Example sentences of "this [noun] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case by far the most important ground of appeal was the contention that written statements made by Zaidie and Matadial to the police and not disclosed before or during the trial had been wrongly withheld from the defendant and his advisers . |
| 2 | All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time . |
| 3 | This instrument has been used as a demo model for some time , so it 's well played-in ; one potential buyer ( a music-shop owner , would you believe ) strung it up with enormously heavy strings and loosened the truss-rod , but the NY-5 has survived this ill-treatment with just the faintest distortion of the belly . |
| 4 | Since many of my paintings feature horses these days , I feel I really need this knowledge in just the same way that being familiar with human anatomy is essential to really understanding figure drawing . |
| 5 | Since many of my paintings feature horses these days , I feel I really need this knowledge in just the same way that being familiar with human anatomy is essential to really understanding figure drawing . |
| 6 | On this occasion at least the KGB were more efficient than the CIA . |
| 7 | But in the present case it was time to take a stand , to declare once and for all that on this occasion at least the truth was as obvious and evident as it appeared to be . |
| 8 | ‘ Because if you do n't keep your lover away from her I 'll have the two of you off this island with twice the speed of those rockets out there . |
| 9 | And excellent debut compilation albums released this month by both the Dorado and Conscious labels are testament to two London labels that have established niches through funky , funky music played at its roughest . |
| 10 | At this season by far the largest numbers are found in Chichester and Pagham Harbours , in both of which flocks of 100 or more are of regular occurrence in July and August ; the highest count recorded between 1964 and 1976 was a total of 295 on 20 August 1967 . |
| 11 | The Government have increased prescription charges 14 times , and they did so just this week by twice the rate of inflation . |
| 12 | During the period the hired car will be insured under this policy in exactly the same way as your own car is insured and you will only have to pay for the petrol used . |
| 13 | We have been particularly concerned in this report with perhaps the main exemplar of such a development : what has come to be called ‘ environmental scanning ’ . |
| 14 | She 'd gone about this project in entirely the wrong manner . |
| 15 | Programmers can access this memory from outside the parallel processor by using memory mapping . |
| 16 | But what differentiates the earlier part of this century from either the present or the early nineteenth century is that these problems did not all coalesce into one disturbing image of a threatening , dangerous , and disorderly criminal class . |
| 17 | The right wing coalition parties , RPR and UDF , are expected to triumph at the French legislative elections due to take place at the end of this month but , regardless of who wins , the French economy is set to go into recession in the first half of this year with even the most optimistic forecasters predicting zero growth . |
| 18 | The effect of this system on both the official and actual curriculum in schools is examined in later chapters . |
| 19 | There is plenty of evidence for the planting of new vineyards in the Bordelais and even a Poitevin was prepared to admit that Bordeaux wine was of superb quality , but at this date by far the most important wine-exporting region was further north , in Aunis and Saintonge . |
| 20 | A quantitative study ( Bergen , 1983 ) supports this view for both the UK and West Germany . |
| 21 | It was like reliving the Dam Pool experience all over again , this time from above the water , rather than underneath it . |
| 22 | THE most appropriate response to this production from even the most restrained of critics would be a cry of joy . |
| 23 | He was trying , insanely , to preserve everyone in this family in just the state in which he had first encountered them , when they had given him that delightful sense of secure , harmonious , integrated living . |