Example sentences of "[det] [coord] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might add that Filmer 's notion of dominion as originally granted to Adam included both ownership of property and authority over men and here Filmer was trading on erm erm the feudal tradition of erm property erm erm erm dominion erm entails that if you have property rights in a certain tract of territory you also have political authority over the people inhabiting that or that territory you know , think of a straightforward standard lord of the manor and his service you know , he has property rights in the territory , he also has authority over erm the individuals who live off that territory . |
| 2 | That or that door ? |
| 3 | Outside the chamber , they are asked constantly for their views on this or that issue . |
| 4 | The pressure of this or that requirement or directive , together with the environment in which one happens to be , for example working under an agnostic headteacher , or a staunch Christian one , or with an enthusiastic multi-faith team , etc. , governs what happens . |
| 5 | ‘ All kinds of typographical fireworks are now made possible by computers and that has generated its own trend : if this or that trick can be done , then it soon becomes fashionable to go ahead and do it . |
| 6 | You will be wondering , what is the message of Christmas for me this year in the face of this or that problem ? |
| 7 | But to attempt to isolate them , in practice , can be no more than an illustrative device since the language-game we use of human beings encapsulates the possibility that at any moment Mary can be summoned from such a state , or summon herself , to one of reflection about her reasons for adopting this or that tactic . |
| 8 | That is , we initially categorise them as this or that type of person and interpret or distort subsequent information to confirm that s/he is this type of person . |
| 9 | Thus , although we may say of individuals that they know this or that proposition , we can only explain this fact if we take into account the network of practices in which they live . |
| 10 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 11 | It will also become the focus of political lobbying by health authorities who stand to gain by this or that factor being included . |
| 12 | Personal preferences for this or that novel , although clearly visible in the analysis , will be of a purely anecdotal significance . |
| 13 | It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash . |
| 14 | Confusingly , parents were advised to do X ; then , after perhaps a generation X was out , it was best to do Y. Nowadays we can rely on research studies for at least some evidence about the desirability and effectiveness of this or that approach , and about the influence of certain styles of parenting on the child 's development and wellbeing . |
| 15 | I think , for instance , that it is vain and quite pointless to try to enumerate all the elements that come together in our preference for this or that artist or poet . |
| 16 | If you are a constant reader of this column the chances are good that your mailbox brims daily with the glossy opportunities of galleries about town requesting your presence at this or that artist 's show . |
| 17 | And of course there is the sort of evaluation that judges the effectiveness of this or that teaching method over another . |
| 18 | In negotiating this or that pay increase , they must be supposed to be settling for the best terms they can get in all the circumstances of the negotiation . |
| 19 | Literariness , and not this or that work by this or that author , is the object of literary studies . |
| 20 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 21 | Now I am twittering on about buying a new workshop , equipping it with this or that kind of planer/thicknesser , getting this or that panel saw . |
| 22 | Well , our usages do strongly suggest that this or that thought or feeling completed a set of thoughts and feelings , and the decision or choice resulted . |
| 23 | Some stand quite close to him but are unhappy about this or that emphasis or point of detail , or about tendencies which they see running through his work ; others differ from him so radically on the nature and basis of theology itself that they in effect reject his approach wholesale . |
| 24 | Then he tries to work out what this or that payment actually relates to , and since he does n't know the accounts get into a muddle . " |
| 25 | The tape-recording of this or that speaker is significantly different from a written or printed report of what he said . |
| 26 | Now I am twittering on about buying a new workshop , equipping it with this or that kind of planer/thicknesser , getting this or that panel saw . |
| 27 | We ask the question : what does it mean to be a Christian in this or that kind of society ? |
| 28 | Nobody ever asked whether people wanted play space , or this or that kind of housing . |
| 29 | Thus , we can move far beyond purely descriptive statements recording that this or that apparently arbitrary subclass of adjectives is ungrammatical in this or that position ; it is possible , even at levels of such fine detail as in the grammaticality of ( 60 ) beside ( 59 ) , to find principled explanations for the patterns of grammaticality , based ultimately on the intensional distinction between qualification and assignment . |
| 30 | But it is not enough to single out this or that Minister , or even the officials responsible . |