Example sentences of "[prep] this [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be said that if psychoanalysis had not posited the pleasure principle as the basis for the functioning of the unconscious , there would be no problem about this set of phenomena of ‘ compulsions to repeat ’ . |
| 2 | It was therefore not hard to think up entertaining themes and commission a bunch of lively articles for this issue of theNI on the subject of the underground economy . |
| 3 | Sleight apologised for this state of affairs at the Congress in Dublin in 1895 : " It must be remembered that it is exceedingly difficult for the executive committee to meet together often , for every time they do so they have to bear their own travelling expenses , and sometimes hotel expenses ; and to whatever centre they are summoned , it only means that some members of the committee have to travel a considerable distance . |
| 4 | But for the time being , for this group of travellers at least , the party 's over . |
| 5 | To do this , he should know something about the probability of sounds being symbolised in one way or another , and which is the most likely way for this set of sounds to be symbolised . |
| 6 | Turnout was 7% higher than in 1988 , and was in fact the highest for this set of authorities since local government reorganisation in 1973 . |
| 7 | The reasons for this allocation of lawyers to cells will become apparent as the deviant cases — those in which the client 's chosen outcome was rejected — and the doubtful cases are examined . |
| 8 | Yes , well I mean we 're aware of that and of course we went through this question of distances on Friday . |
| 9 | He can only be placed in the lying position for effective treatment purposes when he can balance well enough to be taken through this pattern of movements without increasing his spasticity . |
| 10 | Despite this relationship of women to the home , they have little control over the nature of their housing . |
| 11 | Despite this absence of distractions to the north , however , Aethelred , king of the Mercians , exhibited no further expansionist leanings in the south . |
| 12 | The project aims to examine the implications of this state of affairs for macroeconomic activity . |
| 13 | We believe that if the wipers did start , even if certain changes had taken place in the situation , there would have occurred an instance of one or another member of this set of types of circumstances . |
| 14 | The rise in the oil price after 1979 was mainly responsible not only for the growth in the share of this group of products in total imports from 1979 to 1984 but also for its decline during the following three years . |
| 15 | While it does not necessarily imply that defective pitting is associated with defective immunological activity , using the technique of differential interference contrast microscopy , this study has highlighted the existence of functional hyposplenism in alcoholic liver disease and suggests that defective splenic function may be an additional mechanism involved in the susceptibility of this group of patients to infection . |
| 16 | The combination of this group of activists with either the residents or the workers was likely to raise questions on the continued operation of the factory , rather than demands for it to be operated safely , as the activists refused to accept that it was possible to work safely with asbestos or other toxic substances , following their similar rebuttal of threshold limits for exposure to radiation in the anti-nuclear movement . |
| 17 | Tony Geraghty twice mentions the disappearance of Leslie 's aircraft , and the reader will realise from the context in which Geraghty discusses this incident that a loss of this number of men from a small unit was a serious matter . |
| 18 | So i it was a thriving and booming factory because of this supply of machines through |
| 19 | The Government claims that the poor will be protected from finding themselves amongst this group of losers by the national system of rebates that will operate alongside the new scheme . |
| 20 | Antiracism seems very comfortable with this idea of blacks as victims . |
| 21 | If the British system of policing is a social construction geared to the maintenance of élitist power and is primarily concerned to keep control over a materially disadvantaged underclass , then these same ‘ dangerous classes ’ seem to have willingly entered into this game of power-relations with their masters ; and by doing so they have deflected attention away from their own lack of privilege and power . |
| 22 | Practical support provides the third example which I shall use in this discussion of patterns of support in the past . |
| 23 | The fundamental task of the work-study engineer is to provide , in this battle of wits between management and workers , that knowledge for management so that they can exercise tighter control . |
| 24 | In this scheme of separations of holy from unholy , ( Jewish ) women are , as it were , the ‘ gentile within' , the unholy half of the holy people . |
| 25 | In this sample of patients with disseminated colorectal cancer the chemotherapy regimen was an effective form of palliative treatment . |
| 26 | There are several possible explanations for the finding of functional hyposplenism in this group of patients with alcoholic liver disease . |
| 27 | There is an important emphasis in this set of projects on consumer choice . |
| 28 | Therefore , the role of increased fasting and residual gall bladder volume — as described in this study of patients with acromegaly receiving octreotide treatment — in the formation of gall stones remains uncertain . |
| 29 | The commonality in this respect of homosexuals in Iran , intravenous drug abusers in New York , and Nepalese women with ‘ India disease ’ as a result of cross-border prostitution is readily apparent . |
| 30 | Certain themes emerge from this discussion of patterns of kin support in the past which give some clues to the type of social processes that underlie the giving and receiving of support in families , and the principles upon which it is based . |