Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To it we owe that nervous , spidery line of the drawings — so quick , so attentive , yet so despairing — that alerts us to the elusiveness of the subject at the same time that it perseveres in the attempt to render it . |
| 2 | This has something of the smack of a ‘ like it or not ’ pronouncement of the kind commonly declaimed by those who would have us suppose that opposition to things we do not like would be pointless . |
| 3 | The carving of the features on the youth 's head , fig. 70 , is so like that of the girl 's that they may well be the work of one artist ; but this has none of the other 's contradictions . |
| 4 | This has none of the mysticism about it , but has been hammered in by a pragmatic human being , after careful choice of the most suitable section available . |
| 5 | At one level , this exhibits itself in the place that mathematics and science have come to occupy , mainly in virtue of their underpinning of technology in all its forms , including information technology and computerization . |
| 6 | This places one in the domain of knowledge or facts and the perceiving necessarily precedes the logical conclusion to which it gives rise . |
| 7 | This says nothing about the Government 's industrial strategy , because although the Government give nothing to the DCDC , they give more than £500,000 to the Devon and Cornwall development bureau , the inward investment bureau . |
| 8 | Even if there were regular hours , this says nothing about the intensity of labour . |
| 9 | ‘ This says something for the era in which projects have to be approved by television , ’ he told me . |
| 10 | This says something about the economy in this region , and the sensible way in which local people conduct their financial affairs . ’ |
| 11 | All this leads me to the conclusion that the greater part of the passage of geological time has left over most of the earth no more than Shakespeare 's " gap in nature " . |
| 12 | This leads us to the composition and behaviour of sports crowds , especially at football matches and the current debate about the reasons for hooliganism . |
| 13 | Our concern then Mr Mayor is to see social housing used correctly , for those in greatest need and this leads us to the conclusion that means testing is the best way to ensure , is positive discrimination in favour of people in such need . |
| 14 | But this leads us into the area of secularisation that has been the most damaging to the Christian church . |
| 15 | Sequencing This concerns itself with the problem of the sequence in which the items in the block are to be taught in relation to their usefulness and difficulty . |
| 16 | It also provides a clinical procedure for treating some psychological conditions , but this takes us beyond the scope of the present book . |
| 17 | This takes us into the realm of language . |
| 18 | This takes you to the top of the crane and the two flags — well done , level complete . |
| 19 | This forewarns us of the issue of SELECTION which will be taken up in Chapter 2 . |
| 20 | This reflects itself in the fact that when I actually make a measurement I shall find the electron sometimes here and sometimes over there . |
| 21 | This distinguishes them from the state agencies that provide health , education or other services on the basis of bureaucratic criteria such as need and entitlement , rather than as commodities to be bought and sold in the market . |
| 22 | This prompts you for the input range and you type this in or select it by pointing . |
| 23 | This compensates us for the cost of processing your booking , advertising your holiday for sale , and reflects the risk that the holiday may remain unsold . |
| 24 | CD PHANTASM ( this moves you into the Phantasm directory ) |
| 25 | This puts me in the position of having to either cancel the project — which would be a great discouragment to the volunteers , who might be reluctant to come forward again having been let down over this one — or risk going on without funding ( and then perhaps being told that funding can not be granted retrospectively ? ) . |
| 26 | When she is in her own home this puts her above the income support level of £44 personal allowance , plus a higher pensioner premium of £23.55 , totalling £67.55 . |
| 27 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 28 | Pa talking like this reminds me of the witch in the Snow White video : ‘ Cymbeline 's bought you strawberries and ice cream m for tea , ’ it says . |
| 29 | All this reminds me of the ideas of Michel Foucault . |
| 30 | Wilkinson added : ‘ It brings football into disrepute and washing dirty linen in public does nothing for the game . |