Example sentences of "this [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yakovlev may have exaggerated this shift , given the abstract Marxist tenets on class struggle that he came equipped with from Moscow , but there was already some objective evidence of this right at the start of NEP . |
| 2 | The £1 million summer signing from Marseille refused to set a come-back date but conceded : ‘ It 's very disappointing and frustrating to receive a setback like this right at the start of my Wednesday career . |
| 3 | You place this somewhere in the middle of the lines . |
| 4 | Make a note of this somewhere near the beginning of your diary . |
| 5 | I offer this merely as a piece of information . |
| 6 | She found nothing , although she did n't know whether to put this down to a lack of success on the part of the police or the massive coverage afforded to the hijacking of a wide-bodied jet over Italy . |
| 7 | I put this down to the use of rosewood for the fingerboard and the addition of some extra internal bracing . |
| 8 | Alison Binks , financial adviser , puts this down to the suspension of stamp duty and realistic selling prices now being asked by most vendors . |
| 9 | Director of Studies : ‘ I tie this in with the lack of high ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ Level grades . |
| 10 | We suspect the text of this song was sent late to the printer with some such direction as ‘ Put this in after the Dialogue of Coridon and Mopsa ’ — exactly the kind of wording used with ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ — and the printer did literally that , not realizing that the Dance of Haymakers belonged to the Dialogue . |
| 11 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 12 | One owner found that his cat did this only on the floor of a new extension he had built on to the side of his house . |
| 13 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 14 | For Edward , the solution was to hold Aquitaine in full sovereignty ; but the French would concede this only in the face of overwhelming defeat , and no settlement based on such a concession could endure . |
| 15 | This together with the presence of free ATF1 ( lane 1 ) suggests that ATF1 is present in excess of CREB in UF9 cells . |
| 16 | The chronology of geomagnetic reversals was extended back into the Mesozoic and this together with the dating of ocean floor sediments enabled the age of large areas of oceanic crust to be determined . |
| 17 | Originally a Benedictine Abbey Church , which was destroyed by fire in 1120 , it was rebuilt soon after this much on the pattern of S. Mark 's in Venice and was made into a Cathedral in 1649 . |
| 18 | Yet in the afternoon the council put its weight behind a scheme that would selectively subsidise and increase the earning capacity of a small group who are by no means the worst paid members of society , and this largely at the expense of the previously agreed underfunded NHS and the taxpayer . |
| 19 | The first is that if it were false , a would still believe it ; we have dealt with this already by the addition of clause 3 . |
| 20 | It 's not just because this illness is self- , it 's self-inflicted er , cause , er , you 've obviously picked this up from a variety of other er , I 'd say , sources , but you also pick it up in you know , blood transfusions situation . |
| 21 | We can see this clearly in the story of the men at Ephesus ( Acts 19 ) who had not heard of the gift of Pentecost even though they were living many years after that event . |
| 22 | ( I 'd say all this differently in the language of my time ! |
| 23 | There is evidence for this both in the slowness of attitude change in response to advertising and in the long duration of memory of successful advertising . |
| 24 | Now that , you speak the Russian language do n't you er , I 'm saying this now for the benefit of the tape |
| 25 | More than 546,200 Panamanian people are living in ‘ extreme ’ poverty and another 461,100 in poverty — this out of a population of 2.4 million . |
| 26 | I 'd hate you to imagine that I 'm doing this out of the goodness of my heart , ’ he said through clenched teeth . |
| 27 | Try this out on a bit of spare yarn to see if you like the effect . |
| 28 | And interestingly , one review by Mawer contains the only mention of the Newbolt Report to be included in the Review during the whole of the inter-war period , and this solely in the context of attributing to the Report responsibility for generating a good deal of subsequent discussion of grammar . |
| 29 | " Give him three ounces of this immediately in a pint of water , then follow it with one and a half ounces night and morning and let us know if he is n't a lot better in two days . " |
| 30 | He carried a silver-topped malacca cane and he waved this vaguely in the direction of the strolling crowds all around them . |