Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] this [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is not clear whether or not this type of singularity will occur in other solutions , particularly as the Khan-Penrose solution contains impulsive gravitational waves . |
| 2 | The evaluation was carried out in order to provide information for a decision as to whether or not this type of material could be used for the user instruction programme at Chalmers University Library . |
| 3 | Gastroenterologists , therefore , have a responsibility to review their results to show whether or not this form of surveillance is effective . |
| 4 | The transformation is made up of spiritual , intellectual and emotional elements which grow together into an autonomous state of mind : Sooner or later this attitude of autonomy expresses itself in doubt . |
| 5 | Aesthetically , he was in love , but it was still hard to think that eventually this sculpture of flesh and bone must become his soul 's vehicle , his robot . |
| 6 | Since the type of all-out attack involved in the ‘ assured destruction ’ scenario would clearly be indiscriminate and inhumane , and therefore illegal even in self-defence , it can be argued that even this type of deployment entails an illegal threat of force . |
| 7 | The second caveat is that even this amount of support is reduced when hypothetical compromises are put to the public . |
| 8 | The fact that precisely this point of law was already due to be considered by the Supreme Court in relation to a separate abortion clinic case ( also arising from an Operation Rescue blockade ) , however , led many commentators to see the intervention by the Justice Department as primarily political in motivation . |
| 9 | Lord Buckhurst even tried to argue , rather implausibly , that a patent of office quam diu se bene gesserit automatically became void on the misbehaviour of the holder , and that therefore this type of tenure was less secure than durante bene placito . |
| 10 | In terms of Marxist theory , a thesis ( feudalism ) had been fundamentally questioned by its antithesis ( capitalism ) , and eventually this mode of production would replace it with its own social and political system . |
| 11 | The years of work and attention were bearing fruit now , and suddenly this stroke of luck with Betty . |
| 12 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , for example , Jacques wrote that if only this level of grant could be achieved , something could be done to raise part-time tutors ' fees and so reduce the glaring disparity between the minima of £1 110. 0d. for teaching a WEA Terminal class and £3 10s. 0d. for taking a University Sessional class . |
| 13 | And once this kind of polarization is set in motion , it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in which everyone who is not with us is against us . |
| 14 | They smile and nod like flowers in the sun , But come a nasty squall or shower from the West , And they will squeal and shout , and say of you , We never liked young Kenneth much before And now this change of climate proves us right . |
| 15 | Only one so far — or this was the first he had heard of , but the affair could snowball and sometimes this kind of thing took an unforeseen twist . |
| 16 | Interest centres on how long a subject stays in a particular state ( e.g. unemployed , married without children ) and how this length of time is affected by characteristics of the subject . |
| 17 | And yet this type of ambiguity bears a striking resemblance to the scope ambiguities described above . |
| 18 | The information so obtained may then have to be rearranged to show segment differences , and again this process of interpretation may be subjective or objective , depending on how statistically valid the end product must be ; * by using an analysis of attribute sets . |
| 19 | It should be noted in such circumstances there is no breakage of glass and therefore this type of occurrence does not constitute a valid claim . |
| 20 | This approach does not necessitate measuring the ‘ maturity ’ of the heated sample , and therefore this source of error is eliminated from the constructed cumulative yield . |
| 21 | Yeah , but not this sort of stuff . |
| 22 | But always this trail of slime . |
| 23 | He had a reputation in the town for dirty dealing , but surely this sort of thing was carrying things too far , even for him ? |
| 24 | But even this programme of divestment will take four years : it is being done on a stock by stock basis . |
| 25 | But even this sort of treatment does not make my ferrets become aggressive . |
| 26 | While even this degree of relief Chairman in the town centre would be welcome , the problem comes in trying to justify a new bypass in terms of its cost effectiveness . |
| 27 | When exactly this act of depaganisation took place is impossible to say , but the crosses would have been made much easier to carve before the removal of the stones , which show no sign of damage and were , therefore , meant for re-use . |