Example sentences of "[vb -s] this [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Castedo points this out . |
| 2 | As far as possible , a specialist will compare the pottery with other examples ( usually called ‘ parallels ’ ) that have been securely dated , but if the only other examples of a type of pottery are not so well dated , the specialist points this out , giving references to the parallels that have been used . |
| 3 | ‘ If one averages this out at around £41 per soldier per week for 1,000 troops the annual cost works out at a mere £2.1m — a long way short of the £365m claimed for propaganda purposes . ’ |
| 4 | Now I 'm not for a mom , I 'm not for a moment suggesting that it 's something that would be picked up on a regular basis , but I think it does mean , as you rightly say , that er , if , if , if such a procedure does arise then I 'm conscious that I 'm in a one off situation , I know there 's at least one of our colleagues on our benches who has this on , with children on a more regular basis . |
| 5 | right so that must be a third okay and someone holds this up and says , What 's that ? |
| 6 | His prose style bears this out : half the trouble about the Preface to Lyrical Ballads was caused by the dogmatic style of some of its assertions — Wordsworth probably thought he was simply stating a point of view . |
| 7 | The phrase ‘ as if she 'd lost her only friend ’ bears this out . |
| 8 | Her Rose in the Decca Street Scene ( 8/91 ) bears this out and here , after rather overdoing ‘ Surabaya-Johnny ’ , she ends it with a marvellously quite , almost instrumental purity . |
| 9 | The fossil record bears this out . |
| 10 | La Conspiration , Nizan 's last published novel , centred on the lifestyles of a group of young , naive revolutionaries in the late 1920s , certainly bears this out . |
| 11 | Her latest product , Daily Eye Benefits , bears this out . |
| 12 | The fact that you never see a flat hedgehog upon a soft grassy field , bears this out and proves my point somewhat conclusively , I so believe . |
| 13 | Putting in equations ( 9.68 ) and ( 9.69 ) bears this out , yielding for the section of figure 9.14(a) with . |
| 14 | The misbehaviour of M3 as an indicator of the performance of the economy ( as regards inflation ) bears this out . |
| 15 | He says this over and over again in verse three , unless one is born again he can not see the Kingdom of God . |
| 16 | But Jennings passes this off as evidence of ‘ a desire for immortality ’ . |
| 17 | Overt suffering might be the result ; but Regan immediately rules this out ( as one also would in the case of my example ) . |
| 18 | However , because a Society is usually engaged by the builder during construction and the owner following delivery , the commercial conflict of interest generally rules this out . |
| 19 | When the nest-cup is well formed the bird fetches lichen and weaves this on to the outside of the nest . |
| 20 | She spits this out like it 's a boxer 's left jab . |
| 21 | He backs this up with examples of marketing successes that have deliberately flaunted conventional wisdom of respecting the idiosyncrasies of particular national economies . |
| 22 | I mean er if er , anybody ever takes this over when I 'm gone and you sell it |
| 23 | The following table breaks this down … |
| 24 | Lipsey lays this out in the Introduction to his Introduction and the rest of his book sets down the basis of a Positive economics . |
| 25 | A sensor on a receiver picks this up and reconverts it first into electrical information then into sound . |
| 26 | As the play goes on , we notice that when Tamburlaine is confronted by war , he first offers words as a way of warning and deterrent , and then is the opposition do not listen , he follows this up with swift and bloody actions . |
| 27 | What really sets this up as a fraud and complete load of tripe , is the ridiculous assumption on the part of the forger , that my entire squad of players would happily sign a document whose sole aim is to get me removed from the manager 's seat . |
| 28 | The Review notes an increase in the number of complaints against registered auditors , but puts this down to growing recognition of the Institute as a regulatory body . |
| 29 | Kate puts this down to the peasant in her . |
| 30 | Alison Binks , financial adviser , puts this down to the suspension of stamp duty and realistic selling prices now being asked by most vendors . |