Example sentences of "[to-vb] this [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shut her eyes , unsure if she was trying to blot out the unexpected hunger in his kiss , or opting for her ostrich trick again and trying to pretend this was n't happening to her . |
| 2 | To presuppose this is both contradictory and dangerous ; contradictory because the West can not insist on a certain outcome from free elections and still uphold democracy ; dangerous because , if the confusion of the two in the public mind persists , there will be many more instances of superpowers subverting elected governments because they have not opted for a market economy . |
| 3 | I have been able , unofficially , to confirm this is the case . |
| 4 | How anyone can have failed to miss this is utterly beyond me but , apparently , they did . |
| 5 | Large scale drug smuggling was on the increase , and a more professional approach to combat this was being used by the law-enforcement teams . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ You only have to look at the figures for fire deaths in hotels to see this is not a problem . |
| 7 | To see this is to recognize the stylistic value of Golding 's choice : that his version of the event is of movements perceived in space and time , from which the reader has to work out a normal understanding of what is happening . |
| 8 | An easy way to see this is to assume each firm faces a cost structure involving a constant marginal cost plus a fixed cost . |
| 9 | I am very keen to see this being reinforced through stronger action here in Wales . |
| 10 | Alison believes the letter should have been sent to the person who caused the crash and the local authority should have made every effort to see this was done . |
| 11 | The most convenient way to arrange this is to move HIMEM down by the length of the program and load the machine code program in to this protected area . |
| 12 | Yet to acknowledge this is to recognize that our health is under our own personal control to an extent far greater than is currently accepted . |
| 13 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |
| 14 | She had clearly been a very good-looking woman when younger , and even now was handsome ; paradoxically , the artifices she employed to emphasise this were the very features to strike a false note . |
| 15 | The rise in recorded sexual offences ( Criminal Statistics 1988 ) is usually explained as an artefact of more sensitive and sophisticated police recording procedures and improved victim treatment , rather than a real underlying change , but hard evidence to support this is not clear . |
| 16 | One of the means used to enforce this was the imposition of an oath ( shen ) by which the shamanist natives invoked the wrath of the spirits upon themselves if they broke their undertaking to the Russians . |
| 17 | I think it is right to refresh This is the job of the preacher really is n't it ? |
| 18 | The simplest way to encourage this is to push a bamboo cane into the ground to leave a sloping hole 5–6in deep , inserting the tip of the shoot into this and treading firm . |
| 19 | We have to accept this is showbiz now , not a sport . |
| 20 | The reason the vendor shareholders may be willing to accept this is that they can defer their capital gains tax liability deriving from the disposal of their Target shares if s135 TCGA 1992 is satisfied and clearance under s138 is obtained . |
| 21 | The European ( and Japanese ) unwillingness to accept this is shown at a theoretical level by their refusal to accept proposals which would have required revaluations , and in practice by their preparedness to pile up dollar reserves . |
| 22 | One possible move to counteract this is to ensure that the system proposer is a business analyst and not a technical analyst |
| 23 | The quickest way to discover this was often , sadly , the hard way . |
| 24 | To obtain this is in itself a complicated matter . |
| 25 | To know this is part of competence with the concept of B ; part of what it is to know the meaning of ‘ B ’ . |
| 26 | She had been a scientist long enough to know this is , in practice , how the world works . |
| 27 | To know this is useful , but to identify those media is to identify the means for transmitting the values and beliefs that coalesce to form the political culture , and not to identify the political culture itself . |
| 28 | He had discovered Oliver weeping in the conservatory and though he remembered his own childhood clearly enough to know this was the likely end to any birthday , it touched and disturbed him . |
| 29 | the idea was to launch this was n't it ? |
| 30 | One measure designed to counter this is the introduction this year of just one school-leaving date — the end of June . |