Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transport and container group Tiphook is holding its own , but while tipped as a recovery stock , analysts are cautious about improvements this year . |
| 2 | Elton issues a new single through Phonogram this week , ‘ The Last Song ’ , written about a man dying of AIDS who is reconciled with his estranged father on his deathbed . |
| 3 | The standing orders committee is made up as follows Birmingham region , John Lancashire region , Noel Liverpool , Les , London John , Midland Paddy , Northern Jerry G M B Scotland John Southern Peter , South Western Keith , Yorkshire Kevin and I am delighted to tell you that the standing orders committee have elected as chairman this year , John . |
| 4 | If he is consistently having to refer back for support this will not only weaken his standing with the contractor , but it will cause uncertainty and delay to the contract . |
| 5 | For bureaucrats this revived pre-war preferences , for the US Occupation this matched their cold war mood and for employers this delivered a labour movement which would be willing to accept enterprise bargaining . |
| 6 | ( ‘ They 're trying to fit me up for burglary this time ’ . |
| 7 | Apparently there have been big extra bills for Saracen this year : this place costs a fortune to run . ’ |
| 8 | For Aristotle this argument was decisive . |
| 9 | I first met Mr. Docherty , a 32-year-old man who originates from the Hemsworth area , while canvassing in a local government by-election in my constituency during March this year . |
| 10 | For Fairbairns this would be payment for hard work ; for Donnison this would be protection for both the woman carer and her dependants — in other words , maintenance of , and provision for , family relationships . |
| 11 | For handwriting this means matching sequences of x , y coordinates with the characters they represent . |
| 12 | For Hirst this means that there can be no Marxist ‘ science of history ’ that can be opposed to the essentialism and teleology of a philosophy of history . |
| 13 | For Fanon this means that , despite Europe 's crimes , which will not and can not be forgotten , the Third World 's ‘ new history of Man ’ must ‘ have regard to the sometimes prodigious theses which Europe has put forward ’ since ‘ all the elements of a solution to the great problems of humanity have , at different times , existed in European thought ’ ( Wretched of the Earth , 253 — 4 ) . |
| 14 | KENYA is drawing up a list of pesticides and medicines to be banned under laws that will pass through parliament this year . |
| 15 | The Pesticide Products Control Bill should pass through parliament this year . |
| 16 | Hemmings , 44 , who has taken 27 first-class wickets for Sussex this season , is doubtful for next week 's championship match against Lancashire at Old Trafford . |
| 17 | For the Delphi as with the Victoria Centre it is important that schools recognize their needs but for Roger this is based upon a mutuality of interest which is unimpeded by the operation of specific criteria . |
| 18 | But his form for Victoria this winter has been depressing and he failed to make the Test team against either West Indies or New Zealand . |
| 19 | Due to the changes made to the Constitution at the last A.G.M. the position of Teachers ' Representative comes up for election this year . |
| 20 | During queries this name must be prefixed to all references to view names . |
| 21 | Erm , er for instance this book could be changed by tearing a page out of it . |
| 22 | If for instance this was a criminal trial as to which will rule this to inadmissibility exactly the same . |
| 23 | For instance this bit of woodland which we planted fifteen years ago — it 's becoming part of the countryside and in another generation will be here as a bit of habitat for wildlife — it 's of no monetary significance at all . |
| 24 | Where possible we use derelict land first — for instance this estate here was built on the site of a factory . |
| 25 | I think the children can do things like for instance this letter , I 'll read it to you . |
| 26 | Thus although it is true to say more Blacks chose to be committed to the Crown Court for trial this was certainly not a complete explanation of the difference , as magistrates also committed more cases . |
| 27 | … missions : Two more relief convoys leave Cleveland for Romania this weekend one of them carrying 4,000 pairs of shoes ! |
| 28 | However , for operators this is not usually the case . |
| 29 | For instrumentalists this is what Marx meant by his classic statement about men making history but not in circumstances of their own choosing . |
| 30 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |