Example sentences of "in this [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Astronomer enters this under the year 835 ; but his chronology goes awry from 835 onwards , and the developments described in this passage seem in fact to belong later . |
| 2 | Willie Ninja , World Champion ‘ Voguer ’ , arrived at the British Style Show in this waistcoat commissioned by Pimm 's from Tom Gilbey . |
| 3 | Even with this limitation , however , and even given the fact that the Court in this case says by way of principle little that it has not said in previous cases , one should not underestimate the impact of this new illustration of the Court 's conception of the reach of the Directive in terms of the nature of the activities it covers . |
| 4 | Or , the Doctrine of the Sabbath ( 1649 ) ; the licence in this case granted by Joseph Caryl , a divine who frequently preached before the Long Parliament . |
| 5 | This is less Ben Elton-speak than naked ambition to be an admired state-of-the-art comedian who can acknowledge the wrongs of the world , shift with the politics of the time , try out new techniques ( in this case performing in theatres with a captive audience rather than in a back room full of hecklers getting up and wandering to the bar every 20 minutes ) and be funny . |
| 6 | The dispute between the Central Committee majority , represented here by Bukharin , and the opposition , in this instance represented by Preobrazhensky , was conducted at two levels of polemic . |
| 7 | It is true that there is a relatively small number of girls and women in this novel compared to boys and men ( one girl to seven boys , and twelve women to twenty-one men ) . |
| 8 | The water treatment polymers will open up new markets for FMC , which at present only has a small business in this field based on commodity chemicals . |
| 9 | First , the hon. Gentleman should not underestimate the immense force of major legislation presented by the Lord Chancellor in the past three or four years — not least the Children Act 1989 , which has entirely restructured the law on children and paved the way for the family court , and the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , one of the most important pieces of legislation in this field to appear for decades . |
| 10 | As Figures 4–6 , above , show , the proportion of deliveries in this category ranged from 1% for items housed in the Main Building and the Annexe , to 3% for material from the Advocates ' Library . |
| 11 | The idea of cloning in this sense belongs to science fiction , and may never become a reality . |
| 12 | A bloc in this assembly known as Benteng Republik ( Republican Fortress ) utterly opposed the deal . |
| 13 | ‘ Subject as above , ’ — and subsection ( 1 ) deals with the fact that certain provisions extend to Northern Ireland — ‘ and to any provision expressly relating to companies incorporated elsewhere than in Great Britain , nothing in this Act extends to Northern Ireland or applies to or in relation to companies registered or incorporated in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | It seems that the tradition of working in the woodlands in this country went into decline after the First World War , when most of the skilled labour did not return . |
| 15 | However , before racing ceases to be a single-parent sport , the Jockey Club deserves full credit for not only having forged ahead with the Sunday fixtures but also firing the well-aimed salvos that finally got through to the Government the iniquities of the level of VAT being charged on the breeding , rearing and racing of bloodstock in this country compared with France and Ireland . |
| 16 | Every person in this country earning between £10,000 and £30,000 would , if Labour implemented all its pledges , be worse off . |
| 17 | It is very common — more than half the women in this country suffer from cystitis at some point in their lives . |
| 18 | It is very common — more than half the women in this country suffer from cystitis at some point in their lives . |
| 19 | As was noted earlier , an estimated half a million people in this country suffer from agoraphobia ( the fear of leaving their home ) . |
| 20 | There is hardly a mainstream sport in this country controlled by people who know what they are doing . |
| 21 | The vehemence and the unanimity with which this judgment has now been condemned indicates , for the first time , a wish in this country to come to terms with Vichy . |
| 22 | The next landmark in the development of higher education in this country occurred in January 1972 with the publication of the James Report on Teacher Education and Training . |
| 23 | Greenpeace 's Executive Director , Michael Melchett , described it as " deeply depressing " , adding that " the only hope for the environment in this country rests with action by the European Community and other international regulators " . |
| 24 | This oversight resulted in this cartoon appearing on mill noticeboards . |
| 25 | The extent to which we aggregate individual units in this way depends of course on the purpose at hand . |
| 26 | The fact that individual identity is surrounded by doubt and confusion in this way prompts of course the anxious question in such as myself , ‘ Who was Marcel Proust ? ’ and ‘ Has one identified him in terms appropriate to a centenary celebration ? ’ |
| 27 | Tenants allocated homes in this way do of course pay rent and local taxes just like everyone else , although the sad reality at present is that many councils have such long waiting lists of homeless people and families living in substandard accommodation that people with mental disorders face great competition for housing . |
| 28 | Marxist arguments support this view , pointing out that cheap housing reduces the pressure on wages , allowing the labour force to reproduce itself despite low wages and in this way contributing to capital accumulation in the capitalist sector . |
| 29 | The persons solicited in this way reacted with annoyance , perhaps indicating that they supposed that they were being solicited for the purposes of prostitution ( the magistrates having found as a fact that ‘ it would be impossible for anyone so touted or solicited without enquiry to appreciate the purpose of the solicitation , and that a solicitation for this purpose in the circumstances of time and place was such an affront that it might provoke a breach of the peace . ’ ) |
| 30 | I erm like most people in this institution believe in science and think I am a scientist and I have not time or room for such qualitative judgments . |