Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [is] [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What attracts many scientists to this hypothesis is that those perturbations of the orbits of Neptune and Pluto have yet to be explained satisfactorily in any other way . |
| 2 | One additional feature of the responses to tasks exemplifying this criterion is that many pupils refer to 3-D shapes by the names of their faces , i.e. " a cube " may be referred to as " a square " , or a pyramid as a " triangle " . |
| 3 | Each of these has changed substantially in the post-war period , but the central argument of this chapter is that such changes can not be seen as the result only of changes within the UK . |
| 4 | A general point to be kept in mind throughout this chapter is that any tax reform involves the costs of transition from one scheme to another . |
| 5 | The main focus of this chapter is whether these policies are sufficient , or whether it is necessary for the state to have direct control of certain industries through public ownership . |
| 6 | The most remarkable feature of this migration is that each stream maintains a distinct population of salmon , sometimes visibly different from those in a neighbouring steam . |
| 7 | One of the results of this difference is that such accents have different pronunciations for the two members of pairs of words that are pronounced identically ( i.e. are homophones ) in RP , e.g. ‘ won ’ and ‘ one ’ , ‘ nun ’ and ‘ none ’ . |
| 8 | The lesson of this period is that this type of legislation by itself , even when backed by executive exhortation , is insufficient to change sentencing outcomes ; and that unless sentencing discretion is restricted there is little hope of modifying sentencers ' own objectives in the pursuit of policy goals favoured by the executive ( Sabol , 1990 ) . |
| 9 | What needs to be stressed at this point is that this evolution is rooted in a very specific historical moment of production . |
| 10 | The nub of this criticism is that such views give rise to a kind of political paralysis : everything must wait until the revolutionary moment in which the production relations are transformed ; until then labour must play a purely oppositional role , a role which Precludes struggle of a ‘ prefigurative ’ kind . |
| 11 | What is essential to this mode is that each country should communicate via some agency of central government located in that part of the state 's apparatus which is concerned with the administration of justice . |
| 12 | The logical extension of this argument is that some form of interdependence might be possible , where Third World actors could carve out niches for themselves in the crevices that the hegemon TNCs leave unattended . |
| 13 | Well the word from Ireland this week is that this horse is jumping out of its skin . |
| 14 | A consequence of this approach is that many managers within one division will not know what is important to another division , as well as the overall corporation . |
| 15 | The main difficulty of this interpretation is that all traces of the actual cella have been lost ( his p. 18 ) . |
| 16 | Now , what I wish to ask in this book is whether this way of thinking about Britain 's decline is useful and accurate . |
| 17 | Now , what I wish to ask in this book is whether this way of thinking about Britain 's decline is useful and accurate . |
| 18 | My Lord er the basis of this objection is that this evidence is not admissible under a sign of authority and erm I wonder if I could start er my submission on this by referring to er on evidence . |
| 19 | The recommendation following from this diagnosis is that more attention should be directed to developing these kinds of competence in initial training , not least with regard to teachers spending more time on becoming more skilled and knowledgeable in their own subject specialisms . |
| 20 | The implication of this note is that most readers did not want to hear that anything was wrong , and that Wordsworth 's doubts about the growth of industry show original thinking on his part . |