Example sentences of "this [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have confirmed this finding over a mean of 69 months follow up , with left ventricular ejection fraction ranging from 42 to 83% . |
| 2 | Dore ( 1973 ) used this framework in a comparison of the contrasting employment systems in British and Japanese industry ; and Kobrin ( 1976 ) empirically tested the convergence thesis itself using cross-national research for more than 90 countries and found some support for it . |
| 3 | This change in a plant can be enhanced by a climber twining through it . |
| 4 | This sketch of a student 's intellectual development has followed the student through the stages of assimilating encountered knowledge ; deep understanding ; recognition of its provisionality and contested character ; exercising critical judgement ; being sensitive to other knowledge forms , and relativizing one 's own experience ; and taking a personal stand . |
| 5 | One of the slave-builders must have been incarcerated behind this hatch as a sacrifice to good fortune — with the chance of squirming his way up that curving conduit to some high exit point , a well-nigh impossible task when fettered . |
| 6 | To recoup her strength and escape all this … this horror for a while . |
| 7 | MONTSERRAT , the tiny Caribbean island that once boasted one bank for every 40 inhabitants , is bracing itself this Easter for a spate of arrests following a three-year fraud and corruption investigation by Scotland Yard . |
| 8 | However , the rationale for using this paradigm as a way of investigating perceptual units was established by Ladefoged and Broadbent ( 1960 ) who showed that the position of clicks is not reported accurately , because they are heard as displaced from their original position to the boundaries of perceptual units . |
| 9 | Hodgson had already used this trick for a radio play , Sword from the Stars , to give a robot named Jones a haughty but very mechanical voice . |
| 10 | Despite this storm in a teacup about one piddling registrar job . |
| 11 | It was along this thread of a path that Mary made up her mind to go . |
| 12 | With this thumbs-down from a part of the financial world whose support was expected , Thornton was losing his ‘ window of opportunity ’ argument . |
| 13 | Sir it is my wont to open er a case of this kind with a quotation . |
| 14 | ‘ Yet surely just even planning this kind of a development entails a risk , an unacceptably high one , according to the residents . |
| 15 | Could area schemes be developed on this kind of a basis ? |
| 16 | He had an express power to delegate this function to a committee which , in turn , attempted to further sub-delegate its functions to an executive officer who issued a directive to a farmer that only sugar should be grown in a particular field . |
| 17 | If you are using Lotus 1-2-3 and enter this function in a cell however you will not find the result very informative . |
| 18 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 19 | But I like this guitar for a number of reasons . |
| 20 | Some councils have tried to tackle this difficulty through a policy of permitting only those new developments that will serve local needs . |
| 21 | This story of a player 's the striker 's move to the top of nation 's goalscoring charts does n't fit the normal footballing script . |
| 22 | ( Abrams was a young , bright , sharp lawyer , always well-tailored , and with an air of fierce aceticism ; he will reappear often in this story as a man trying to keep at the edge of it , and usually succeeding . |
| 23 | Here , we concentrate on a partial equilibrium story and explore how economic agents tackle a rather difficult dynamic decision problem ; in later work we shall embed this story in a market context , but this first step will enable us to isolate certain elements in the market story . |
| 24 | Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ I have written to Mr Lang urging him to take up this opportunity as a matter of urgency . |
| 25 | I 'd better explain that a commune is a sizable place , in this case with a population of 26,000 , including a small town and many villages . |
| 26 | Internally , they mirror the structure of an expert 's thought , in this case of a doctor 's thoughts , which tends to be much more . |
| 27 | It would be wrong to treat this case as a decision on the application of section 6. which was clearly not in the court 's contemplation , but it may be permissible to comment that if an offence of this kind is to be held to be sufficiently serious to justify a substantial community service order , the scheme of the Act , with its albeit clumsy attempt to raise the public perception of the severity of community sentences , seems destined to failure . |
| 28 | The aim of the gist-listening session was to try and break down this hostility by showing the group that they could understand two native speakers talking ‘ naturally ’ , in this case about a shopping expedition . |
| 29 | Well , obviously none of us would want to separate sex from erotica , and so er , and I think we , what we 'd like , what we wanted the leaflet to do was put , put sort of sex for , for young people er and students in particular in this case into a framework that allowed loving and resp , response of attitudes and , and eroticism , yes , and so I think what the leaflet does is , is let people take care of themselves sexually and let them take responsibility for their sexual acts . |
| 30 | It will be seen that I have to arrive at figures in respect of damages in this case under a number of heads . |