Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 2 | This fits in with the traditionally tight control that local authority finance directors like to keep . |
| 3 | 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328 |
| 4 | If this turns out to the case the great wheel of horticulture really will have turned full circle . |
| 5 | These are not paintings employing the wonderful accidental effects of free watercolour washes that so many artists adopt , though most of this goes on with the underneath base washes . |
| 6 | This goes back to the very infancy of the cinema , when the camera was hand-cranked and therefore almost instantly variable in speed . |
| 7 | This goes back to the days when there were hop gardens at the rear of the pub , and picking was done by gipsy families ( shant being an old gipsy word , meaning to drink ) . |
| 8 | All this adds up to the fact that NDBs are thoroughly unreliable . |
| 9 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 10 | This lies out with the experience of mankind so we ca n't visualize those things except to guess , and it 's a safe guess , that the reality will be worse than any nightmare . |
| 11 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 12 | In many pregnant women , this shows up in the form of food aversions — a strong dislike for dishes or drinks previously enjoyed . |
| 13 | This is supported by reference to three key features ( p. 114ff. ) , summarised below : Alternating decasyllabic verse is " lighter " in terms of its overall structure ; this shows up in the high degree of promotion of underlyingly unstressed function words to relative stressed status . |
| 14 | This harks back to the foreclosure issue . |
| 15 | This harks back to the debate in Chapter 6 as to the transferability of concepts and systems which originate in the commercial world to the NHS without modification . |
| 16 | This leads on to the third scenario , that decisions would be taken in economic and other fields at Community level , and that they would be submitted to the scrutiny of the European Parliament . |
| 17 | This leads on to the question of political culture . |
| 18 | This leads on to the final point . |
| 19 | This leads on to the second part of the book , in which the author begins by showing that there is a deep ambiguity in our basic concepts of causality and chance . |
| 20 | In turn this leads on to the problems to do with the extent to which , and the conditions under which , respondents accurately report their beliefs , attitudes and , ultimately , to the extensive and impressive technology of interview and attitude measurement . |
| 21 | The Americans could take this a little further , but after Schweinfurt they had to stop and lick their wounds ; and so this leads on to the inevitable topic when I am confronted with the audiences I meet in all those places . |
| 22 | This cuts down on the suspense and Ballantyne sees it as being comic . |
| 23 | I hope that this gets back on the road because clearly people are starting to put things in the proper places for recycling . |
| 24 | For example writers usually form the beginnings of words reasonably well , but often this tails off towards the ends of words . |
| 25 | ‘ This ties in with the Mahoney trick . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't see how this ties in with the clinic . ’ |
| 27 | I personally feel that this ties in with the ruined temple comment . |
| 28 | This ties in with the idea that people like others which share similar interests to themselves . |
| 29 | In practice this boils down to the governments being saddled with the bulk of the foreign hard currency debts , while it is private individuals in those same countries who hold most of the hard-currency assets . |
| 30 | Floodwater leaves sand on the planks and this sweeps up into the banks with cornices through which it is possible to step inadvertently . |