Example sentences of "this [noun] [vb -s] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a nationwide poll conducted in the second week after the massacre , the question was asked : ‘ Some people believe that this tragedy says something about the problem of male violence towards women . |
| 2 | Do you think that this tragedy says anything about the problem of male violence towards women ? ’ |
| 3 | Notice that this condition says nothing about the possibility of proving that a topic referred to on a given occasion is the same as the topic referred to on a different occasion . |
| 4 | Given the assertiveness and self-advertisement of modernization in Italian life across all forms of culture , from literature to political and social theory , during the 1960s and early 1970s , this return assumes something of the force of a revenge or , at any rate , a restitution . |
| 5 | Its ancestor , Legacy , seemed to me to be very slow and cumbersome , whereas this incarnation lacks nothing in the speed department . |
| 6 | If this prophecy conveys anything of the sentiments of the Crowland community at the time , it must have been from congenial company hostile to Penda 's descendants that Aethelbald emerged to establish himself as king in Mercia , if not when Ceolred died ( ASC A , s.a. , 716 ) then certainly when an otherwise unknown Ceolwald , who may have succeeded Ceolred , died or was driven out . |
| 7 | This account says something about the nature of invention . |
| 8 | This version says nothing about the Israelites making a crossing . |
| 9 | This fat includes everything from the obvious fats like butter and oil to those hidden in cakes , biscuits and fried foods . |
| 10 | Indirectly this problem reveals something of the organisation of craft activities in early Anglo-Saxon England , but we must be wary of categorising the period on the basis of the more influential members ' activities alone . |