Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recognise that this finding stands in stark contrast to the finding that was implicit in my decision on Wednesday night/Thursday morning . |
| 2 | Dr Spufford 's book has successfully demonstrated that the timing of this change depended in large measure upon the farming system and the social and economic structure of the communities that were affected . |
| 3 | He is not , he claims , denying the existence of social change in oral societies , nor of the ‘ survivals ’ which this change leaves in its wake . |
| 4 | The first indication of this change occurred in 1983 during the closed-shop dispute between the National Graphical Association ( NGA ) and the Messenger Group of Newspapers , owned by Mr Eddie Shah . |
| 5 | The authors speculated that this discrimination occurred in shortlisting for senior house officer and senior registrar posts ( rather than in interviews ) , and today 's study supports that speculation . |
| 6 | Looking at it from the club 's point of view I can see how this ban arose in a situation like this . |
| 7 | Lloyd finds this paradigm wanting in various respects , and proceeds to develop an alternative approach in which the non-verbal channel of communication is precluded by asking children to communicate by telephone on a route-finding task . |
| 8 | Secret The solution to this trick lies in the fact that , while the children can point to which lines they like or say which colour cards they like the best , you decide which cards to take away . |
| 9 | At the most critical moment of the Seven Years War it amounted to 4.4 per cent of the total population of the country , the highest proportion of this kind reached in any State during the century . |
| 10 | Despite the problems of understanding the meaning of actions from our observations , this perspective is particularly relevant when behavioural change is sought and discussions of this kind abound in the literature of treatment and therapy . |
| 11 | In 1982 it arrived five months early and , in addition , was one of the strongest events of this kind observed in the present century . |
| 12 | Although radical politics of this kind remain in the minority , for both left and right , their development means that councils can experience large changes in their policies whilst remaining under the control of the same party - so increasing political variation at the local level . |
| 13 | Suggestions of this kind culminated in the creation of the foreign office which began its life in 1782 . |
| 14 | The most complete bibliography available lists thirty-three works of this kind published in the quarter-century 1626 – 50 , sixty-six in 1651 – 75 and seventy-seven in 1676 – 1700 . |
| 15 | This mailing resulted in an immediate response by over 20 companies , and further enquiries on an on-going basis . |
| 16 | The year 1726 saw this difficulty emerge in an aggravated form in the county of Stirling , where two candidates came forward to challenge the re-election of MacFarlane of Kirkton , who had enjoyed the endorsement of the Duke of Montrose for several years past . |
| 17 | Discussion of this story occurs in Chapter 5 . |
| 18 | He tricks his Auschwitz guards just as , in the first instalment of this story published in 1986 , he regularly hopped on to trams reserved for German officers in the Polish town where he was virtually the sole surviving Jew . |
| 19 | This trial began in February 1986 and ended some 17 months later , when the trial judge acceded to a submission that the evidence for the prosecution had raised no case to answer , and directed the jury to acquit all the defendants . |
| 20 | I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon ( Mr Amess ) on taking this opportunity to raise in the House the granting of trust status to the Basildon and Thurrock hospitals and on providing the House with the opportunity to mark the granting of trust status . |
| 21 | I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made . |
| 22 | Below : The range of glass fibre tubing , in this case moulded in various colours . |
| 23 | This is less Ben Elton-speak than naked ambition to be an admired state-of-the-art comedian who can acknowledge the wrongs of the world , shift with the politics of the time , try out new techniques ( in this case performing in theatres with a captive audience rather than in a back room full of hecklers getting up and wandering to the bar every 20 minutes ) and be funny . |
| 24 | The charm of this resort lies in its quiet , friendly atmosphere which will appeal most to those who like to avoid the larger resorts . |
| 25 | Chris Whittaker who will be on stage this afternoon to talk in detail about governors so I wo n't dwell too long on the subject . |
| 26 | I offer the hon. Gentleman an opportunity this afternoon to engage in more constructive debate . |
| 27 | Since the ban was imposed by Margaret Thatcher , campaigners have argued for the restoration of union rights , and three secret meetings have taken place at the Cabinet Office , the last of them this afternoon ended in breakdown . |
| 28 | Since the ban was imposed by Margaret Thatcher , campaigners have argued for the restoration of union rights , and three secret meetings have taken place at the Cabinet Office , the last of them this afternoon ended in breakdown . |
| 29 | This portion of the curve is consistent with the idea that in normal driving levels of risk are low and that the increases in this level observed in most of this study correspond to levels still below the optimal level for performance on the memory task . |
| 30 | Nor was this resistance to diminish in the post-war period , as will be seen in the next chapter . |