Example sentences of "this [noun sg] of [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sparta did not abandon her aims in Thessaly ; in 426 the Spartans founded a colony at Herakleia in Trachis , which commanded the Thessalian border ( p. 131 ) ; and later in this book we shall follow this thread of Spartan policy further still ( see p. 153 and chapter 14 , p. 186 ) . |
| 2 | When we talk to each other we usually take in this kind of visual information subconsciously . |
| 3 | This kind of melodic doubling often occurred in old operas , as if the composer felt the voice needed support . |
| 4 | This kind of gross categorisation really tells us nothing about how the language varieties are " mixed " — neither the kind of mixing nor the proportions . |
| 5 | You may well not have this kind of elaborate back up to help forecast your manpower requirements . |
| 6 | Frequently the top layer of this kind of green drains well , posing a difficult problem for stopping the ball with a wedge . |
| 7 | Nevertheless every choreographer creating this kind of romantic ballet today has to spend much time creating the proper gestures to replace the words , which in such ballets are never spoken but must be understood . |
| 8 | Why , in higher education , do we tend to associate this kind of intellectual activity more with the performing arts , the humanities and the social sciences , and with professional education , than with the pure sciences and the technologies ? |
| 9 | No manmade nuclear repository could hope to cope with this kind of natural event either . |
| 10 | She also came to see that , as a woman , she understood the psychology of this difficulty of human love better than most of her male colleagues who were often , she considered , almost callous in their disinclination to feel the emotional agonies in which some people laboured , shackled to delinquent children or senile parents or destructive marriages . |
| 11 | The Substitute accepted this jumble of incomprehensible information equitably . |
| 12 | Nobody has exemplified the extremes of this aberration of outdoor endeavour more than Chris Townsend , so it serves him right that he is called to write a book on the subject . |
| 13 | It was made clear , furthermore , that the Society did not regard the houses of businessmen or the ‘ newly rich ’ as ‘ distinguished ’ , and in my opinion this piece of out-dated thinking crucially undermined any serious authority the Society may have achieved to arbitrate on standards in our profession . |
| 14 | This stretch of broad water actually carries more shipping than the rest of the rivers of the Empire put together , and it is the principal route for trade in the Empire . |
| 15 | Now , I have heard tell in the sultry dens of Freudianism that the psychological scar inflicted by this act of parental desertion frequently induces the daughter , when she is of an age to start questing for a swain , to seek a substitute for the departed archetype . |
| 16 | And if you take this issue of Ideal Home along with you , you 'll be entitled to one reduced adult admission of just £3.50 . |
| 17 | He continued ‘ Many of our former members who left the Association because of this type of subtle coercion now bitterly regret their decision . |
| 18 | Er couple the two together they do n't really make sense because this type of experimental theatre never pays , ca n't pay . |
| 19 | But could this fantasy of genetic engineering ever become reality ? |
| 20 | But could this fantasy of genetic engineering ever become reality ? |
| 21 | All you have to do is stand still , then in a sudden , short burst of activity you chuck this sort of cannon-ball-like object as far as you can . |
| 22 | Well I mean you do n't have to see , so this you 've got this sort of social thing there . |
| 23 | This facet of conversational discourse quite naturally leads to a consideration of the individual speaker 's topics within what we have been discussing as the conversational topic . |
| 24 | This group of disturbed children also had a greater persistence of bedwetting . |
| 25 | The community could cope with this group of minor offenders better through the provision of special hostels and supervisory care staff but , at present , few initiatives are planned in this area . |
| 26 | Although it is by no means axiomatic , this notion of competitive intelligence usually brings with it an extra dimension , when compared with environmental analysis ( and , to a lesser degree , with issues management and marketing intelligence ) . |
| 27 | A series of articles outlining this strategy of revolutionary quality rather than quantity was published in Nationalism Today throughout 1987 . |
| 28 | We can see that in this area of intellectual work even the analysis of concepts carries with it a considerable political and even emotional charge . |
| 29 | As we shall see , however , this sense of cultural vitality later comes to be severely inhibited by fears of social instability . |
| 30 | The gynaecologist asks me : ‘ Is this size of vaginal speculum really used in the Netherlands and are the delivery beds that wide ? ’ |