Example sentences of "this [noun] of [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this level of support the electoral system begins to work very handsomely in a party 's favour , and Labour came first in over three-quarters of the wards . |
| 2 | But in this part of Sardinia the local tongue is a version of Catalan . |
| 3 | The bar chart that was the result of the survey we did you need to look at that piece of work and ask yourself a question , is this piece of work the best thing I have ever done ? |
| 4 | Ryn station was one of his favourite haunts , or rather its approaches , ‘ the cinder path with the poplars … then the ditch full of duckweed , then the brown-grey soil of spaded potato fields , or plots planted with greenish purple-red cabbage … behind this stretch of ground the red-rusted or black rails in yellow sand ; here and there stacks of old timber — heaps of coal — discarded railway carriages . ’ |
| 5 | In Smith [ 1979 ] Crim LR 251 the judge seems to have directed the jury that in this type of manslaughter the accused had to foresee a real risk to his wife 's health , and Sheppard [ 1981 ] AC 394 confirmed that this was so . |
| 6 | At this moment of crisis the Communist International began an onslaught on Social Democracy , despite the strenuous opposition of the leadership of the British Party . |
| 7 | Yes , very much so in fact , and in this sort of thing the local trend is similar to the national trend . |
| 8 | In this sort of situation the local Social Services Department may be able to help you with many practical problems , such as caring for a dependent relative . |
| 9 | In this sort of situation the local Social Services Department may be able to help with many practical problems , such as caring for a dependent relative . |
| 10 | From this period of time the great majority of extant work is ecclesiastical . |
| 11 | Through all this period of turmoil the cruel winter was beginning to abate , but only very slowly ; Woodforde in his diary was still lamenting conditions in April : ‘ Never such cold known by man ’ . |
| 12 | In this group of patients the mean number of items recalled from the left ear was higher than from the right ear . |
| 13 | For political sociology , on the other hand , the principal question is the relation between a form of society and a type of political system ; and from this point of view the foregoing distinctions may have little significance . |
| 14 | From this point of view the middle class is held to consist of non-manual workers . |
| 15 | From this point of view the professional-managerial class are likely to try to maintain their position by forming themselves into professions . |
| 16 | From this point of view the appropriate label for the payment is Evans-Pritchard 's term : " bridewealth " . |
| 17 | From this point of view the relevant question to ask about the shift of the aggregate demand curve in figure 4.4 from AD to AD 1 is : Was it predictable on the basis of the available information relating to the process determining aggregate demand ? |
| 18 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |
| 19 | That the to preceding the infinitive should bring a meaning of its own into the context is no surprise for a semantically oriented approach to language , since from this point of view the very raison d'être of a linguistic sign is to express meaning . |
| 20 | In this mode of complaint the Thou- dominated poems are the more powerful . |
| 21 | Despite this absence of co-ordination the British government was eager to move against the French and make sure they could not endanger the American colonies . |
| 22 | I fell madly in love with this area of Scotland the first time I set eyes on it , and subsequently crawled all over it for years , marvelling at how many caves Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to occupy in his escape from the Redcoats . |
| 23 | And we should perhaps add to this list of discourses the critical one which organises an anecdote , which may not have taken place at all , to re-iterate a point about Shakespeare and power . |
| 24 | Country lanes , fields , gardens — at this time of year the fragrant Elderflower blossom is everywhere . |
| 25 | At this time of year the unpaved streets were practically quagmires . |
| 26 | Items ranging from cloths and brushes to mops and buckets make this class of equipment the widest and most diverse . |