Example sentences of "this [noun] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quantity called the covariant derivative can be formed by dividing this change by the path length between P and P ’ and taking the limit as i.e. . |
| 2 | Certainly Marryat encouraged comments of this kind by the breezy attitude to his work with which he saw fit to hide a sincere purpose . |
| 3 | The employment contract between the parties dealt with this eventuality by the continuance of such payments to the employee after he had ceased to be employed " provided that the agent 's entitlement to such commission will immediately cease if the agent enters into a contract of service or for services directly or indirectly with any limited company , mutual society , partnership or brokerage operation involved in the selling of insurance or would be in breach of any part of clause 9A hereof were this contract still subsisting " . |
| 4 | During the first month , only one query was raised , in this case by the personnel section , but it was considered important enough to warrant some corrective action . |
| 5 | The third Balkan war of the century happened , as wars usually do , because of miscalculation — in this case by the Greater Serbia people , who had underestimated the readiness of non-Serbs to defend themselves . |
| 6 | In 1963 the personal spending of the elderly amounted to 9 per cent of GNP ; it was still at this level by the late 1970s and was up only to 10.8 per cent by 1983 . |
| 7 | The growing consumer movement , reflected in this instance by the burgeoning of self-advocacy , and the advent of the normalisation movement has impinged very little as yet on these strongly established professional traditions . |
| 8 | The ruling was seen as a victory for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and civil rights groups which had challenged the claims to confidentiality , made in this instance by the University of Pennsylvania , as a shield for discrimination . |
| 9 | He was presumably influenced in this direction by the churchmen around him , among whom Wilfrid is conspicuous for his known familiarity with the see of St Peter . |
| 10 | Forbes was inspired in this direction by the work of Charles Lyell , whose uniformitarian approach to geology stressed the use of observable processes to explain the present state of the earth ( chapter 6 ) . |
| 11 | This information has been relayed in this direction by the Cats Protection League . |
| 12 | The Library is restricted in its efforts in this direction by the traditional layout of the present Exhibition Room , and it is clearly desirable that , when resources permit , the Library should contrive to have a new Exhibition Room adapted to the requirements of modern exhibitions . |
| 13 | In the event , however , the groups which came to power in most of these countries determined to restore capitalism as quickly as possible , encouraged in this course by the swarms of ‘ free-marketeers ’ who descended upon them , notably from the US , Britain , Germany and the International Monetary Fund . |
| 14 | pay for this course by the way ? |
| 15 | This assessment by the health visitors showed a dramatic increase in their own awareness of infant foot health and the acceptability of introducing information earlier to new mothers . |
| 16 | Serbia immediately declared the proclamation illegal ( it was later supported in this assessment by the federal government and the federal Collective State Presidency ) , and the Pristina public prosecutor 's office announced that criminal charges would be brought against those Assembly deputies involved . |
| 17 | Giving his initial reaction on Feb. 19 , Bush declared that the terms fell " well short of what is required " , being supported in this assessment by the UK , but on Feb. 20 Italy appeared to endorse the Soviet plan , Cabinet Secretary Nino Cristofori announcing that Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti had declared it " perfectly in line " with UN resolutions . |
| 18 | ‘ As far as I can see , ’ he said , blinking magisterially , ‘ this decision by the European Court is going to have far-reaching consequences . |
| 19 | Lloyd George was upheld in this division by the votes of Labour and Asquithian Liberal M.P.s who at the time vigorously opposed his repression of Ireland . |
| 20 | A list can even rise to evoking the mood of a picture , as in this description by the Goncourt brothers of Chardin 's subjects ; ‘ He introduces into his pictures his wash-basin , his mastiff puppy , the objects and the creatures to which he is accustomed in his home … the pure simple features of the working middle class , happy in its tranquillity , its labour and its obscurity . |
| 21 | They also claim that the players have ‘ earned ’ this protection by the performances in the rest of the year which have brought about their rankings . |
| 22 | Order was temporarily imposed on this chaos by the Emperor Theodore . |
| 23 | Secondly , this is not a comparative evaluation of different models of service , since the standardised diagnostic assessment carried out in this study by the research psychiatrist is not the same process of assessment that occurs in domiciliary visits performed by psychogeriatricians in more traditional services . |
| 24 | ‘ The committee endorses this action by the licensing authority ’ , Goldberg 's letter goes on , ‘ and considers that , in the light of the apparent safety hazard , suspension of the licence is appropriate at the present time ’ . |
| 25 | This action by the creditor set in motion the issuing , by the clerk , of a writ or summons which was formally delivered to an officer of the Chief Bailiff who served it on the defendant at his house . |
| 26 | This action by the Social Work Department only served to compound the trauma the children were experiencing being removed from their homes and families at all . |
| 27 | In order to ascertain the rights to which any given set of facts give rise , we must always ask what is the rule of Common Law ? what difference ( if any ) is made in the working of this rule by the existence of some rule of Equity applying to the case ? |
| 28 | ‘ We are appalled on this side by the behaviour of the appellant 's witnesses . |
| 29 | In patients with blood group A , circulating anti-B antibody will bind to B antigen in the liver and lead to decreased detection of this epitope by the mouse anti-B antibody . |
| 30 | These positive responses are desirable and would indeed change the nature of the family and would be in the best interests of the black child and his or her parents , but may not be seen in this light by the white family . |