Example sentences of "[prep] this [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With signals of about this level a signal to noise ratio of 70dB to 80dB should be obtained . |
| 2 | About this time a change in the Department of Trade regulations regarding the qualifications of ships ' officers was being introduced . |
| 3 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 4 | About this time a shaft had been started from the end of a 42 yds. long tunnel , Bouncy Level , driven into the vein from a point much higher up the boulder strewn fell-side quite close to the Crag . |
| 5 | I have thought about this matter a lot since that evening . |
| 6 | And they said something about this woman a neighbour said oh where the hell 's Jimmy or something today ? |
| 7 | Bruner argues that social routines such as this form a framework within which young children learn a variety of social skills which are important developmental precursors to spoken language . |
| 8 | The French monarchy , like the French administrative system , occupied during this period a position intermediate between the extremes to be found in Russia and Prussia on the one hand and in Great Britain on the other . |
| 9 | During this period a group of Country Whigs , led by Robert Harley and Paul Foley , separated from their former allies who were in office , and united with Country and out-of-office Tories to promote place bills , triennial bills , and measures against corruption . |
| 10 | However , during this period a rate of growth was achieved that was good by the standards of the mid-1970s , full employment was maintained , and inflation , while ever present , was never so high as to cause alarm . |
| 11 | During this period a student normally attends courses in research methods and is required at the end of the period to submit a thesis embodying the results of his or her work . |
| 12 | During this period a number of alarming forecasts were made . |
| 13 | During this time a person may be quite well . |
| 14 | Rick Fehr , who , like Kite , lost out in a play-off for this title a year ago , closed with a 67 to match the old tournament record of 331 . |
| 15 | For this purpose a test may be used to discriminate those pupils who have attained a higher level from those at a lower level . |
| 16 | For this purpose a hedge and dyke were built and kept in repair to make a large enclosure into which deer were driven by men with hounds and horns . |
| 17 | By s.21(1) of the 1968 Theft Act : [ a ] person is guilty of blackmail if , with a view to gain for himself or another or with intent to cause loss to another , he makes any unwarranted demand with menaces ; and for this purpose a demand with menaces is unwarranted unless the person making it does so in the belief — ( a ) that he had reasonable grounds for making the demand ; and ( b ) that the use of the menaces is a proper means of reinforcing the demand . |
| 18 | For this purpose a group includes both holding companies and subsidiaries . |
| 19 | Gonorrhoea can not be excluded in the female unless the rectum has been examined , and for this purpose a proctoscope , somewhat smaller than the vaginal speculum , is passed into the rectum so that samples can be taken for microscopy and culture . |
| 20 | For this procedure a diagram was used which shows the relation between vitrinite reflectance and relative depth ( Fig. 2 ) and which is based on measurements of vitrinite reflectance in 45 deep boreholes of western Germany . |
| 21 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 22 | For this test a parametrization of the metric is chosen which is general enough to include deviations from Newtonian mechanics which are wider than general relativistic effects ( this post-Newtonian parametrization has also been applied to analysing individual effects ) . |
| 23 | I was glad to be given for this talk a problem question — animals and the environment . |
| 24 | For this dog a trip to the vets could be a lifesaver . |
| 25 | In Genesis 2:24 he says , ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife , and they will become one flesh . ’ |
| 26 | The mystery is a quotation from the creation narrative , ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife , and the two will become one flesh ’ ( Eph. 5:31 quoting Gen. 2:24 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Have n't you read , ’ Jesus replied , ‘ that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female , and said , ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife , and the two will become one flesh ’ ? |
| 28 | For this reason a change of name is proposed from external auditors to external assessors . |
| 29 | But road conditions for travelling teams must also be taken into account , and for this reason a decision on whether the match will go ahead will be taken on Thursday February 14 ) at 12 noon . |
| 30 | For this reason a non-occupier can not maintain a claim in nuisance and an occupier 's right to damages for his personal injuries is ancillary to his claim for compensation for damage to his property . |