Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] this [noun] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annoyed as we may be at having the cardinal terms left thus undefined ( for Pound proceeds no further towards defining them ) , we are compelled to see that this criticism is not of the chalk-or-cheese , sheep-and-goats variety ; the discrimination proposed is more subtle — between a quality in poetry that is ‘ nearly always ’ a virtue ( ’ I can think of no case where it is not' ) , and an opposite quality that is ‘ not always ’ a fault . |
| 2 | By the same token , we have to keep a watch on dates so as to see that this Eleanor is not Eleanor of Aquitaine , but her great-greatgranddaughter , Eleanor of Castile , wife of Edward I of England . |
| 3 | It would be absurd to claim that this day is already near . |
| 4 | It is important to emphasise that this study is not a full and formal validation of the teams ' activities . |
| 5 | I 'm going to see if this thing is still erm Yep , we 've still got some on that side , so that 's okay . |
| 6 | Would you believe he had the temerity to suggest that this house is too large for one person ? |
| 7 | At the present juncture there is no evidence to suggest that this crime is necessarily linked to those you have mentioned , or indeed to any others . ’ |
| 8 | But so long as no resources used in ‘ selling ’ or in producing are owned monopolistically , we are forced to conclude that this activity is essentially competitive and can not result in any kind of monopolistic control over production or any impairment of the competitive process . |
| 9 | Giving a person a hearing before deciding to refuse such a licence application can help to ensure that this goal is correctly applied in a particular instance . |
| 10 | But since the nature of their business is so inexorably linked with valuable information legitimately acquired , it is difficult to ensure that this information is not illegitimately used . |
| 11 | It is important to recognise that this view is not incompatible with the mention of individuals in explanations ; it is only incompatible with the mention of individual subjects . |
| 12 | I find comparisons at the moment impossible to contemplate as this reading is so shattering as to rule out any other . |
| 13 | They are all part of the advertising and marketing that the parties believe has an effect on the voters — while failing to notice that this effect is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of thought , work or effort that has gone into any individual contribution . |
| 14 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |
| 15 | It would be easy to say that this volume is just another book ’ on organic synthesis — one which will sit alongside the excellent texts of S. Warren , and the more recent book by E. J. Corey and X. M. Cheng , The logic of chemical synthesis . |
| 16 | ZZT is a new object orientated action adventure that will work in any graphics mode , because of this the graphics are a little basic but that does not mean to say that this game is any less enjoyable . |