Example sentences of "[noun pl] of this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The risks of this condition after elective minor surgery under local anaesthesia have probably not been appreciated .
2 The elaboration of tactics of this kind is regarded as indispensable in the planning of any election campaign .
3 Well what are the characteristics of this land ?
4 The salient characteristics of this relationship were :
5 However , we borrowed this term to describe the outbreak of heroin use in Wirral during the 1980s because of the epidemic-like characteristics of this phenomenon , such as its transmission through individual contact and the rapid increase in new users during the early part of the decade .
6 The characteristics of this philosophy have been summarised by Louis E. Davis , and are quoted by Trist , as follows :
7 The long stem of this crinoid , with a small cup at the top , and stout arms composed of easily visible calcite plates , these first arms themselves dividing , are some of the more important characteristics of this species .
8 The red spots in the caudal peduncle region are one of the unique characteristics of this species .
9 The chief characteristics of this second phase of industrialization have been described as
10 It is caught between a variable analysis of how a female subject , ‘ woman ’ , is socially and historically constructed , and a politically necessary focus on the general , permanent characteristics of this subject .
11 We can best begin to sketch the positive characteristics of this activity by reversing the usual procedures .
12 The main characteristics of this system they identified as disposable cheap labour , minimal skill transmission due to the fragmentation of work and maximum locational flexibility ( footloose factories ) .
13 Perhaps the main characteristics of this community were the senses of certainty and order in social life :
14 The grand characteristics of this remedy are the worse ( < ) from first movement and better ( > ) for continued movement with better ( > ) heat and worse ( < ) cold .
15 Copious watering of the eyes which is bland , watery nasal discharge which is acrid and excoriates the skin of the nose and upper lip are the strong characteristics of this remedy .
16 Three important characteristics of this model need to be singled out .
17 Thus , fluidity , continuous change , and an evolving social order are the characteristics of this conception of the political and social world .
18 It says that at least some of the characteristics of this hyper-individualist people can not be explained by what has happened to them in the Ottoman time and since , because these characteristics predate the Ottomans .
19 The essential characteristics of this primacy which distinguished it from such primacies as that of Hamburg or Lyons were , first , that it was centred in a monastic community , and second , that its roots and its authorization went back ( as Anselm was persuaded ) to its original constitution in the seventh century .
20 But in the Thorn , the Mad Mother , and the Complaint of a Poor Indian Woman , I felt that deeper power and pathos which have been since acknowledged … as the characteristics of this author ; and the sense of a new style and a new spirit in poetry came over me .
21 Against the opposition of respectable male co-operators the women set up a number of successful shops of this kind .
22 German secular songs of this period , like the religious ones , are preponderantly on tenor cantus firmi , the tenors usually being ‘ courtly songs ’ ( Hofweisen ) .
23 At this time the nurse may find it possible to gauge whether the patient is anxious and if so what the source(s) of this anxiety may be .
24 Incremental encoders of this type are usually supplied as sealed units so that dirt can not interfere with the operation of the optical system and the light source/ detector alignment can not be disturbed .
25 The survival of many stone walls and buildings , and especially churches , from the centuries of this book , testifies that even before the mid twelfth century their wealth and pride and religious sentiment were sufficient to beautify them in lasting materials — and often , and especially with the smaller ones , their condition reflects the declining prosperity of later centuries which saved their older buildings from being replaced .
26 But what one now sees belongs chiefly to the centuries of this book , the great church to the tenth and eleventh centuries , the atrium before it — though in form and function preserving the great courtyard of an early Christian basilica , where clergy and laity met before processing into the church for solemn eucharist — is of the early twelfth .
27 On several occasions in the centuries of this book , a single family group ruled over most of Europe .
28 But on second thoughts , that comparison also seemed obscenely trite when set against the greater contrasts in values affecting millions of fellow-inhabitants of this planet .
29 The major purpose in outlining the roles within the Rowdies group has been to demonstrate that football fans of this type are not simply to be viewed as a disordered bunch of maniacs .
30 The white youths joined the blacks who were already fans of this music .
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