Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was good to see and touch the Inca stones again ; to remind myself of the depth this city had : the dignity beyond the constant assault of the hustlers . |
| 2 | Suddenly at the height of the battle this purple and now orange mushroom bursts across the entire screen , devouring both armies in its path . |
| 3 | Kuhn 's direction has accuracy and breadth on its side , and also just speeds , but something of the incandescence this score calls for is missing . |
| 4 | For the duration of the evaluation this space remained undeveloped , and although minimally used as a work area by some children , its main function was that of storage for an embryonic collection of newspaper cuttings . |
| 5 | In the long history of the Church this is usually how change has come about . |
| 6 | Many of the more senior academics have left university employment and the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has spoken of the threat this poses to academic leadership . |
| 7 | Yet in the final version of the order this exclusion was omitted . |
| 8 | The heart of his argument is that Lab-our activists , at least since Ramsay MacDonald 's betrayal in 1931 , have distrusted their leaders , and he quotes Sidney Webb 's analysis of the problem this causes : ‘ The constituency parties are frequently unrepresentative groups of nonentities dominated by fanatics , cranks and extremists . |
| 9 | At the time of the Council this was surely the characteristically conciliar expression which mattered most to the majority of people throughout the Church . |
| 10 | He is due to get a comprehensive view of the country this week , from watching marines train in California and visiting the 82nd Airborne Division in North Carolina , to a touch of military tourism on the site of the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg . |
| 11 | The promotional side of the event this year was given edge by a visiting delegation of senior decision-makers , including energy ministers and heads of state oil companies , from nine countries where oil and gas activity is expanding , including Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan and Colombia where BPX has interests . |
| 12 | He had made sure of the Jew this time , and the whore . |
| 13 | Sometimes referred to as a ‘ packaged plumbing ’ unit , a combination cylinder has its own cold water storage cistern fitted on top of the cylinder This arrangement can be used where there is no room for a separate cold water storage cistern in a flat or a house with a flat roof . |
| 14 | In the centre of the layer this transport is brought about by the first term of eqn ( 22.11 ) : essentially just the fact that rising currents in the convection are typically hotter than falling ones . |
| 15 | In the jargon of the subject this discontinuous change is called the collapse of the wavepacket . |
| 16 | ‘ I seem to have got entirely the wrong end of the stick this afternoon , ’ she said sadly . |
| 17 | Where the question before the court relates to the upbringing of the child this principle is given statutory form by section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1989 , but the test would now be the same even without the intervention of statute : see J. v. C. [ 1970 ] A.C. 668 , 697 , 724 ; In re B. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Sterilisation ) [ 1988 ] A.C. 199 , 202 , 212 . |
| 18 | There has unfortunately been a drop in the number of members of the Society this year . |
| 19 | Developed in the style of Eye of the Beholder this game is easily the best role playing adventure available on shareware . |
| 20 | In the middle of the sex this man whispered in Boy 's ear , you 're just like him , you know , you 're just like him you are . |
| 21 | There was no question of the winner this time . |
| 22 | Books and magazines accounted for over £10,000 of the total this year . |
| 23 | In the Preface of the Octavo Dictionary ( 1724 ) , Philip Miller remarked that before the beginning of the century this country 's preoccupation with trade had allowed the Italians , French and Dutch to outstrip it in horticulture . |
| 24 | One of London 's leading salons is holding the sale of the century this month . |
| 25 | The use of terms such as ‘ social evil ’ and the ‘ social diseases ’ suggests a widespread fear of the social implications of prostitution , and by the middle years of the century this fear was becoming part of a general social anxiety . |
| 26 | In the second half of the century this trend was reversed . |
| 27 | To get the detail which a copper engraving can show was more difficult , but by the middle of the century this had been achieved and lithography was the normal medium . |
| 28 | The German professor was a powerful figure , hiring and firing his assistants and doing his best to place his favourite students , though by the end of the century this was becoming more difficult . |
| 29 | It is necessary , therefore , to remember that for most of the century this admiration was not felt by most foreigners . |
| 30 | This stripping away of extraneous duties continued under its successor , the College of Foreign Affairs , which began to function in 1719 , and well before the end of the century this process of specialization had been completed . |