Example sentences of "this [noun] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short if you er ta er taking er Kennedy 's decision over Vietnam , if he decided to do nothing , this would have been very damaging to him politically because of the declared er policy of the global containment of communism and the expectations of his domestic public that the United States would take action to defend the free world wherever the free world was challenged without much questioning about what the free world actually was , I mean the fact that er er South Vietnam was run by a rather squalid dictatorship was neither here nor there erm so erm you have to er evaluate when you 're contemplating er actions of this kind what failure would mean in domestic political terms . |
| 2 | For purposes of this kind his revenue , though comparatively small by continental standards , was adequate . |
| 3 | Nevertheless it is true , in the adult and public world at least , that this function which language has of transmitting information , its referential function , is considered the most important . |
| 4 | In this story its collective , guiding and creative powers were all drawn upon ; it is a myth , true in principle , perhaps in literal fact , of how a group of women changed the course of history . |
| 5 | High farce came to Doctor Who with the writing of this story which author Dennis Spooner admits was heavily influenced by the then current fad for Carry On … films . |
| 6 | As you read this story your ideas about the four characters develop and change . |
| 7 | In this case their attitudes to the learning tasks in which teachers attempt to engage them , particularly work with computers , are the objects of inquiry . |
| 8 | In this case their prediction model mimics the behaviour of the correct model so closely that there is no incentive for them to seek out further information to refine their predictions . |
| 9 | Like the development of the original version of Illustrator from a font creation tool , Aldus 's recently introduced FreeHand product was developed by Altsys from a similar background , in this case their Fontographer product . |
| 10 | Since a woman can have no sui heredes , the intestate heir will be the nearest agnate , who is in this case her sister and coheir . |
| 11 | The resistance was not new , although in this case its impact was dramatic . |
| 12 | In this case his studies lead to the making of a creation but this creation murdered members of Frankenstein 's family and caused the deterioration of Victor 's health . |
| 13 | So straight away you see what 's happened in this case his code becomes two eighty one H whereas previously we 've got quite a high code and yet his total income is er not er comparative to the change in code numbers and this is what has that effect , that all that tax on all this income has to be collected against his works pension , thereby causing a lot of confusion and difficulty for er people becoming retired . |
| 14 | Given so little space , however , perhaps we need not have been reminded , as we are in Stanley Cramp 's foreword , that ‘ Ducks , geese , and swans live in or near water ’ , nor that the legs of the last two ‘ are placed near the middle of the body , so that the bird stands fairly upright ’ , Malcolm Ogilvie can tell most people something they did not know about wildfowl , but in this case his publishers clearly rushed him . |
| 15 | My Lords , in this case your Lordships are all agreed that , as the law at present stands , tax paid under protest in response to an ultra vires demand is not recoverable at common law . |
| 16 | In this case your review might focus on the differences you had observed between the way the best and worst chairperson had undertaken the task . |
| 17 | In this case your details will only be held on the confidential Register . |
| 18 | Since I mention native speakers ' feelings in this connection , and since I am elsewhere rather sceptical about appeals to native speakers ' feelings , I had better explain that in this case my evidence comes from the native speakers of English I have taught in practical classes on transcription over many years . |
| 19 | erm , this is a , a case which er deals with er the issue of the suspension of a measure based upon community law , whether a national court , when a measure has been based upon community law has power to suspend it , now my Lord the er issue in was erm involved er the er decision of er the German government er to give effect to er a community regulation in the sugar sector which er required er that levies should be er obtained from sugar companies , so it was a very direct er implementation of community law erm in that sense different to the matter before your Lordship , but we rely on it by analogy and in , in this case my Lord er you will see it 's in the supplementary bundle of authorities , the extra bundle because , before your Lordship , in that case your Lordship will see er between paragraphs fifteen and thirty three er the er European court indicating that where a measure that has been based upon a community er , er law is challenged before a national court that the national court er should er only er engage in the er , er suspension of such a measure , erm if there is serious doubt er this is erm my Lord er at er paragraph twenty three of the case er and we say that er if you look at the criterions they are not dissimilar from those that have been adopted by the House of Lords as a matter of English law in the case |
| 20 | and erm , in this case my Lord the , we have got both the judgement at the divisional court and at the court of appeal there is . |
| 21 | In this case my comment was not a stab in the back or a shot in the dark ; I knew her well . |
| 22 | In this case our doubt would be only a local problem , a sign of the inferiority of our faith . |
| 23 | That 's why this afternoon their protests were loud when they gathered outside the building |
| 24 | But it can not last for long because at this level our exporters ca n't compete for sales across the Atlantic . |
| 25 | Eliot had already discussed the possibility of introducing more poetry into his drama , after the rigorous starkness of The Cocktail Party , but once more in this play his reliance upon form and formal manipulation has taken precedence . |
| 26 | If we were to express this need openly and directly in social chit-chat we would risk offending others and we could expect a strong reaction in terms of them rejecting , over-powering or accepting us ( in this instance their luck could be in ) . |
| 27 | Recognizing that in this instance her son would use any means to persuade her to change her mind , Elizabeth Woodville none the less gave thought to the suggestion . |
| 28 | When I first came across this text my mind went to the Athanasian Creed which describes the Godhead as uncreated , infinite , eternal and incomprehensible . |
| 29 | It is the anxious and emotionally immature women who suffer most in widowhood , and if your elderly parent falls into this category her reaction to her loss may be very trying for you . |
| 30 | For people in this category my message is short : ‘ Comply with the instructions set out in the forms which bring your case before the tribunal . |