Example sentences of "[prep] this [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing that to say anything about this would lead to further ridicule and isolation at school , and open disbelief from my family , I decided to ignore it . |
| 2 | ‘ I quite accept that being in public life , the publicity about this will have repercussions on my political life . |
| 3 | Once the war between France and the Vietminh had begun , the time had obviously passed when American operational decisions such as this would affect the fortunes of either side . |
| 4 | Text such as this may require the acquisition of specialist dictionaries to maintain the high performance shown in other domains . |
| 5 | A mining bargain such as this might include the setting in of timbers though the mine might provide someone to do this work independently . |
| 6 | However , improvements such as this could have been introduced without going wholesale into a market economy for health with its inevitable two-tier system for general practice . |
| 7 | [ E ] very … type of case such as this must involve questions of fact and degree . |
| 8 | Only a resolutely historical critical approach such as this can begin to do justice to the life and work of Paul Nizan , inextricably enmeshed as it is in the illusions , deceits , hopes , aspirations , successes and failures of its time . |
| 9 | Conversations such as this can help children see the point : Penny : " I love giraffes — I love stroking them on my lap — I 'd love to have one for a pet . " |
| 10 | Large organisations such as this can impose such a bar , but domestic customers can not , nor should they be expected to do so . |
| 11 | A comment such as this can indicate to a friend that the person is working out their grief very strongly but is still stuck on the question : ‘ Is he gone for ever or is n't he ? ’ |
| 12 | And what most of the analysis misses is that reports such as this will accelerate the process , persuading those that do n't want to downsize that they will soon have little alternative as vendors put mainframe lines onto care and maintenance . |
| 13 | And what most of the analysis misses is that reports such as this will accelerate the process , persuading those that do n't want to downsize that they will soon have little alternative as vendors put mainframe lines onto care and maintenance . |
| 14 | ‘ We work for some 2000 customers and a magazine such as this will contribute to the awareness of technical issues in industry . ’ |
| 15 | Remember not to ground your club at the address position as this will incur a two-stroke penalty in stroke-play or the loss of a hole in match-play . |
| 16 | ‘ A ship such as this will require an improved method of steering , ’ Alexei said . |
| 17 | But potentially positive measures such as this will have little effect if the road is built . |
| 18 | As in many of the less obvious aspects of dog training , care over details such as this will help to ensure that there is no adverse reaction on the part of the dog . |
| 19 | If a fragment is stuck badly , a solvent should be used to loosen it again , but it is advisable not to use force for this may result in fresh breaks . |
| 20 | Local arrangements for this may vary , and good models already operate in some areas . |
| 21 | Failure to recognize and to allow for this may explain why , even after nine years of Thatcherite ‘ political clout ’ , doubt still exists about the extent of real cultural change within Whitehall and whether ‘ lasting reforms ’ have , or ever will be , achieved . |
| 22 | An explanation for this may lie in the way that children are treated in these two cultures : Western conditioning tends to be based on the idea of guilt . |
| 23 | The first reason for this may seem an odd one . |
| 24 | One reason for this may have lain in the unwillingness of biologists to accept the highly abstract nature of his theory . |
| 25 | One reason for this may have been the conventional wisdom that secularisation had made the subject well nigh irrelevant , another reason may have been that there are few areas in which the methodological problems are as acute as they are in the investigation of people 's beliefs and/or the assessment of the effect that these have upon the rest of society . |
| 26 | Attempts were made by Wulfhere to detach the kingdom of Lindsey from its dependency on the north Anglian king , for Chad probably and Wynfrith ( 672-c. 674 ) certainly , successive bishops of Lichfield , exercised episcopal authority over the Lindesfara ( HE IV , 3 ) and the political foundations for this may have been laid in the 660s . |
| 27 | Some support for this might come from the archaeological evidence , which attests Kenchester 's increasing importance through time . |
| 28 | If a difference in SMR had been found , then one of the explanations for this might have been a difference in performance between the two ICUs . |
| 29 | The work for this would ferment in the house the right kind of feeling , atmosphere , to do away with the nastiness of the last day or so . |
| 30 | He was not seduced , although his excuse for this would have been much better than most , by the politically widespread enthusiasm for the alternative of his old friend Halifax . |