Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involves not only reflecting on why certain types of behaviours are defined as criminal in some historical periods and not others , but also why a particular criminal law comes to incorporate from relatively homogeneous behaviour patterns only a portion and exclude the remainder , even though each and every instance of this behaviour causes avoidable harm , injury , or deprivation . |
| 2 | This involves not only asking ‘ What is taught ? ’ but ‘ How do we ask what is taught ? ’ |
| 3 | In the first two cases , this has also usually meant that criminals are seen as being distinguished by biological or psychic features which are identifiable separately from the disposition towards crime ( although they are causally implicated in it ) . |
| 4 | Oonagh McDonald , the shadow treasury backbencher at the time , said : " Nobody should invest through FIMBRA until a compensation scheme is set up " This has thankfully now come about . |
| 5 | This has not yet turned specifically against the institutions of the EEC . |
| 6 | The fact that this has not yet led to a fundamental delegitimisation of the state 's role has led some Marxists to develop a more sophisticated awareness of the divergent forces operating upon the growth of government . |
| 7 | But even this has not yet arrived . |
| 8 | No doubt the field will eventually clarify and mature and the terminology will be designed with precision so that meaningful concepts , tools and methods are unambiguously clarified and distinguished but this has not yet happened . |
| 9 | In most Second and Third World countries this has not generally happened . |
| 10 | However , this has not necessarily proved to be the case when the time has come to commit the words to celluloid . |
| 11 | I fear that this has not necessarily taken place in every case . |
| 12 | NME , for instance , has always included substantial coverage of black popular forms — soul , reggae , hip-hop — although this has not always met with their readers ' approval . |
| 13 | This has not always happened , as is examined later . |
| 14 | Surprisingly this has not directly affected the rate at which interrogation produces admissions . |
| 15 | This has not only created severe problems for the national parliaments , who are finding the huge quantity of legislation difficult to scrutinise , it also represents a seepage of power to Brussels , since the best way of attaining power is simply to grab it , whether or not you have a mandate . |
| 16 | This has not only exposed the underlying differences between Likud and Labour which the initiative papered over . |
| 17 | It 's not got the creative thing , which , I mean , competition , to get a a ten , or a nine , you 've got ta really have some creative element in it , this has n't quite got that , but it is a very strong picture and , and very nicely photographed so I 'll give this one , eight . |
| 18 | What about all that 's gone before , like Delta 5 , Au Pairs , Raincoats — this has n't suddenly happened . |
| 19 | Now this has n't really got going yet . |
| 20 | As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump . |
| 21 | However , this has never really come off . |
| 22 | All this has long since gone , and the problem of rehabilitation is immense . |
| 23 | They also ran Oliver 's Mill further down the valley but , unlike Damsell 's , this has now largely disappeared . |
| 24 | The aim would ultimately be for a speaker independent system , allowing continuous speech , with a large vocabulary , and this has only recently become a practical possibility as speech recognition methods have shifted to phoneme-based systems , using transitional probabilities and methods such as hidden Markov models to allow sequences of phonemes found in English ( or whatever language is being considered ) and reject others . |
| 25 | ‘ It was then I decided that there had to be a market out there for an ironing service for professional women — and this has very much proved to be the case . ’ |
| 26 | In practice , this has very seldom happened except when a local business has accepted a very dependent relationship with an outside investor . |
| 27 | This includes not only documenting the sectoral pattern of activity in cities , but also an appraisal of the consequences in terms of job opportunities for different groups within the economically active population . |
| 28 | This applies not only while out on contract but also on returning to the home country . |
| 29 | This applies not only to work that is strictly social scientific , but also to that with , for example , a more medical or demographic orientation . |
| 30 | Specifically , this means not only taking into account man 's obvious close evolutionary ties with the chimpanzee and gorilla , but also his rather less obvious resemblance to another primate , the gelada baboon . |