Example sentences of "this [noun] [prep] a " 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 | Retributive punishment restores the balance by cancelling out this advantage with a commensurate disadvantage . |
| 4 | This change in a plant can be enhanced by a climber twining through it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At face value , this sketch of a German soldier would probably make about £20 , but because it 's signed by Adolf Hitler it may reach well over £1,000 when it 's auctioned in Gloucester next week . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A newly emerging Women 's Studies movement in major universities saw this discrimination as a particularly negative effect of reform . |
| 9 | To recoup her strength and escape all this … this horror for a while . |
| 10 | These figures do not allow any sum for interest and therefore it may be that calculations will have to be made by council to include that figure or alternatively I am informed that both parties wish to consider the possibility of the incorporation of this judgement into a structured settlement . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Despite this storm in a teacup about one piddling registrar job . |
| 15 | It was along this thread of a path that Mary made up her mind to go . |
| 16 | This purchase of a ‘ shell ’ company was the first time that the manoeuvre had been executed and the first time that a bookmaking company had been floated on the Stock Exchange . |
| 17 | This link with a particular host is closely associated with chick mimicry . |
| 18 | With this thumbs-down from a part of the financial world whose support was expected , Thornton was losing his ‘ window of opportunity ’ argument . |
| 19 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 20 | Staff in colleges , schools , and other training centres clearly welcome advance information about the new vocational qualifications being developed by SCOTVEC , and we shall be producing further information of this kind on a regular basis . |
| 21 | Sir it is my wont to open er a case of this kind with a quotation . |
| 22 | Students of social policy will come across a number of important examples of bodies of this kind with a nationwide remit . |
| 23 | Could area schemes be developed on this kind of a basis ? |
| 24 | ‘ Yet surely just even planning this kind of a development entails a risk , an unacceptably high one , according to the residents . |
| 25 | He formalises structures of this kind into a prolongational hierarchy . |
| 26 | The this problem with the detector , it 's another level of subcontracting down and er if you you 're buying a piece of equipment of this kind from a a consortium er essentially you ca n't dictate to him precisely who he 's going to use to supply the components for that system and er it is the problem came to the notice of officials when the consortium came forward and and said look , we we 've got these terms in our contract er concerning detection range and so on and er we may not be able to meet those , er so we questioned the reasons and then of course they revealed that they were having problems with the supplier . |
| 27 | In 1922 she was promoted professor in Swahili and the Bantu languages , the first such chair in the British Isles ; she then established the School 's diploma in Swahili studies ( 1924 ) , the first qualification of this kind in a British university . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The image of modernism as artefact is in this sense a totalizing image using the project of art as its means of accomplishing such totality ( compare Gell 1986 for the ability of the commodity to perform this function in a non-industrial context ) . |
| 30 | If you are using Lotus 1-2-3 and enter this function in a cell however you will not find the result very informative . |