Example sentences of "to this is [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | One reply to this is that most offences of bad driving have the potential to cause death or serious injury ; and that the North Committee 's proposals undervalue the element of endangerment where no harm occurs rather than over -value the resulting harm where it does occur . |
2 | The exception to this is that only a parent may receive the results of the pupil 's assessment . |
3 | The downside to this is that they lose valuable advertising space on television programmes such as Saturday Superstore . |
4 | that the only kind of learning worth seriously measuring is that which can be evaluated by making a mark on a card for subsequent ingestion by a machine ( An awful corollary to this is that judgments made by human beings must be given less weight than electronically certified facts . ) |
5 | The corollary to this is that few books that are too enjoyable , too funny , or too popular could possibly be ‘ classics ’ . |
6 | The snag to this is that although a pan-head can rotate through a full circle , your hips are limited to about a quarter of this movement . |
7 | The counter-claim to this is that if your goods and services are competitive future trade will not be lost because you have a reasonable and commonsense approach to limiting credit orders to a certain size . |
8 | The only exception to this is that no one other than a state government or the Federal Government may operate a television or radio station without the approval of the president . |
9 | The counterpart to this is that they are naturally limited intellectually and so not actively encouraged to excel in academic and the more cerebral pursuits and , of course , they do not . |
10 | The postscript to this is that such a conclusion would follow from the revised contractualism and , I suggest , is in the mainstream of our moral thinking . |
11 | A common reply to this is that you can not have social control without crime or deviance and hence , if social control is necessary , then crime and deviance must be , too . |
12 | Erm the general response to this is that it was a failure . |
13 | The first reaction to this is that the speller needs to be looked at more closely : the inversion of letters here , and the production of a completely un-English-looking word , suggests that the child has considerable difficulty with visualisation , and possibly has trouble reading , too . |
14 | One possible answer to this is that such a person is felt to be not only a representative but also representative as a person of those who chose her/him . |
15 | The only exception to this is that the test machine arrived without one of its little rubber feet , something that I feel might happen quite regularly , given that they just screw in with a small self-tapping screw , and have no supporting adhesive to really make things permanent . |
16 | A contributing factor to this is that a dictionary aims to provide for every usage of a word with little indication of how common that usage is . |
17 | The main corollary to this is that , while CSPs in general are gradual in their strength ( depending on how fast or carefully one speaks ) , socially differentiated CSPs are likely to be discrete . |
18 | And the counter-arguments to this is that there is n't lack of information , people know they 're not going to get a job , but they 're still better off to move , so that 's a rubbish theory . |
19 | An important caveat to this is that the agreement must be fair and reasonable . |
20 | The answer to this is as for time out ; the characteristics of the warning are identical . |
21 | The only exception to this is if the child has a disease process that has a short-term prognosis . |