Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the 1840's-50's this figure usually fell between £1,000 and £2,000 per month . |
| 2 | ABERDEEN District Council is to host to a bizarre open day for the curious this weekend — by throwing open the doors to the city 's crematorium . |
| 3 | Thirty pounds for the two this time . |
| 4 | None the less , the attention they have rightly drawn to parochial religion and to non-predestinarian elements within the church should not be allowed to obscure the fact that during the period from 1560 to 1625 credal predestinarianism claimed the allegiance of the great majority of Elizabethan and Jacobean churchmen , or that during the 1630s this creed came under a concerted and unprecedented attack from the ecclesiastical authorities . |
| 5 | During the 1920s this fact had been used against universal family allowances because , it was claimed , they would have the ‘ dysgenic ’ effect of encouraging the idle and the feckless to have more children ( Gray ; 1927 ; McDougall , 1921 ) . |
| 6 | During the 1960s this tendency within English studies developed a consistent right-wing assault on all forms of cultural and educational egalitarianism . |
| 7 | However , during the 1970s this pattern was transformed . |
| 8 | During the 1530s this number was substantially reduced , and a small , select group was formed , compact enough to act as an advisory and executive board . |
| 9 | During the seventies this form of finance became comparatively more attractive as it offered variable rates of interest ( which are tax deductible ) and the short nature of these loans was mitigated by the banks ' willingness to roll-over these loans on request . |
| 10 | A deal may be struck between Gordon Taylor , chief executive of the PFA , and his Premier League counterpart , Rick Parry , after meetings between the two this weekend . |
| 11 | Here 's a nice letter at last about the second this year I think which is n't bad going ! |
| 12 | People are paying about the same this year as they did in 1991 , according to industry figures . |
| 13 | In Britain of the 1960s this challenge of the Welfare State is not isolated : it is but one aspect of the challenge which confronts us throughout the whole political field . |
| 14 | Intel Corp says it will ship 60 versions of the 80486 this year , with clock speeds ranging from 25MHz to 100MHz , senior vice-president Paul Otellini told the Hambrecht & Quist conference in San Francisco : ‘ We now have the capacity to build some 30m 80486s in 1993 , ’ Otellini said , and he expects Intel to sell some 100m 80486 chips after 1993 ; Intel expects to spend some $900m on research and development this year , up from $780m in 1992 , he declared , and would do 1m Pentiums in 1994 . |
| 15 | You know this is very much against this is something typical of the seventies this kind of thing |
| 16 | His office at the Caterham factory is covered with pictures of Seven racing cars — and one of Patrick McGoohan , whom he persuaded to endorse a special 35th anniversary Prisoner edition of the Seven this year ; his most animated conversation is reserved for descriptions of the car and its abilities , and one could almost believe that finances and company administration took a firm back seat to the development and fine tuning of the car 's design . |
| 17 | For most of the eighties this post was held by Robin Catford — of whom more later — who had the privilege of having the tenancy of the best room in Number 10 . |
| 18 | British scientists have revealed that the hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic this year is the largest yet measured . |
| 19 | But the most effective way of controlling recruitment was by an officially-organised entrance examination ; and from the 1850s this device was being used by more and more states . |
| 20 | Subsequently , in the 1970s this approach was also addressed by M.A. Carson in The Mechanics of Erosion ( Carson , 1971 ) in a book which provided a unified introduction to the mechanics of erosional processes and which was aimed at undergraduates in earth science . |
| 21 | In the 1960s this preoccupation gave way to an urgent need to consider domestic problems such as racial disharmony and poverty . |
| 22 | His Windies team come face-to-face with Javed Miandad 's side in a Test series in the Caribbean this winter , and Richardson added : ‘ They will have to be very careful about what they do with the ball . |
| 23 | erm The reason why we moved the amendment on this is er Jim been and that has , we started to query the figures I did n't get involved in the all this week and th people like Jim , David loads of my attention and the whole er exercise was a fraud they 're all bum figures and when I checked , the figures I have checked here are done by a senior officer when I showed 'im what stuff was being wrong . |
| 24 | For a short time in the 1920s this library housed the collections of the National Gallery . |
| 25 | In the 1980s this prospect became less realistic than previously . |
| 26 | In the 1930s this zone was variously referred to as the ‘ axial belt ’ , even the ‘ coffin' , though in truth there was always a low-density gap between London and Birmingham , so perhaps ‘ doughnut ’ would have been more appropriate . |
| 27 | The Left had always emphasised the influence of power politics and capitalism as forces leading to war and in the 1930s this attitude was revalidated . |
| 28 | Consumer public relations depends on using to the full this part of the media and it is generally accepted that any consultant working in this field will have contacts within the appropriate media . |
| 29 | I thought they were lucky in their officials — executive leader Ali Bacher , ANC official Steve Tshwete , manager Alan Jordaan , and coach Mike Procter — and hoped they would enjoy to the full this honeymoon period of World Cup cricket in which their national fans were firmly behind them . |
| 30 | There we are and I 'll I 'll get on to the Royal this morning . |