Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [prep] the " 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 | This belongs to the last days of 1870 , more than a year after the murder in the park . |
| 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 | Whether this fits into the pattern of circumstances which brought about Gray 's death , I do n't know . ’ |
| 7 | This fits into the body of the tap and is turned to grind the seat |
| 8 | Where this wins over the dancefloor bandwagon jumpers is in its upfront and in your face approach rather than being docile . |
| 9 | Where this wins over the dancefloor bandwagon jumpers is in its upfront and in your face approach rather than being docile . |
| 10 | All this testifies to the extreme importance attached to every status-symbol in an avidly status-conscious age . |
| 11 | The ‘ new angle ’ must be sought to retain reader interest , and this goes beyond the cynical . |
| 12 | This goes beyond the statutory requirements against discrimination on grounds of sex , marriage and race , to include age , disability and sexual orientation . |
| 13 | This goes beyond the intrinsic error due to the device ( about 2% when measuring an inanimate object ) and is not random . |
| 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 | This goes over the old arguments . |
| 17 | From the moment this goes into the acid . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This goes with the tendency to concentrate discussion on the intrinsically good , rather than the intrinsically bad . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This goes to the Inland Revenue Accounts Office along with the NI contributions and tax deducted in the previous month . |
| 22 | This goes to the heart of the issue of implementing HRM in educational institutions . |
| 23 | Pedulla 's stated aim is to produce an instrument which will sound ‘ alive ’ even at flat tone settings , and credit for this goes to the Bartolini powerhouses and Pedulla 's tone-shaping circuitry . |
| 24 | This goes to the six charities chosen by the Princess Royal , the Duke and Duchess of Kent , Prince Edward , and Princess Alexandra the Hon. |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I resume my explanation of the Bill , and this goes to the very heart of the issues raised by the two hon. Gentlemen . |
| 27 | If s if he does n't why not and would , would you please tell us what possessed him to come out with such a , a remarkable statement and I think this goes to the what we 're talking about this morning . |
| 28 | This goes to the heart of how some judges would like to define |
| 29 | This goes against the general rule that says the bigger the band , the longer and more excruciatingly dull , the soundcheck . |
| 30 | This goes against the general trend of the rest of the survey ( which suggests that these groups are less well informed and less accurately informed about credit ) . |