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

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1 It is not the fault of the gypsies this is happening but short-sighted legislation . ’
2 It gives an indication of the effects this has on the volume of consumption and hence on employment rates in the country .
3 In view of the benevolent rule of the communes this might seem to have been retrograde step .
4 Under the rule of the Incas this inertia expressed itself in the stagnation of commerce … in the lack of vitality and the absence of originality in the arts , in dogmatism in science , and in the rareness of even the simplest inventions .
5 An extraordinarily high proportion of Milton scholars have chosen to disregard these truths about their subject , and have decided that because Milton was on the side of the regicides this made him a revolutionary and , because a revolutionary , therefore a man of the Left , perhaps even an agonized Maminst , or at least a sympathizer with the Diggers and Levellers of his own day .
6 I just want to say a big THANK YOU to the organisers and correspondents for keeping me up to date with the progress of THE WHITES this season .
7 In the case of the railways this included a power to revise fares where excessive profits were made and even in some circumstances an express right to take the undertaking into state ownership .
8 I could not fail to see that all , men , women and children , wore nothing in the tropical heat but a band — in the case of the women this was quite ornate — around their middles , leaving everything else uncovered .
9 I think also that we should make clear that the nature of the Tests this year is understood to be less threatening etc. etc .
10 Thanks to the generosity of the parishioners this target was achieved .
11 Poo I think it was laying in the boiler cupboard on top of the shoes this morning .
12 Speaking at a generally upbeat presentation of the results this week , Pearson chief operating officer Frank Barlow said that both Penguin and Longman had scored record sales , profits and cash management .
13 A good example of the problems this can create was Pearson 's ( 1976 ) study of ‘ Paki-bashing ’ by working-class youths in Accrington .
14 As an example of the difficulties this can cause , I was working with a 33-year-old woman who had a rapidly progressing terminal condition .
15 Cornelius wondered whether the Festival might be staging a production of Lord of the Flies this year .
16 4 Scaffolding The right to erect scaffolding for [ any purpose connected with or related to the Centre or the purpose of repairing or cleaning the Centre ] notwithstanding that such scaffolding may temporarily restrict the access to or use and enjoyment of the Premises This right is included in order to overcome the problem resulting from Owen v Gadd where the Court of Appeal held that the construction of scaffolding poles in front of a shop , where there was no reservation of such a right , infringed the landlord 's covenant for quiet enjoyment .
17 At that first meeting my father can have had no idea of the troubles this boy would bring upon his country .
18 In view of the elections this month , what has Socialist policy been since 1981 ?
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