Example sentences of "this [is] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another way of thinking of this is to return to the tap metaphor and to see that the tap represents demands and the glass represents resources . |
| 2 | The best way to do this is to go to the experts , the people who use the course every day , the teachers and the students . |
| 3 | But to talk like this is to fall into the trap mentioned above of emphasising maintenance not mission . |
| 4 | Now this , is er , also , and this is to do with the interest earned and on revenue balances . |
| 5 | Often this is to do with the fact that the current bereavement has driven the person into emotional overload because of everything else that is happening in their life either currently or over a period of time . |
| 6 | One important function of and in a piece of writing like this is to signal to the reader that the sentences are meant to be=read together as an integrated whole . |
| 7 | Perhaps the easiest way of looking at this is to think of the surface states as a charge store , which effectively shifts the switching level of the device . |
| 8 | That aside , English follows its normal mode of realization — marking qualification by word order — and , as tends to be the case except in entity-identifiers , having the subordinate item follow the item qualified ; the only overt marking is the choice of an adjectival rather than adverbial form for the second property , to show that this is to apply to the entity of the noun phrase and not to the property of the verb . |