Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's announcement this spring that it planned to phase in the seventeen and a half per cent tax over twelve months brought pensioners out onto the streets . |
| 2 | Would it be a valid objection to an Order made under this statute that it imposes a tax ? |
| 3 | Offerings of food are placed before the figure and so it assumes a role almost equal to that of a human , and it is in this light that it becomes understandable why the sanctum of Indian temples is usually taboo to all but the priests who attend the icon and perform the ceremonial prayers . |
| 4 | Such was the novelty of this circuit that it provoked much debate in the technical press as to its operation . |
| 5 | And she knew she did , but it was only during this moment that it had happened , in this moment of revelation . |
| 6 | It was during this period that it became the second major party in British politics , and Britain 's leading progressive party . |
| 7 | Yet it is at this point that it comes into sharpest conflict with the cultural and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return to instinctual modes . |
| 8 | Father Andrew , the saintly co-founder of the Society of the Divine Compassion , wrote to one of his many correspondents : ‘ To me it is one of me most hopeful things of this epoch that it has produced C. S. Lewis . ’ |
| 9 | No government is likely to say at this juncture that it regards cars as an environmental menace and intends to reduce their numbers by so many per cent a year . |
| 10 | Was it really just this morning that it had all happened ? |
| 11 | So complete was this victory that it ensured a kind of uneasy peace for nearly three years . |
| 12 | The government announced this week that it planned to send 53 Japanese soldiers there next month , to help prepare for UN-sponsored elections . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Unix International is being very secretive about an announcement it expects to make this week that it hopes will propel the industry further along the path of unity . |
| 14 | The Kabul government said this week that it believed Pakistan intended to supply the guerrillas with chemical weapons for use in the Jalalabad battle . |
| 15 | For many years university academic staff have enjoyed the unique position of having tenure for their working lives , the argument in support of this being that it protected academic staff from political pressure and avoided the possibility of someone being dismissed for expressing unpopular or unconventional views . |
| 16 | At least by 1960 it had been recognised in this jurisdiction that it connotes a duty not to injure one 's neighbour by want of reasonable care . |
| 17 | It has often been objected to this account that it does not fit all of consciousness , that some of consciousness refutes it . |
| 18 | When he uttered those words , a lot of development was still taking place in Britain ; in fact it was only this summer that it ended , leaving commercial centres throughout the land replete with unlet space in shopping complexes , offices , business parks and industrial estates . |
| 19 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |
| 20 | Wimpey made a loss in 1991 of £16.1m but has restructured by selling off businesses and said earlier this year that it believed the worst was over in the construction industry . |
| 21 | So obvious is this problem that it did not really need a questionnaire to highlight it . |
| 22 | But as I say , this says that , an that 's a relatively new and certainly draconian power , and it 's recommended in this document that it 's removed . |
| 23 | It seems to me from what Mr in particular said , that the bottom as it were has dropped out of the market to this extent that it seems that the policy that he 's advocating , is not thirty one thousand any more , but thirty one thousand plus any amount of windfalls and recycling . |
| 24 | It is from this perspective that it becomes possible to understand the basis of the distrust of totalizing systems of knowledge which depend upon theory and concepts , so characteristic of Foucault or Lyotard , both of whom have been predominantly concerned with the attempt to isolate and foreground singularity as opposed to universality . |
| 25 | So continuous is this precipitation that it has earned itself the name of ‘ marine snow ’ . |
| 26 | In contrast , the government 's two senior legal advisers and the senior partner of a leading firm of society lawyers were so ignorant of this fact that it did not even enter their heads that it would be wise to make some enquiries before launching their client into a statement that could be , and indeed was , ruinous . |
| 27 | It is at this stage that it becomes necessary to record a debt of gratitude to Headingley , for whom Ian had played at club level and who suggested he might be interested in coaching . |