Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [prep] [art] [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 | Even this belongs to a type that one might call the ‘ declamatory madrigal ’ ( cf. |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Summary : This fits into a series of initiatives which have been organised by the Islamologists in Paris . |
| 7 | Whether this fits into the pattern of circumstances which brought about Gray 's death , I do n't know . ’ |
| 8 | This fits into the body of the tap and is turned to grind the seat |
| 9 | There is the danger that , when we get to college , this grinds to a halt when there is no one to tell you to do it . |
| 10 | But , with typical Moonshake logic , this turns into an expedition t o soak up culture in London 's East End by visiting other , less haunted , landmarks . |
| 11 | Where this wins over the dancefloor bandwagon jumpers is in its upfront and in your face approach rather than being docile . |
| 12 | Where this wins over the dancefloor bandwagon jumpers is in its upfront and in your face approach rather than being docile . |
| 13 | One of the means Golding exploits most consistently to overcome the obvious difficulties this imposes on a novelist is the use of metaphor and simile . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | From the moment this goes into the acid . |
| 17 | This goes with the tendency to concentrate discussion on the intrinsically good , rather than the intrinsically bad . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This goes to the heart of the issue of implementing HRM in educational institutions . |
| 21 | This goes to the heart of how some judges would like to define |
| 22 | And if this goes round a sort of roughly circular track , the we 're not measuring velocity , we 're measuring speed . |
| 23 | This accumulates on the sea bed as coral sand . |
| 24 | This contributes to the lack of contact between the branch members and the members of the branch committee , leading both to feel isolated . |
| 25 | This contributes to the separation . |
| 26 | This contributes to the power of her work , adding an element of claustrophobia , but there is some risk of it being missed . |
| 27 | Although this refers to a Christian 's relationships with other Christians , it is legitimate to extend Paul 's principles to all human relationships . |
| 28 | This refers to a culture 's ideas concerning beauty and good taste , together with an appreciation of colour and form . |
| 29 | As we have seen , this refers to a sense of knowing who or where you are in a society which has increasingly ‘ spread ’ over time and space . |
| 30 | Alcuin [ q.v. ] says that Offa shed much blood to secure Ecgfrith 's position , and if this refers to a purge of the royal kindred may explain why Cenwulf was so distant a relative . |