Example sentences of "and this [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tendency to dichotomize policemen against the social reformer even led the ex-police liberal John Alderson uncharacteristically to describe the historian E. P. Thompson as being ‘ an unfair critic of the police ’ ( Public Office , Granada TV , 20 June 1980 ) ; and this at a time when Thompson ( 1980 ) had just pointed out that most policemen are ‘ ordinary blokes , and no society could do without them in dealing with many of its sordid realities ’ . |
| 2 | Probably not since the French Revolution had a foreign event so bitterly divided the British people , and this at a time when national unity was essential for our survival . |
| 3 | And this at a time when resistance is likely to be lowered . |
| 4 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
| 5 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 6 | ( And this at a time when the Unionists could install their own government whenever they wished , through their control of both Houses . ) |
| 7 | This brings some benefits through musical cross-fertilisation between the cathedral and the wider community , but the cathedral does not always get the full benefit of one who is employed to do what is commonly regarded as a full-time job , and this at a time when the Church needs from its organists not only the highest musical expertise but also liturgical knowledge and a readiness to take some part in the running of the cathedral . |
| 8 | The President of the Law Society calculated in 1980 that , with some 44,000 solicitors in practice , the number of young people actively trying to qualify was 15,000 , and this at a time when work was stagnating . |
| 9 | Secondly , it has a very chastening effect on the inspector who knows that everything he says in his report is liable to be critically examined by a review board and , if necessary , corrected for all to see — and this at the whim of those whose actions he is criticising . |
| 10 | ‘ This jacked into the recorder , ’ he said , ‘ and this on the earpiece of the phone . ’ |
| 11 | And this on an island where there appeared to be next to no gold and a few sparse cotton plants . |
| 12 | If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold . |
| 13 | An old symptom of restless legs in bed had returned and this with the ailments from indignation over her husband 's desertion led to Staphisagria LM1 . |
| 14 | They tend to conclude their account with the formation of the National Government , giving ensuing events — in particular , the decision of the National Government to go to the country as a National Government — fairly perfunctory treatment ; and this despite the fact that , as Ball rightly claims , ‘ The radical restructuring of British politics after 1931 lies not in the events of 13–28 August , but in the changing attitudes within the National Government during September and October 1931 . ' |
| 15 | But remarkable though they were , his English forefathers seem to have meant little to Richard himself — and this despite the fact that the old Germanic god of war was among their number . |
| 16 | Reading of the treatment by Durham County Council of the old people 's homes that are being closed , I say it is an absolute disgrace and this by the people who keep on about caring councils . |
| 17 | And this from a man whose more serious moments have spawned a folk opera about the island of Lewis and tuneful contributions to charity cassettes . |
| 18 | He hated changing in front of others — and this from a man who played rugby with fourteen other men week in week out for years and must have huddled with them in the cramped and corrugated spaces of dressing rooms up and down the country . |
| 19 | And this from a Hull trio of two teenagers and a drummer in his mid-20s . |
| 20 | Too late I thought of adding , ‘ On oath , my lord ? ’ , for I have never seen a more striking example of the perils of what the law calls ‘ fleeting identification ’ , and this from a witness to whom I was not a total stranger and who himself , both as counsel and judge , had had long experience in assessing the worth of ID witnesses in court . |
| 21 | And this from a club which stands to gain most from the package Liverpool are sure to figure highly among the clubs who go live on TV . |
| 22 | Their policies are causing this an sorry , their policies are causing , and this from the Party which are supposed to believe in the sanctity of family life . |
| 23 | Thus if we are walking in the pastoral , remote country on the borders of Leicestershire and Rutland , following the Eye brook as it makes its way south through undulating fields to the Welland , we pass in a walk of nine or ten miles through a landscape modelled in five different centuries , and this in a part of England that is generally accounted somewhat dull , the monotonous product of parliamentary enclosure . |
| 24 | And this in a discipline where the norm is usually mid-to-date twenties . |
| 25 | Many academic research projects take years to complete ; a scheme designed to support them must thus be future-proof — and this in a world where technology continues to mutate at an alarming rate . |
| 26 | And this in a house which , under Vittorio Gui in the 1950s , played a pioneering part in the Rossini revival . |
| 27 | It is also the most widely used general classification scheme on the Continent of Europe , and this in an environment where libraries have not generally seen the virtue of published classification schemes , preferring to use their own private schemes . |
| 28 | Some who had driven over the Berwyns insisted that they had had to put their headlights on , and this in the middle of a July day . |