Example sentences of "this [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got phased out so that the Ministry did n't pay anything at all but to get this grant you had to keep tremendous records copies of invoices and you had to get er and the bus grant and the , the permission from them . |
| 2 | But within this framework he continues to generalize about gender , seeing all , sexual relations as a battle ’ ( 1982 : 60 ) , an important part of the ‘ arms race ’ all genes conduct with each other . |
| 3 | The Co-op butcher was , had got his own shop lower down You could get everything in that one street and now in this modern age , we 've got nothing , we 've got to get on a bus and get into Walsall and so this is where it , we get infuriated because you know , in this progress we 've lost out have n't we ? |
| 4 | ‘ On balance then it seems as if this change we have suggested might be a good thing . |
| 5 | The new book , Kolymsky Heights , is says Sinclair-Stevenson , ‘ a wonderful , classy novel set mainly in Russia post-Gorbachev — the best thing in this genre I 've read for ages ’ . |
| 6 | This Easter we have seen the groundswell of demand all over the world that the arms race be brought to a standstill . |
| 7 | Certainly in this Parliament we have seen that happen . |
| 8 | The Conservative party has never been the party of law and order , and during this Parliament it has thrown away the last vestiges of any claim to such a title . |
| 9 | ‘ Your family is not worth this £81.84 you have spent . ’ |
| 10 | Secret To do this trick you need to choose a month with five Wednesdays in it . |
| 11 | It 's the worst offence of this kind I 've seen while working in South Gloucestershire . |
| 12 | ‘ Ethical ’ because fulfilling this function it seeks to follow a method which has the ethics of impartiality embodied in it , being the ultimate foundation of its bindingness : the ethical imperative of securing a morally justified indeed morally overriding goal in a morally acceptable manner . |
| 13 | Because people do n't want this responsibility they prefer having sons . |
| 14 | But mind , I will say this about this chappie he does stick to it . |
| 15 | And in this case we had to align the timber so that a sheet of plasterboard would line up with the projecting wall |
| 16 | In this case we 've got an unknown pattern . |
| 17 | So in spite of it being a mid-turn switch , in this case we seem to have a different type of switch from the one in ( 6 ) , for the other parties to the conversation respond differently to it . |
| 18 | In this case we need to reduce the bank by £100 and reduce the profit and loss by £100 . |
| 19 | In this case we need to make some assumptions in order to proceed . |
| 20 | Judge David told them , their lives had been devoted to the relief of pain and suffering but in this case they chose to inflict considerable pain on a young woman in their care , isolated by their way of life . |
| 21 | But in this case they refer to licit , socially approved , marital sexual intercourse , to manliness in general , and are also directly connected with goats , the main livestock of the Kaffirs . |
| 22 | The universities side are all students and in this case they seem to know their place . |
| 23 | But in this case they do have some basis in physiology . |
| 24 | Evidently in this case she has benefited , although that is left unstated . |
| 25 | He was famous for picking sportsmen young and preparing them for success ; but in this case he had picked an apparent no-hoper like Harley , who immediately confirmed his judgement by notching up three tournament victories . |
| 26 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 27 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 28 | The diamond design shown in the opposite photograph is really an adaptation of the solid design ( see pp. 80–1 ) , although in this case you have to make a very definite outline with the leaves and then ensure that it is echoed in the shape that the flowers make in the centre of the design . |
| 29 | In this case it seemed to increase it , and the kitchen rang with Mrs Blunt 's vituperations before she finally took her leave . |
| 30 | The nominal subject of such quarrels is of course secondary to the couple 's need to hurt each other , but in this case it appeared to centre on the Parsons ' childlessness . |