Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [prep] 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 | In order to provide a physical ‘ menu ’ of the facilities available a plastic template is supplied and this fits over the top of the drawing surface . |
| 5 | Whether this fits into the pattern of circumstances which brought about Gray 's death , I do n't know . ’ |
| 6 | This fits into the body of the tap and is turned to grind the seat |
| 7 | Where this wins over the dancefloor bandwagon jumpers is in its upfront and in your face approach rather than being docile . |
| 8 | Where this wins over the dancefloor bandwagon jumpers is in its upfront and in your face approach rather than being docile . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Next you take a lead dog and put on its harness of padded nylon ; this goes over the head and the front legs poke through stitched loops . |
| 11 | From the moment this goes into the acid . |
| 12 | This goes with the tendency to concentrate discussion on the intrinsically good , rather than the intrinsically bad . |
| 13 | Make sure the replacement water is at the same temperature as the pondwater — and this goes for the water in any temporary containers as well . |
| 14 | There is more chance of persuading the court to substitute its own finding of inferential fact from the direct facts , because this goes to the conclusions drawn by the trial judge from direct facts . |
| 15 | This goes to the heart of the issue of implementing HRM in educational institutions . |
| 16 | This goes to the heart of how some judges would like to define |
| 17 | This accumulates on the sea bed as coral sand . |
| 18 | This contributes to the lack of contact between the branch members and the members of the branch committee , leading both to feel isolated . |
| 19 | This contributes to the separation . |
| 20 | This contributes to the power of her work , adding an element of claustrophobia , but there is some risk of it being missed . |
| 21 | This refers to the question of whether the group of people or the situation that we are studying are typical of others . |
| 22 | This refers to the tendency of attributing human motives to social institutions , in this case of thinking about organisations as if they were pursuing the goals in question . |
| 23 | One line of evidence connecting manual activity and symbolic language processes concerns cases of " signing aphasia " in the deaf This refers to the deficit shown by those individuals who have learned to use their hands to communicate in sign language and subsequently sustain brain damage which impairs this ability . |
| 24 | This refers to the shock treatment applied by Western-dominated financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) to the economies of developing countries so as to make them more efficient . |
| 25 | This refers to the professionals and white-collar workers whose earnings are linked to their skills and qualifications rather than capitalist ventures . |
| 26 | This refers to the conditions which work to maintain the cohesion of classes over time , from one generation to the next . |
| 27 | This refers to the decision of the NATO countries in December 1979 , when Europe more or less begged the US to act as its protector . |
| 28 | This refers to the increase in the volume of exports after allowance has been made for inflation ; it does not simply reflect the increased prices of goods . |
| 29 | This refers to the ability of a group to retain the loyalty of its members and to attract new members . |
| 30 | This refers to the ability of the organization to continue in its present form or in its planned form . |