Example sentences of "[to-vb] this [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hardly ever browse through the jazz section in a record shop ( I have usually been scalped in the classical section , in any case ) , and I would have been very sorry to miss this cracker of a CD . |
| 2 | ‘ Working class ’ people may wish to see their interests favoured over those of the ‘ middle classes ’ but they are unlikely , in general terms , to see this conflict as a struggle to displace a ruling class . |
| 3 | It would be wrong to treat this case as a decision on the application of section 6. which was clearly not in the court 's contemplation , but it may be permissible to comment that if an offence of this kind is to be held to be sufficiently serious to justify a substantial community service order , the scheme of the Act , with its albeit clumsy attempt to raise the public perception of the severity of community sentences , seems destined to failure . |
| 4 | Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium . |
| 5 | It is possible to attend this course from a minimum of one week to as many weeks as the student wishes . |
| 6 | Yeah , well the trouble with the register was that er , when it was put forward , and it was put forward by Tom Burlison and Tom Sawyer of , er and they worked very , very hard , no one harder than Tom Burlison , to try to establish this possibility as a compromise to avoid the sort of conflicts that we 're talking about at the moment . |
| 7 | The only sensible question is how to meet this demand in a way that does not wreck the countryside . |
| 8 | Er well er the just these two people that retired there , er they used to come this man in a car from , that was their lift to their work . |
| 9 | The speeches in the House of Lords pointed out that one would have expected to find this section in a Part of the Act dealing with company charges rather than in that dealing with debentures , and accepted that the mortgage would not be a ‘ debenture , ’ for the purposes of some of the other sections . |
| 10 | Where the article is a unique or one-off product such as the commissioning of a portrait from an artist , the court is likely to construe this arrangement as a contract of work and materials notwithstanding the incidental supply of the canvas ( Robinson v Graves [ 1935 ] 1 KB 579 ; compare Issacs v Hardy ( 1884 ) Cab & EL 287 ) . |
| 11 | Some councils have tried to tackle this difficulty through a policy of permitting only those new developments that will serve local needs . |
| 12 | The setting is scenically very beautiful but also provides a very convenient base for those who are keen to explore this region as a whole — the ‘ League of Chianti ’ is all around and we can most particularly recommend Radda , the League 's ancient capital , which is within easy reach . |
| 13 | Male theorists have tended to view this approach as a weakness in women . |
| 14 | To reverse this process at a stroke would be impossible , and every compromise suggested so far has foundered in a fearful bog of legal and financial complications . |
| 15 | Proposals to replace this path with a motor road have been considered but happily pigeon-holed . |
| 16 | Books Tokens is planning a mailing to primary schools in the UK and Ireland in April , and would be interested to hear from any publisher or organisation wishing to reach this market with a view to sharing costs . |
| 17 | Thanks to all you readers out there for helping us to reach this target during a recession which has hammered the magazine trade as hard as any . |
| 18 | 2.1 The Publisher agrees to provide statements of sales twice a year and to render this statement with a cheque within six months of the accounting dates . |
| 19 | 2.1 The Publisher agrees to provide statements of sales twice a year and to render this statement with a cheque within six months of the accounting dates . |
| 20 | In the absence of any military presence in this area in the third century , it would be more sensible to identify this figure with a smith-god . |
| 21 | Therefore it is desirable to apply this dictionary to a range of domain-specific documents and to compare its performance with that of the appropriate domain-specific dictionary . |
| 22 | It is a good idea to grow this species in a flower-pot in shallow water and then sink the pot in the aquarium . |
| 23 | The competition is being run for five months , of which this is the fourth , so you 've still got two chances to win this holiday of a lifetime . |
| 24 | More and more people went to hear this phenomenon in a university of the crudest fundap 25 mentalism , which horrified some of the dons as a caricature of Christianity . |
| 25 | It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest . |
| 26 | Brown ( 1973 ) provided the first set of guidelines to be widely adopted for the calculation of MLU , thus making it possible to use this measure as a basis for comparing language performance across children . |
| 27 | 75% disappeared from the regulations altogether , whether as a minimum grant-in-aid of teaching costs as in the old regulations or as a maximum as proposed in the Ashby Report : an explanatory memorandum from the Ministry said that the Minister would continue to use this figure as a guide while bearing in mind all the other factors concerned with quality , need , students ' fees and so on . |
| 28 | The immediate plans are to use this workshop as a centre in which to train craftworkers . |
| 29 | Yet the EP was willing to use this dispute as a justification for his recommendation for residential schooling . |
| 30 | He had an express power to delegate this function to a committee which , in turn , attempted to further sub-delegate its functions to an executive officer who issued a directive to a farmer that only sugar should be grown in a particular field . |