Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the continuing preponderance of the agricultural population this aspiration was not then as unrealistic as it might seem today . |
| 2 | Abingdon held on for a deserved victory however , in one of the best games this reporter has seen this season . |
| 3 | Mrs De Winter is already tipped as being one of the best sellers this year . |
| 4 | No doubt the Germans are aware of the increased activity this side of the Orne , particularly on the road leading to the village . |
| 5 | At the beginning of the 19th century this design was replaced by a convex sauce-boat with a ring handle on the lid , scroll handles at each end and standing in four feet . |
| 6 | The signatory of the letter in the case of the miners was Mr Roy Lynk , President of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers but in the case of the general population this was the patient 's general practitioner . |
| 7 | HOW Hearts must be praying that Airdrie do them a favour and finish in the bottom two of the Premier Division this season . |
| 8 | Until his body recovered from the effects of the psychic blast this was his only means of defence . |
| 9 | The Minister will nevertheless be aware of the real hardship this summer and of the queues at the soup kitchens on the campuses . |
| 10 | He reckons we are going into it on the last of the downward slope this winter , and then will run along on level ground for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 11 | The whole episode smacks of the extraordinary hold this mercurial man appears to hold over people who run tennis — no other player in the world would have escaped a fine under yesterday 's circumstances . |
| 12 | Aly Khan , son of the late Aga Khan is famed as one of the greatest lovers this century . |
| 13 | In most of the continental States this aspect of the balance of power aroused anti-British feelings . |
| 14 | Mr Jakes will face his toughest test yet when he confronts an emergency meeting of the central committee this week . |
| 15 | Mr Jakes will face his toughest test yet when he confronts an emergency meeting of the central committee this week . |
| 16 | Permanent Vacation marked the start of their comeback , and it 's stuffed with unforgettable songs , some of the finest riffs this side of Keith Richards , and above all , contagious good humour . |
| 17 | Fortunately for everyone concerned , Thursday last week turned out to be one of the finest days this year … making the Bucks Horn Oak polling station one of the most idyllic in Britain . |
| 18 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 19 | For much of the nineteenth century this strategy was attractive to local government because it enabled localities to maintain to a large degree their prized autonomy . |
| 20 | Since the middle of the nineteenth century this has produced a persistent surplus of population in the countryside with a consequent depression of wage levels-Rural depopulation has rarely proceeded on a scale to compensate for the reduced demand for labour in rural areas and neither has the demand for labour in the countryside been adequately stimulated by the provision of sufficient alternative employment opportunities to agriculture . |
| 21 | But in spite of all this it seems likely that during much of the nineteenth century this subterranean aspect of international relations was less important , and less prominent in the minds of both diplomats and policy-makers , than at any time in the last 300 years . |
| 22 | Wesley and I have been looking round at just a few of the many attractions this year … |
| 23 | Despite Gaunt 's reversal of many of the acts of the Good Parliament this parliament proved remarkably compliant . |
| 24 | Suppose now that the government levies an ad valorem sales tax on all sales ( to final and intermediate users ) of the good X. This would clearly provide an incentive for transactions in the X good to be internal to the industry ( vertical integration ) rather than market sales , but to the extent that this does not happen , the after-tax prices q x , q y are given by . |
| 25 | Owing to the withdrawal of one of the principal guests this event had to be cancelled , it was decided that an article be sent to the C.B. News and early notice publicised next year 's event and date . |
| 26 | Owing to the withdrawal of one of the principal guests this event had to be cancelled , it was decided that an article be sent to the C.B. News and early notice publicised next year 's event and date . |
| 27 | As I read the judgment of the assistant recorder this was his true ratio on that part of the case wherein the absence of consideration was raised in argument . |
| 28 | Situation & Access : Located at the heart of the Western Highlands this buttress ( pronounced carn jerrak ) lies to the right of the cliffs forming the north face of Ben Nevis . |
| 29 | ( Paragraph 32 : " Countries which desire to reduce their birth rates are invited to give particular consideration to the reduction of fertility at the extremes of female reproductive ages because of the salutary effects this may have on infant and maternal welfare . " |
| 30 | There is approval ofthe free market for wealth creation and many of the economic policies this entails . |