Example sentences of "this [noun] of [noun] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never intended to imply that I would be the first artist to employ hanging cloth ( my use of Walter Benjamin necessitated for this kind of work that I block the aura of the collection and re-route it toward another kind of signification , as well as reference a museum 's depot ) but I am confident that anyone who has visited my installation comes away knowing what my contribution is . |
| 2 | When farmers and farm workers refer to the ‘ loss of community ’ in their village it is usually to this kind of change that they are implicitly referring , for there are bound to be changing patterns of sociability developing in the village to which they are unaccustomed or from which they feel excluded . |
| 3 | It is the first of this kind of thing that I have organised and I would like it to be a success . |
| 4 | It is in the nature of this kind of programme that it deals with several different topics , so the length of individual items is likely to be good for classroom use . |
| 5 | It is this kind of talk that we are calling ‘ argumentative talk , in which category we include exploratory talk . |
| 6 | Once dissolved , there is no Parliament until the next one meets ; it is yet another endearingly eccentric feature of the constitution of this cradle of democracy that its law provides that , at least once in every five years , it shall undergo at least a short spell of autocracy . |
| 7 | In spite of all that has been said by popular moralists , along the lines of honesty being the best policy , everyone really knows implicitly that it is by this test of universalisability that one should determine what one ought to do . |
| 8 | Indeed this is what accounts for the impression given by this type of use that there is a difference between what was perceived and what actually happened . |
| 9 | All that 's doing is , is the account against this sort of idea that you can always do it . |
| 10 | And it appears from what the county council has said that they are they 're not necessarily opposed to this sort of development that we 're we 're looking at here but that er the case would have to be proven as an exception to normal planning policy . |
| 11 | Kate tried to ignore his admiring glance , but she could n't help blushing a little , which showed how much off balance she was because normally she was so used to this sort of conversation that she could , as it were , verbally handle it with one hand tied behind her back . |
| 12 | The US giant , Dun & Bradstreet , is so concerned about this sort of thing that it has banned unions from access to its databases . |
| 13 | the number of people that are trying to get towards this sort of diet that I 'm on . |
| 14 | were they not rebelling against this sort of commercialization that they saw going on in erm and think that well if we can , you know , if we can somehow stop this commercialization perhaps then er , then |
| 15 | It is only on this body of knowledge that you are able to build your further development . |
| 16 | It was while I was in this slough of despond that my publisher rang to ask if I would like to read a manuscript that needed transforming into a readable book before it could be published . |
| 17 | And it is from this point of view that I would endorse the observation made by Gian Carlo Ferretti about this and other historical novels ( by Saltini and Mancinelli , for example ) , that : |
| 18 | Is it possible that erm , this doc , this wad of stuff that you 've had |
| 19 | And it was in this frame of mind that I undertook the journey to visit a witchdoctor who reputedly had the ability to establish contact between a person and their ancestors . |
| 20 | You had this lump of rock that you dangled from a thread and people discovered that it always pointed in the same direction , so if you were on board , a ship for the first time people were able to travel in a ship without having to hug a coast all the way across or navigate to where they could see . |
| 21 | The essence of her nature could still express itself and be known by her visitors , and it was in this quality of spirit that her last claim to beauty lay . |
| 22 | There are so many paths and old miners ' tracks around this area of Swaledale that you could spend years walking them and exploring the old workings and still not cover them all . |
| 23 | This resentment , this sense of injustice that they have put in more than their fair share of time , energy and guts , was the most frequently struck note . |
| 24 | It was this discrepancy of reaction that we found particularly striking and instructive . |
| 25 | It is in this context of agnosticism that I shall look at my fourth question , ‘ what can we do about it ? ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps we , I mean , then British Section said to us on this erm and I 'd s , already said I think er by the time it got to this stage of conversation that we were without a prisoner at the moment , but , but awaiting one , and he said well , that would ex , that would explain it because er , until we initiate it , British Section initiates it you wo n't get another prisoner , they 're waiting for conformation from R E S |
| 27 | Swod allowed himself a quarter smile at her recognition but his body was so unused to this display of emotion that he began to cough . |