Example sentences of "[conj] this [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Inland Revenue will place a value on the future worth of an earnout agreement and , where this is to be satisfied in cash , capital gains tax may again become payable before the earnout payment is received . |
| 2 | This provides an added potential benefit to traffic travelling along the main routes by reducing the number of locations where this is in conflict with turning traffic , but provides little control over speeds once traffic has penetrated the residential area . |
| 3 | This is worth remembering if your employer tries to justify giving you a raw deal by interpreting a stringent contract of employment harshly , eg by insisting you move your place of work at short notice and without financial help from Leeds to Birmingham , as in one case — even where this is within the terms of an express contractual mobility clause . |
| 4 | But although this is at first appealing , on closer examination the concept is somewhat flawed . |
| 5 | Although this is at the bottom of the main menu , it is the first option that you need to select before you can begin to use the program for any serious work . |
| 6 | It is in fact the commercially provided infrastructure that is most lacking , and many people live a long way from a shop , although this is to some extent made up for by mobile shops . |
| 7 | Although this is to some extent true of all financial intermediation , it is particularly relevant to the operations of pension funds . |
| 8 | Although this is to some extent part of any clinical consultation , it can be approached more quantitatively . |
| 9 | Although this is of considerable importance , particularly if the ballet is to be presented in a large theatre , too much concentration on certain of the dimensions ( height , depth or breadth ) may deprive some members of the audience of much of the pattern . |
| 10 | Evidence from recent empirical research suggests that siblings do provide a source of support in adult life , although this is of less importance between parents and children . |
| 11 | Some clinics helpfully provide forecasts of the likely sex , although this is against the law . |
| 12 | Although this is by any standards a grotesquely over-simplified account of hundreds of pages , it brings out the attitude which Althusser contests — the idea that Marx 's theory of political economy is just an alternative to the classical one , in that crucial experiments can be devised to adjudicate between them . |
| 13 | Although this is by far the most flexible way of tackling the problem , the results depend on the quality of the software and the ability of the user to code English sentences into phonetic strings . |
| 14 | Although this is in general a constituent feature of social realism , in the racial problem film it is a particularly potent device for a disavowal of racial guilt and responsibility . |
| 15 | However , although this is in a manner so , ‘ rationality ’ in a more usual sense refers to the particular sort of rationality distinctive of human beings , by which they participate in their own way in the ultimate rationality of the universe . ) |
| 16 | In addition , it was generally felt by the European as opposed to American contingent at the Ribera conference in Naples in May , that ‘ The sense of smell ’ from Oslo was probably by Falcone ( although this is in the Prado show as by Ribera ) and the ‘ Portia ’ is by Luca Giordano ( excluded ) . |
| 17 | Although this is in principle one of the simplest configurations and although it played such an important role in the early history of transition studies , the details of the transition process turn out to be relatively complex and are , quite possibly , not all known . |
| 18 | ‘ But let me tell you — both of you , ’ darting a venomous look at Major Calder , ‘ that this is without doubt the most degrading and distasteful thing I 've ever been asked to do ! ’ |
| 19 | The point is only that this is as a direct result of the accounting method adopted rather than any policy decision . |
| 20 | It is in both the firm 's and the consumer s interests that this is for some extended period : in the case of the latter because search costs ( presumably ) are finite and so will not be worth incurring if there is only some probability of finding low prices , unless the benefits are substantial . |
| 21 | ‘ Are you sure that this is for me , Joe ? ’ |
| 22 | Note that this is for the user 's purpose only , since LIFESPAN does not make any checks on the connections between the two modules . |
| 23 | Er when we have erm when you come down for , you know if if if we decide that this is for you , er when you come down for a training course they expect to see a car . |
| 24 | It should be made clear that this is on a completely self-financing basis and that at an increasing number of dinners spouses now attend the dinner rather than do their own thing . |
| 25 | Often , the applicants are recommended to re-contact their unions formally to seek access to accounts , stating that this is on the recommendation of the Commissioner , and access has been provided . |
| 26 | It could be argued that this is of little moment , as only popular texts are involved . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Now , a true Brit like Brian may delude himself that this is of no great consequence since Scotland is just a part of Britain and no different from a region of England . |
| 29 | But there is a very urgent sense in which the Caribbean family fails to encourage sufficiently or places too much pressure on their offspring at school ; and there is every reason to surmise that this is of general relevance — not just to sportsmen . |
| 30 | Note that this is of limited use as it implies that the data is held only in the index or in the main file . |