Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] this is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What results from this is that we might be led to think that the problem with defining God is that there is a whole range of ideas about the divine being that tend to produce no very clear overall picture . |
| 2 | The conclusion Sampson draws from this is that it is extremely difficult to determine the boundary between what is grammatical and ungrammatical if such a high proportion of grammatical expansions are very rare . |
| 3 | The penalty one pays for this is that you never really get to learn and understand the basics behind simple design . |
| 4 | What he means by this is that he wants to see the thing in loan committee , damn the company 's leverage , and damn the balance-of-payments problems in the Philippines , period . |
| 5 | A further suggestion that flows from this is that such evolutionary considerations lend support to a competing grammatical paradigm — that of Montague grammar . |
| 6 | The problem which arises from this is that we are never given any inkling of the totality of a king 's estates , and there is a particular difficulty in trying to construct a picture of crown land by listing all references to it from the whole Merovingian period ; if kings rewarded their followers by conferring estates on them , even though the grant might not be hereditary , the pool of land must have changed constantly . |