Example sentences of "this [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this vexing quest was the proof he needed that Valiance existed . |
| 2 | Never in her life had she felt so sure of anyone , as she did then of this enchanted warrior woman . |
| 3 | They used to talk to him endlessly about it , he said , so he grew up hearing about ‘ this enchanted world ’ which became for him rather like fairy stories for other people . |
| 4 | It might be the place where the young of the West come to be seen , but it is the old guard who hold their ground , the poets and writers , pamphleteers and musicians who leave their mark on the atmosphere of this enchanted city . |
| 5 | This dated back to Roman times when bachelors led the bride to the ceremony and married men escorted her back . |
| 6 | Could I just say that readings taken in this adapted way are called decibels A-weighted , which is a bit sort of technical and silly , but it 's kind of important if you 're measuring the sort of sound that people listen to . |
| 7 | This unruffled progression fits perfectly the sort of chain of correlations of consequences which we disentangled at the start of this chapter but it does not seem to offer the prospect of the decisive determination of a particular result . |
| 8 | The trouble with this Islamic history was that , like the Western version , you got involved in it . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's a sort of walkway along this right-hand wall , ’ I told Doone . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This long-run shift to an older population is not peculiar to Britain . |
| 12 | presents EVENINGS OF ENTERTAINMENT TO CELEBRATE THIS EUROPEAN YEAR OF 1992 |
| 13 | IN THE absence of Joel Moore ( Achilles tendon ) and Francis Drake ( retired ) , the Spanish carried too much firepower in this European Championship match . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sadly , there is no place for an Ulster golfer in this European line-up , which is : Higgins , Rogers , Eileen Rose Power , Ada O'Sullivan , Denise McCarthy and Tracy Eakin . |
| 16 | As the tide sweeps on , the sight of President Ceausescu being applauded 67 times at his party congress — while Mrs Ceausescu sat in grim solitude — only highlights the increasingly anachronistic character of this European North Korea . |
| 17 | As the tide sweeps on , the sight of President Ceausescu being applauded 67 times at his party congress — while Mrs Ceausescu sat in grim solitude — only highlights the increasingly anachronistic character of this European North Korea . |
| 18 | After a handful of meandering questions about Fruitbat 's fractured elbow and the bizarre cycling accident ( 'the dog was OK ’ ) from Mr Daily Mirror , a representative from a German mag weighs in with ‘ About this European concept … |
| 19 | Of those influences incomparably the most important was the spread of nationalism ; it is ironic that this European idea was eventually to be the most powerful force undermining Europe 's colonial supremacy . |
| 20 | Ministry return to the US after this European tour to play arenas of between 8,000 and 20,000 capacity . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A are n't we supposed to believe this European union is won , that it 's all unanimous on the rest of it , there does n't seem to be much evidence of that , even when it comes to where the M E Ps should actually sit . |
| 23 | This European colloquium on Heterocyclic chemistry will be held in Noordwijkerhout , The Netherlands , on 12–15 July 1992 . |
| 24 | Painted immediately after the Flemish master 's return from an eight-year sojourn in Italy , the Michelangelesque composition is a monument of the northern Baroque , and virtually synonymous with the golden age of this European port . |
| 25 | Other equally influential modern forms of historiography have tended to develop still further this European ethnocentrism , with other societies viewed either as the passive victims of the European search for markets ( e.g. Wallerstein 1979 ) , so that the rest of the world is seen as peripheral to a West-European core , or else as active players in what is still , however , a story dominated by European desires ( e.g. Wolf 1982 ) . |
| 26 | This European version is supposed to allow eight phones to share a channel . |
| 27 | Despite being 6-1 up from the home leg , boss Graeme Souness is demanding his players treat this European Cup Winners ' Cup clash with Apollon Limassol as anything but a dead game . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Political reality in England , as we have seen , did not exactly square with this European idealization . |
| 30 | Drawing upon this European research and his own observations in the United States , the American diplomat George Perkins Marsh ( 1801–82 ) wrote his Man and Nature of 1864 to warn of the dangers . |