Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] in this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I mention native speakers ' feelings in this connection , and since I am elsewhere rather sceptical about appeals to native speakers ' feelings , I had better explain that in this case my evidence comes from the native speakers of English I have taught in practical classes on transcription over many years . |
| 2 | It so happens that in this example , ( 1 ) and ( 3 ) are false . |
| 3 | Ministers might justly argue that in this case the dissent is also politically ambiguous , given the diverse support for the amendment . |
| 4 | On the point of commenting scathingly that not everyone could be expected to be as cold-blooded as he was , Gina hesitated , finally deciding that in this case discretion was certainly the better part of valour . |
| 5 | The aspirations of the knightly class at its best and the sense that Christendom must go over to the offensive against Islam are nowhere more succinctly expressed than in this poem , written when the Christian reconquest of Spain was well under way , but when the crusades had only just begun , shortly before or shortly after the launching of the First Crusade . |
| 6 | Other reports also suggest that in this disease there are circulating antibodies against antigens common to biliary and colonic epithelia . |
| 7 | Events have also shown that in this day and age the exercise of a right to silence affords protection for the guilty and is unnecessary to safeguard the innocent . |
| 8 | But it now appears that in this form the ‘ Treasury view ’ was a transient formula . |
| 9 | Never was the enormous authority of this machine for living in ever so well expressed as in this scene of picturesque desolation . |
| 10 | It is sometimes argued that direct persuasion applied by A to B not to perform his contract is itself the procurement of breach by unlawful means , but the argument is circular and it seems better simply to say that in this form of the tort no use of unlawful means is required . |
| 11 | They say a watched phone never rings and in this case they were right . |
| 12 | I would therefore hold that in this respect Handscomb was wrongly decided . |
| 13 | I can not therefore deny that in this context a settled and preponderant public demand ought to be taken into account or that at a certain point it would have to prevail . |