Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) . |
| 2 | The CNAA 's concern for the defence of standards throughout this period was a concern for institutional and course considerations and student access and outcomes . |
| 3 | Insolvency practitioners may have been the butt for the majority of jokes in this year 's Christmas caption competition — they accounted for 20% of the record number of entries — but David Murphy , an Irish Institute industry student based at The Queen 's University of Belfast , has become this year 's triumphant winner without mentioning any of them . |
| 4 | The majority of offenders against this offence say that they forgot to renew their licence , which does not diminish their liability for this absolute offence ( i.e. not requiring any guilty knowledge or mens rea ) . |
| 5 | that the shop stewards would reply to Michael Taylor 's memo to all staff expressing the anger and disappointment of the Union at the manner in which the decision was made , disregarding the strength of feeling of the majority of staff on this issue ; |
| 6 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 7 | It soon received the acclamation of the trade and by the 1920s the majority of undertakers in this country were offering hygienic treatment of the dead to their clients . |
| 8 | As in previous years , the majority of children in this age group are killed or injured when using the road as pedestrians and particularly so when crossing the road at locations where no pedestrian crossing facility exists . |
| 9 | Sometimes called moulding icing , fondant is used in the majority of recipes in this book . |
| 10 | A calculated campaign of domination over the media , and other major information outlets , has ensured that the perception of the recent events documented in the following pages never reaches the majority of people on this planet . |
| 11 | He said the area had ‘ an extremely unfair image because the majority of people on this estate want the best housing facilities and the best education for the children and that is certainly my view in the year and a half that I 've been at the school ’ . |
| 12 | The majority of people in this country have no idea of the awfulness of what was done . ’ |
| 13 | It is difficult to believe that fifteen to twenty years ago the majority of people in this country did not have a bank Current Account . |
| 14 | Er I mean , I I would say that the majority of people in this office , carry a lot of erm anxiety and pressure home with them . |
| 15 | I am sure that not only hon. Members on this side of the House but the majority of people in this country wish my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and my other right hon. Friends well in their very important negotiations in Maastricht . |
| 16 | I saw the report to which my hon. Friend referred and I am not at all surprised that the Opposition tried to shout him down , for the simple fact is that the report revealed that the majority of people in this country recognise that the Labour party has now promised to increase spending on just about everything under the sun , which would mean higher borrowing , higher inflation and much higher taxes . |
| 17 | Unless the European union works properly , democratically and accountably , we will begin to revert to the horror of a supranational federal Europe which we all fear , and which the majority of people in this country and most hon. Members will reject . |
| 18 | I hope we will borrow very modestly , it 'll be affordable , we 're not reckless , we 'll be doing what the majority of people in this country do , borrow within their limits for the things that they need for the future such as a home , or a car , something like that . |
| 19 | So I think we must today level out the rules on this and we must speak for what is the majority of opinion in this country , by every single opinion poll that 's been conducted , and that is Chairman to vote to ban fox hunting on our land . |
| 20 | The greatest success which flowed from the movement for the advancement of English in this period was in its effects within the professional classes and middle classes as a whole , where the new cultural and pedagogic form prepared the ground for , and subsequently to sustain , a renewal of modes of public communication ( especially within broadcasting , journalist , the cinema , and publicity ) . |
| 21 | And he has appointed Mr Gergen , a long-time Renaissance man who gave a fine speech on the fragmentation of America at this year 's Hilton Head weekend , to a key position . |
| 22 | The purpose of this section was to discover as much as possible about trends in staffing and recruitment , the internal policies of institutions on Language in Education , and a little about the attitudes of tutors in this area towards their field . |
| 23 | Table 4.5 , based on the output of 60 speakers , shows that the reduction in range for this vowel throughout the city is clear and consistent ( statistically , the pattern is very highly significant ) . |
| 24 | It was not ‘ otium cum indignitate , ’ for who should have an even smaller room over mine , known as the horse boxes , but Mr William Gilliat , who later became the royal gynaecologist , and brought the Prince of Wales into this world . |
| 25 | The time has come for a radical re-examination of the provision of services for this particularly disadvantaged group of people . |
| 26 | It is more probable that they were cited soon after deposit , but that the coverage of SCI at this time did not extend to those journals in which the citations occurred . |
| 27 | But the change of format to this year 's championship has done little to help Cork 's case . |
| 28 | The change from misery to this singing happiness was almost more than she could bear . |
| 29 | Well er you see , the b the the the political background , er played a very important part , er and the fa and the struggle against fascism in this er early thirty period , was er was really something . |
| 30 | Because of the preponderance of older people among the disabled and the cost implications of recognising this fact within the social security system , policy makers have consistently tried to deny the existence of disability among this group , arguing that it is a ‘ normal ’ part of the ageing process . |