Example sentences of "[prep] this [noun] are [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The strongest youth cultures of the century were in the 1950s and 1960s , and now that the members of this generation are over the border into middle age , they are showing an egotistical , but maybe quite a healthy reluctance to let go of the limelight . |
2 | Engineers of this discipline are in the greatest demand , and receive the highest salaries at an early age , Imagine also that the raw material used by these engineers has been rapidly increasing in abundance and dramatically decreasing in cost over a period of 20 years . |
3 | The origins of this movement are in the teaching machines first developed systematically about 1960 . |
4 | Many of the matters which are discussed within this framework are of the greatest importance for social anthropology . |
5 | At the outset I should point out that the accounts which are before this meeting are for the year ending 5th April 1992 . |
6 | James 's sentences in this passage are on the average much shorter than those of Conrad ( 35 words per sentence ) . |
7 | An emerging key group of provides in this field are from the private sector . |
8 | Culture always has an ideological function for consumerism in the capitalist global system , so all cultural transnational practices in this sphere are at the same time ideological practices , thus cultural-ideological . |
9 | As you would expect , most of the routes in this area are in the 7a-plus league , including a quartet of 8a+ 's taking the hanging stalactites : Quart de Siécle , Maelstrom , Eau de Colonne and Pipe Line . |
10 | Forty per cent of the works in this show are from the Zimmerli Collection with the rest borrowed from the Bibliothèque nationale Paris . |
11 | All the tone controls on this preamp are of the active variety , which offer a more discernible tonal colouring than their passive cousins . |
12 | The dining cars on this train are of the newest West Coast pattern , first and third composite on six-wheel bogies . |