Example sentences of "a [noun] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the middle of a recession this is even more acute . |
| 2 | So It 's a pleasure an a compliment for RAF Kemble to play host to a squadron this week and next . |
| 3 | I had a case this week of a person who was reduced from a Category A , the most serious form of offender in prison , to a Category C. |
| 4 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 5 | ‘ Fred and Harry are doin' a bit this afternoon . |
| 6 | ‘ I lost control a bit this evening . |
| 7 | And erm you work out whether your preference is very strongly this way or a bit this way or a bit that way . |
| 8 | One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose . |
| 9 | ‘ I think you over-reacted a bit this morning , old Pat , ’ Richie said , when Patrick fell into step beside him . |
| 10 | Sorry we 're being a bit this is too too surreal for the B B C you 're going to get on the line . |
| 11 | This way , up a bit , across a bit this way , down , that 's it . |
| 12 | I , I actually taped it and I was , I was watching a bit this morning before Jean came . |
| 13 | Well move up a bit this way Fred if you do n't mind . |
| 14 | Follow it around a bit this side you will see like a loads of cars . |
| 15 | But it will still have to vote in favour of the Maastricht Treaty in a referendum this spring before the treaty is allowed come into effect . |
| 16 | Yes , you 've certainly scored a winner this month , folks , I hope you 're over the moon about it ! |
| 17 | Fulke Walwyn , who kept on winning it , has by far the best record but he does not have a runner this year . |
| 18 | He was n't a crook this man ? |
| 19 | Mr Murray hopes to make a decision this month . |
| 20 | Their policy is to try to avoid making a decision this side of the general election . |
| 21 | Liverpool , meanwhile , will make a decision this week-end on their £500,000 move for Norway defender Stig Inge Bjornebye . |
| 22 | In a decision this afternoon , Oxford City Council 's Parks Officer , Bob Stag , has been saying how industrial waste , and even Council rubbish , has made the site too dangerous for the fire . |
| 23 | However , if you go to work as a secretary in a consultancy this can often lead to assisting an executive . |
| 24 | Then a sonogram this morning revealed that she has a degree of placenta praevia — the past heavy smoking is a factor there again , I 'm afraid . |
| 25 | We had a struggle this morning coming out , my windows were all mucky outsi go it got , a car , van had passed me . |
| 26 | The government should declare a willingness this evening to put some energy or resources into maximising electoral turn out among E C voters . |
| 27 | She had seen her sister ancient and dead on a stretcher this morning , probably because of Clive or someone like him . |
| 28 | As a course this demands a very full timetable , but it offers strongly-motivated students an opportunity to develop in parallel the intellectual and practical sides of their study of art . |
| 29 | Considered as a sentence this poses no problem for understanding . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I 'm not in a scrape this time , so stop fussing . ’ |