Example sentences of "on this [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last reform on this front centres on the school curriculum . |
| 2 | From Laxford Bridge to Lairg is thirty-seven miles , still on the A.838 , and nowhere on this long drive through the Reay Forest and alongside Loch Shin is there a public road branching off until the outskirts of Lairg are reached , and only an occasional shooting lodge or farmstead appears in sight against the background of mountains . |
| 3 | Suddenly it struck me that there was a flaw in the reasoning that had concentrated police inquiries on this upper part of the tidal Thames — or rather , not so much that there was a flaw in what had been worked out , but that the reasoning was incomplete . |
| 4 | Closer scrutiny of the data sheds further light on this comparative reduction in the referral rates of fundholders . |
| 5 | They sat on the soft sand above the tide line while Adam ate ; there had always been fewer stones here , on this remote end of the beach where hardly anyone came . |
| 6 | And if he had to set out on this nonsensical journey to the Fire Court with the Humans , it would be as well to just stock up a bit for his return . |
| 7 | From the 1870s on this virtual monopoly of the bourgeois programme ( in its ‘ liberal ’ forms ) began to crumble . |
| 8 | When will the Minister accept that only when the Government can find new money for research and development , retraining and investment in new facilities will there be a real impact on this serious problem in the Scottish economy ? |
| 9 | But we have dwelt long enough on this final stage of the fibre slimming story . |
| 10 | Gough , Taylor and Boddy ( 1987 ) , Boddy ( 1986 ) and Cohn ( 1983a ) have reviewed available research on this technical question of the efficacy of different preventive programmes . |
| 11 | The prospects were pleasing even on this dismal day in the gathering gloom . |
| 12 | Our debate on this intended insult by the French was summarily ended : a wand-bearing chamberlain told us to assemble in the great hall below for the rare privilege of an audience with His Most Christian Majesty . |
| 13 | Both Tizard ( Tizard et al. , 1980 ) and Wood ( Wood , McMahon and Cranstoun , 1980 ) have cast some doubt on this rosy view of the linguistic opportunities provided in nursery schools , but there has been no comparable study of infant schools in Britain . |
| 14 | He has been on the losing side in Cup semi-finals on five occasions , and if he finally makes it to Wembley this year he may look back on this bitter struggle as the crucial victory along the way . |
| 15 | It is at least arguable : the employers did after all give in when faced with a strike , and effectively surrendered on this very question for the future , since they would have to pay the male rate to all the new ( male ) monotypists . |
| 16 | It has been nigh on a full month since we first made a landfall on to the north shore : since we rode in the longboat on the crest of the shining surf and I set my foot withal on this fair land in the name of the King . |
| 17 | NCT has been invited to join as an associate member and , our President , is our rep. on this advisory body to the government whose terms of references are ‘ to ensure by all possible means that the informed opinions of women are given their due weight in the deliberations of government . ’ |
| 18 | It is , for instance , quite possible that the grain found on this particular estate by the royal surveyors was what was left after the deduction of food-distributions to slaves and other dependents . |
| 19 | Please could you look into this and reassess the need for parking restrictions on this particular section of the highway . |
| 20 | This is of course only my opinion on this particular offering from the author and many book type programs available are worth every penny . |
| 21 | Tensions there had been throughout the century but there is some evidence of a conscious ‘ respectable ’ assault on this precarious independence by the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | The sun came out and it grew warm on this sheltered side of the island . |
| 23 | Ianthe reflected for a moment on this depressing picture of the bed-sitting-room world , with no churchgoing to give meaning to the day , though presumably Mrs Gammon might go sometimes . |
| 24 | In any case , we embarked on this definitional enterprise with the warning that satisfactory definitions of academic fields are rarely available , and the purpose was simply to sketch the sorts of concerns , and the sorts of boundary issues , with which pragmaticists are implicitly concerned . |
| 25 | Forward movement achieved on this sweeping style by the Shears team |