Example sentences of "[noun sg] this [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course this makes the present situation sound dramatically worse than it is . |
| 2 | In part this reflects the political and constitutional environment in which our government operates . |
| 3 | In part this reflects the genuine difficulty in measuring marginal benefits . |
| 4 | At a stroke this reduces the marauding husband-kidnapper to an unthreatening figure of fun . |
| 5 | He recognized that he could be accused of a conservative , ‘ indeed reactionary ’ , direction for the universities , and of condemning the public sector to second-class status , but ‘ unrepentant I shall believe that in the long run this represents the logical development of both the Robbins principle and the binary policy ’ . |
| 6 | A phrase from the Conservative 's manifesto last year , we are the only party that understands the need for low taxation , has now returned to haunt them , for an MP in a marginal constituency this evokes the electoral ghost of George Bush , so he firmly rules out increases in income tax , but would n't mind putting V A T on newspapers and books . |
| 7 | And going through on page sixty five in the main agenda this outlines the current plan to achieve registration for Harlow 's museums in order to achieve to achieve the a the a a and tangibility to grasp to obtain aid from the museum 's national bodies . |
| 8 | Effectively , every time the client takes another step on the ladder this becomes the bottom step , only approximately ten units of anxiety off the ground . |
| 9 | The aeroelastic engineer will usually be interested only in the fundamental mode of vibration and a few overtones , say 10 in all ; in the usual model this implies the dominant and the 9 immediately subdominant eigenvalues and vectors . |
| 10 | By the same token this raises the interesting possibility that , for much of the time at least , men view their knowledge as self-evident and many women may , in the absence of alternatives , come to interpret their own experiences in terms of the categories made available by male experts . |
| 11 | To a large extent this reflects the occupational distribution of the agency worker labour force and the particular characteristics of the clerical/secretarial labour market in that part of the country [ see in more detail , Chapter 5 ] . |