Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you speak for more than about a fifth of the total time this is not appraisal , it 's lecturing , or worse , pontificating . |
| 2 | Apart from the short-term respite this offers the families , it provides an opportunity for houseparents ( staff looking after children on a residential basis ) to continue the comprehensive teaching of a full range of social , domestic and academic skills . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She has not been beaten on the European circuit this season . |
| 5 | I think Leeds can win the European Cup this season — they 'll go very close . ’ |
| 6 | It read : ‘ I ask you to consider that the effects of the legal action that I undertook in the Berne district court concerning my non-participation in the European Cup this year are null and void . |
| 7 | There will be zero growth , at best , in the European Community this year , said the EC commission , in its latest gloomy forecast . |
| 8 | It also uses no CFCs in insulation , unlike most rival appliance makers planning to launch ozone-friendly fridges on the European market this year . |
| 9 | David Macdonald made a series of quota quickies before going on to a larger budget with the striking comedy-thriller This Man is News ( 1938 ) , and Michael Powell built a reputation as a director of energetic quota films before making his mainstream début with Edge of the World ( 1937 ) , about the depopulation of a remote island in the Shetlands . |
| 10 | ( He says : This is the largest excercise this year with sixteen hundred men under canopy at one time tomorrow morning ) |
| 11 | Bass made the largest call this month . |
| 12 | In the multi-person case this says that no individual can be made better off without making someone else worse off . |
| 13 | ‘ Martha is seven years old , ’ the old woman announced in an aloof tone , anticipating the vulgar interest this information would arouse . |
| 14 | There was , however , no Wolverhampton presence in the category which generated the greatest interest this weekend — the light-heavyweight . |
| 15 | There was , however , no Wolverhampton presence in the category which generated the greatest interest this weekend — the light-heavyweight . |
| 16 | ‘ Dalglish is the first ex-Liverpool manager to return to Anfield in over 70yearsscharge of a new Dalglish 's decision to abandon the club in the run-in to the 1990-91 season still rankles with many around Merseyside , but Souness insists that should not affect the warmth of his reception , saying : ‘ Kenny should be remembered as the greatest player this club has had and as a successful manager . |
| 17 | Of course , if the economic environment-in this case the process driving Y t — did change in the way we have assumed , then the two models would cease to be observationally equivalent . |
| 18 | There is also a sizeable literature on explaining the size distribution of income which concerns itself with the specific shape this takes ( positively skewed ( right-hand tail ) and leptokurtic ( hump-shaped ) or leptokurtic lognormal ) , both over different time periods and in different countries . |
| 19 | It is the specific effect this religious form has in Ireland which is under scrutiny . |
| 20 | One of the reasons that ‘ loss leaders ’ of £25 holidays could be easily tolerated , and even a more general price reduction installed , was the advanced booking this drew in . |
| 21 | He maintained that he was thinking about gold and the strange fascination this metal still exerts upon otherwise rational men grappling with the intricacies of international exchange rates . |
| 22 | On the last occasion , Northland had just six seats available and the Sinn Fein councillor was Barney McFadden who fought the Rural ward this time around . |
| 23 | It is likely that among the rural population this loss was more widely distributed than was the gain . |
| 24 | When they were watching the bloody running this afternoon |
| 25 | There 's more than one red face in the mobile division this morning , believe me . |
| 26 | With the continuing preponderance of the agricultural population this aspiration was not then as unrealistic as it might seem today . |
| 27 | ‘ Given the right stimulus this country could emerge as a world leader . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Is there anything to prevent another payment being made to the right charity this time ? ’ |
| 29 | Go on , God damn it , and give me the right stuff this time around . " |
| 30 | Is Bryony looking the right way this time . |