Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This change in attitude together with the problems of housing the vehicles , ensured the rock-bottom values which enabled to collect . |
| 2 | But the conventions surrounding the drama itself usually go some way to counter this kind of misapprehension even in mediaeval times . |
| 3 | Be sure to scatter this kind of food thinly in the places where these species normally forage — a heap of cheese in the middle of the lawn will just attract the attentions of your local starlings . |
| 4 | and the other thing is that to get this kind of continuity even at one post he 's got to work with Dave for at least six months and Dave 's going in March next year so we want a A L O in post by September of this year if that 's possible . |
| 5 | I 've taken someone this afternoon from Highdown just until the half term when they should go to a special school . |
| 6 | Thousands of feet had tramped this route in times past before railways and military invasion . |
| 7 | Could I just conclude Moderator by saying that those who are engaged in ACTS the churches which are participating members of this action of churches together in Scotland are engaged in a journey together . |
| 8 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 9 | The girl was attacked after leaving this club in Northampton just after 11 p.m. last night . |
| 10 | Right , it 's not too late to start to again , I , I 'll chuck this piece of paper away for you . |
| 11 | In Leeds , the LEA 's current framework ( Leeds City Council 1991b ) might usefully be monitored and modified where appropriate — with this issue of balance firmly in mind . |
| 12 | With this issue on sale just before the ADT London Marathon , we 've packed in pages of practical information about after the race . |
| 13 | The mumming play , of which the pace-egg play is an Easter version , was performed originally at Christmas and I will be discussing survivals of this type of play later in the book . |
| 14 | There seems to be no example yet available of this type of development anywhere in the world . |
| 15 | Politicians get away with this sort of behaviour only in totalitarian states . |
| 16 | Later still he said : ‘ Honestly , Jannie , nobody watches this sort of programme apart from the relatives of the performers . ’ |
| 17 | It is possible to do this sort of analysis only within the arthropod phylum , because only that has enough species , with enough measurable features . |
| 18 | Yet this shift of interest away from ‘ primitive ’ societies has not provided us with a new framework of analysis for we still tend to ‘ tribalise ’ complex societies by looking at the simpler aspects e.g. rural communities only . |
| 19 | Only after causatives have been studied from this point of view both in English and in other languages will we be in a position to attempt valid generalizations across languages . |
| 20 | That Conservatives have been keen to sustain this argument should have sounded alarm bells for scholars of Conservatism , but the only alarming thing has been a tendency to accept this concept of Conservatism almost at face value . |
| 21 | Hypocrisy entered this pattern of behaviour only in so far as the bourgeois women were supposed to remain entirely outside the game , and therefore in ignorance of what the men , and women other than themselves , were up to . |
| 22 | For years companies who have fleets of cars have used this method of payment instead of buying outright . |
| 23 | Every immigrant family carries this sense of pain somewhere in its psyche , but often it is left to the women to hold the sense of pain and loss while the husbands and children find their way in the new world . |
| 24 | On the other hand , when we can intellectually see no connection between , for example , being gold and being malleable ( when we have learnt of this property of gold only from experience ) , we do not know that gold must be malleable . |
| 25 | We can read this assimilation of characters either as an irony beyond the Miller 's ken , confirming the limits of his churl 's intellect , or as a droll piece of self-examination and reflection on the character 's part : the Miller might , as he says in his prologue , be a cuckold as John is . |
| 26 | Police were called to this hotel in Northampton just before closing time last night . |
| 27 | And I ca n't think that you 'd come round at this time of day just for a chat . " |
| 28 | This set of books together with the index gives further information about attitudes and their measurement , including the other types of scales available . |
| 29 | No wonder he was such a top dog in the City if he wielded this calibre of authority merely via the passive act of listening ! |
| 30 | ( 4 ) Where a contact for the sale or other disposition of an interest in land satisfies the conditions of this section by reason only of the rectification of one or more documents in pursuance of an order of the court , the contract shall come into being , or be deemed to have come into being , at such time as may be specified in the order . |