Example sentences of "and [conj] this [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 2 | There is a suggestion too that poor readers are deficient in an internal articulatory code ( Briggs and Underwood , 1987 ) , and that this is in itself a source of difficulty insofar as it deprives them of one lexical route — that is , one way of identifying what words mean . |
| 3 | This theory — proposed by P.F. Strawson ( op. cit. ) — rests on the premiss that we possess the idea of a single spatio-temporal system of material things in which every such thing , at any time , is spatially related in various ways to every other similar thing , and that this is in fact the " conceptual scheme " we use and rely on in making the world intelligible to ourselves . |
| 4 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 5 | As late as 5 June , the candidates for knighthood at the impending coronation included a number of Hastings ' men and that this was in response to Hastings ' own wishes is suggested by the fact that most were not subsequently knighted at Richard 's coronation . |
| 6 | As late as 5 June , the candidates for knighthood at the impending coronation included a number of Hastings ' men and that this was in response to Hastings ' own wishes is suggested by the fact that most were not subsequently knighted at Richard 's coronation . |
| 7 | Divergent oblique-slip motion leads to extensional ( normal ) faulting and subsidence and if this is of sufficient magnitude a pull-apart basin may be formed . |
| 8 | The skeletal parts of hard corals are made of calcium carbonate and if this is in short supply they can suffer . |
| 9 | Two lives are bound together by a cord , and if this were to be broken prematurely , one would die . |
| 10 | And if this were to be their last meeting , then should they perhaps not waste it all in talk ? |
| 11 | The exemption is generally attributed to the seventeenth century writings of Sir Matthew Hale , and whilst this is in some measure correct , it is best understood in the context of the evolution of the law of rape as a whole . |
| 12 | We actively desired an ever closer union of the European peoples , but it was not laid down how and when this was to be achieved . |