Example sentences of "this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soft apricot colour flared in her cheeks at this rasp of disapproval . |
| 2 | The overall effect of this hedging activity in recent years has been to reduce the group 's interest charge . |
| 3 | A sub-committee for conferences is , therefore , to be set up with responsibility for all the conferences organised under DAB 's auspices ; this subcommittee will subsume the Annual Congress Committee . |
| 4 | AD 620 there were rare English imitations of Frankish coin , but despite any possible tendency for this coin to become currency , it would still have found its greatest use for high-value transactions and storage . |
| 5 | ( There was , however , another side to this coin . |
| 6 | Even the enthusiasm of a Maury Temerlin ( 1976 ) does not tempt him to attribute this level of sophistication to Ameslan Lucy ; in part , for the obvious reason , that she would then be at risk to what is on the other side of this coin — moral guilt . |
| 7 | The other side of this coin is an impressive surge capability on hand when the need arises . |
| 8 | On the other side of this coin we find Chip Beck and Lanny Wadkins . |
| 9 | Please identify this coin which was found on the Thames foreshore . |
| 10 | Please could you identify this coin for me ? |
| 11 | All the other Judaean coins of the Persian period have non-Jewish symbols ; there is no particular reason to believe that this coin bears a Jewish symbol . |
| 12 | is this coin the same as , say , a fifty-dollar piece , then the answer is no . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I said this coin is n't like ours . |
| 14 | But always this trail of slime . |
| 15 | He 'd come his whack and there was this trail of spunk behind him all over the floor . |
| 16 | Along this trail , blazed by Lithuania , others will also tread . |
| 17 | The third time I heard this trail ( as they are called ) , I dashed off a quick letter about my coffin difficulties , asking , at the same time , that if the producer considered my problem worth airing , could I be provided with a tape-recorder so I could get some of the more pompous prevarications dished out by the trade on permanent record ? |
| 18 | This trail is open to walkers , cyclists and horse-riders . |
| 19 | Duncan McKelvie , Director of the Centre , says ‘ The aim of creating this trail is to encourage novice scuba divers to become interested in marine ecology at the very outset of their interests in the sport ’ . |
| 20 | They deposit scent from the tip of their abdomen along the route from the food to the nest , and this trail is followed and added to by other ants as they return with food . |
| 21 | We are surely required to follow this trail as best we can . |
| 22 | Why this trail of lapsed tragedies and tantalizing trifles ? |
| 23 | But before we follow this trail we must investigate the rhetoric of the Querelle , and its legacy . |
| 24 | By this time I was feeling very friendly towards them and I might have said something to the effect : " If you will just mosey on down this trail ( meaning the main road between Cambridge and Huntingdon ) you will come to Alconbury , some 15 to 16 miles away . " |
| 25 | Each had appealed against this finding , and each appeal had been turned down . |
| 26 | According to a survey conducted for the BBC in April 1974 by Professor Richard Rose , sixty-nine per cent of the people of Northern Ireland thought that the executive should be given a chance to govern but this finding was contradicted by the results of a general election two months earlier and may reflect the general tendency of survey respondents to make statements in response to poll questions which are more moderate than their real views . |
| 27 | This finding suggests that the Fas gene is involved in the signalling mechanism that normally causes the self-reactive white blood cells to die . |
| 28 | Although they again found no difference between subjects given no pre-exposure and those exposed to a variety of flavours , interpretation of this finding is rendered equivocal by the fact that the two groups drank different amounts of the CS flavour on the conditioning trial . |
| 29 | This finding is open to the criticism that it reflects no more than a difference between the two phenomena in their sensitivity — that the procedure in question disrupts some process common to both phenomena and that the latent inhibition procedure provides a more sensitive measure of this disruption than does the habituation procedure . |
| 30 | To accept the implication of this finding makes it difficult to explain away the dissociation obtained by Hall and Channell ( 1985b ) ( the observation that latent inhibition is context dependent when habituation is not ) , which came from an experiment using the same response measures , stimuli , and procedures as were used by Hall and Schachtman ( 1987 ) . |