Example sentences of "[prep] this [noun] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parallels for this treatment include the tilted squares in the geometric designs of the Great Witcombe and St. Nicholas Street mosaics : the main tilted squares in the former are decorated with guilloche mat . |
| 2 | For this recession to equal the previous record of 16 months it would have to drag on for another six months . |
| 3 | The ‘ rich ’ — which for this purpose means the top two-thirds of the population — pay in full for GP consultations and prescriptions ; they also pay £10 a day for hospital stays . |
| 4 | ( For this calculation use the following values for the relative atomic masses of the isotopes involved : 5. ( a ) ( i ) Use the basic assumption of the kinetic theory of gases to derive the expression for an ideal gas . |
| 5 | The lack of a contingency plan for this eventuality left the all-important Army of Africa , together with its commanders , General Franco and Colonel Yagüe ( who , under Franco 's orders , had been in charge of the Legion during the repression of the Asturian revolutionary movement in 1934 ) , stranded on the far side of the Straits of Gibraltar . |
| 6 | For this design knit the single teddy starting on the seventh stitch to avoid knitting part of the balloon . |
| 7 | ‘ We have trained the nurse caring for this infant to recognize the first signs of desire for food . |
| 8 | For this theory to give the observed value of the strong force between particles , the strings had to be like rubber bands with a pull of about ten tons . |
| 9 | to extract and expound the most ordinary beliefs about the constitution of the world as pictured in the Elizabethan age and through this exposition to help the ordinary reader to understand and to enjoy the great writers of the age . |
| 10 | At the visible apex of this trend come the urban disorders of Brixton and Bristol , Toxteth and Tottenham . |
| 11 | In no manner does the birth of this child put the other out of my mind nor can I accept he is a substitute but rather a reminder as if God wished to show me what I have lost and reprimand me for my carelessness . |
| 12 | The east window of this chapel contains the only remaining fragments of 14th century glass . |
| 13 | A simple example of this calling takes the following form |
| 14 | The activities of this Institute cover the broad central ground of biology within the Division of Biological Sciences : how the cellular and other components of a single organism develop and function together and evolve . |
| 15 | The central core of this tendon takes the highest strain and in a typical speed injury , the inner core breaks first leaving a classic black hole effect in the centre of the tendon , seen on ultrasonic scans of the damaged leg . |
| 16 | The specific concerns of this bargaining cover the following areas : 1 Concern that the productivity gains from new technology are equitably distributed by improving wage and other benefits , and , as an alternative to job losses , by increasing/diversifying output and reduced working time . |
| 17 | Our research into the origins and operation of this service highlights the rhetorical nature of the altruistic model and illustrates the internal politics , both local and national , of the profession . |
| 18 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 19 | we must take heed though Chairman of the warning in the report and that was mentioned by Mrs Hilary , that it 's the responsibility of this Council to plan the future needs on the basis of the estimated shortfall in resources that have been forecast . |
| 20 | When Councillor and his Party showed the care and concern they have for our staff , when sixty members of our staff on that day attended a committee meeting of this Council to see the Labour leader open it and shut it without any debate whatsoever and walk out of the room . |
| 21 | The government consider that our present constitutional arrangements continue to serve us well and that the citizen of this country enjoys the greatest degree of liberty that is compatible with the rights of others and the vital interests of the State … . |
| 22 | It is clearly Labour 's vision to have high tax rates , but it is the hope of the people of this country to have the lowest possible tax rates , and that is what we shall offer . |
| 23 | The positive aspects of this procedure include the full and detailed consideration of the individual needs of each child . |
| 24 | No attempt can be made in a work of this scope to relate the full story of how nineteenth century attitudes to death evolved during the present century into those now prevailing . |
| 25 | It is impossible in a book of this size to describe the vast number of small animals and the lives that they lead . |
| 26 | The more arresting flip side of this 12″ contains the real beef through ‘ Volumina ’ , with its toyed-around Tranceporter vocal sample and the much more effective and piano cruising ‘ Allround ’ , which lifts the basis of the pretty uninteresting A-side into a more dripping acidic romp . |
| 27 | To set the scene for this latter article , and as a coda to the two special issues on hypertext that have just gone by , the writer of this editorial offers the following thoughts ( though these are definitely under the guise of Editorial Privilege , and from a non-expert viewpoint as far as hypertext is concerned ) . |
| 28 | It is sustained by an intimate knowledge of its ‘ enemy ’ — the underclass of society — and exemplary use is made of this knowledge to produce the technological and structural means for the continuity of this system of power . |
| 29 | For the purposes of this present appeal the following propositions can , in our judgment , be stated . |
| 30 | The Nuffield study on the direction of social mobility from the 1930s is considered , together with the latest updating of this work following the 1983 election . |