Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fits well with the pain-avoiding hedonistic and utilitarian elements of modern consumerism . |
| 2 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 3 | 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328 |
| 4 | This allies closely with the contemporary conception of the professions as among the most stable elements in society ; A. M. Carr-Saunders and P.A. Wilson ( The Professions ( 1933 ) ) consider that the professions |
| 5 | This goes well beyond the past practice of small-scale fundraising through ‘ raffles or fairs ’ . |
| 6 | This goes well with the new corporate dynamism at Peterborough . |
| 7 | This goes back to the very infancy of the cinema , when the camera was hand-cranked and therefore almost instantly variable in speed . |
| 8 | This veers dangerously towards the old method of ‘ paid ’ support acts . |
| 9 | ‘ This refers specifically to the assumed facility of a wholesaler to order in bulk , and to be able to recycle and place previously purchased stock so as to minimise returns . |
| 10 | This differs radically from the popular image of penetrating falsehood by perception of the liar . |
| 11 | This points strongly to the decreasing profitability of upland sheep farming in that the labour and machinery costs of maintaining the drainage system can not be justified against the potential income from the land . |
| 12 | This corresponds well to the high pitch of mouse sounds , which can be emitted up to this same level . |
| 13 | This owes much to the static profits expectations . |
| 14 | This says much about the worthwhile underlying values of social work and provides grounds for hope . |
| 15 | This results primarily from the greater longevity of women compared with men ; life expectancy at birth is 78 years for women and 72 years for men , while at 65 it is 17 years for women and 16 years for men . |
| 16 | It seems likely that access to signing in school prompts the development among children of a ‘ natural ’ sign language which forms the language code , and that this occurs independently of the visual mixture offered by teachers . |
| 17 | This is supported by reference to three key features ( p. 114ff. ) , summarised below : Alternating decasyllabic verse is " lighter " in terms of its overall structure ; this shows up in the high degree of promotion of underlyingly unstressed function words to relative stressed status . |
| 18 | On the other side of the energy account book is the surface energy , 2 G.l , which is needed to form the new surfaces and clearly this increases only as the first power of the depth of the crack . |
| 19 | This leads on to the second part of the book , in which the author begins by showing that there is a deep ambiguity in our basic concepts of causality and chance . |
| 20 | This leads on to the final point . |
| 21 | The Americans could take this a little further , but after Schweinfurt they had to stop and lick their wounds ; and so this leads on to the inevitable topic when I am confronted with the audiences I meet in all those places . |
| 22 | This leads on to the third scenario , that decisions would be taken in economic and other fields at Community level , and that they would be submitted to the scrutiny of the European Parliament . |
| 23 | This leads naturally to the splendid definitions of love in chapter ten as Rolle anticipates the disciple bringing him down to earth with a question : " You talk a great deal about love but what is it ? |
| 24 | We have just defined the general equivalent transformation , and this leads naturally to the important concept of equivalent matrices . |
| 25 | This leads directly to the second distinguishing feature of the example . |
| 26 | This ends just before the large A4031 bridge from which the canal emerges to cross over an aqueduct over a minor road with a public house below on the left and then crosses over another aqueduct over the railway main line through Birmingham . |
| 27 | This varies little from the main route . |
| 28 | Last year 's deficit was about £125 million ( although this compares well with the comparable figure for the UK which is almost three times higher ) and this year the deficit will probably be about the same . |
| 29 | This compares directly with the global approach to the description of real objects . |
| 30 | I personally feel that this ties in with the ruined temple comment . |