Example sentences of "hint at [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Northern Ireland case illustrates a critical point hinted at at the beginning of this section which has important methodological implications for any researcher working with ethnicity as a speaker variable : ethnicity is a culturally created category , in no sense objectively ‘ given ’ or verifiable . |
| 2 | The evil ‘ Mother ’ is now transferred to the opposite side and is the Mother of all the Aliens , hinted at by the eggs in the first film . |
| 3 | In ‘ Self-Confrontation and the Writer ’ she describes her life as a series of ‘ splits ’ , and the allegorical mapping of language to identity hinted at in The Languages of Love is elaborated : |
| 4 | Sometimes the similarity is hinted at in the question itself ; for example , you may have looked at another passage involving characterisation and this will guide you in looking at this one . |
| 5 | Back then , those things which could n't be said were hinted at in the grain of those luscious voices . |
| 6 | This was particularly so in connection with the sexual adventures hinted at in the title — adventures which became a sort of leitmotif , in that the author seemed to feel he had to have one in every seven or eight pages , preferably with some piquant variation . |
| 7 | In The Dear Deceit ( 1960 ) the dichotomy between truth and fiction hinted at in The Sycamore Tree is brought to the fore , and the possibility of reaching a pre-discursive reality is relinquished once and for all . |
| 8 | My old friend Fred Emery , who presented the programme from the Falklands , told us — and I have confirmed this from other sources — that the Cabinet is struggling to decide whether to build a new airstrip alongside Stanley 's existing facilities or , as has been hinted at in the Commons , on an entirely new site . |
| 9 | Sexual deviance is hinted at in the use of the term ‘ bachelor ’ which manages both to describe and to cast doubts on the celibate state of the priest , and the general honesty of Catholic priests is challenged by branding Murphy as a liar . |
| 10 | The horror and the pain of it are hinted at in the progression , ‘ your son , your only son , whom you love , Isaac ’ ( this is the order in the Hebrew ) . |
| 11 | Daly and Caputi are especially preoccupied with reclaiming the spiritual powers women were once invested with — powers hinted at in the etymology of words like glamour , as noted above . |
| 12 | The patterns hinted at in the data on the post-assessment engagements with clients could be construed as revealing a greater sense of purposefulness in the work undertaken . |