Example sentences of "this [be] [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is rarely done but consistency in outcome is important for dealing with social casualties who may need services at any time .
2 Drinking water supplies are believed to be contaminated ; the sale of bottled water to Koreans is prohibited by law ( foreigners are exempt ) , although this is increasingly flouted as concern over water safety grows .
3 This is partly to say that Richard Chandos and his frequent companion-in-arms , George Hanbury , are commonplace adventurers compared with Rudolf Rassendyll , in spite of the resonance of Chandos 's name .
4 However , this is not done where Ord 17 r 11 ( automatic directions ) applies , unless the case had been set down for hearing in the High Court before transfer or a request for a day for hearing to be fixed is made under Ord 17 , r 11(3) ( d ) .
5 This is not to say that dreams are unimportant .
6 This is not to say that Shadwell does not add some twists of his own .
7 This is not to say that man can mine coal where it does not occur geologically , or that some settlements do not originate because of the existence of some material which the inhabitants extract ; what it does mean is that people themselves determine what is exploited and how they deal with the extraction .
8 This is not to say that reading happens outside of the domain of politics , but that we ca n't easily conflate the two .
9 This is not to say that VDUs are necessarily safe .
10 This is not to say that PGCE ( and in-service ) tutors do not attempt to develop ‘ professional ’ rather than ‘ craftsman ’ knowledge and attitudes , it is rather to say that the professional knowledge is built on shaky foundations .
11 This is not to say that carbonate deposition began everywhere simultaneously as some heavenly clock chimed in the beginning of the Carboniferous Period .
12 This is not to say that society was classless .
13 This is not to say that radicalism is dead ; far from it .
14 This is not to say that removal of the clitoris was a routine operation either in the States or in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century .
15 This is not to say that TV was always dominant .
16 This is not to say that Bills were unknown in Japan , any more than Promissory Notes in the West , but Japanese commerce was heavily dependent on ‘ P Notes ’ as the basis of a complex credit system .
17 This is not to say that acts which we , or the Buid , would interpret as aggressive never occur , but that such acts are viewed as deviations from the ideals of Buid political culture .
18 All this is not to say that Basil was incapable of showing normal human impatience or intolerance .
19 This is not to say that self-referral must be sought with undue enthusiasm , although facilities for it might be extended with benefit to many youngsters .
20 This is not to say that differences between the legal and practical definitions should not be an important theme for analysis .
21 This is not to say that spite , malice or dishonesty may not exist ; they clearly can .
22 This is not to say that functionalists would be in sympathy with Freud 's belief that certain unconscious mental processes are so anxiety-provoking that they must not be allowed to enter awareness .
23 This is not to say that commuters have not moved into the rural areas of the North and West , for they clearly have , particularly where open countryside is within easy access of large cities , such as the Peak District for Sheffield and Manchester or the Mendips for Bristol and Bath .
24 This is not to say that folk psychology already has adequate theories of perception , language , memory or any other cognitive process .
25 This is not to say that teachers do not have a lot to worry about with the implementation of LMS .
26 This is not to say that moving may not be an excellent decision ; simply that , if money is the main criterion , you need to be thoroughly realistic when calculating the gains .
27 This is not to say that tradition was the rule .
28 This is not to say that meat is unimportant to us now .
29 This is not to say that women have not played an important and active role in numerous tenant struggles .
30 This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men .
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