Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 For reasons of this nature , the sentences in 13–16 will be considered to exemplify only pseudo-synonymy .
2 We can feed them information on Russian intentions in exchange for scraps like this tip about the Bonnard car . ’
3 The pope made no direct statement about Lichfield at this time but Aethelheard visited Rome in 801 ( ASC A , s.a. 799 ) and the pope wrote to him in January 802 ( and to Coenwulf ) conceding to Aethelheard and his successors authority over all the churches of the Anglo-Saxons ( with reference specifically to the twelve bishoprics of the southern province ) .
4 As chairman of this group , I obviously have financial people , accountants , treasury people , lawyers , personnel people , property people and so on who all make part of a team .
5 THE man who founded Swaledale Outdoor Club and inspired a spirit of adventure in thousands of people over the past quarter of a century stood down as chairman at this week 's annual meeting , prior to moving to South Africa .
6 Shares in the Swiss Charter Organisation available through purchase of this outstanding Swan .
7 There is a great need for music and art that cries out for change in this sad , sick society .
8 We need something dramatic to focus it , either to introduce something which will create a potential for change in this situation ( which will potentially destabilise the situation ) or pick up on something going on in the groups which will have the same effect ; we need to focus on an issue .
9 David Downes in The Delinquent Solution refers to a study of Chicago gangs carried out thirty years previously for support on this point .
10 The CEGB had looked for support in this area from the National Radiological Protection Board , the government funded organization responsible for providing advice on radiation hazards .
11 Application for admission to this course is made directly to the University , not through UCCA .
12 Application for admission to this course should be made directly to the University ( see page 50 ) .
13 Among the rules and conditions for admission to this establishment a person had to have been resident in the parish for three years to have been receiving parish relief , and to be able to recite the Lord 's prayer and Apsotles ' Creed , also they shall not be an enemy of the Gospel or Established religion , nor a common swearer , adulterer , thief , picker , hedge breaker or drunkard .
14 The Foreign Minister and Prime Minister for part of this period , Ashida Hitoshi , was active in pressing Japanese views in 1947–48 .
15 Would nt it be better for clubs in this sort of situation to be able to loan young players on an extended basis .
16 I think there 's one other thing that 's worth thinking about , and that is that many of our students come into the University for one-day schools , for lectures , for activities of this kind , and this gives an opportunity for a kind of reciprocal traffic , if you like , so that people outside who often have very odd ideas of what universities do and what they 're about and what they 're like , can actually see your University , participate in its activities , and we can see ordinary folk who sometimes ask the shrewdest questions and make sometimes what seem to be the most penetrating kinds of points about the sort of things that we take for granted .
17 Now as economists we should have strong prides about income in this model , we would all , we would expect income to be very important in explaining textile consumption although the model is telling us at the moment , income does n't seem to be significantly explained in textile consumption so that 's something to worry about , we 're getting some , er sort of peculiar results here .
18 Also Landseer came to Green 's rescue on this , his favourite subject , and wrote in the New London Review , ‘ It does not appear that the landed proprietors among these mountains , feel a necessity for improvements of this sort , by the havoc that is displayed in the felling of their woods and coppices . ’
19 During March of this year 5 of these patients all with homozygous sickle cell anaemia were admitted with aplastic crisis associated with parvovirus B19 infection .
20 It is through patterns like this that most adults learn something of attachment and separation .
21 It is for cases of this kind , where the evidence shows that there was active persuasion rather than compassionate assistance to someone already determined to commit suicide , that a substantial maximum penalty is thought necessary .
22 Groups can monopolise a route for hours like this , or , worse still , drop someone on your head while you 're trying to lead it !
23 I went into this field and I sat there and cried for hours in this pouring rain and I suddenly thought to myself , ‘ This is ridiculous , this is no good — you 're not meant to be an actor , you 're meant to be something else — a comedian . ’
24 Garry Watson , in attacking the new pluralism from a Leavisian perspective , offers two exemplary passages by contemporary academic critics which may serve as illustrations of this trend :
25 For illustrations of this and other methods , see page 67 .
26 Let be the planned rate of money supply growth and be the private sector 's expected rate of planned money supply growth , then the standard form for preferences in this game are :
27 For operations above this and up to the new five metre maximum , the installer simply removes a push-fit restrictor from the appliance .
28 However , if one looks at the size of family , the findings are fairly consistent : in the 1948 French study , for instance , housewives with one child put in on average a seventy-eight-hour week ; in the 1950 British study a sixty-seven-hour week , and in the present study a seventy-one-hour week was the average figure for housewives in this group .
29 Beforehand he met a number of local farmers and discussed with them the problems that CAP , GATT and subsidies pose for agriculture in this country .
30 The similarly large increase in recorded crime in many countries in the second half of the twentieth century has also been cited as support for this theory , which has strongly influenced interpretations of crime in the contemporary Third World .
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