Example sentences of "this [be] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who do this are actually given a training , this does n't hurt the baby , they do n't mind , their bones are very soft you 'll look at your baby , all of you can look at babies that you 're caring for and you hold them and you see well is that leg longer than the other ? |
| 2 | In the second round 50 per cent would be sufficient , but if this were not achieved the process would be repeated with new candidates . |
| 3 | This is generally called the tepidarium but it is doubtful that it was in fact such a room for it would have been too immense to heat and no hypocausts have been discovered under it . |
| 4 | The effect of this is generally to knock the opponent over and earn you a full point . |
| 5 | Although this is generally considered a thing of the past , there has been a revival in the popularity of the solidly built , veneered Thirties suite with its square lines . |
| 6 | ‘ This is however nearing the end of its useful life and is therefore currently under review . |
| 7 | This is strictly speaking an impossibility , in that it is impossible to do and have what we recognise as a knot without at some point letting go of the rope . |
| 8 | ‘ This is not to seal a bargain . |
| 9 | And if this is not done the repair bill will escalate dramatically . |
| 10 | This is not aiding a suicide , since the patient is not , I submit , committing suicide , but only declining further medical care . |
| 11 | It may be said that this is not imagining the activity of a postman at all . |
| 12 | This is not to condone a boycott lightened only slightly before the start by a placard reading ‘ No Cummins , No Goings ’ . |
| 13 | This is not to denigrate the uniqueness and quality of working skills . |
| 14 | The first one , I mean , er , this is not casting the stone , but this is the way I see 'em all . |
| 15 | This is not to belittle the producer 's problem . |
| 16 | This is not to belittle the importance of his role . |
| 17 | This is not to belittle the importance of his role . |
| 18 | This is not to belittle the role of the superstructure and the importance of studying that side of men 's relations in commodity economy ; but investigation does not begin with the superstructure . |
| 19 | This is not to use the term ‘ romantic ’ in the pejorative sense in which it must be used when speaking of the film made of The Happy Return , in which Lady Barbara , envisaged as a coy , magazine-cover blonde ( and without the hereditary Wellesley nose ) fluttered her eyelashes at Gregory Peck as an equally improbable Hornblower . |
| 20 | This is not to deny the possibility that an associative acquired-distinctiveness effect may also operate in other cases ) . |
| 21 | This is not to deny the brilliance and seminal contribution of certain individuals . |
| 22 | This is not to deny the significance of the creative individual , but his or her efforts at innovation can only be really sustained when they take root in and pervade the school as a whole . |
| 23 | What he proposes is to change ‘ ideas into things ’ ; and to do this is not to deny the existence of a world of things . |
| 24 | This is not to deny the force of economistic elements in capitalism , but to indicate how certain ideological and moral themes assist in the maintenance of economic control . |
| 25 | This is not to deny the value of such courses : they provide , at the very least , a sense of professional community and there is no doubt that some of the inspiration they generate carries over into practice . |
| 26 | This is not to deny the importance of inter-war industrial change — just to get it in perspective relative to the much more profound restructuring of the recent past . |
| 27 | This is not to deny the importance of personal persuasion . |
| 28 | This is not to deny the reality of such self-interested behaviour as that discussed by Thomas and Mungham in this volume . |
| 29 | This is not to deny the reality of urban poverty based on significant differentiation within the working class ( see North Tyne side CDP , 1977 ) , but the theme was high wages and rough and ready urban conditions . |
| 30 | This is not to deny the truth of orthodox Christian belief . |