Example sentences of "this [noun] of [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | that there was this change of policy in the Chinese Communist Party . |
| 2 | But , he adds : ‘ This attribution of femininity to the undivided unity , and of masculinity to the threefold divine energy , is not found explicit in the Church 's teaching traditions . ’ |
| 3 | One still finds traces of this kind of landscape on the fringes of the Black Country , as for example in the hamlet of Lower Gornal , in the hills to the north-west of Dudley . |
| 4 | We can see this kind of order from the way Portia sticks to the command made by her father although he is dead . |
| 5 | This kind of division in the labour market between youth and adults jobs was also investigated by Ashton et al . |
| 6 | She had never intended to become involved in this kind of conversation with the soldier , but somehow he had trapped her into replying . |
| 7 | Achieving this kind of position within the group requires , in addition to being tall , a full knowledge of the entire repertoire of chants and of the occasions on which it is appropriate to use them . |
| 8 | This kind of critique of the traditional gentlemanly and humanistic , and even new-critical , basis of English became ever more common in the course of the 1960s and later . |
| 9 | But Grendon is founded on this kind of relationship between the staff and prisoners . |
| 10 | ‘ They owned this kind of enclave on the coast just outside Ajaccio — like a kind of tourist village — that 's where they kept the women , really , while they were away on business . |
| 11 | There is a great deal of this kind of description in the Song of Roland , and a great deal more : action , speech and sentiment . |
| 12 | This work is grounded in the view that this kind of awareness on the part of children as writers enables them to gain a degree of control over their imagination ( see Rowland , The Enquiring Classroom , 1984 and ‘ Responding to Children 's Interests ’ , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | Frank Mort has commented on this kind of separation between the new intellectuals who are happy and confident to mix genre and ignore qualitative and semantic difference ‘ because they already know the map of Western culture ’ and are distinct from those ‘ who do not carry with them those levels of cultural capital . ’ |
| 14 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 15 | This kind of emphasis on the opposition between , rather than the complementary nature of , the active and contemplative lives was reflected in the patristic interpretation of the story of Martha and Mary ( Luke 10:38 — 42 ) in which Christ excuses Mary 's lack of active help in Martha 's household chores because she was listening to him , on the grounds that she was concentrating on that which was most essential . |
| 16 | If the new Transport Secretary can negotiate this kind of deal with the Treasury , he could give the phrase Parkinson 's Law an entirely new meaning . |
| 17 | Part of this study looks at the effect , using such fine-grained phonetic descriptions , of this kind of ambiguity on the whole utterance . |
| 18 | Marx himself did , however , leave some basic clues as to how we might achieve this kind of understanding of the state . |
| 19 | Even this kind of intervention in the productive process could not long survive him : the means of musical production were taken more and more into the hands of large commercial interests , while parody as a method retreated into informal niches in the fabric of working-class life . |
| 20 | I have experienced this kind of world in the mountain villages of Crete . |
| 21 | When you pay good money for a standard rose , you do n't expose it to this kind of danger for the sake of short-lived appearances . |
| 22 | An illuminating example of this kind of recognition on the part of teachers is provided by a lengthy continuation sheet clipped to one of the returned questionnaires and sent back by a member of one of the departments . |
| 23 | This kind of research about the treatment and academic performance of girls in mixed sex schools has led some feminists to argue in favour of single-sex schooling . |
| 24 | From this kind of perspective on the road to socialism , to even consider reconstructing or reforming the British constitution is regarded as a trifling nonsense that borders on the evil of a naive reformism itself . |
| 25 | The header is one of the few mandatory elements in a TEI document , reflecting the importance attached to this kind of information by the research community . |
| 26 | However , there is a difficulty with this kind of justification of the use of the telescope in astronomy . |
| 27 | I 've got to drop the keys and this bit of paper at the same time . ’ |
| 28 | This will be far from easy to establish in view of the very strength of the business relationship which has generated this level of turnover for the employer . |
| 29 | This level of infection in the total population would be higher than that which exists in Uganda , considered to be the worst-hit country in Africa . |
| 30 | One former Orkney councillor suggested this course of action to the Isles Euro-MP , Winnie Ewing . |