Example sentences of "this [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This flies in the face of the cautious nature of the Bush administration . |
| 2 | This flies in the face of the most fundamental principles of the historian 's — or indeed any scholarly — profession . |
| 3 | This flies in the face of the current public policy to bring about greater competition in the professions and more choice for the consumer . |
| 4 | And this persists in the work of political scientists , sociologists and others who have been impressed by the approach . |
| 5 | The reason for this lies in the response of a polymer to an alternating stress . |
| 6 | The reason for this lies in the limitations to which I have already referred . |
| 7 | This lies in the consideration that , in the beginning , they were externalized as the social conflict between the sons and the primal father . |
| 8 | One crucial reason for this lies in the way only one element of Marxist work on the state is used by pluralist critics . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Respublica derives its authority from the continuous acknowledgement of citizens and this lies in the recognition of their general obligation to obey law rather than in their response to specific precepts . |
| 11 | Perhaps the key to this lies in the realm of culture itself . |
| 12 | There seems little likelihood of this occurring in the case of executive directors , at least unless the risk of liability were to increase massively , but a reduction in the supply of more modestly remunerated non-executives is not implausible . |
| 13 | Action has been taken to prevent this occurring in the future . |
| 14 | An example of this occurred in the Nick Kent piece where Geoff Travis described a sardonic and disgruntled Mark E. Smith antagonising a visibly shaken Morrissey by calling him ‘ Steven ’ . |
| 15 | A vivid example of this occurred in the Hadmor case [ 1983 ] 1 A.C. 191 where Lord Denning in the Court of Appeal relied on his own researches into Hansard in reaching his conclusions : in the House of Lords , counsel protested that there were other passages to which he would have wished to draw the court 's attention had he known that Lord Denning was looking at Hansard : see the Hadmor case at p. 233 . |
| 16 | The most notable example of this occurred in the county in 1264 , when the troops of Simon de Montfort defeated Henry Ill at the Battle of Lewes . |
| 17 | Among the grievances of some of the rural rebels in the sixteenth century were complaints about the enclosure of lands by lords — this occurred in the north-west sector of the Pilgrimage of Grace , and the casting down of hedges marked the start of the Norfolk rising of 1549 . |
| 18 | Systems comparable to this operated in the east , in Ugarit and the land of the Hatti , where ‘ guilds ’ of artisans were able to pursue their various callings in the town bazaars , and some development along these lines may have been possible in Minoan Crete . |
| 19 | This meets in the parish hall on Monday evenings from 7 until 9 p.m. and is guided by Mrs. Anne McLean . |
| 20 | Occasionally I might buy him the big third Mac , the third Big Mac , just to prove to him he ca n't eat it , and this establishes in the superego a , that the , the superego to some extent speaks for reality and , and the reality sense is part of the , is part of the standards which are built into , which are built into the superego , and to , and therefore to a large extent the superego opposes the pleasure principle that operates in the id . |
| 21 | This results in the inability of the protein to hydrolyse bound GTP to GDP , and since GTP-ras is believed to be the active form of the protein this many deliver a continual signal to the cell to divide . |
| 22 | This results in the analyser producing two readings for the second sentence . |
| 23 | Often this results in the issue of a substantial VAT assessment . |
| 24 | Often this results in the issue of a substantial VAT assessment . |
| 25 | Because the cells are sickle cell shaped and rather rigid they have difficulty passing through fine blood capillaries , and this results in the tissues not having enough oxygen , causing anaemia . |
| 26 | This results in the Collectair library gaining valuable notes , all of which is carefully filed away for use as and when the archive that has been created over the past few years becomes available to students of aviation history . |
| 27 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
| 28 | This results in the DH being reached when the aircraft is over the field . |
| 29 | This results in the helper feeling ‘ small ’ , because he or she can not find a solution to the problem . |
| 30 | If the module being read is a FOREIGN module , it should be noted that this results in the header file plus all the files defined in the module being transferred from LIFESPAN to the user 's directory . |