Example sentences of "this [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we may feel on reading this that it takes two to perform — that performance requires , in however regressive or circular a fashion , the self that so many people believe they have , and that this epistolary Zuckerman exhibits here , in a display of inadvertence which may or may not implicate Philip Roth . |
| 2 | The curate added to this that those promoting the integrated project were in fact promoting secularism . |
| 3 | It was obvious from this that in going into storms we were quite literally playing with fire . |
| 4 | Add to all this that they endow themselves with rightness and send their mutual corroboration cascading through all levels of our information systems . |
| 5 | It was this that fostered an even more radical bid for his independence . |
| 6 | The earlier traditions had focused not on experience as the key element in mind , but on intellect and thought ; it was this that made mind special and different from anything physical . |
| 7 | Libet concluded from this that the subjective experience was occurring before the neural events which bought it about . |
| 8 | Art is at least as important as Politics , whether in Peace or war , and it is Pound 's intransigent conviction of this that brings out the philistine in others beside Peter Robinson . |
| 9 | ‘ It is an accepted practice in dire situations such as this that the board is replaced or supplemented by a new board charged with the function of restoring the fortunes of the company and the confidence of customers , ’ the letter says . |
| 10 | Mrs Henry embarked on a course in herbal medicine and it was during this that she heard about the Gerson therapy . |
| 11 | Yet there is a tense energy about him — and it was precisely this that struck Tadao Nakane , when he discovered Ninagawa directing angry underground productions in the early Seventies . |
| 12 | It is over this that Heseltine bumps up against what is both his opportunity and his problem . |
| 13 | It is as a result of fears such as this that members of the RUC are required to obtain official permission before they cam talk to outsiders , such as the Press and researchers , or face being sacked from the force . |
| 14 | Other parts of the working ‘ common sense ’ of the police in Easton are the typifications and recipe knowledge which they employ when doing policing , and it is to this that we now turn . |
| 15 | In the words of the Robbins Report , ‘ it is this that furnishes the criterion of what institutions of higher education may properly teach ’ . |
| 16 | It 's at moments like this that something magical happens . |
| 17 | ( It was because of this that people from the impoverished villages who sought work in the towns did n't always find it . ) |
| 18 | It is only after this that the supporting role of outside sympathisers can be useful . |
| 19 | It was to stop this that amateurs within the FA , who disliked professionalism in principle , were willing to accept it in practice . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is because of this that an alternative method of picking was developed . |
| 21 | The criticism hurt , but it was from encounters like this that Charles discovered what his position as Prince of Wales was all about . |
| 22 | His institute 's estimates of the country 's current economic level relative to Western Europe are high and he concludes from this that economic reform can be based largely on domestic resources . |
| 23 | It was this that suggested that there had been pricing errors which lead to the suspension of the trusts . |
| 24 | It was this that suggested that there had been pricing errors which led to the suspension of the trusts . |
| 25 | It was this that eventually scuppered Horner . |
| 26 | It was this that finally scuppered her opponent . |
| 27 | Within a radius of ten miles of West Challow there are at least half a dozen houses that look so similar to this that they must surely have been built by the same hand . |
| 28 | Her judgement of Alan Jones was both admiring and shrewd , and he asked about her own education , becoming aware that at least four other men were listening with great interest and that Catherine Crane was so used to this that she was unconscious of it . |
| 29 | But was it for this that the trumpets blew so confidently when the TECs appeared , less than two years ago ? |
| 30 | It is this that has made some Americans say that , if Iraq agreed to withdraw from Kuwait , it must abandon its tanks and other heavy equipment . |