Example sentences of "[prep] this [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was during this period that with the cooperation of the US Occupation , parts of the bureaucracy , elected conservative politicians and private employers sought to alter the extent of labour rights in order , it was argued , to maintain internal political stability . |
| 2 | It was during this time that as a senior staff officer of V Corps he had been involved with some of the orders to repatriate the Russian and Yugoslav prisoners . |
| 3 | It is for this reason that for the central part of the projects we selected representative variables that occur frequently and can therefore be quantified in terms of the full range of speaker-variables . |
| 4 | It was perhaps partly for this reason that on 21 September he ordered General Enrique Varela ( who had taken over from Yagüe when the latter became ill ) to make a detour to Toledo , to relieve what remained of nearly 2,000 Nationalists who had been besieged in the giant fortress — the alcazar — since the end of July . |
| 5 | It is for this reason that in so much of the literature and documentation dealing with the justification of a war emphasis was placed upon the enemy as a rebel who must be punished for his acts of infidelity or treason . |
| 6 | It was for this reason that in Du Contrat Social he mocked the English by contending that the English people " is free only during the election of Members of Parliament ; as soon as the Members are elected , the people is enslaved ; it is nothing . " |
| 7 | It is for this reason that in our quantitative analysis we have treated speaker variables as independent of one another . |
| 8 | It is for this reason that in Victorian novels the description of working-class interiors , as I have mentioned , invariably emphasizes their hard-won decency . |
| 9 | It is for this reason that in such cases there can be no conspiracy between the directors and shareholders on the one hand and the company on the other : Reg. v. McDonnell [ 1966 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 10 | It is for this reason that in this book I ordinarily use kinship in its wider sense . |
| 11 | At all events , it was through this channel that in early November he engineered a meeting with Wagner . |
| 12 | So powerful were the effects of this philosophy that to those who looked down from a higher level in society , the suffering became invisible ; or if not invisible , then transparent , and their view was not arrested by it but looked through it at what they took to be economic verities beyond . |
| 13 | I mentioned at the start of this address that around the fire Joseph and Mary and their children would have gathered for fun and fellowship . |
| 14 | It wo n't be lost on anyone concerned with the application of this settlement that despite the Secretary of State 's earlier remarks as the democratically controlled public sector , represented by local government , faces further cuts . |
| 15 | ‘ 8(1) Subject to subsection ( 2 ) below , of any two specimens of breath provided by any person in pursuance of section 7 of this Act that with the lower proportion of alcohol in the breath shall be used and the other shall be disregarded . |
| 16 | Half a century later , such commentary as there is on Pound 's poem is still for the most part concerned with this question that for Bunting ‘ does not arise ’ . |
| 17 | There is some evidence in the papers on US , EC , and UK competition policy in this issue that despite differing objectives at the origination of policy , the growing consensus is that the focus should be on economic efficiency . |
| 18 | It is in this way that in our system ‘ common law ’ is subordinate to ‘ statute ’ … |
| 19 | While I do not want to detract from the bilinguals ' versatility or the value of their multicultural experience , I will argue in this chapter that in fact monolinguals have broadly the same range of linguistic " powers " as bilinguals have , though sometimes these are manifested in other ways . |
| 20 | It is argued in this book that in many areas of the world where environmental fragility is an outstanding characteristic , there is a failure to adapt to a variety of new and related pressures , particularly population pressure and increased state intervention which is often extractive in nature , and also that such technically state-sponsored innovations that there are , tend to be inappropriate or inaccessible . |
| 21 | The goal here is to illustrate the general contention set out in this book that in order to use regions in geography ( as against practising regional geography ) it is necessary to appreciate what the salient features of a region ( or place ) are — some of which may be more important to particular research tasks than others . |
| 22 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 23 | It should be apparent from this case that in assessing what damages are recoverable ( i.e. within the rules in Hadley v. Baxendale ) for breach of a term as to quality , one does not ask simply ‘ What type of damage could the seller at the time of the contract have predicted ? ’ |
| 24 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 25 | The whole of the double-entry system is based upon this principle and it follows from this principle that at any time the total debits must equal the total credits and by adding the two a check can be made on the double entry ; this is one of the main advantages of the system . |
| 26 | It will be seen from this extract that at a baptism sometimes both parents ' names were recorded , but occasionally only the father 's . |
| 27 | It can be estimated from this experiment that at least 100 to 150 bp of DNA have been added to the ends of the linear plasmid . |
| 28 | Arthur Acland , the then president of the Association , had already stated in his address to this meeting that in the promotion of " effective use of the English language " , one of the best means was " to foster a love of English literature " Thus , English literature was seen by members of the Association as the most effective vehicle for establishing through elementary education acceptable standards of linguistic usage . |
| 29 | It was to try to shed some further light on this matter that on 2 July 1992 , by way of a written question , I asked the Government its view of the legal status of agreements appended to treaties amending the Treaty of Rome . |
| 30 | It is worthy of note at this stage that on Mr t to say that on Mr calculations the figures for multiplier and multiplicand to the cost of total ca er of future care involved an addition to a total sum of one million two hundred and twenty five thousand seven hundred and fifty five pounds and twenty eight pence . |