Example sentences of "this [noun] of [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This change of properties of a chain from the restricted rotations imposed by energy barriers to the freedom of unrestricted rotation is reflected in the mass by the phenomenon of the glass-to-rubber transition or glass transition s it is commonly termed . |
| 2 | It should be realized that this change of tactics in the gilt-edged market is consistent with the objective of greater competitiveness since it allowed greater freedom for market forces to determine prices , and therefore yields , on government stock and close substitutes . |
| 3 | that there was this change of policy in the Chinese Communist Party . |
| 4 | But , he adds : ‘ This attribution of femininity to the undivided unity , and of masculinity to the threefold divine energy , is not found explicit in the Church 's teaching traditions . ’ |
| 5 | It really was rather tedious , she thought , having this kind of discussion at a social gathering . |
| 6 | One still finds traces of this kind of landscape on the fringes of the Black Country , as for example in the hamlet of Lower Gornal , in the hills to the north-west of Dudley . |
| 7 | We can see this kind of order from the way Portia sticks to the command made by her father although he is dead . |
| 8 | This kind of division in the labour market between youth and adults jobs was also investigated by Ashton et al . |
| 9 | It is hard to imagine another institution of comparable size achieving this kind of ethos as a result of a single administrative decision , however consensual its support . |
| 10 | She had never intended to become involved in this kind of conversation with the soldier , but somehow he had trapped her into replying . |
| 11 | Achieving this kind of position within the group requires , in addition to being tall , a full knowledge of the entire repertoire of chants and of the occasions on which it is appropriate to use them . |
| 12 | This kind of critique of the traditional gentlemanly and humanistic , and even new-critical , basis of English became ever more common in the course of the 1960s and later . |
| 13 | But Grendon is founded on this kind of relationship between the staff and prisoners . |
| 14 | A spokesman said : ‘ We see no point in dignifying this kind of speculation with a comment . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They owned this kind of enclave on the coast just outside Ajaccio — like a kind of tourist village — that 's where they kept the women , really , while they were away on business . |
| 16 | There is a great deal of this kind of description in the Song of Roland , and a great deal more : action , speech and sentiment . |
| 17 | Holiday parks in which you can camp , or stay in a chalet or caravan are now remarkably good — so much so that if you have n't tried this kind of holiday for a few years you could be in for a very pleasant surprise . |
| 18 | It is fine to stay at this kind of level for a while . |
| 19 | In the context of a thorough-going twentieth-century challenge to religious belief , it is easy to see how this kind of retreat to a self-contained theism becomes attractive . |
| 20 | This work is grounded in the view that this kind of awareness on the part of children as writers enables them to gain a degree of control over their imagination ( see Rowland , The Enquiring Classroom , 1984 and ‘ Responding to Children 's Interests ’ , 1986 ) . |
| 21 | Frank Mort has commented on this kind of separation between the new intellectuals who are happy and confident to mix genre and ignore qualitative and semantic difference ‘ because they already know the map of Western culture ’ and are distinct from those ‘ who do not carry with them those levels of cultural capital . ’ |
| 22 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 23 | This kind of emphasis on the opposition between , rather than the complementary nature of , the active and contemplative lives was reflected in the patristic interpretation of the story of Martha and Mary ( Luke 10:38 — 42 ) in which Christ excuses Mary 's lack of active help in Martha 's household chores because she was listening to him , on the grounds that she was concentrating on that which was most essential . |
| 24 | However , this is something to watch for because , unless sorted , this kind of problem on a guitar only gets worse . |
| 25 | Investigators have tackled this kind of problem in a number of ways . |
| 26 | The obvious lightness of the skeleton meant that this kind of existence for an air-breathing semi-aquatic animal would have been particularly inappropriate , because of the buoyancy of their air-filled bodies . |
| 27 | If the new Transport Secretary can negotiate this kind of deal with the Treasury , he could give the phrase Parkinson 's Law an entirely new meaning . |
| 28 | Part of this study looks at the effect , using such fine-grained phonetic descriptions , of this kind of ambiguity on the whole utterance . |
| 29 | Marx himself did , however , leave some basic clues as to how we might achieve this kind of understanding of the state . |
| 30 | This kind of desire for a natural — and ‘ reasonable ’ — religion developed strongly in deism , and led to the same kind of conflict with orthodoxy as with the Bible and miracles . |