Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This term refers not to a single theory but rather to a set of assumptions underlying a particular approach to the study of perception and cognition . |
| 2 | This conception arises out of a ‘ distinct but recurring type of historical situation in which a fundamental challenge is directed at established institutions and in which the supporters of those institutions employ conservative ideology in their defense ’ . |
| 3 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 4 | This fear derives more from a recognition that they often lack the additional personal qualities which they see as necessary for certain types of work , which is why most policemen are reluctant to deal with rape victims or to undertake community and neighbourhood policing . |
| 5 | This chapter sits uncomfortably in a book about public disorder . |
| 6 | Bearing these points in mind , the remainder of this chapter consists chiefly of a discussion of backward projection of variability , including case-studies from my own research . |
| 7 | This chapter draws extensively on a paper jointly written with Michael Griffiths — Griffiths and Johnston ( 1991 ) — and his substantial contribution to development of the ideas in it is fully and gratefully acknowledged . |
| 8 | This chapter dealt briefly with a selection of management aids which come under the heading of Operational Research ( OR ) or Quantitative Techniques . |
| 9 | The folds of this pinafore fell amply from a short yoke , and beneath it she wore a succession of woollen jumpers . |
| 10 | This work arose out of a project in which a sample survey program was written specifically for use by developing countries . |
| 11 | This machine reads more like a wish list than a specification : it 's a 66MHz DX2 with 16Mb of RAM , a 200Mb hard disk , a cached IDE local bus host adaptor , local bus video , topped off with Jumbo 250Mb internal streamer . |
| 12 | The Batband choose this moment to strike up with a counter attraction , and our Jeremy has a hard job making himself heard . |
| 13 | Well there was one sad part was n't it that when I was on my in training during the and the rockets and so in classrooms and had a lecturer talking to us and erm this lad come in with a message from the teleprint and erm give it to the instructor , and he 'd call a name and the chap would go out . |
| 14 | This article arises out of a research project on the ‘ Identification of Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties : Participant perspectives ’ , funded by the Economic and Social Research Council , Research Grant No . |
| 15 | This point leads on to a further problem in sampling — which is non-response . |
| 16 | Adrian become–the over-protective parent to his miserable father and although we can understand how this behaviour comes about in a child whose parents are asserting their own needs , who are themselves needy children , it nevertheless feels funny , feels inappropriate . |
| 17 | This suggests that ri2 originated from the transposition of ri1 , but that this event dates back to a time before P.wickerhamii and S.obliquus diverged . |
| 18 | Right , I think you should get all this stuff written up into a file , a help file . |
| 19 | This argument comes close to a constitutional paradox — that people who are protesting against the fairness of the political system may find themselves convicted of serious offences because their mode of protest is a realistic one . |
| 20 | The disabled this week reacted angrily to a blanket ban on vehicles in part of Darlington town centre . |
| 21 | Interest in this area arose originally from a consideration of the concept of ‘ parental rights ’ , of how this concept is defined in law and social services practice relating to child care and adoption , and to what extent it might be reasonable to speak of there being any extant meaningful ‘ parental rights ’ in the contemporary scene . |
| 22 | This word works well as a hedge as regards a passing topic ( e.g. " this is arguably also the case in Aphra Behn 's other works … |
| 23 | The backyards of the houses in this road faced on to a canal . |
| 24 | This man went out with a pouch and gathered up owl-pellets , which he labelled , and later , took apart with forceps , bathed in glass beakers of various cleansing fluids , ordering and rearranging the orts and fragments of the owl 's compressed package of bone , tooth and fur , in order to reconstitute the dead shrew or slow-worm which had run , died , and made its way through owl-gut . |
| 25 | M. W. Eysenck ( 1976 , 1977 , 1982 ) , however , reviews evidence against this interpretation focusing particularly on a number of cases where arousal appears to improve immediate retention . |
| 26 | This statement comes ahead of a report soon to be issued , covering the Community 's financial relations with 26 countries , pursuant to the Second Banking Directive . |
| 27 | The three points on this line lie within of a degree and the line extends to the church at Bishops Cannings with a better than ⅛ degree accuracy . |
| 28 | For a century and a half the subject of sexuality was taboo in much of Western society and it was only after the Second World War that this taboo decayed sufficiently for a body of formal knowledge concerning sexuality to be scientifically built up . |
| 29 | This fellow went up to a chap ( you could not tell who were NCOs or who were officers ) who was just resting because it was very hard work and we were working under pressure , and said sharply : " What is the trouble with you , have you run out of sandbags ? " |
| 30 | The data for this elaboration come mainly from a participant observation study at Oxford United and from conversations at a local youth club , but data from other grounds are included to show that Oxford United is far from being an isolated case . |