Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the [noun sg] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | More seriously , the midfield player was full of praise for Nicholl 's contribution on and off the field this season . |
| 2 | For there was no doubt about her success that night , and for the encore this time , she came on alone . |
| 3 | Toads are poisonous , too , but like the cobra they prefer not to use their poison except as a last resort , although for a different reason — their poison glands only secrete their lethal dose when the toad is bitten hard by an attacker , and for the toad this is leaving matters far too late , with serious injury a strong possibility . |
| 4 | In the day the pineal creates and stores a chemical called serotonin , and during the night this is converted into melatonin and released into the bloodstream . |
| 5 | Students may take a wide variety of subjects both from within and outwith the faculty this is one of the ways in which options can be kept open . |
| 6 | The cartoon , and I , I was only I can remember , my dream was really vivid , I was standing up in my cot , and all of a sudden my bedroom windows flew open , curtains blew and in the window this bright light and then this wolf coming to get me , and it was the most scary dream I 've ever had . |
| 7 | Mars , compared to the Earth , may be depleted in H , C and N , and it seems fairly certain that Venus is heavily depleted in H. The surfaces of Mercury and the Moon are very heavily depleted in all volatiles , and in the main this is probably because of a smaller initial endowment . |
| 8 | It is impossible to say from their findings of fact , or reasons , what their view of the witnesses was and in the result this decision can not stand . |
| 9 | On another level , on a completely different level the book is about Freud 's attempt in my erm in the second edition of I used the analogy of a detective story like Sherlock Holmes or something , or something er i i it , it 's an attempt by Freud to reconstruct specific historical events that may or may not have happened , using a kind of detective 's method because Freud picks up tiny little clues like Moses ' name , the fact that he does n't appear to be able to speak the language in the Bible , he always speaks through an interpreter , and in the Bible this , this is explained away by saying . |
| 10 | It has taken all of six years and in the end this chartered architect has been entirely vindicated , but the case does highlight the vulnerability of architects in employment . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ On one hand we have John Major basking in Barcelona in the glory of our people winning medals and on the other this mean action . ’ |
| 12 | And he came running out behind us and at the back this massive puzzle and he slipped over in the mud sli slide straight forward and into the . |
| 13 | But it appears to me that , on the face of this document , there is no intention shown so to limit its effect , and that it is framed in the widest possible terms so as to cover , not only this particular debt , but all other claims by the bank in connection with the Professional and Trades Papers Ltd. , for it is admitted that the foundation of the judgment was the guarantee , and at the time this document was drawn up there was this joint liability on the judgment to the extent of £6,000 . |
| 14 | But you 've also got ta say , and by the way this is one we did earlier . |
| 15 | And by the time this magazine goes to press Mr Lang is expected to have announced that he is rejecting the Countryside Commission for Scotland 's detailed proposals for four Scottish national parks in Glen Coe and Ben Nevis , Loch Lomond , the Cairngorms and Wester Ross . |
| 16 | Whilst the typewriter is still the dominant method of putting words onto paper the ubiquitous word processor marches inexorably onward and by the time this decade ends the majority of published material will at least be electronically created . |
| 17 | We are already two-thirds of the way through our stay in Peking , and by the time this letter reaches you we may well be getting ready to leave for Sian . |
| 18 | Across North Yorkshire and around the world this is Radio York from the B B C. |
| 19 | But with the wind this way it 's next to impossible . ’ |
| 20 | In neither country were these created in the larger urban areas , but in the principality this only meant a few heavily populated areas in south Wales . |
| 21 | The convention 's preparatory committee had discussed whether to advocate a declaration of support for direct negotiations with PLO members " having no prior record of terrorist activity " , but in the event this was left unresolved . |
| 22 | Measurement of protein synthesis in individual tissues is therefore advantageous when further investigating these abnormalities in protein metabolism , but in the past this has usually required animal studies . |
| 23 | ‘ Within these criteria I have so far ensured that buildings have not suffered closure , but in the future this may not be possible owing to the shrinking budget , ’ said Mr Eyton Jones . |
| 24 | The Green Eyed Rasbora is distinguished by its shining , bright green eyes , but in the picture this fails to come through . |
| 25 | Sometimes councils are reluctant to designate conservation areas if they feel the residents will object , but on the whole this is unlikely . |
| 26 | Some hostility or distress on the part of the dementia sufferers to some of the memory testing or depression questions , and to the performance tests , had been anticipated ; but on the whole this was not found to be the case . |
| 27 | Money The full Moon in your Second House of money could coincide with a minor financial hiccup , but on the whole this is a good time for you . |
| 28 | Some of them had taken drugs , but on the whole this was regarded as both old-fashioned and working-class , so swiftly do perceptions and attitudes change . |
| 29 | Having to hastily reorganise the backs late in the week , Haslemere expected to be short of their usual firepower , but on the day this was further confounded by the late arrival of another two players and an almost complete breakdown in discipline . |
| 30 | It is difficult for us to imagine now , but at the time this was a revolutionary book , not only because it put a new type of archaeological field monument , the deserted medieval village ( DMV ) , firmly on the map , but also because it heralded a new era in the study of rural settlements in this country . |