Example sentences of "this [noun sg] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Member States would normally be given eighteen months within which to incorporate the directive objectives into their domestic laws , but it may well be that in this case a shorter period is specified . |
| 2 | Short-term City reaction to Budgets can be notoriously wrong , but this spring a better guide might be how easily the Government can finance next year 's massive £50 billion PSBR . |
| 3 | The formal development of GR will be outlined in Chapters 5 , 6 , and 7 while in the remainder of this chapter a simpler approach will be used to infer one particularly important solution of Einstein 's equation . |
| 4 | At this point a further contradiction in Sartre 's whole enterprise begins to open up : for someone so deeply distrustful of universals it seems curious that he has involved himself so emphatically with the notions of totality , History , and the dialectic . |
| 5 | In real life , Wilf devotes his time to dreaming up new ideas that could help make this planet a better place to be . |
| 6 | Programmes likely to produce such action ought , rather , to be spotted within the BBC in advance and either adjusted suitably or else supported by the Governors in such a way that the politicians would be quietly told , in effect , that if they wished to object they risked on this occasion a larger row than they might want . |
| 7 | Perhaps these really were ‘ men who had high purposes ’ , as North described McFarlane and Poindexter , men who ‘ were trying their level best to make this world a better place . ’ |
| 8 | In families that did not indulge themselves in this way a healthier climate prevailed ; children do not seem to have been unduly obsessed with death . |
| 9 | In this way a greater insight into the ways in which population size and structure change may be gained . |
| 10 | In this way a deeper understanding should result . |
| 11 | and of course if you want to include a small element this year a greater element would be for the new open plan . |