Example sentences of "this [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have worries of this kind a visit to the local office of the Department of health and Social Security , plus an interview with a social worker at the local authority social services department , is a very wise move . |
| 2 | SUNKEN TREASURE Rickenbacker 650A Atlantis While it would be unfair to call this guitar a compromise on the part of Rickenbacker , the 650 is nevertheless a departure . |
| 3 | I like this guitar a lot . |
| 4 | Sir Robert Mark goes on to tell us that after the prisoner 's appearance in court where , with his leg encased in plaster he was fined ‘ the customary ten shillings ’ , the violent navvy behaved like a perfect gent : Sir Robert Mark thus tries to squeeze out of this story a moral which points to the deteriorated relationship between the police and public . |
| 5 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 6 | There was the usual non-stop tirade as he praised America , himself and his latest promotion , in this case a fight card at the Mirage — not in the 17,000-seat outdoor stadium where Tyson ruled but in the 4,000-seat ballroom , with tickets selling for $25 instead of $1,000 . |
| 7 | In this case a driver may well have exercised due care and attention but the offence of driving without reasonable consideration may still be committed . |
| 8 | The scheme relies on private money — in this case a donation of a thousand pounds from BT . |
| 9 | In this case a reduction of £30 is made to the total fees . |
| 10 | It was not in this case a call to work in a particular area of the community , but rather it was a call to intimacy . |
| 11 | In this case a twelve-month sentence for unlawful wounding terminated the contract of employment on the first day of imprisonment . |
| 12 | Each Friday that shy stub is ritualistically lit by the Ekeko 's guardian — in this case a writer , intellectual and left-wing politician . |
| 13 | In this case a rigidity of priorities has served the buyer poorly . |
| 14 | The attacker assumes a fighting stance , in this case a back stance , leading with the left leg and maintaining a left hand forearm guard . |
| 15 | An arithmetical calculation is performed on a particular item ( in this case a word ) , thereby computing a function ( known as the hashing function ) which gives the location of the item ( and any associated data ) in a table — the hash table . |
| 16 | The solar wind is another example of a plasma ( section 2.2.2 ) in this case a plasma in motion . |
| 17 | The second question concerns the care referred to in section 31(2) ( b ) ( i ) , namely , whether the care can refer to care by a third party , in this case a grandmother , who is offering to take over the care of the child . |
| 18 | In this case a child 's shortest distance to school along public thoroughfares was just less than 3 miles . |
| 19 | Penny Wright ( to whom I am indebted for this story ) was attending a healing ceremony which involved the temporary burial alive of the patient in this case a child . |
| 20 | In this case a boot with a generous 490 litres of storage space . |
| 21 | The creation of a new culture , in this case a kind of Islamic secularism , is easiest for those slightly alienated from the customs of the society . |
| 22 | In this case a gold frame was chosen to match another picture in the bedroom , but it would also have looked attractive in a pastel pink frame or one made from pine or a darker wood , depending on the room for which it was intended . |
| 23 | Taking all candidate letters from the data will give many more strings , in this case a total of 1,204 . |
| 24 | DENNING L.J. : In this case a wife claims sums due to her under a maintenance agreement . |
| 25 | In this case a tick is required in the Target box . |
| 26 | In this case a tick is required in the Source box . |
| 27 | The brain 's problem is to convert this ambiguous information about the movement of edges through the visual field into an unambiguous representation of the movement of an object , in this case a diamond moving from left to right . |
| 28 | However , in this case a decision must be made and is often given on the flimsiest of grounds ( though that is not the fault of the refereeing panel ) . |
| 29 | The F+ feeder contained accessible food ( in this case a breakfast cereal ) on top of a 4.2-cm-high dowelling insert ; the same quantity of reward was inaccessible at the bottom of the F- feeder . |
| 30 | The colour purple , in this case a hat , is a familiar symbol in the advertising world , but according to Parents Against Tobacco it 's in breach of the tobacco advertising code . |