Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |
| 4 | As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies . |
| 7 | How the lighting industry got from this point in its technology to today 's sources is a tale of technical give and take . |
| 8 | The labour cost of this work would be presented to the Camphill Building Fund as our gift/donation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That is why it disgusts me to see the nobility of grief caricatured in this way . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the health area , the old fashioned general practitioner functioned in this way ( in contrast to the support structure of a centralised health system ) . |
| 13 | This oversight resulted in this cartoon appearing on mill noticeboards . |
| 14 | The mulch went on this year in March ( together with the Growmore , as ever ) , and only the keenest weeds have managed to struggle through . |
| 15 | Perhaps the part played by wine in the excesses of Canaanite religion lay behind this ruling . |
| 16 | Although a picture of NCC confusion emerged from this study it still held out the hope , if only by implication , that more rigorous thinking would achieve better results . |
| 17 | The State Department reacted to this hint of interference with peaceful navigation by expressing the US administration 's ‘ grave concern ’ . |
| 18 | What if an enemy appeared at this moment ? |
| 19 | A major defence by many of those prosecuted was that the enclosures had taken place before the practice had been made an offence , and although the practice continued after this date there is good reason to believe that this was often the case . |
| 20 | The canteen ran in this form , with a day and night shift throughout the war and after until around 1960 , when the night shift was withdrawn through lack of support and a skeleton staff supplied tea and snacks to order to the Works night shift . |
| 21 | Since then , AT&T has been urging the FCC not to grant BT a licence unless the gesture is reciprocated ; its British rival had until this week been taking a similar line . |
| 22 | But the nuclear industry had by this time received yet a further green light . |
| 23 | A slim example of western luxury nestled at this moment in Anna 's vagina . |
| 24 | Her glance slid from this face to the other and she found herself observed by pale eyes set in bloated white flesh . |
| 25 | Erm , I er have never known such a question asked in this council chamber where referring to members of parliament er in in er and that is why I did n't feel it necessary |
| 26 | Ironically , as the first question asked in this book is ‘ Can we know what Renaissance colour was ? ’ , the colour plates are distinctly variable in quality . |
| 27 | ‘ So the folk of the village capitalized on this gift from the gods , that had come to them in their darkest hour . |
| 28 | An editorial error occurred in this letter by W Fox and D A Mitchison ( 20 February , p 515 ) . |
| 29 | An editorial error occurred in this letter by J Kilgour-Christie and A H Watt ( 13 March , pp 721–2 ) . |
| 30 | It is not known if the original allegations of satanic ritual abuse came from this source . |