Example sentences of "this [noun sg] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of squabbling in the courts was most unseemly , and The Daily Mail launched an angry editorial broadside : ‘ There were cyclists on the jury , we read , and this fact has a grim sound … |
| 2 | This technique of working with the sound turned off is known as silent viewing see Video Plan 3 in this chapter . |
| 3 | Incidentally re : all this talk of getting into the programme and that — if we go ‘ overground ’ you can kiss goodbye to references to Man U as pigs , scum etc or any abuse of opposition anywhere . |
| 4 | He did not believe that ‘ this piece of tinkering by the Government will stop Britain becoming the dump of Europe in the 1990s . ’ |
| 5 | erm the policies are offered in general most dealers in fairness this question of charging for the policy , in the majority of dealers that we 've actually got they include it within the within the purchase price of the vehicle anyway . |
| 6 | There is little great poetry that has not come from the frost of sorrow , and this is the supreme compensation that the creative man has this faculty of distilling from the very substance of sorrow , a beauty that transforms the world into paradise . |
| 7 | Ironically , the International Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution will ban this type of dumping in the Gulf from 2 ( Sober . |
| 8 | Freud refers to this process of strengthening of the superego as the ‘ most precious cultural asset ’ , and observes that it turns enemies of civilization into its vehicles , and greatly enhances the security of culture . |
| 9 | What we usually take to be specifically feminist concerns ( e.g. ‘ political ’ ones — whatever that means ) seem often obscured in this body of writing by the theoretical exigencies of semiotics , psychoanalysis , discourse analysis or Althusserian Marxism . |
| 10 | We may also say that the linguistic expressions ( or their meanings ) that appear in particular token constructions identify entities and properties ( and we shall feel free to extend this use of identify to the activity of the speakers and writers who use the constructions ) . |
| 11 | ITV , paying £25,000 compared with £200,000 for a live broadcast , was accused earlier this week of acting outside the spirit of its £44 million contract with the League . |
| 12 | By the end of the 1960s many economists were critical of this policy of fine-tuning on the grounds that it added to rather than reduced the instability of the economy . |
| 13 | To today 's citizen this method of escaping from the monotony of everyday life may seem näive and even ludicrous . |
| 14 | This manner of thinking about the family is not just an image that can be presented in advertisements of childrens stories . |
| 15 | This sense of coping with the ‘ business of living ’ was one of the themes that came out from a study conducted by the writer and a colleague from the Tavistock Institute for a client in 1974 ( see Appendix One ) . |
| 16 | Yet this life of contributing to the progress towards knowledge of reality is rational , is a — perhaps the — form of human flourishing . |
| 17 | This practice did not strictly contravene the legislation since there is a loophole which allowed the introduction of this line of questioning at the discretion of the judge , if the judge thought it was essential . |
| 18 | The societal divisions and problems of relations between the police and the community which this style of policing is called upon to ameliorate in Northern Ireland are more severe than is normally the case , which makes the RUC 's implementation and operation of community policing of special interest and previous neglect of this aspect of policing in the province a significant oversight . |
| 19 | ‘ Ca n't say I 'm too awfully keen on this idea of going for the enemy pilot , ’ Blunt said . |
| 20 | The trouble with this way of dealing with the myth is that the myth is so attractive that people are not put off by the objection that it opens the door to scepticism about common meanings . |
| 21 | In this way of looking at the economy , wages seem to be determined by forces as inevitable as mathematics , and if wages were low this was no doubt unfortunate , but there was nothing anybody could do about it , any more than it would be possible to change the laws of gravity . |
| 22 | But modern westerners ( and those inspired by European culture ) combine this way of looking at the world with advanced technology , enabling them to make huge changes , quickly . |
| 23 | Whatever the merits of such an exact parallel between the chakras of the human body and the landscape , this way of looking at the countryside seems to enable certain insights into subtle geography to be obtained that might otherwise be missed . |
| 24 | ( Another implication of this way of looking at the origin of moral talk is that the child will learn her primary duties in familial contacts with her parents , close friends , relations , and the family pets . |
| 25 | So , if this way of looking at the world is what starts up that vital fire in your imagination , then you would do well to take Watson 's top and have as your hero someone imbued with plenty of ordinary commonsense . |
| 26 | We will return to this problem of spacing in the following section , with a more extended discussion on consonance and dissonance . |