Example sentences of "this [noun sg] that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall discuss vision , because it is in this field that the two methods are closest to meeting . |
| 2 | Thus , it is only in this case that the known laws would determine how the universe should behave . |
| 3 | Using the formulae of Moskalik and Sikora and assuming that X-ray emission comes from 3 Schwarzschild radii , we find in this case that the black-hole mass can be no larger than and ; , again a worryingly small mass . |
| 4 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |
| 5 | The Secretary-General of the Arab League , Esmat Abdel Meguid said in Cairo only hours before this decision that the Arab nations " without exception " would like to see an easing of the suffering of the Iraqi people , and on May 28 the Yemeni Minister of Housing and Urban Planning , Muhammad Ahmad al-Sulayman , said on Iraqi television that the continuing sanctions were unjust in targeting women , children and the elderly . |
| 6 | It is at this ceremony that the sacred instruments , which the women must not see , are played . |
| 7 | You know you got this , you got this fear that the whole company 's gon na get this stupid memo . |
| 8 | We have already seen earlier in this chapter that the black population is younger than the white and this will in itself depress wages . |
| 9 | Against the first objection , I hope to show in this chapter that the conceptual distinction is far from mere pedantry . |
| 10 | It is difficult to visualize now , but it must have been within this pavilion that the young Roshanara consulted her spies as she reclined on carpets beside the gently bubbling irrigation runnels . |
| 11 | It is in making this adjustment that the last generation of the Dedlocks particularly fails : |
| 12 | It was in this community that the closest approximation to a traditional participant observation study was achieved , since the observer had for her entire life been part of the social setting which she was observing . |
| 13 | It was also in this period that the frequent stayer programmes were introduced . |
| 14 | Although Mrs Whitehouse recounts stories of the ‘ embarrassing ’ moments she experienced when discussing certain matters with her pupils , it appears from her accounts of this period that the school-based sex education programme she was involved in was , for her , a positive and satisfying experience . |
| 15 | Erm he makes a distinction between poor peasants , some being utterly destitute and some just being less destitute but er basically as er seventy percent of the population erm they 're the main group that 's pushing revolution forward and s so therefore I mean it 's this group that the Communist Party must n't alienate , you know , they mu must n't do anything to harm this group , associations the Communist Party must n't attack erm the associations . |
| 16 | It was from this hippodrome that the four horses now on the façade of S. Mark 's Cathedral in Venice were originally taken ; they were set high above the track in Istanbul . |
| 17 | It should be noted at this point that the small number of boys who become anorexic ( 14 per cent as compared to 86 per cent girls of the patients studied by Bruch ) do so before they reach puberty and do not develop sexually until after they have recovered . |
| 18 | It is at this point that the second contradiction — between working class and bourgeoisie — which differs from the first in expressing an opposition of interests rather than an incompatibility of structures , assumes great importance . |
| 19 | It should perhaps be stressed at this point that the three-element model , while modelling many of the features of solid polymers , remains only a model . |
| 20 | It is at this point that the rational expectations model becomes more controversial . |
| 21 | Once the connection is made ( and it must be said at this point that the parallel connection is far and away the faster of the two possibles ) a program rejoicing in the highly descriptive name of ‘ FX ’ must be run at either end of the link . |
| 22 | It is at this point that the historical link between the novel and the written text began to be lost sight of ; the highly unrealistic convention of the omniscient third person narrator then became a realist norm . |
| 23 | Putting out the cigarette again , as though stubbing Alice out of existence , he said , " I thought it was some hooligan , these kids who come into a house on an impulse " It was at this point that the next thought hit him , and again he sat staring . |
| 24 | It is near this point that the Pennine Way crosses Swaledale from Tan Hill over the bleak mass of Stonesdale Moor , falling down into Keld and on by Thwaite to Shunner Fell . |
| 25 | If we return to our example , we can see that if a subject hears Forgive us our tres … and a decision has been made at this point that the incomplete word is trespasses , the subject can begin to say trespasses and ignore the rest of the word . |
| 26 | It is at this point that the old Gotthard road and the railway line both cross to the west side of the valley while the modern motorway in galleries and tunnels cuts through the steep rock-flank of the massive Bristen , which was seen on the horizon earlier in the route . |
| 27 | It is on this basis that the New Critics argued that criticism was capable of the same degree of objectivity and rigour as traditional scholarship could achieve . |
| 28 | It was on this basis that the social services committee in January overturned the finding of the complaints review panel that Hazell had a ‘ psychological need ’ to go to Milton Heights for three years . |
| 29 | The Celtic player Neil Mochan claims to this day that the 1954 squad were nicknamed ‘ The Liquorice Allsorts ’ . |
| 30 | It was through this hedge that the naive teenager was dragged unconscious , beaten some more , and brutally raped on the tidy lawn of a smart bungalow . |