Example sentences of "in this [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the fifth century A.D. Theodoretus felt the difficulty when , in his admirable analysis , he saw in this Psalm a prophecy of the burning of the Temple by Titus ( P.G .
2 In this case a boot with a generous 490 litres of storage space .
3 However , in this case a decision must be made and is often given on the flimsiest of grounds ( though that is not the fault of the refereeing panel ) .
4 DENNING L.J. : In this case a wife claims sums due to her under a maintenance agreement .
5 The creation of a new culture , in this case a kind of Islamic secularism , is easiest for those slightly alienated from the customs of the society .
6 In this case a reduction of £30 is made to the total fees .
7 In this case a driver may well have exercised due care and attention but the offence of driving without reasonable consideration may still be committed .
8 Each Friday that shy stub is ritualistically lit by the Ekeko 's guardian — in this case a writer , intellectual and left-wing politician .
9 The scheme relies on private money — in this case a donation of a thousand pounds from BT .
10 The brain 's problem is to convert this ambiguous information about the movement of edges through the visual field into an unambiguous representation of the movement of an object , in this case a diamond moving from left to right .
11 In this case a rigidity of priorities has served the buyer poorly .
12 An arithmetical calculation is performed on a particular item ( in this case a word ) , thereby computing a function ( known as the hashing function ) which gives the location of the item ( and any associated data ) in a table — the hash table .
13 In this case a twelve-month sentence for unlawful wounding terminated the contract of employment on the first day of imprisonment .
14 There was the usual non-stop tirade as he praised America , himself and his latest promotion , in this case a fight card at the Mirage — not in the 17,000-seat outdoor stadium where Tyson ruled but in the 4,000-seat ballroom , with tickets selling for $25 instead of $1,000 .
15 The solar wind is another example of a plasma ( section 2.2.2 ) in this case a plasma in motion .
16 The attacker assumes a fighting stance , in this case a back stance , leading with the left leg and maintaining a left hand forearm guard .
17 In this case a child 's shortest distance to school along public thoroughfares was just less than 3 miles .
18 Penny Wright ( to whom I am indebted for this story ) was attending a healing ceremony which involved the temporary burial alive of the patient in this case a child .
19 Taking all candidate letters from the data will give many more strings , in this case a total of 1,204 .
20 It was not in this case a call to work in a particular area of the community , but rather it was a call to intimacy .
21 In this case a tick is required in the Target box .
22 In this case a tick is required in the Source box .
23 The F+ feeder contained accessible food ( in this case a breakfast cereal ) on top of a 4.2-cm-high dowelling insert ; the same quantity of reward was inaccessible at the bottom of the F- feeder .
24 The second question concerns the care referred to in section 31(2) ( b ) ( i ) , namely , whether the care can refer to care by a third party , in this case a grandmother , who is offering to take over the care of the child .
25 In this case a gold frame was chosen to match another picture in the bedroom , but it would also have looked attractive in a pastel pink frame or one made from pine or a darker wood , depending on the room for which it was intended .
26 Here the intestate heir is again the nearest agnate , who is in this case a brother .
27 The solution suggested above allows the very low synonym levels of a multi-record bucket — in this case a track — to be combined with the CKD format of individually stored records , which makes it possible to search the whole track and retrieve only the desired record .
28 We shall shortly see how the tax system , in this case a tax on cigarettes , may be used to offset externalities that individuals fail to take into account .
29 As yet there has been no other attempt to describe so vividly in dance the wish of any character , but in this case a puppet , to escape from prison .
30 Satirical description of a type found at all social gatherings ( in this case a group of habitués of a public-house parlour ) who holds forth in an oracular manner on public affairs .
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