Example sentences of "this [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The management of the large Alhambra Theatre agreed to put this on for a week as a curtain-raiser to a horror film starring Boris Karloff . |
| 2 | There is also an organisation chart and you fill in the data form for this rather like a bullet chart in order to create a tree diagrams . |
| 3 | I offer this merely as a piece of information . |
| 4 | I mention this merely in an effort to chase any preconceptions , which may have been created by the opening paragraphs , firmly away . |
| 5 | McLeish told Francesca to hang on while he got this down as a note , and stared at the result . |
| 6 | I put this down as a reason for brother Carl 's behaviour and shortcomings ; his tantrums , his many displays of neurosis , his lack of tolerance with others , and his need for understanding — which we , his brothers and sisters , failed to give . |
| 7 | My 1979 two and a quarter diesel has been leaking oil from around the fuel pump and I had put this down to a leaky gasket . |
| 8 | He has two VCs , one from each of the two cameras , and he 'd like to pare this down to a 5 min promo . |
| 9 | She found nothing , although she did n't know whether to put this down to a lack of success on the part of the police or the massive coverage afforded to the hijacking of a wide-bodied jet over Italy . |
| 10 | Since the election , officials on both sides of the Atlantic have toned this down to a special envoy , one that would be on a fact-finding mission . |
| 11 | You could always fill this in at a later date , there 's |
| 12 | One dentist I know , is so used to dealing with hypersensitive children that he says — and I mean to me — ‘ Now , pop this in like a lollipop ’ , but I do n't mind that either because , about twenty years after everyone else , I 've discovered the benefits of meditation . |
| 13 | Newman 's trained reporter 's eye took all this in in a glance . |
| 14 | Weber admits that a common market situation may provide a basis for collective class action but he sees this only as a possibility . |
| 15 | I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life . |
| 16 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 17 | Ecologists studied the natural environment , but often saw this only as a means of helping the human race to manage its interference more effectively . |
| 18 | Hyde mentions a program that can automatically provide precis of news stories , but does not point out that it can attempt to do this only for a restricted range of stories . |
| 19 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 20 | Three or four years ago we were involved in this only in a very minor way . |
| 21 | Faced with the two conflicting bids the Department of Trade and Industry decided that the agreed merger between Imperial and UB should be referred to the Monopolies and Merger Commission ( MMC ) , as the combined company would hold over 40 per cent of the snack food market — this together with a similar share of the market held by Nabisco would create a duopolistic situation in the market . |
| 22 | This together with an improved factory deep cleaning service will provide us with a factory hygiene service , that I am sure will develop into a major business for the division in future years . |
| 23 | Whereas ‘ Red Hot And Blue ’ had a hefty thematic strain , ie Cole Porter songs revisited , nothing really holds this together except a certain sagging trendiness . |
| 24 | To know this much about a student is better than nothing . |
| 25 | Terry Hands 's direction whips all this along at a fast pace . |
| 26 | This especially at a time when they were earning significant incomes from Blackwomen writers such as Alice Walker and Maya Angelou . |
| 27 | We ask this not as a government minister might , faced with the seemingly interminable demands of research scientists for more and more funds , but to try to see what relationship research bears to knowledge . |
| 28 | The tremendous sense of liberation is in seeing this not as an obstacle to faith , a rock of doubt which blocks progress , but as a part of the essence of life itself . |
| 29 | Furthermore , they had experienced the development and then degeneration of one major unifying royal line , the Merovings , and replaced this finally with a most vigorous governing family , the Arnulfings , who produced the great emperor Charlemagne . |
| 30 | I 'll just tell you about this Can I just tell you about this just for a minute ? |