Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [adj] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A deal may be struck between Gordon Taylor , chief executive of the PFA , and his Premier League counterpart , Rick Parry , after meetings between the two this weekend . |
| 2 | Finally , twenty three tonnes of baked beans brought traffic to a halt on the M-Five this afternoon . |
| 3 | Intel Corp says it will ship 60 versions of the 80486 this year , with clock speeds ranging from 25MHz to 100MHz , senior vice-president Paul Otellini told the Hambrecht & Quist conference in San Francisco : ‘ We now have the capacity to build some 30m 80486s in 1993 , ’ Otellini said , and he expects Intel to sell some 100m 80486 chips after 1993 ; Intel expects to spend some $900m on research and development this year , up from $780m in 1992 , he declared , and would do 1m Pentiums in 1994 . |
| 4 | His office at the Caterham factory is covered with pictures of Seven racing cars — and one of Patrick McGoohan , whom he persuaded to endorse a special 35th anniversary Prisoner edition of the Seven this year ; his most animated conversation is reserved for descriptions of the car and its abilities , and one could almost believe that finances and company administration took a firm back seat to the development and fine tuning of the car 's design . |
| 5 | ABERDEEN District Council is to host to a bizarre open day for the curious this weekend — by throwing open the doors to the city 's crematorium . |
| 6 | Thirty pounds for the two this time . |
| 7 | In Britain of the 1960s this challenge of the Welfare State is not isolated : it is but one aspect of the challenge which confronts us throughout the whole political field . |
| 8 | British scientists have revealed that the hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic this year is the largest yet measured . |
| 9 | For a short time in the 1920s this library housed the collections of the National Gallery . |
| 10 | His Windies team come face-to-face with Javed Miandad 's side in a Test series in the Caribbean this winter , and Richardson added : ‘ They will have to be very careful about what they do with the ball . |