Example sentences of "this [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dated back to Roman times when bachelors led the bride to the ceremony and married men escorted her back . |
| 2 | Besides , she did n't feel so wonderful that she wanted a boat ride to the mainland just yet , even if it did mean staying shut up here with only this moody man for company . |
| 3 | This long-run shift to an older population is not peculiar to Britain . |
| 4 | presents EVENINGS OF ENTERTAINMENT TO CELEBRATE THIS EUROPEAN YEAR OF 1992 |
| 5 | An underlying aim to place this European migration within the broader context of Commonwealth immigration which began in the late 1940 's with the arrival of Jamaicans to Britain . |
| 6 | The latest error of judgment is this European ban for five matches because he abused the referee after Bruce Grobbelaar ( quite correctly under the rules of the game as they stand ) was sent off . |
| 7 | This European colloquium on Heterocyclic chemistry will be held in Noordwijkerhout , The Netherlands , on 12–15 July 1992 . |
| 8 | Side by side with this European aspect of the balance of power went another and increasingly important one — that constituted by events on the oceans and in Europe 's colonies overseas . |
| 9 | This helped developers by relieving them of the expensive negotiations they usually have to undertake . |
| 10 | For instrumental Marxists , however , a change in the power structure of society arose , not because of conscious efforts by committed individuals at the political or social levels of society , but because this feudal mode of production was fundamentally challenged by an alternative and technically more efficient mode of production . |
| 11 | The following year this admirable initiative of Sir Keith led to the establishment of the " Panel of Four " , consisting of the BDA , the Royal National Institute for the Deaf ( RNID ) the National Deaf Children 's Society ( NDCS ) and the British Association for the Hard of Hearing ( BAHOH ) . |
| 12 | So he got the barn and he he had it in a peedie pail you see and he was on his road home and he was coming by this that hillock at Yensetter there . |
| 13 | It was objected to this that availability of jobs was a crucial factor . |
| 14 | For the development industry this that sort of concept of trust is n't safe enough . |
| 15 | The suggestion that er we should join this er , I mean first of all I think that 's if they would allow us to join it , and obviously we realise why they want to join this , rather to the Archbishop of Canterbury saying he would like to join er sit in his cabinet and , and , this , this that sort of level of discussion . |
| 16 | ‘ There can be no doubt at all in view of this that replacement of the existing line by the one proposed would be a substantial environmental improvement and not , as is suggested , an environmental disbenefit to the area of Teesside , ’ said Mr Bartlett . |
| 17 | However , the process of interpreting is still not fully understood for BSL , and it is upon this that effectiveness of training hinges . |
| 18 | In Britain , this used fuel with its lethal inventory is either carefully stored or sent for ‘ reprocessing ’ at the Sellafield plant in Cumbria , a procedure I shall describe in more detail later . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't know what to do , but this tall chap with red hair — what did you say his name is ? ’ |
| 20 | It had been thrilling at first to start work for a real knight and his lady and to live in this tall mansion with its halls and parlours , its tapestries and suits of armour . |
| 21 | A number of different factors seem to have contributed to this extensive scale of decentralization from the major metropolitan areas , including changes in residential preferences and the search by companies for less cramped factory sites and for cheaper and less organized labour such as married women . |
| 22 | Has this extensive network of connections nothing to do with the way contentious issues like discrimination against women or minorities pollution , state welfare , or housing costs were kept from the political agenda for so long ? |
| 23 | [ They ] are used in this interim period in providing informal planning advice and guidance . ’ |
| 24 | Part B of this interim report to the Science and Engineering Research Council is concerned with the initial destinations of research students working in the information engineering area whose SERC studentships were due to end during 1984 . |
| 25 | The altered structure of society — the small family size , the small dwelling unit , the substitution of mechanical aids for domestic service — has contributed as much as the mere increased expectation of survival to this striking phenomenon of a large and increasing number of aged and isolated individuals . |
| 26 | Their bauble was this striking singer-guitarist with exquisite cheekbones and girl 's eyelashes , who was being asked to model clothes for magazines but not to play at the Albert Hall . |
| 27 | It would be foolish to suppose that we can penetrate the causes of this striking movement with any precision ; but the example of John of Salisbury makes it abundantly clear that the love of travel , the fashion for wandering , played a major role . |
| 28 | This striking rate of growth should not obscure the fact that the absolute level of industrial activity was still extremely low . |
| 29 | Frequently , this orthographic evidence for variation in Middle English is rejected not on the grounds that the scribe was literally an Anglo-Norman ( which is what Skeat argued ) , but that uses such as variable h are originally scribal importations from French or Latin usage . |
| 30 | Even this combined flow at times proved insufficient and it was found necessary to dig a leat . |