Example sentences of "[adv] this [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only this week a survey by Gallup showed one in five would like to go under the knife , despite the attendant risks of internal bleeding and excessive scar tissue from poorly performed operations . |
| 2 | Surely there is an expectation that members of the medical profession should undertake audit and research based activity ; is not this intervention a restraint of that ? |
| 3 | Late last night or early this morning a number of armed men ( to the amount of 30 ) landed at this place , by two boats from an American privateer , as appears from one of the people now in custody … |
| 4 | Later this year a version will be launched for a Hewlett Packard ‘ palmtop ’ ( which is already offered with 1-2-3 ) . |
| 5 | BRITISH Telecom will unveil later this month a sight for sore eyes — or at least for bleary eyed business travellers worn out by taking early morning shuttle flights to meetings on the Continent . |
| 6 | But we are in no doubt that , if the electorate fails to pardon the Conservatives at the polls today , it will pay a price at the hands of a Labour government , perhaps sustained by the Liberal Democrats , which will set back this country a generation . |
| 7 | Obviously it 'll not be done for the launch but he 's made a smart job of it it looks really smart done it in yellow , erm and really later on this week I 'm just tidying up , I 've got to go and see F I B just to make sure everything 's in place with them in the mounted section and really this time a week tomorrow it 'll be launched . |
| 8 | Thirty years ago this week a gang of audacious , daring robbers held up the London to Glasgow mail train and made off with over two and a half million pounds . |
| 9 | Is n't this is n't this language a bit stereotypical of the band ? |
| 10 | Earlier this year a newspaper headline screamed : ‘ Schools rapped over environmental studies ’ . |
| 11 | Earlier this year a pay freeze was agreed by the factory employees and similar restraint will be asked of all other employees , at all levels , around the world . |
| 12 | Earlier this year a report commissioned by Christiane Scrivener , the European Commissioner responsible for taxation , proposed a 30% withholding tax in all member states regardless of whether profits are retained or distributed as dividends . |
| 13 | I do n't I do n't believe it is erm at the mo well earlier this week a report was published by the National Commission on Education which was er an independent erm Commission that was set up erm and they they 've said that basically what we need to be doing is t if we 're trying to raise standards is to keep the idea of having an all graduate profess profession followed up by high quality for train training for teachers once they 've actually started work . |
| 14 | Earlier this month a bill began its passage through California 's legislature which would sentence touts , or scalpers as it calls them , to a fine of $1,000 or a year in jail . |
| 15 | Then this morning a prisoner who was being moved , broke free and damaged furniture and fittings . |
| 16 | And twice this week a bus has come down School Lane . |
| 17 | I wish I could find out why this iron a bell rings in this iron . |