Example sentences of "[prep] this [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , a book such as this harps on the pitfalls faced by executives . |
| 2 | Pedulla 's stated aim is to produce an instrument which will sound ‘ alive ’ even at flat tone settings , and credit for this goes to the Bartolini powerhouses and Pedulla 's tone-shaping circuitry . |
| 3 | The reason for this stems from the parallel and/or pipelined architecture . |
| 4 | The reason for this stems from the relationship between national insurance and income support rates , and the rules about eligibility for the latter . |
| 5 | A possible reason for this relates to the paradoxical finding that a level of activation of the NMDA receptor system , which is itself inadequate for producing LTP , can result in a subsequent impairment in the ability to generate LTP r28–30 . |
| 6 | The evidence for this relates to the observed length scales of the vortices ; the length of the vortices ( l 1 , in Fig. 21.21 ) is of the order of the total boundary layer thickness , whereas the cross-section ( l 2 ) is of the order of the viscous sub-layer thickness . |
| 7 | Evidence for this comes from the fact that the ambivalent expression does not seem to be confined to a limited range of situations , in which individuals find themselves on public display , especially to an audience from a higher social class or more advanced educational attainment . |
| 8 | Support for this comes from the finding that faecal protease activity , largely derived from bacteria , is increased threefold in colitis . |
| 9 | Perhaps the blame for this lies with the politicians . |
| 10 | The reason for this lies with the majority of match anglers being brainwashed into using gossamer-fine line and tiny hooks , no matter what the species or situation demands . |
| 11 | Part of the responsibility for this lies with the innate friendliness and courtesy of the peoples of Burma , and behind that the long record of the Buddhist tradition . |
| 12 | Much of the blame for this lies with the Americans who shied away from disarming Somalia 's bandits and instead took guns from soft targets : small businessmen and relief-agency bodyguards . |
| 13 | Part of the reason for this lies with the decentralised nature of the party membership records but it has also been conventional political wisdom that Conservative party members play an insignificant role in the determination of the party 's policies . |
| 14 | One crucial reason for this lies in the way only one element of Marxist work on the state is used by pluralist critics . |
| 15 | The reason for this lies in the fact that the physics depends neither on the states alone nor on the observables alone but upon their interrelation . |
| 16 | The reason for this lies in the limitations to which I have already referred . |
| 17 | The reason for this lies in the response of a polymer to an alternating stress . |
| 18 | Indeed , Williams then goes on to discuss the propriety of treating children against the wishes of their parents , and states that ‘ the legal authority for this rests on the doctrine of necessity . ’ |
| 19 | Speaking in Moscow Tun Razak denied that he had arrived to obtain the official approval of the USSR for the neutralisation of Southeast Asia ‘ because the responsibility for this rests with the countries of Southeast Asia themselves , acting on a collective basis ’ but he hoped that ‘ according to the extent of progress of the countries of Southeast Asia on this path towards our goal the Soviet Government will show sympathy and understanding towards us ’ . |
| 20 | The physiological explanation for this resides in the greater affinity of sulphate reducing bacteria for H 2 compared with methanogenic bacteria ( Ks of Desulfovibrio vulgaris , 1 µmol.1 - 1 ; Ks of Methanobrevibacter smithii , 6 µmol.l - 1 ) . |
| 21 | Surely , all of this points to the urgent need to define a common strategy and a corporate working agenda . |
| 22 | One simple example of this relates to the use of " s , discussed in the previous section . |
| 23 | Dickens also makes good use of symbolism and the most obvious example of this occurs at the end of the first chapter with the convict walking towards the gibbet and the beacon which are symbols of death and life . |
| 24 | An outstanding example of this occurs in the whole field of petrochemicals . |
| 25 | A common example of this occurs in the interposing of an imprecation in between a chant of allegiance by the rival group . |
| 26 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 27 | For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race . |
| 28 | Part of this results from the explosion of the student population , which is now a ‘ morphological factor ’ in the social field . |
| 29 | Much of this rankles with the present Conservative UK government and the Prime Minister openly criticises the ‘ nightmare ’ of a socialist European superstate run from Brussels . |
| 30 | Even though the Chinese have promoted traditional building materials and architectural styles and popular participation in the housing process in rural areas , none of this happens in the cities . |