Example sentences of "this [noun sg] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 this basis it makes more sense for an investor to invest in promise than in reality .
4 In this way it facilitated public representation of the relationship between the state , capital , and an emerging working class as one of pre-eminent moral stature . ’
5 It had never hurt before in anything but high jump but this time it hurt long jumping .
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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