Example sentences of "this [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a blind with a shaped hemline , a further allowance should be added for facing the shaped edge ; allow a depth of between 8 and 15cm ( 3–6in ) for this depending on the depth of the edging below the lath . |
| 2 | More than 300 kg N , 80 kg P and 560 kg K were recovered per hectare per year by this method and most of this passed through the pigs and was used as fertilizer for the cropped fields . |
| 3 | This flies in the face of the cautious nature of the Bush administration . |
| 4 | This flies in the face of the most fundamental principles of the historian 's — or indeed any scholarly — profession . |
| 5 | This flies in the face of the current public policy to bring about greater competition in the professions and more choice for the consumer . |
| 6 | This belongs to the last days of 1870 , more than a year after the murder in the park . |
| 7 | ‘ Does all this account for the proposed development at the pottery ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Whether this fits into the pattern of circumstances which brought about Gray 's death , I do n't know . ’ |
| 10 | This fits into the body of the tap and is turned to grind the seat |
| 11 | What difference does this make to the relationship and interaction between the couple concerned ? |
| 12 | The Area Sec has the right to relate directly to Waterloo , but how does this relate to the role of Nat Sec who needs to be informed ? |
| 13 | With commendable promptitude Mr H Harris ordered a lorry to be requisitioned on the line , and this conveyed to the town - arriving two hours late - two male passengers , the mail , news parcels , and perishable goods . |
| 14 | Totemism originated after this to cope with the guilt the brothers felt , for the totem animal will protect them like a father , and they will love it , and not kill it under normal circumstances . |
| 15 | If so , he will often need to know what action the local authority has taken before the matter came to court and whether this complied with the requirements of the Act . |
| 16 | Where this wins over the dancefloor bandwagon jumpers is in its upfront and in your face approach rather than being docile . |
| 17 | Where this wins over the dancefloor bandwagon jumpers is in its upfront and in your face approach rather than being docile . |
| 18 | Now whether you actually wish this to go to the court Council I do n't know . |
| 19 | All this testifies to the extreme importance attached to every status-symbol in an avidly status-conscious age . |
| 20 | This got over the critical problem of the ‘ double running ’ costs : the extra expenses of developing community services while having to support the infrastructure of the institution closing . |
| 21 | This got to the heart of the matter , the need to make reality out of pious hopes , and it recognized the propaganda value of a contest between a Labour candidate and a Unionist working man in a critical by-election . |
| 22 | The ‘ new angle ’ must be sought to retain reader interest , and this goes beyond the cynical . |
| 23 | This goes beyond the statutory requirements against discrimination on grounds of sex , marriage and race , to include age , disability and sexual orientation . |
| 24 | This goes beyond the intrinsic error due to the device ( about 2% when measuring an inanimate object ) and is not random . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This goes over the old arguments . |
| 28 | From the moment this goes into the acid . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This goes with the tendency to concentrate discussion on the intrinsically good , rather than the intrinsically bad . |