Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | This shows that it is still possible to produce a useful and innovative medicine without the huge financial and technical resources that are at the disposal of the multinational corporations . |
| 2 | Often their private ‘ non-political ’ opinion is that the National Front are to be condemned as extremists ; but since what the National Front is extreme about is racism , this implies that it is all right to be moderately racist . |
| 3 | This implies that it is the appreciation of symbolic significance that is impaired . |
| 4 | As to accountability ; this implies that it is not sufficient for a government to justify its existence because at some time in the past it was representative of popular opinion ; for the two may have diverged since then . |
| 5 | In gender terms this means that it is ‘ precisely when most compelled to see yourself as a woman or as a man , [ that ] you are confronted with the mystery of the other [ sex ] who faces you from across an impassable moral divide ’ ( p. 306 ) . |
| 6 | This means that it is regarded as criminal for a man of 21 to commit this offence with a consenting male under 21 . |
| 7 | This means that it is not only effective for those who suffer from spinal disorders but in the treatment of many other conditions too . |
| 8 | Fluorescent lamps have what is called a negative voltage-current characteristic , This means that it is the nature of the discharge not to be self-sustaining . |
| 9 | This means that it is necessary to work closely with local authorities , and to do so in selecting a site as well as in the construction of the power station and its subsequent operation . |
| 10 | This means that it is important in analysing unemployment to take account of the average duration of unemployment spells , as well as the total number unemployed . |
| 11 | This means that it is possible to kill many more rabbits in one field at any one time with a rifle than can ever be accomplished with a shotgun . |
| 12 | This means that it is wholly braided as distinct from the type which has a central core of twist . |
| 13 | This means that it is important that all those likely to be affected by the introduction of new technology should be involved in the decisions about how it is to be used . |
| 14 | This means that it is cut up into comparatively small pieces which are then glued together again , usually in hydraulic presses with synthetic glues . |
| 15 | This means that it is not necessary to know the total number of items in advance , because each item is a separately allocated piece of memory . |
| 16 | This means that it is not necessary to oil them regularly . |
| 17 | This means that it is not necessary to reject totalization as such — because such a rejection assumes its very possibility , whereas all attempts at totalization such as Sartre 's demonstrate rather its impossibility . |
| 18 | If madness or the other is always inside , then this means that it is always already a part of reason or the same ; but it will also be exactly the element that reason is unable to comprehend , and will therefore work disruptively . |
| 19 | This means that it is not necessary to require that the wavefunction is unchanged by the interchange of two identical particles but simply to specify that if it does change it does so in one of these trivial , physically equivalent , ways . |
| 20 | This means that it is open to a defendant to argue that his conduct was reasonable because he was attempting to obtain or communicate information . |
| 21 | This means that it is no defence that the defendant believes that the policeman is acting outside the scope of his duty , even if he reasonably so thought . |
| 22 | This means that it is furthest from the logic of true/false and must speak the friend/foe vernacular . |
| 23 | This means that it is not enough simply to make SMEs aware of sources of technology or of development programmes which are underway . |
| 24 | This means that it is possible to follow their activities closely over the 2 year period of the project . |
| 25 | This means that it is possible to realistically estimate the subjective risk likely to be experienced by further subjects watching the films without actually having them give new estimates . |
| 26 | This means that it is very very quiet indeed . |
| 27 | This means that it is equally easy to evolve from any one to any other one . |
| 28 | This means that it is only necessary to strike out in the declaration at the top of the second page to the effect that the survivor can ( for joint tenancy ) or can not ( tenancy in common ) give a valid receipt for capital money . |
| 29 | This means that it is a separate legal entity from the particular person who is the trustee . |
| 30 | It can , however , be modified to take account of different assumptions and this means that it is a useful framework for illustrating the differences between the various schools of thought . |