Example sentences of "hint at [prep] the " 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 results are fabulous , as already hinted at by the current 45 ‘ Drive That Fast ’ , a grippingly gentle , coolly frantic , scarily mellow passage that fittingly knocks 'em over at CBGB 's . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Charles Muses , a Columbia University Doctor of Philosophy , is convinced that there are forms of living substance far more subtle than our relatively crude polarised ( i.e. electron/proton ) matter form already hinted at in the mysterious physical effectiveness of the so-called ‘ vacuum state ’ as revealed by Quantum Physics . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Back then , those things which could n't be said were hinted at in the grain of those luscious voices . |
| 11 | If we are troubled by the fact that the corporatist countervision we find hinted at in the legal materials might become simply a mask behind which corporate managers exercise unconstrained economic and social power , an alternative avenue for research is available to us . |
| 12 | Two albums by David Bowie suggested possible options for this concentration on self : ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ ( 1974 ) made explicit the equation that the Velvet Underground had hinted at in the mid-sixties , namely that divergent sexuality of every type was only an inevitable consequence of a civilization at the brink of apocalypse . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The problem is hinted at in the uneasy combination of the two descriptive terms , one signifying natural complexity and even contrariness , the other , mechanical order and simplicity . |
| 18 | It is this that I was hinting at in the previous chapter , when I referred to the queen ant as the central data bank . |