Example sentences of "in this [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Happy Return A BIRTHDAY notice appeared in this newspaper the other day offering greetings to Ken Snowdon , scholar , conversationalist , heart throb , author , humorist , broadcaster , nuclear fission expert . |
| 2 | In this heap the upper stone , though it was fitted carefully back into its bed , showed the sealing growths of moss disturbed and broken . |
| 3 | IN this passage the key words are perhaps ‘ as if ’ . |
| 4 | In this passage the Wordsworthian echoes of subject-matter and vocabulary are remarkable , though I suppose it is worth pointing out that Virginia Woolf was the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen , an ‘ agnostic mountaineer ’ whose interests owed a great deal to the reading of Wordsworth . |
| 5 | In this story the principal character is a grumpy old house with a malevolent sense of humour . |
| 6 | In this imagery the liberal democratic state is run exclusively by elected governing elites and/or the bureaucracy , but both groups are cut off from control by broader social movements , political parties , or socially privileged groups ( see Figure 4.1 ) . |
| 7 | Exiting from the outer gates , Satan saw another man-thing — in this case the tall figure of Nate Springfield — and swerved left to lead his decimated pack away from any further fire-and-thunder attacks , such as they had just painfully experienced . |
| 8 | In this case the highest tender was accepted , without other tenderers being given the opportunity to submit another offer on the basis of similar amendments to the original brief . |
| 9 | In this case the only way to be sure is to go through the procedure of HIV testing . |
| 10 | In this case the only possible solution when retrieval times become too long is to turn to an inverted file or a multilist . |
| 11 | In this case the only difference between the regions would be their initial configurations and so the strong anthropic principle would reduce to the weak one . |
| 12 | In this case the only predetermined variable is and the exogenous variables are g , v t and . |
| 13 | In this case the overall sampling fraction , φ , is applied to each stratum , i.e. Thus The n i values thus calculated will generally have to be rounded and adjusted so that their sum is n . |
| 14 | In this case the immediate position defended ( contra the work of Wyld and Zachrisson ) is that orthoepic evidence is better than other evidence , such as ‘ occasional spellings ’ ( Wyld , 1936 ) , but the underlying assumption ( which is more relevant here ) is that it is possible to write a continuous unilinear history of ‘ standard ’ English pronunciation . |
| 15 | Michèe Barrett refers in her essay to the ‘ turn to culture ’ in recent feminist work , and Griselda Pollock 's long essay in the volume Painting , Feminism , History gives us some idea of why culture ( in this case the visual arts ) has come to be so central . |
| 16 | Property rights , in this case the legal right for you to be compensated for infringement of your garden and light , enter in two distinct ways . |
| 17 | In this case the static position error is 2/3 degree , compared to the 8 degree error when the load is directly-coupled , although the effects of friction and backlash in the gear would tend to reduce this improvement . |
| 18 | The ‘ I ’ , he would have argued , only means something in relation to all the other words that it is usually compared with — in this case the personal pronouns like ‘ you ’ , ‘ she ’ or ‘ it ’ . |
| 19 | In this case the necessary yawing movement is caused by the high drag of the badly stalled wing . |
| 20 | Some hotel rooms can take a fourth bed , and in this case the second child will receive a discount of 25% . |
| 21 | In this case the best method for recovering eggs is to use the flushing method described in Section 2.2 for cleavage stages followed by hyaluronidase treatment if necessary . |
| 22 | The vertical axis is the potential , in this case the best possible solution to the design problem . |
| 23 | Like another release in the same series — Benedict Mason 's Lighthouses of England and Wales , which I 've reviewed at length below — Birtwistle 's work is also , for all its contemporary superstructure and substructures , a species of tone-poem in a genre that British composers tend to be good at : in this case the quasipantheistic dark-pastoral in the tradition of North Country Sketches , In the Faery Hills , Enter Spring and , perhaps especially , the ‘ Ritual dances ’ from Tippett 's Midsummer Marriage . |
| 24 | In this case the essential starter can be placed on the shelf in the back of the hood ( as can the airpump if it 's small enough ) . |
| 25 | One of the things that we shall be seeking to do in the negotiations on the political union treaty is to try to ensure that the Commission — at present under no effective control — increasingly comes under the control of the most appropriate Parliament , in this case the European Parliament . |
| 26 | Estimates for the period 1977 to 1980 were provided by Canadian and Norwegian scientists In this case the Norwegian scientist 's estimate was in the mid-range of the others . |
| 27 | In this case the relevant budget line becomes 165 , as the most that will be forthcoming from the central government is 25 ( in units of X ) . |
| 28 | In this case the innocent purchaser had agreed to buy a car from , as he later discovered , someone who did not own it , on terms that property in the car would pass to him upon payment of the price . |
| 29 | In this case the familiar fraction was given by nearly 90 per cent of pupils who gave a correct answer . |
| 30 | It is most certainly true that Kenyans must decide their own future , but in this case the Kenyan president has taken a decision which does not serve his people well . |