Example sentences of "this [be] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is to signify that its national and its global membership may be distinguished for the sake of convenience , but that the concept of the TCC entails global interests . |
| 2 | For this is to stipulate that Lenin 's three criteria must be satisfied if a whole is to count as a complex one . |
| 3 | Protagoras ' reply to this is to contend that political wisdom is not a matter of specialized knowledge , but something in which everyone has a share , and in which it is necessary that everyone has a share , " Otherwise the state could not exist " . |
| 4 | This is to decide whether you are suitable for the grade and the post you have been allocated . |
| 5 | To say this is to deny that ‘ I ’ gets its meaning through a speaker knowing , either by acquaintance or by description , something he calls ‘ I ’ . |
| 6 | None of this is to deny that there is a biological basis for elements in human behaviour which are culturally affected , moulded and elaborated . |
| 7 | None of this is to deny that we may often regard doctors ' claims to special privilege with some cynicism and distrust . |
| 8 | None of this is to deny that the February 1960 agreement was partly a result of Khrushchev 's ‘ allowing Mikoian to make trouble for the Americans in Cuba ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 156 ) , but it is important to recognise that , whatever political considerations were involved , they were firmly backed up by a favourable set of economic circumstances . |
| 9 | The way to do this is to see that patients bear some responsibility for the cost of services . |
| 10 | This is to see whether any health problems you might have had recently could be affected by your diet , or alcohol and cigarette consumption . |
| 11 | However , there is another and potentially more important role which some of the clearinghouses are competent to assume , and this is to assess and evaluate the information and material that passes through their hands . |
| 12 | This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome . |
| 13 | This is to ask whether Labour is not in danger — again — of preparing itself to address yesterday 's agenda . |
| 14 | Another way of putting this is to say that habituation training produces a loss of effectiveness by the to-be-CS ( a reduction in ‘ conditionability ’ or ‘ associability ’ ) and that this loss is determined by the same mechanism as that controlling the loss of overt URs . |
| 15 | None of this is to say that the Queen is a bad or malicious person : evidently she is not . |
| 16 | Another way of putting this is to say that we are concerned with techniques for holding government accountable for what it does . |
| 17 | Yet , none of this is to say that the men who created the new unionism were wrong in their time . |
| 18 | Not that this is to say that no industry should be owned by the State , not even when , for example , a service to be provided is a natural monopoly ; and the presumption is , therefore , that those who provide it should be accountable to users who can not register dissatisfaction by taking their custom elsewhere , rather than to private owners whose interest is to exploit the monopoly . |
| 19 | In logical terms this is to say that no intersection exists between all constraint fields . |
| 20 | This is to say that the man who solves the riddle of nature must also violate the most sacred natural law , and even that wisdom as such is a crime against nature . |
| 21 | A slightly technical way of putting this is to say that integrated letter writing is a fundamental pre-requisite of a successful recruitment system . |
| 22 | Another way of putting this is to say that there are many possible Phillips curves — one for each level of expected inflation . |
| 23 | Another way of putting this is to say that human linguistic thought is such that all particular thoughts ( whether expressed overtly or not ) can be constructed only in terms of ideas classified as either entities or properties , and put together by means of some combination of the four fundamental relations already alluded to . |
| 24 | This is to say that linguistic ( as well as social ) activities become significant because they are given significance by all participants — not only the " speaker " . |
| 25 | This is to acknowledge that the court 's role is merely to act as a long-stop . |
| 26 | This is to acknowledge that the representational forms themselves are conveyers of messages but are not innocent of the struggle . |
| 27 | A useful way to understand this is to remember that in a domestic context UK banks do not need to keep operational balances at the Bank of England equal to the total value of their deposits , just in case they are withdrawn . |
| 28 | The main reason for this is to reduce or eliminate the risk that people will be affected by the presence of a new member of their social group . |
| 29 | This is to certify that the above named is exempted from any form of medical examination and will not be asked any medical questions regarding this application for the NatWest Hospital Income Plan — PROVIDING THE APPLICANT IS ELIGIBLE AND RETURNS THE APPLICATION FORM BEFORE THE CLOSE DATE ABOVE |
| 30 | This is to certify that in my opinion you are unfit to : work/join the Army/propagate your species . |