Example sentences of "this [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd come his whack and there was this trail of spunk behind him all over the floor . |
| 2 | The Government of New South Wales apparently took this finding into consideration in deciding to abolish the immunity . |
| 3 | Brasel and Quigley ( 1977 ) reversed this finding in favour of signing producing the best English development . |
| 4 | And , of course , they 've got this grant from Artcan for six thousand pound for a proggie mat exhibition . |
| 5 | We have to see through this framework of thought for what it is : nothing short of academic ideology . |
| 6 | To assist this progress of development in any and every possible way is the programme of this Society ’ . |
| 7 | This change of emphasis from cash to produce is probably the most difficult mental hurdle . |
| 8 | I planned to amplify this change of mood by having different colour schemes . |
| 9 | that there was this change of policy in the Chinese Communist Party . |
| 10 | This change in attitude to the newspaper had many important repercussions . |
| 11 | This change in attitude from exploitation to conservation was undoubtedly influenced by growing industrialisation and urbanisation and by the recognition of the need to manage catchments , water supplies , etc . |
| 12 | I see this change in direction as a development and broadening of the experience of understanding the history of women . |
| 13 | Genette speaks of this change in emphasis as a restoration of equilibrium in literary studies : ‘ Literature had long enough been regarded as a message without a code for it to become necessary to regard it for a time as a code without a message ( 1982 : 7 ) . |
| 14 | It is , however , not possible to accept this judgement in view of the consistency with which either sign appears in very specific musical contexts . |
| 15 | She added : ‘ This purchase of coal from Monktonhall emphasises our well-documented policy of choosing Scottish coal , providing the price is competitive and the quality is acceptable to the company . ’ |
| 16 | For some policemen and women , their family is very important indeed , and , as a later chapter on stress demonstrates , the family can function as a tension release mechanism and an escape from police work , so that ordinary policemen and women tend to protect this preserve from infringement by outsiders , whether social researchers , senior police managers , the IRA , or the public . |
| 17 | But , he adds : ‘ This attribution of femininity to the undivided unity , and of masculinity to the threefold divine energy , is not found explicit in the Church 's teaching traditions . ’ |
| 18 | There are certainly equally worthwhile climbs on Stennis Head , but none at this kind of standard with such ease of access . |
| 19 | Does God have this kind of tenderness towards me ? |
| 20 | A timely point and one which could be made into a test of this kind of narrative by which an author may be seen to have succeeded or failed to create the necessary suspension of disbelief . |
| 21 | It really was rather tedious , she thought , having this kind of discussion at a social gathering . |
| 22 | There follows a simple example of this kind of organisation of ideas and information . |
| 23 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 24 | One still finds traces of this kind of landscape on the fringes of the Black Country , as for example in the hamlet of Lower Gornal , in the hills to the north-west of Dudley . |
| 25 | We can see this kind of order from the way Portia sticks to the command made by her father although he is dead . |
| 26 | This kind of division in the labour market between youth and adults jobs was also investigated by Ashton et al . |
| 27 | It is hard to imagine another institution of comparable size achieving this kind of ethos as a result of a single administrative decision , however consensual its support . |
| 28 | What is disturbing , apart from the underlying assumptions that this kind of assessment for streaming are based upon , and the pressure for all departments to conform to a normative style of assessment , is that in the end the decisions over which pupils should be moved up or down is based upon a very limited range of subjects which do not include art or music . |
| 29 | One can indeed see in pidginized forms based on English this kind of assignment of grammatical function to lexical items of high conceptual generality . |
| 30 | However , they acknowledge the difficulties in applying this kind of taxonomy to language disorders : |