Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] this [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since France did not receive any substantial support for this scheme it did not try to propose it on behalf of the EEC . |
| 2 | Recognising there appeared to be substantial support for this move he approached Robert Naish privately with a view to easing the inevitable changeover . |
| 3 | In this case he has and they 've an and conveniently of course for this example it 's all been put into , into a statement . |
| 4 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 5 | In my early research for this book it was evident that where applicants paid a fee to attend a course , the attendance and completion figures were significantly higher than where courses had been provided free of charge . |
| 6 | I regret that during my research for this debate I found that , in the field of computers , one of the least well-equipped police forces is that in my own area , Greater Manchester . |
| 7 | Yeah if he gets an interview for this job he 's taking day off to do it . |
| 8 | All they had led to was the squalor and isolation of this room they kept her in , and the one beyond , and the yard outside they sometimes let her walk in , and the empty hillside , and the whitewashed wall of the barn against which she had stood to be photographed , clutching the International Herald Tribune for 4 September . |
| 9 | ‘ Just because I happen to be President of this company I do n't play the Great White Chief , ’ he was fond of saying . |
| 10 | To give the engineers a better appreciation of this aspect I encouraged them to learn to fly up to private pilot standard and I am happy to say this was approached by many of them with considerable enthusiasm . |
| 11 | The loss of this figure he valued at £5,000 , allowing for contingencies . |
| 12 | As a result of this work it could be declared that ‘ All the drugs now used against malaria were found by using experimental laboratory infections : the design of the tests employed to find them , or to uncover their particular attributes and imperfections , was based on knowledge of the life cycle ’ . |
| 13 | As a result of this change I was ‘ promoted ’ chairman and virtually cut off from any effective direction of the company . |
| 14 | As a result of this programme I wish to ask two questions ; |
| 15 | As a result of this openness it is known that the Secretary of State chose to modify the Mathematics Working Party 's recommendations , particularly in the area of ‘ applied mathematics ’ , that consultation revealed that most of those consulted preferred the stance that the working party had adopted , that the Curriculum Council nevertheless made recommendations which accorded with the Secretary of State 's view and that their recommendations were , not surprisingly , accepted . |
| 16 | In the first chapter of this book we explained that language is an arbitrary communication system . |
| 17 | In a chapter of this length it is not possible to produce a comprehensive guide to the practice of international selling and exporting and indeed this is not the objective . |
| 18 | If you collected as little as I gram of this toxin it would be enough to kill a hundred thousand average-sized men . |
| 19 | The major term in his hierarchy is " Langue " or Chomskyan Deep Structure and the minor term that violently subverts the rule of this oppressor he names the " Remainder " . |
| 20 | Would the contribution made by this land on either side of this boundary you now propose , be altered were there in fact no marked physical boundary between them ? |
| 21 | On the other side of this coin we find Chip Beck and Lanny Wadkins . |
| 22 | He had reached the age when friends and companions were beginning to die around him , and in the spring of this year he composed memorial addresses for two of them : William Collin Brooks , who ten years before had encouraged Valerie Fletcher to apply for the post of Eliot 's secretary , and Father Eric Cheetham , who had " taken in " Eliot after the separation from Vivien . |
| 23 | In the light of this decision it is easy to understand why hire purchase has become popular with traders and finance companies as a means of supplying goods on credit . |
| 24 | In the light of this discussion I offer some indications as to how a strategy of reading might be applied to the study of racist discourses , and invite readers to try out this approach on the two study texts , not in order to produce ‘ the right answer ’ but to compare what is gained and what lost in detail and depth of understanding by applying this kind of model compared to the others . |
| 25 | In the light of this evidence it would be necessary to observe what pupils do in order to decide whether or not they have achieved this criterion . |
| 26 | In the light of this passage we can interpret one of Wordsworth 's gnomic sayings — ‘ The Child is Father of the Man ’ — and can understand what the attractive childhood episodes are doing in Books i and ii ; they are now seen to be similar ‘ spots of time … enshrined … for future restoration ’ . |
| 27 | In light of this appeal it was ironic that a superpower crisis developed from subsequent Soviet efforts to establish a missile base in Cuba . |
| 28 | In the light of this comment I 'd like you to hear Dr Goode 's observations on the Natural Death Act in the context of Dr Carrington 's case . |
| 29 | In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik . |
| 30 | I trust that in the light of this letter you will now be able to lend your support to the proposals being put to the Finance Committee on 9 December 1992 . |