Example sentences of "[noun sg] this [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , Twoflower was delightedly taking picture after picture of people engaged in what he described as typical activities , and since a quarter-rhinu would subsequently change hands ‘ for their trouble ’ a tail of bemused and happy nouveaux-riches was soon following him in case this madman exploded in a shower of gold . |
| 2 | In addition this policy resulted in the GLC losing some £50m of rate support grant from the government . |
| 3 | On one level this work deals with a generalised ‘ woman 's experience ’ , yet the metaphorical power of Dorothy Hale 's dress derives from Kahlo 's use of clothing in her own self-portraits . |
| 4 | At the theoretical level this research builds on our previous work by examining the relationship between political and administrative pressures for change ; the former channelled through the political parties and their governments and the latter through the various branches of the state bureaucracy . |
| 5 | Jill wanted to get Bill a birthday present , so she went and found her piggy-bank ; she shook it , but there was no noise ; she would have to make Bill a present This example comes from work in artificial intelligence ( Charniak , 1972 ) which is concerned with the attempt to translate the significance of ordinary utterances into an explicit representation that might be used by a computer to produce " intelligent " responses . |
| 6 | And in this connection , the award this year goes to Catherine who already has got a fairly formidable pedigree in the movement , shop steward , member of a branch committee , trades council , young members ' advisory committee , the National Committee but I think best thing so far , she 's actually chaired the T U C young members ' conference and that 's an achievement for this union as well . |
| 7 | All the more dispirited as they entered Blue Horizons , they discovered that somehow Joe 's dabs , bought with enthusiasm this morning to prepare for luncheon , failed to seem so attractive . |
| 8 | Of course this calculation has to be taken with a pinch of salt . |
| 9 | For the most part this description advances by paraphrase and quotation , so that de Man 's own voice is relatively silent and unintruding . |
| 10 | How Sun gets its resellers to toe this line remains to be seen . |
| 11 | By a remarkable coincidence this book arrived on my desk for review a matter of weeks after I had first seen it and browsed through it in a bookshop in Kathmandu . |
| 12 | In view of the recent decisions by the Ombudsman this policy has to be changed . |
| 13 | I offer the hon. Gentleman an opportunity this afternoon to engage in more constructive debate . |
| 14 | In contrast , improvement of gastrointestinal symptoms after specific treatment with ganciclovir is well documented in cytomegalovirus infection which is in accordance with the significant association this agent has with the gastrointestinal symptoms reported here . |
| 15 | A RECENTLY opened saleroom is having to introduce an extra auction this week to cope with demand . |
| 16 | That is a curious message from the Labour party , although it is true that Opposition this year voted against the Coal Industry Bill , which provides for the continuation of those generous payments to redundant miners . |
| 17 | The HC line complements the Organiser at the high end of the market , and generated £2.6m turnover this year compared with £900,000 in 1991 . |
| 18 | POLARITY THERAPY This system looks at imbalances in your energy systems and tries to release blockages by therapeutic touch , diet , exercise and counselling . |
| 19 | Of greater consequence however was the effect this incident had on the attitudes of West Indians in regards to their colonial masters . |
| 20 | Garfinkel 's interest is not in whether they are right or wrong in perceiving it in this way , but rather in how they come to perceive it in this way , and what effect this perception has on their actions . |
| 21 | ‘ Because that 's the effect this place has on people — at least on some people . ’ |
| 22 | In diffuse daylight this figure climbs to 12 per cent . |
| 23 | As a rule this application tends to be under-exploited . |
| 24 | Your only course of action this April seems to be to avoid any further confrontations and concentrate on professional interests or projects specially designed to exploit your creative abilities , as very shortly after the full Moon in Libra on the 10th there should be a beneficial alteration in your work . |
| 25 | our rugby action this week comes from the divisional championships … the South West are on course to win these because on Saturday at Gloucester they made it two wins out of two … this time out they beat the North by 29 points to 16 |
| 26 | In essence this technique relies on the fact that in a dilute suspension , particles settle through a column of water at velocities which are dependent upon their size . |
| 27 | Again Jacob thought he must bring himself to do something about the increasing hold this man had on Katherine 's life . |
| 28 | With this in mind , in the following chapter , I begin my account of modern social anthropology by showing what illumination this approach brings to beliefs which at first sight appear to require a great deal of explanation . |
| 29 | The echo around Central South this week sounds like this … |
| 30 | Two workmen were taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary this afternoon suffering from serious injuries after a scaffolding collapse in the City Centre . |