Example sentences of "in this [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except that it if it involved waiting in this corridor for much longer , one of the security cameras might start to register her despite all diversionary moves , and she should therefore now take a break of at least six hours before coming back here . |
| 2 | Merlyn said , irritably : ‘ Well , come on , Ben , we ca n't stand in this passage for ever . ’ |
| 3 | In this scene at least , the narrative departs from its generally macho tone . |
| 4 | I 'd be very interested to know er in terms of U turns which I 'll come back to , how he 's going to deal with the next item on the agenda er , whereby the Liberal Democrats have been consistent about their policy in general with a lot of obstruction and being caused problems and how Mr will agree in this chamber to actually close some people 's homes , old people 's homes |
| 5 | For the uninitiated , a notch shift is a device which interacts with the mid-range response of the amplifier , in this case at either 250 or 550Hz , offering greater control over a particular frequency band . |
| 6 | Small(er) , in this case at least , really does seem to be beautiful . |
| 7 | Unlike some of those friends , however , he did not attempt to force the pace and in this case at least his native caution was justified . |
| 8 | One mother ( the widow of a lamplighter ) was a machinist at a printer 's ( bookbinding ? ) , and in this case at least it may have been the mother who introduced her daughter to the trade . |
| 9 | I 'm sorry about that , it really is more of a second thought , although I do n't want to go into any detail and I 'd like , like any broad that you have to be in my mind in this case at least |
| 10 | In this case by far the most important ground of appeal was the contention that written statements made by Zaidie and Matadial to the police and not disclosed before or during the trial had been wrongly withheld from the defendant and his advisers . |
| 11 | Shame , it is said , frequently leads to repentance , but the pious and noble ladies of the Faubourg Saint Germain seem , in this instance at least , not to have sought avidly for grace . |
| 12 | In modern China an attempt has also been made to create a national art , in this instance by partly discrediting tradition . |
| 13 | Now parental investment is a technical concept which we do n't need to go into in this course in too great detail , suffice is to say that parental investment represents everything a parent sinks into its offspring which promotes its offspring 's reproductive success . |
| 14 | Faith is out of focus , God is not seen as he is , and in this field of badly focussed vision , with its dangerous loss of clarity or completeness , doubt is encouraged to grow . |
| 15 | One of the factors influencing the career decisions of professionals is opportunity for career advancement , which has been limited in this field until recently . |
| 16 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |
| 17 | All you have to do is lower me down in this bucket to just above the sea . |
| 18 | Never in this century at least had so much respect been paid to mammary development . |
| 19 | I have been sitting in this armchair for about an hour . |
| 20 | I have come to see you because that Mr R said to my son ‘ If you do n't like it here then go back where you came from and where you belong ’ and I was so upset at that because my son was born here and I have lived in this country for over twenty years and how dare he say that , because my son comes from here . |
| 21 | We have played in this country for both Lancashire and Surrey county cricket clubs and have bowled hundreds of overs for both counties . |
| 22 | It is his first gallery exhibition in this country for more than five years and follows the exhilarating survey which took place at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1989 . |
| 23 | Its American equivalent , the New Yorker , has been read for its advertisements in this country for as long as I can remember . |
| 24 | The essential question that voters should be asking Mr Fallon and which he and his Government have resolutely thus far refused to answer , is whether this Government will honour the educational and religious guarantee , accepted in this country for almost 50 years , that sufficient places will be provided in Catholic schools for Catholic pupils . |
| 25 | And apparently a colleague of mine gave a paper this morning saying that Kent was vulnerable to earthquakes erm even though earthquakes have not been recorded or at least not substantial ones in this country for perhaps two , three hundred years erm there is a history of earthquakes in , particularly in the sort of Colchester , Essex , Kent region , and erm the erm the historians and the pundits tell us that erm they may come back again so perhaps we ought to reinforce our buildings now . |
| 26 | But — so long as it was made clear that this was a genuine option , and entirely voluntary — we are in favour of lenders in this country at least recommending insurance and pointing out its advantages . |
| 27 | Oddly enough , however , it was also a highly confusing time , as the debate — in this country at least — took place at arms length . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , in this country at least , they have an undeserved bad reputation as none of our native spiders are poisonous . |
| 29 | The middle of the 'continuum' tends to be unimportant or nonexistent , in this country at least . |
| 30 | Huge numbers of immigrants , mostly from across the Atlantic , came to live in this country of over 7.7 million square kilometres . |