Example sentences of "[prep] this context the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , the Medical Officer wrote : ‘ A preferred standard of 50 mg/litre is the result of a long established consensus amongst scientists in the United Kingdom and internationally , ’ although ‘ transient excursions ’ above that level would have no importance ‘ in relation to the postulated role of nitrate in causation of cancer , since in this context the long-term average content is the significant figure .
2 In this context the first reactions of Europeans to the reality of the native inhabitants of the Americas is of particular interest , for here , in a very explicit sense , experience and fantasy were brought face to face .
3 In this context the financial muscle associated with a more diversified grouping , where risks are spread more evenly , can serve to help weather the storm .
4 In this context the portentous dream is used as another example of the superstition of antiquity , rather than a statement of current belief .
5 In this context the rhetorical commitment to the free market begins to look contradictory not only in terms of the feather-bedding of urban redevelopment but also in the imposition of a particular new economic order , a specific choice about the form of economic change that will occur .
6 In this context the rhetorical power of spectacular redevelopment should not be underestimated .
7 In this context the legal points in Tudor Grange Holdings Limited v Citibank NA ( 1991 ) 3 WLR 750 were as diverse as the ingredients of a hospital dispensary , in that they were a mixture of insolvency , company law , and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 .
8 In this context the Liberal reforms were acceptable as a first step towards greater , Labour-controlled , changes in the future .
9 The Ndembu go further , saying that in this context the red gum also represents masculinity , and the life of the adult male who , as hunter and warrior , will inevitably shed blood .
10 In this context the discursive ( 1 ) gives priority to words over images ; ( 2 ) valuates the formal qualities of cultural objects ; ( 3 ) promulgates a rationalist view of culture ; ( 4 ) attributes crucial importance to the meanings of cultural texts ; ( 5 ) is a sensibility of the ego rather than of the id ; ( 6 ) operates through a distancing of the spectator from the cultural object .
11 In this context the 1912 Minority Report on Divorce may have been right in its opinion that ‘ a blow in one class of life might not be the unforgiveable injury it would be in another ’ .
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