Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is not necessary , however , to see this change as predominantly the result of changes in the organisation of their manufacture .
2 Now there is more to this passage than either the story that it heralds , poignant and memorable though that is , or the condescending tone of the last sentence , for the innocence Davin embodies brings to Stephen as a brute fact from the real world the missing half of a truth which Stephen has known but so far been unable to admit even to himself , and which will go on mattering to Joyce for many years .
3 There was more to this canal than just a final obstacle , however .
4 However , rugby union and racing fans are well catered for on BBC this week as both the Five Nations Championship reaches its exciting climax and the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival gallops out of the stalls .
5 Our main 1979 survey was designed largely to throw light on this relationship between people 's knowledge about credit and how they make actual shopping decisions — the first major study to explore this in this country , and more searching in this respect than even the valuable American studies carried out recently for the National Commission on Consumer Finance and the Federal Reserve Board .
6 The description of the Count as Alfonso 's " friend " suggests that there was more to this incident than simply the curbing of an unruly vassal .
7 She spoke his name again , quietly this time because now the anger was seeping away , to be replaced by misery .
8 However , there is no offence against this regulation if only the tail pipe ( i.e. the piece leading the gases into the atmosphere from the end of the silencer which is the furthest from the engine ) is defective , as the gases will have passed through the silencer .
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