Example sentences of "this is [verb] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In logical terms this is to say that no intersection exists between all constraint fields . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | None of this is to say that the Queen is a bad or malicious person : evidently she is not . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet , none of this is to say that the men who created the new unionism were wrong in their time . |
| 7 | This is to acknowledge that the court 's role is merely to act as a long-stop . |
| 8 | This is to ensure that the gully does not get blocked by leaves and other debris and also so that the action of the water gushing into the gully is to clean it . |
| 9 | One possible move to counteract this is to ensure that the system proposer is a business analyst and not a technical analyst |
| 10 | By this is meant that the invaders penetrate the cultural context of another group , whose wisdom , understanding and potential get ignored , as they impose their own view of the world upon the invaded and inhibit the expression of their creativity . |
| 11 | By this is meant that the student must have the prerequisite knowledge and skills to begin learning the task . |
| 12 | The first clue to this is to find that the bag itself is folded over and much longer than its contents . |
| 13 | The rejoinder to this is to accept that the counter is pointing to a real feature of academic thought , which is that the consensus of the relevant disciplinary community does indeed offer some measure of reliability and raises knowledge claims above mere whim ; but that does not in itself amount to a demonstration of the ‘ progress ’ of knowledge . |
| 14 | Briefly , this is to consider that the connections and orders of various sets of events are not exhausted either by the categories of causality or of randomness ( or by both together ) . |
| 15 | None of this is to suggest that the relationship between mercantile concerns and lawmaking is linear . |