Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child . |
| 2 | create the illusion that the ‘ dangerous ’ class is primarily located at the bottom of various hierarchies by which we ‘ measure ’ each other , such as occupational prestige , income level , housing market location , educational achievement , racial attributes — in this illusion it fuses relative poverty and criminal propensities and sees them both as effects of moral inferiority , thus rendering the ‘ dangerous ’ class deserving of both poverty and punishment ; |
| 3 | On the other hand , like any moulded surface of this type it has fat needles , rather than the brush-type filaments of a normal plastic slope . |
| 4 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 5 | On this basis it makes more sense for an investor to invest in promise than in reality . |
| 6 | This month he offers some suggestions on nipping all of them in the bud . |
| 7 | Against this background he makes two remarks about children : |
| 8 | To this end he makes periodic counts , from the issue records , of the number of books on loan in each category . |
| 9 | Although a human geographer who has specialized in the analysis of urban systems particularly using entropy-maximizing models , in this book he recognizes three types of system and applies them to both physical and human geography . |
| 10 | From this position he has two options on how to play the short ball . |
| 11 | This weekend she has another opportunity to show her talent , and a special throw which she has been perfecting , when she competes in the British Open at Crystal Palace . |
| 12 | This way he knows live trees are being felled , but he does n't know who 's felling them . ’ |
| 13 | Its aim is to bring the machine to the market by late 1993 , and in order to achieve this goal it needs additional engineers . |
| 14 | This self-obsession , the looking inwards and away from the real world , represents a full circle turned in approximately twenty years , and this time it has official sanction and encouragement . |