Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [be] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angry though the prince was about this , he was still trying to repair the damage which had been done to Russo-Bulgarian relations when Roumelian irredentists took the game out of his hands . |
| 2 | The Serpent is in this aspect symbolic of the Universal reactive energy or ‘ life force ’ manifesting in man as ‘ consciousness ’ . |
| 3 | [ I ] t can not be satisfactory for the Department to have to substitute its commercial judgment for the Board 's in this way . |
| 4 | Once the atom is in this ground state , as it is called , it can not lose any more energy . |
| 5 | The door in the back end of the tractor-shed was off this . |
| 6 | If the player repeats a note when the hammer is in this mode , he will have the unpleasant sensation of catching the hammer at an unpredictable point between the hammer rest and the string . |
| 7 | But Det Chief Supt Barry Stewart , head of Northumbria CID , said : ‘ We are treating the incident as a crime but I would not like to say what the nature of the crime is at this stage . ’ |
| 8 | You know at the top it was like sloping down here and the car 's like this and I 'm having to try and get the car back down without it toppling over and it was an abs |
| 9 | The compact was on this occasion approved by 4,633 votes ( 59.8 per cent ) to 2,988 ( 38.6 per cent ) but , as on previous occasions , the level of approval fell short of the 75 per cent necessary to amend the Constitution as required by the terms of the compact . |
| 10 | Here the ‘ glory ’ is presumably the stage between long gone youth and death as the poet is at this point on his ‘ deathbed ’ . |
| 11 | The freeboard , when the boat was under this load , was not to be less than 16in amidships and 22. ½ at bow ends . |
| 12 | So on his next few field trips to Mexico he searched this area properly to find out just what the range is for this species . |
| 13 | The Council was at this stage receiving not only reports from its committees but also the reports of visiting parties . |
| 14 | Oh yeah , the dish right , the dish is about this this long , this wide |
| 15 | Although Nourse LJ does not categorically state what the law is in this situation , his decision indicates and points towards the view that the defendants may be able to escape the restrictions of the sale agreement where it would be inequitable to allow the plaintiff to rely on the strict wording . |
| 16 | As an extension of this military competence , the constable was by this date the established authority in cases of treason which had involved raising war against the king . |
| 17 | As an extension of this military competence , the constable was by this date the established authority in cases of treason which had involved raising war against the king . |
| 18 | It is only if the universe is in this no-boundary state that the laws of science , on their own , determine the probabilities of each possible history . |
| 19 | For what would the universe be without this concentration of moral and intellectual power in the metropolis ? |
| 20 | Now the Chancellor is at this time usually an ecclesiastic , commonly a bishop , and , as such , interested in , and , at least in his own opinion , a good judge of questions of morality or ‘ conscience ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ The Consul-General 's in this particular political game too , ’ said Owen , ‘ and I think he would be interested . ’ |
| 22 | Once the modules in the package are in this state , the only difference noticed by users carrying out normal operations is that should one or more such modules be required in a transfer of a package out of LIFESPAN , the transfer takes longer than usual , since these modules must first be brought back online . |
| 23 | I do n't know what the one , the the there 's usually a theme for every one world week each year and I do n't know what the theme is for this year . |
| 24 | I think from that report there was a there was a requirement or request that perhaps the theatre should actually have a public meeting to talk about which way the theatre was going what things were going on at the theatre and that 's what the meeting is for this evening . |
| 25 | After 2200 and before 0100 , 217 ( 26.8% ) of the visits were to children aged under 5 years whereas only 110 ( 14.2% ) of the visits later in the night were to this age group ( χ 2 =37.47 , df=1 , p<0.001 ) . |
| 26 | Some of the crew were against this because they thought they 'd get their watches stolen ( I ask you ) and some in favour so that they could get a closer look at the women ( I ask you ) . |
| 27 | Although it is not known for certain whether Yazid was present at Karbala , he is cast by the Shiites as the author of the incident , and the name is to this day a favourite Shiite epithet for a Sunni adversary — it was used in this sense during the 1980s war by the Tehran leadership when referring to that in Baghdad . |
| 28 | The sculpture of St John Nepomuk on the façade is of this date . |
| 29 | Thus in the above example , investors are willing to pay slightly more in terms of time value for calls than for puts but the difference is so slight that the indicator is in this case quite inconclusive . |
| 30 | the relative confidence that the example is in this class rather than the next most likely class . |