition , Robinson v Mollet , concerned the effect of a trade custom rather than an exclusion clause , it highlighted the unacceptability of changing the substance of a relationship without the fully informed consent of the other party . |
| 23 | The reason given for this change is that there was recent wide coverage in the press of the case of an American paramedic who succeeded by fraudulent means in obtaining limited registration from the council . |
| 24 | In the closing stages of the tournament I felt that the message had got through to the players about staying on their feet , and there were less penalties given for this offence than in the pool games . |
| 25 | The reason given for this conviction has been that assessment , in grading pupils ' performance in any given test , would leave some pupils with a sense of being of less value than others in the class . |
| 26 | Three reasons were given for this policy : to check further growth of large built-up areas ; to prevent neighbouring towns from physically coalescing , and to preserve the special character of some historic towns ( Elson 1981 ) . |
| 27 | Among the reasons given for this conclusion were that the system imposes long delays in obtaining foreign exchange for essential imports , thus putting a brake on exports ; that the rate of exchange was not adjusted sufficiently ; and that in the absence of retention rights the exporters had lost their motivation for exporting . |
| 28 | The explanation given for this splitting of conception from execution with large batch sizes was that ‘ the smaller the batch size is , the greater is the need for frequent conversion of machines to new tools , fixtures and parts programmes , and the less is machine-setting expertise differentiated from operating ’ ( Sorge et al. 1983 , 150 ) . |
| 29 | I was glad to be given for this talk a problem question — animals and the environment . |
| 30 | Four reasons were given for this failure : |