Example sentences of "this [noun] [vb -s] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attitudinal use of intonation is something that is best acquired through talking with and listening to English speakers , and this course aims simply to train learners to be more aware of and sensitive to the way English speakers use intonation . |
| 2 | We have shown that the EGF antibody used in this study binds reliably to EGF peptide as reported by other workers . |
| 3 | This chapter refuses however to take either Bourdieu or his critics at their word . |
| 4 | This allegation seems never to have been proved , but , in connected proceedings brought against the sheriff of Surrey , a jury found that Inge had borrowed the plaintiff 's original writ from the sheriff and tampered with it . |
| 5 | Although this stream seems subsequently to have run into the sand , I find the approach attractive : money paid on the footing that there is a legal demand is paid for a reason that does not exist if that demand is a nullity . |
| 6 | The reason for this failure seems ultimately to lie with the ideology of The Faerie Queene herself . |
| 7 | In some respects this mosaic appears also to have been influenced by pavements in the western part of the province . |
| 8 | was doing no more than leaving open the question which this court has now to decide . |
| 9 | The greatest test of this season has yet to come , when they play an English side with a dented pride and one where many players have still to get over their last defeat by Scotland three years ago . |
| 10 | It is the Government 's hope that the non A level student , wishing to continue in full-time general education will increasingly come to consider the opportunity offered by C.P.V.E. Whilst this exam has yet to establish itself with either students or employers , there can be little doubt that it is here to stay . |
| 11 | This use seems generally to have grown in recent years . |
| 12 | As in the case of the infinitive of reaction , this use seems apparently to contradict the hypothesis that the support of the to infinitive is always situated before the place in time ( to be ) occupied by its event ; however , when compared with the use of the -ing form here , the contrasting expressive effects suggest another interpretation : ( 21a ) Reading Gideon on Beet was a new literary experience . |
| 13 | This use appears therefore to depict the support of the infinitive as entering into the actualization phase of an event from a prior position in time when nothing seemed to be militating in favour of its occurrence . |
| 14 | Likewise true status of the aircraft is difficult to tie down and this guide aims really to locate airframes . |
| 15 | ( This realisation seems completely to disarm McCloskey ( 1975 : 415 ) , for example . ) |
| 16 | Conversion of this space has yet to take place and the unlined timber skeleton of the boarded external-wall construction of the upper storeys remains on view to the interior , awaiting its insulation and internal finishes . |
| 17 | If I am correct — and the statement is also seen in some measure as a form of protection of the parents ' and child 's rights in this matter — it is surely anomalous that this statement appears largely to have become a passport to special schooling . |
| 18 | This project proposes therefore to carry out a short investigation of UK cereal producers , their representative organisations , the UK and European agricultural bureaucracies , concerned politicians and pressure groups . |
| 19 | This project aims primarily to extend knowledge on the incidence , degree and nature of speech degeneration and its implications for communication . |
| 20 | At present , a minister who abuses statistics in this way has only to fear the counter-assertions of the Opposition , no less self-interested . |
| 21 | How is it that this problem seems only to have emerged in the last few years . |
| 22 | This dictum applies particularly to price discrimination and vertical restraints . |
| 23 | While this maxim applies especially to press , it can be extended to other media , too . |