Example sentences of "this [conj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I take no point on this except to say that normally ( and this case would probably have been no exception ) some documents and some items of information would be disclosable while privilege would be claimed in respect of others . |
| 2 | It was this that suggested that there had been pricing errors which lead to the suspension of the trusts . |
| 3 | It was this that suggested that there had been pricing errors which led to the suspension of the trusts . |
| 4 | So they reckon that after about ten minutes if people have n't been involved we have n't thrown out a question or something like that people start thinking about other things and there 's been actually a bit of er analytical research on this that shows that people think about three things after about ten minutes they just switch off . |
| 5 | In fact , I go further than this and argue that if there is to be public criteria , there must be other selves . |
| 6 | Can I just come back Chair , and I recognize obviously there is er , further work that 's going on with this and support that it does , but there is a case with the Parliamentary Ombudsman in discipline on this at the moment , so on the way in which it 's been handled by the Ministry . |
| 7 | He was not responsible for the dissolution of the monasteries , which was handled by Thomas Cromwell , though he heartily approved of this and hoped that the revenues would be used for education , and in particular for education of the new clergy . |
| 8 | Broomhead did not see fit to let Aggie know this and hoped that a change of abode might revitalise the tomcat 's flagging performance . |
| 9 | you know , if the help and safety executive had done this , this and insured that this was right and that was right |
| 10 | I had it in big letters — ‘ Father ’ Arrien ( the father in inverted commas ! ) will preach on the blasphemy of the Roman Mass on such and such an evening — and the priest of the town , he went up to the council and objected to this and said that Wylie 's a trouble maker . |
| 11 | Most appreciated this and said that , provided the timing and subject of the course were right , they could fit in a 6 hour course . |
| 12 | He was delighted with this and said that he would send his advisers to see me — on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 13 | It 's so nice and easy to say we oversimplify , and there are all these examples that disprove this and disprove that — all these nice men , all these women with great careers — is n't it ? |
| 14 | Nuadu glanced at this and saw that there might once have been verdant greenery , perhaps even a small forest . |
| 15 | The Daily Mirror conceded that the story was ‘ still corny , predictable and thin to the point of malnutrition ’ but believed that the lavish settings , its song-and-dance routines and the cast made up for this and added that Crawford ‘ brings a superb youthful energy to the role of the gawky , naive young clerk ’ . |
| 16 | Provisions of May the fourth had been seriously overstepped but the communists did not realize this and thought that more land was available for redistribution . |
| 17 | The nuclear shell model does just this and assumes that the individual neutrons and protons move in an average spherical or deformed ( spheroidal ) potential field . |
| 18 | Mr. McGregor recognised the force of this and accepted that , had not statute intervened , the judges would have been likely to extend the English law of negligence to accommodate the requirements of justice . |
| 19 | The House of Lords rejected this and held that the Minister was entitled to decide what was meant by ‘ excessive ’ and what principles to apply . |
| 20 | Strong representations were successfully made to the ITAC Committee both to preempt this and to ensure that a monopoly situation did not arise . |
| 21 | In view of our discussion above I would like to qualify this and to suggest that there can be a degree of psychological hurt , however fleeting , inherent in the experience . |
| 22 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I was asked to write to you again about this and to suggest that you come and assess the situation on site with a view to arranging for a footway to be constructed . |
| 23 | Charles Frank looked into this and showed that the pion decay interpretation was correct , but it was in answering that question that Frank had his brainwave and stimulated a whole new field of research . |
| 24 | Vesman developed this and showed that he could explain the temperature dependence of muon + dd fusion if there is a rather loosely bound state in a complex molecular system involving three deuterons where the nuclei were encircled partly by electrons and partly by muons . |
| 25 | Wemicke ( 1874 ) confirmed this and showed that auditory comprehension was linked to the left hemisphere . |
| 26 | One can only hope that tournament organisers come to recognise this and ensure that each event is staffed by the requisite number of officials . |
| 27 | Be prepared for this and ensure that you are close at hand with a reverse punch . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 29 | I questioned the bishop about this and found that the monument needed immediate attention but was not of a high priority and no funds were available . |
| 30 | Just a simple explanation will do , such as ‘ I 've thought about this and decided that I 'd better shut up and do most of the listening ’ . |