Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 12.1 Any notice , document or request falling to be given or served under this Agreement may be given or served by sending it by registered post or certified mail , postage pre-paid , or by tested telex or facsimile transmission to : in the case of |
| 2 | Both parties have invited this court to proceed on the basis that the validity of the appointment is not and can not be disputed or decided on this application . |
| 3 | Two quite different events , occurring some seventy years apart , appear to have been garbled or telescoped in this passage . |
| 4 | The identity of proteins which are up- or downregulated during this period are not known , but several have been separated on two-dimensional gels . |
| 5 | The problems and criticism that arose from this decision , however , reflected the varying sizes of the administrative units . |
| 6 | The reasoning that led to this development was clearly expressed in a remarkable passage in a late writing known as the Persian Rivayat : |
| 7 | We have taken steps to ensure that the circumstances that led to this tragedy can never be repeated . ’ |
| 8 | The biographer speculated that it may have been failure in his alchemical experiments that led to this breakdown . |
| 9 | But it can perhaps be seen as an architectural expression of that scented fin de siècle fascination with the Near East that produced in this period such works as Massenet 's opera Thaïs and Strauss 's Salome and the luxuriant novels of Pierre Loti and Pierre Louys . |
| 10 | And it turned out that there was a big goblin that lived on this island and he just ate fairies . |
| 11 | Contained within the breccias are the fossilized bones of many animals that lived in this part of Britain during the middle Pleistocene , and we will be describing the way in which the fossil bones of the smaller animals came to be deposited . |
| 12 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |
| 13 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
| 14 | But beneath it all , beneath the strange rituals that passed in this milieu for normality , there was an undercurrent of fear , of latent panic . |
| 15 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 16 | What is sad is that caught in this way , they are unable to see or use the opportunities for life-fulfilling experiences spread out before them . |
| 17 | The case has echoes of the row that erupted in this country over The Krays movie . |
| 18 | What were the factors that contributed to this disintegration — was it ‘ law ’ or did other factors play a role ? |
| 19 | It was not only wool that behaved in this manner , some synthetics could do the same thing . |
| 20 | It was not only the student movement that suffered in this way ; the black movement in the US , especially when it took a revolutionary form in the Black Panther Party , was violently suppressed , and in Latin America democratic and radical movements were destroyed , and military dictatorships were installed , often with American help , as in Chile . |
| 21 | The tears that came with this knowledge were now true tears of grieving for his father 's death , and the knowledge that they would never communicate with each other . |
| 22 | Each field had its own small barn for wintering stock , a custom said to be typical of the early Norse settlers that came to this dale , leaving on the landscape the marks of their hands and on the speech the sound of their tongue . |
| 23 | ‘ That was the FRG from Soltau — they 've cleared most of the tasks from last night , less a Chieftain power pack change that 's in hand and one badly bogged tank — they 're having to find a route in for a second armoured recovery vehicle , and , of course , the last Challenger pack change — how are the lads doing on those packs that came in this morning ? ’ |
| 24 | and that came in this morning . |
| 25 | The real message that came from this question was that many family and part-time farmers had wives willing to do more than at present . |
| 26 | But it 's a strange kind of thing that happened in this part of the country , the kind of story you get in Suffolk and Norfolk . |
| 27 | He sat , contemplating the few lights that showed at this hour . |
| 28 | Whatever this strange apparition was that held them in its awe , reality would return when the bangs announced a train that belonged to this world . |
| 29 | It was not the only type of landscape that existed in this region any more than it was over much of England . |
| 30 | Various animals that hunted in this country , foxes , in some places deer , hares are coursed er in some places . |