Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on the other hand , a soldier wants someone who he can talk to in complete confidence and I think the padre fulfils this sort of , if you like , avuncular , presence in the battalion . |
| 2 | Turner 's view that migrants move into the city slums and then out to the shanty towns , is not so much the case now since the large number of spontaneous housing settlements and the widespread knowledge of their existence make this sort of housing immediately available . |
| 3 | Camp integrates this aspect of gender with aesthetics ; in a sense it renders gender a question of aesthetics . |
| 4 | Liberal deputies countered this argument by pointing out that " rampant privatization " was already in progress at all levels , including the state administration [ see dacha scandal below ] . |
| 5 | Indeed , there had even been plans to connect this area of South-East Asia by railway to India and China . |
| 6 | Kent Armstrong offers this service at a reasonable price . |
| 7 | … Even courts accepting this defence as an adequate safeguard have recognised the difficulties of adducing legal proofs that the alleged libel was true in all its factual particulars . |
| 8 | As we have seen , the inheritance of wealth and educational advantage make this ideology of ‘ free competition for unequal reward ’ a very dubious claim , but in studying social mobility we are still comparing the actual amount of social mobility with the ideal of totally free movement through totally equal opportunity . |
| 9 | The monumentally crass decision to include this item in the Environment Bill reflects badly on the judgement of ministers and the competence of their advisers . |
| 10 | I once attempted to read his first book , Alex Through The Looking Glass , but stumbled and fell at page 10 where the Hurricane made this observation on the subject of literature : ‘ My favourite read is Robert Ludlum . |
| 11 | In the early 1970s the courts applied this test with extreme rigour . |
| 12 | A welfare ideology develops this function beyond the narrow , protective remit of the residual model to encompass rehabilitation and prevention ( Hardiker , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | Rollin emphasises this aspect of them . |
| 14 | Minton used this setting for his drawing , Jam Session , which he produced as a cover design for the July-August 1949 issue of Our Time , a left-wing arts magazine . |
| 15 | We believe you will find it quite difficult not to find a large number of meals which appeal to you , because no less than six cookery experts have combined their various tastes and talents to provide this selection of low-calorie , high-fibre meals . |
| 16 | Avant-garde writers and artists championed this symbol of modernity . |
| 17 | Mr Justice Drake used this power to full in summing up in the Donovan case , warning the jurors that they should not think they had to ‘ fix sums with lots of noughts on the end because it 's fashionable ’ . |
| 18 | Anna 's sister has this message for him . |
| 19 | ( Victoria has this sensation about a variety of apparently innocuous substances : she claims to be poisoned daily by wheat and dairy products ; she can detect the presence of fertilizers in carrots and mercury in shellfish . ) |
| 20 | ‘ The Welsh accent has this connotation of mendacity . |
| 21 | Roman Catholic organizations shared this experience of diminishing resources , Jewish institutions less so , perhaps in response to the mounting ‘ anti-alien ’ fervour of the first decade of the century . |
| 22 | He scooped it out and moved on , never breaking his rhythm , the expression on his face never changing , like a robot pre-programmed to perform this sequence of movements until someone clicked the ‘ Off ’ switch . |
| 23 | Durkheim shared this concern with the failure of modern civilization to produce the happiness promised by the philosophies which had emerged as the feudal period ended . |
| 24 | Luciano Bartocci had been shuffling papers about noisily on his desk in an attempt to disrupt this exchange from which he was excluded . |
| 25 | Of course , ME are n't the only manufacturers producing this sort of lightweight Polarfleece sweater , so this garment is far from unique . |
| 26 | In 1981 , Prime Minister Robert Mugabe made this comment on the goals of education : |
| 27 | If we study the annual function of social capital — hence of the total capital of which the individual capital forms only fractional parts , whose movement is their individual movement and simultaneously integrating link in the movement of the total capital — and its results , i.e. , if we study the commodity-product furnished by society during the year , then it must become apparent how the process of reproduction of the social capital takes place , what characteristics distinguish this process of reproduction from the process of reproduction of an individual capital , and what characteristics are common to both . |
| 28 | Most students went through their school life without being excluded and schools regarded this step as a last resort . |
| 29 | In fact , many blues-rockers favour this mode for their melodies . |
| 30 | Had Puddephat provoked this storm by propositioning the boy ? |