Example sentences of "this [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bringing together of ‘ two more or less distant realities ’ creates the surreal ‘ point sublime ’ . |
| 2 | This bringing together of ‘ two more or less distant realities ’ creates the surreal point sublime . |
| 3 | This stripping away of extraneous duties continued under its successor , the College of Foreign Affairs , which began to function in 1719 , and well before the end of the century this process of specialization had been completed . |
| 4 | More recent extensions include office units built along with extra hardstanding , around 1980 , all of this blending in with the character of the remainder of the site . |
| 5 | All of this racketing around with has-beens and yet-to-bes , filming on rented sets in disused warehouses , ought to have been doomed to failure , even laughed off the screen . |
| 6 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 7 | This smoothing over of social and historical differences can turn discourse analyses ' political implications from productive ambiguity , to complete opacity . |
| 8 | This pushing onwards of the chronological stages over the centuries partly reflects a second , more fundamental transformation : the cumulative impact of changes in health and demography . |
| 9 | At some point in the evolution of life on our earth , this ganging up of mutually compatible replicators began to be formalized in the creation of discrete vehicles — cells and , later , many-celled bodies . |
| 10 | He firmly allied himself with the forces of change , but was careful to give due weight to the arguments for staying put , the detail in which he did this adding impressively to his reputation for grasp . |
| 11 | We 're going to , we 've , we 've got this going down to for three weeks , you know next weekend or the weekend afterwards , and we do n't keep getting appointments , see I 'm gon na keep ringing him up and pestering him and saying |
| 12 | This narrowing down of the focus of the original control theory seems to constitute a switch of attention from offenders to situations . |
| 13 | So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain . |
| 14 | Tithonus creates a sense of emotional anguish by Tennyson 's use of inversion between lines five and six , ‘ Me only cruel immortality/consumes ’ : This breaking up of the main image of the poem suggests that Tithonus has been captured by immortality . |
| 15 | This breaking down of the large molecules to smaller ones is the job of enzymes . |
| 16 | In general this piling up of biblical texts in the exposition of elementary notions and principles , with the biblical quotations buttressing each other up and introducing ideas foreign to the main theme , creates confusion in the minds of simple average souls who are the majority among good Christians ( Capovilla , 1978a , p. 546 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , all this moving around for work . ’ |
| 18 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 19 | This shoaling in like sizes is established at a very early age , and there is good reason for it . |
| 20 | This having early in the days this not be impossible to get it all typed up . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the ‘ non-marketable ’ sector provides a range of social and administrative services which are not sold on markets , and which therefore must be financed ‘ externally ’ , the necessary revenue for this having then to be raised by taxing the output of the marketable sector via taxes on both profits and wages . |
| 22 | I have n't spoken to erm , I mean I only thought this coming along in the street , whether there 's anybody sort of notable , I mean is it , is , is , is there any value in actually having a figurehead type chairman you know , sort of celebrity type |
| 23 | Yet the schools in which this coming together of parent and teacher in the service of children occurred had immense benefits . |
| 24 | This coming together at Dan Qeqe stadium was far more of a genuine gesture towards bridge building than most of the internal initiatives according to Malcolm Klaasen , the ex-SARU convenor of the Eastern Cape Veterans Association , and an outspoken critic of the lack of change wrought by the unification process . |
| 25 | Oh , this coming back to an empty house , Rupert thought , when he had seen her safely up to her door . |
| 26 | No , if if you fail this coming back after Christmas I did n't actually |
| 27 | Erm and er what I would like to see , and I 've long wanted to see this coming out of the church , is a rite of passage that I with integrity can offer to any parents who come to me with a , a , a lovely little baby in their arms saying to me parish minister can you give us something that would satisfy us , and they 're not saying it like this , but they want a rite of passage . |
| 28 | Despite this stirring up of architectural disorder into what one unkind French critic called a ‘ cultural Chernobyl ’ , the powers at Disney , led by its dashing chief executive Michael Eisner , have managed to persuade a handful of élite and influential American architects to participate . |
| 29 | This whittling down of the 33% ( June ) or 30% ( November ) of pupils absent to a very small percentage seen as truants has implications for dealing with the problem of truancy . |
| 30 | This boiling down of groups into their respective ethnic essences is clearly congruent with the nationalist concerns of the right , but it is also sanctioned by the antiracist orthodoxy of the left and by many voices from within the black communities themselves which have needed no prompting to develop their own fascination with ethnic differences and thus reduce political definitions of ‘ race ’ to a narcissistic celebration of culture and Identity . |