Example sentences of "of this [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely , all of this points to the urgent need to define a common strategy and a corporate working agenda . |
| 2 | One simple example of this relates to the use of " s , discussed in the previous section . |
| 3 | Income under the category of Public Policy has increased to £173,141 but a sizeable element of this relates to a number of projects associated with the Council 's Diamond Jubilee Year and will not necessarily be repeated in the year ahead . |
| 4 | Dickens also makes good use of symbolism and the most obvious example of this occurs at the end of the first chapter with the convict walking towards the gibbet and the beacon which are symbols of death and life . |
| 5 | Much of this occurs as a result of the Greater Mussayib Irrigation Project . |
| 6 | An example of this occurs in Petronius 's Feast of Trimalchio , Trimalchio having a beautiful clock in his dining room . |
| 7 | An outstanding example of this occurs in the whole field of petrochemicals . |
| 8 | A common example of this occurs in the interposing of an imprecation in between a chant of allegiance by the rival group . |
| 9 | A simple example of this occurs in languages that draw their polite second person singular pronoun from their plural one , where there will be no overt distinction between second person singular polite and second person plural pronouns . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Whilst things go smoothly , much of this goes without attention , but wars , strikes and other disruptions periodically jolt us . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Some 56% of this goes on software , 12% on support , 14% on administrative tasks , such as upgrades , and the remaining 18% on operating the machine . |
| 14 | Part of this results from the explosion of the student population , which is now a ‘ morphological factor ’ in the social field . |
| 15 | Much of this rankles with the present Conservative UK government and the Prime Minister openly criticises the ‘ nightmare ’ of a socialist European superstate run from Brussels . |
| 16 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 17 | Even though the Chinese have promoted traditional building materials and architectural styles and popular participation in the housing process in rural areas , none of this happens in the cities . |
| 18 | Most of this happens in three dimensions and is best seen from this canal as roads snake through the air in all directions . |
| 19 | The basis of this depends on the relationship between annual growth and annual harvest : maximum tree growth is attained before old age . |
| 20 | EVERY expecting parent dreams of having a healthy baby , but much of this depends on lifestyle during pregnancy . |
| 21 | The propriety of this depends on how inclusively or exclusively magisterium is being used . |
| 22 | The effect of this depends on record or block size , but can be calculated using the methods given in Chapter 4 on blocking and buffering ( see p. 75 ) . |
| 23 | Usually , much of this depends upon the woman or women who live there . |
| 24 | None of this belongs to me . |
| 25 | A shadow of this remains in a section on enforcement and discontinuance . |
| 26 | The burden of proof of this rests upon the occupier , though in some cases the matter speaks for itself : |
| 27 | A clear example of this arises with the famous example of the incest taboo , which has been discussed by Bateson ( this volume ) . |
| 28 | A good example of this arises in the study of children 's reasoning , particularly in their ability to make what are known as transitive inferences . |
| 29 | Imbuing staff with specific cultural attitudes which they must constantly rehearse ; part of this consists of ensuring that staff are proud to be part of a highly elite team |
| 30 | All of this adds to the time involved in the process and certainly adds to the fees . |