Example sentences of "this [noun sg] it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child .
2 create the illusion that the ‘ dangerous ’ class is primarily located at the bottom of various hierarchies by which we ‘ measure ’ each other , such as occupational prestige , income level , housing market location , educational achievement , racial attributes — in this illusion it fuses relative poverty and criminal propensities and sees them both as effects of moral inferiority , thus rendering the ‘ dangerous ’ class deserving of both poverty and punishment ;
3 On the other hand , like any moulded surface of this type it has fat needles , rather than the brush-type filaments of a normal plastic slope .
4 On this basis it makes more sense for an investor to invest in promise than in reality .
5 Its aim is to bring the machine to the market by late 1993 , and in order to achieve this goal it needs additional engineers .
6 This self-obsession , the looking inwards and away from the real world , represents a full circle turned in approximately twenty years , and this time it has official sanction and encouragement .
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