Example sentences of "this [adj] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In this low undergrowth their disorganized progress and uneven , differing rhythms of movement delayed them still more than in the wood .
2 As the eldest girl among the twenty-one children , Isabella was her grandmother 's chief assistant , and in this unusual establishment her informal education began .
3 In this revised format you present material from your literature review , paradoxically , at the end ( under " relation to existing work " ) , where you examine implications and applications .
4 The result is a sympathetic and charmingly balanced profile of this charismatic driver whose uninhibited spirit at the wheel made him so compelling to watch .
5 Terence Davies has apparently emerged from the representation of his social origins smelling of Art , and it is this very concept which mainstream criticism just can not get enough of , for at its best ( its most effective ) it denies the social world at the very moment that it represents it .
6 Yet it is this very assumption which these writers call into question .
7 The financing of local government is er again circumscribed , local government 's ability to respond to the needs of the community it serves as it and its electors deem appropriate is being curtailed yet again and of course local government is losing its independence to central government and this centralising tendency which this settlement further represents is one of the most pernicious and corrosive characteristics of the modern Conservative party .
8 Thus I am not disputing this vital fact which classical economists have ( rightly ) asserted as indefeasible .
9 Making over £500 each to sell in total for £1,560 they exemplified the local interest there is in this internationally-acclaimed artist whose last exhibition , before he died in 1969 , was in Belfast .
10 The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large .
11 To see the drake in full breeding plumage is quite rare , the dark brown and white plumage and graceful , curving tail-feathers , some nine inches in length , having given this attractive bird its alternative name of ‘ sea pheasant ’ .
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