Example sentences of "this [vb -s] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has of course been much fostered by composers and arrangers of jazz , in the idioms of which these instruments have found their most fertile development . |
| 2 | This has of course been a gradual process but has achieved results ( see figure 2 ) . |
| 3 | This smacks of something akin to censorship , as one impeccably non-racist European festival director sadly pointed out to me . |
| 4 | I really do n't care how great Madness were , this smacks of Batley Variety . |
| 5 | All this smacks of disillusionment , though not exactly of regret . |
| 6 | But surely this smacks of charity ; well-meaning but in many cases misguided . |
| 7 | This smacks of an orchestrated campaign by those who are opposed to his policies and would like to do him dirt . ’ |
| 8 | The order is normally deposited very near to the last day , the reason being that this allows of last-minute alterations . |
| 9 | It was never , as we have seen , the Labour government 's intention that the independence of India should be the prelude to a general nunc dimittis , and this disposes of the plausible notion that once India was gone the pointlessness of holding on to the rest of the dependent empire , supposedly acquired to protect the sea routes to Bombay , was immediately perceived . |
| 10 | This amounts of money charged per hour is information which is currently missing from the spreadsheet . |
| 11 | This sounds of course like rampant centralization . |
| 12 | Hope this peels of without chaffing the sleeve , because I 'm up for the record itself . |
| 13 | Yet this appears of no practical importance here , for there is no reason to suppose that the applicant has the least objection to the Director asking him questions so long as ( in line with the cautions already administered ) he does not have to answer . |
| 14 | This consists of a fitted and lined coffin , conveyance for the dead person , or delivery of a coffin ( at least ten running miles allowed ) , laying out of the person , which normally includes embalming , use of the chapel of rest , provision of a hearse , and one following car to the nearest local cemetery or crematorium , and necessary conductors and bearers . |
| 15 | This consists of a return to traditional principles of town planning , of conventional streets , markets and shops . |
| 16 | As the name suggests , this consists of two slices and a filling — or , in engineering terminology , two skins and a core . |
| 17 | In western music , he believes this consists of the piece 's sequence of pitches . |
| 18 | This consists of a clear , chemical-resistant tube with a hand-operated plunger inside that draws chemical from their containers . |
| 19 | This consists of analysing the coins into groups or categories of similar coins , since it is always easier to situate a large group in place and time and then bring greater precision to an individual object forming part of that group . |
| 20 | This consists of a fascinating collection of rural bygones , as well as a complete cobbler 's shop and wheelwright 's . |
| 21 | This consists of a married couple living together with their dependent child(ren) . |
| 22 | This consists of a compact portable reader , a wallet of microfiches and the paper version of the index . |
| 23 | This consists of breaking down the task into its constituent parts and compiling a list of the skills and knowledge involved , thus composing a recipe for the successful performance of the task . |
| 24 | This consists of including a statement of those things with which the nurse is to be provided in order to demonstrate her final level of performance . |
| 25 | This consists of all of the significant relationships in which God places us . |
| 26 | At present in the UK , this consists of all men between the ages of sixteen and sixty-five and all women between the ages of sixteen and sixty who are capable of working . |
| 27 | This consists of pair of cross-coupled NOR gates . |
| 28 | This consists of an S-R bistable with inputs S' and R' , controlled by the outputs of a pair of AND gates . |
| 29 | This consists of a suitable length of 3-core mains-type wire of a 3A rating minimum . |
| 30 | This consists of a sensitive phototransistor . |