Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the |
| 2 | He has winged his way across the world in pursuit of his hobby , a mission that has included Venezuela , Thailand , Africa and Israel among others — with Costa Rica planned for this year . |
| 3 | One Soviet writer argued in this vein that the EEC proposal was not directed at the neutralisation of Afghanistan at all but at hiding the ‘ undeclared war against the Afghan people ’ . |
| 4 | The travellers were trying to get into a rock festival at Long Marston airfield near Stratford on Avon planned for this weekend.Roads around the site were blocked by the travellers as they confronted the police for most of the night . |
| 5 | What we do know is that I M R O asked for this information in June nineteen eighty-eight and not long afterwards I M R O granted recognition to B I M and other Maxwell Companies , all the more surprising perhaps having raised the questions whether the question must come about , did they continue with their investigation , or did they let the matter drop and perhaps you might to comment in that context . |
| 6 | In the second two pairs devoted to this relationship the same pattern emerges . |
| 7 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |
| 8 | As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car . |
| 9 | As for the reform of the National Health Service , it is already well established that every hour devoted to this subject plays into Labour 's hands . |
| 10 | Physiologists capitalized on this instrumentation to demonstrate that the electrical activity of the brain and its nerve cells was a function of what the individual was doing , or not doing , or how sensory receptors were stimulated . |
| 11 | No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies . |
| 12 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | Gorbachev expanded upon this vision of a ‘ qualitatively new state of society ’ in an address to senior party functionaries in July 1989 . |
| 14 | How the lighting industry got from this point in its technology to today 's sources is a tale of technical give and take . |
| 15 | In the statement Freud made about this activity , he sometimes avoided the errors of his own account of the scientific nature of psychoanalysis . |
| 16 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 17 | The labour cost of this work would be presented to the Camphill Building Fund as our gift/donation . |
| 18 | The boys were waiting to cross the road here and the horse came down this lane , galloped straight across the road in front of the traffic then onto the pavement , tried to jump over the boys and jumped onto the boys . |
| 19 | The 10.0 and 4.8 kb M.spretus -specific fragments cosegregated in this analysis and defined the Oct-11a locus . |
| 20 | There is some evidence that Edward acted upon this request : in 1289 a specific judge of appeals ( unusjurisperitus judex appellacionum ) was created to handle cases arising from the court of Gascony , and a number of assemblies took place which gathered together the prelates , barons , knights and other nobles of the duchy , culminating in the great council at which Edward 's judicial and administrative ordinance ( 1289 ) for the future government of Aquitaine was promulgated . |
| 21 | That is why it disgusts me to see the nobility of grief caricatured in this way . |
| 22 | The collapse of the Husayn-Arafat accord led to a new phase of cooperation between Israel , the United States and Jordan aimed at objectives similar to those of the early seventies : the erosion of support for the PLO in the territories , the reinforcement of the normality of occupation by a programme to improve ‘ the quality of life ’ , a term coined in this context by US Secretary of State George Schultz . |
| 23 | Her Majesty 's Inspectors frowned upon this distortion of the purposes of the new school , but proved powerless and in 1955 a Government Circular gave modified approval to the introduction of examination courses in the schools . |
| 24 | Two imperatives flowed from this perspective . |
| 25 | In 1 184 Richard returned to this area , founding a new town and castle at the bridge over the River Creuse at St Rémi de la Haye , about twelve miles on the other side of Châtellerault . |
| 26 | At any one time only two out of five surnames in the parish were those of this hard core of families , but four out of five of the total entries belonged to this group . |
| 27 | In the nineteen twenties Freud returned to this concept of defence as , as has just said , with the concept of defence mechanism . |
| 28 | As chairman of the session , Gorbachev returned to this issue later in the proceedings , and secured a similar two-to-one majority in favour of his proposal to assess the work of the members of the politburo as a whole , rather than individually . |
| 29 | In the health area , the old fashioned general practitioner functioned in this way ( in contrast to the support structure of a centralised health system ) . |
| 30 | This oversight resulted in this cartoon appearing on mill noticeboards . |