Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of loyalist figures have appeared before the courts already this year charged with making threats and demanding cash from businessmen . |
| 2 | So I mean , we could , we could recruit people in to do it , but the problem there is they 've got to be free at the times when this course runs . |
| 3 | Writing in The Times earlier this month , Ross Tieman said : |
| 4 | In Chapter 3 I discuss some of the reasons why this approach must fail and why the idea of individuality can not be " defined " in terms of certain criteria whereby ontological particulars are re-identified and distinguished from species . |
| 5 | One of the reasons why this proposition was distasteful to many of Bruno 's contemporaries was that it deprived humanity of a privileged place in the cosmos . |
| 6 | Next , I will examine some of the reasons why this cooperation is so hard to achieve . |
| 7 | The reasons why this type of hearing loss affects language development is not yet clear . |
| 8 | The reasons why this type of job has arisen in agencies are complex , and reflect weaknesses both in existing agency staffing and structure and in clients ' ability to brief their agencies in the right way . |
| 9 | So often the push is in the opposite direction to doing research which does n't involve one in long-term contact with the schools , and this of course is one of the reasons why this type of research is n't so often done , but I hope to do some more work in classrooms , yes . |
| 10 | So often the push is in the opposite direction , to doing research which does n't involve one in long-term contact with the schools and this , of course , is one of the reasons why this type of research is n't so often done , but I hope to do some more work in classrooms , yes . |
| 11 | Such vacillating fortunes of harvest were to become the norm for Champagne and , perversely , prove to be one of the reasons why this region is able to produce a sparkling wine superior to any other . |
| 12 | As to the reasons why this alteration is necessary , the county council thinks there are three reasons , The first is to reflect the wish of government that the development planning system er is up to date , second and more practically , to provide a context for district wide development plan , and third , the urgent need to resolve the future strategic planning direction of greater York . |
| 13 | The reasons why this alternative was not adopted in Britain require investigation . |
| 14 | VINTAGE car enthusiast Gordon Smith , a commissionaire at Barlaston , is eagerly looking forward to running is 1920 Humber Tourer out on the roads again this spring . |
| 15 | Not wicked but definitely off with the fairies earlier this week was ALEX , bass player and chief hair-shaker from NED 'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN . |
| 16 | USL and SunSoft identified areas of difference in their desktops whilst beta testing the environments earlier this year . |
| 17 | The City remains worried about the impact of the falling pound on inflation once higher costs work through to the shops later this year . |
| 18 | ‘ We also sold between £1,500 and £2,000-worth of ice creams to the shops locally this weekend . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Look , Micky , ’ said Peter Hickton , ‘ would it help if we were to go through the lines again this evening , just the two of us ? ’ |
| 20 | The same trio of firms that occupied the top three overall places in 1989 took the honours again this time ( see table 1 ) . |
| 21 | But Tyrone took the honours earlier this season when they met in the league at the Athletic Grounds . |
| 22 | Until the blight is eradicated , no one will wish to employ people from the areas where this menace exists , and the poor will become poorer . |
| 23 | The name originated from the days when this house belonged to the local policeman . |
| 24 | It was she who had cared for him , and looked after him , too , until he died , and in the bed upstairs in which he had been born , and his father before him , in the days when this house had really been a farmhouse and the land about had been glowing with crops in their rotation . |
| 25 | James McAdam , brought in as chairman by the banks when the company hit the skids earlier this year , knows nothing about retailing , and even less about jewellery . |
| 26 | The many occasions over the years when this summit has been short of water were thus inevitable unless the level of leakage could have been reduced to an absolute minimum . |
| 27 | ‘ What you observe there is that in the battleground seats , the seats where this election will be determined , Labour is doing even better than we are in the national , overall polls , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Daughter Alison , 20 , who co-starred with Clint in the thriller Tightrope , went off the rails earlier this year and checked into a drink dependency clinic in Arizona . |
| 29 | Before the changes earlier this year , the thief , the receiver of stolen goods or the finder of property who had failed to declare his find to the proper authorities , never acquired title to that property . |
| 30 | Now if you fi go back to sort of in the 1970 's and the nineteen possibly into the 1980's erm there was er a certain amount of emphasis on disrupted family dynamics , there 's something wrong with the families where this kind of thing occurs . |