Example sentences of "is that this [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would devolve power to national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and to regional assemblies in England , and their hope is that this would promote a sense of national and regional identity while preserving the United Kingdom and a sense of belonging to a British community . |
| 2 | The difficulty here is that this would take a long time to carry out , besides which , there is the problem of access . |
| 3 | One of the main reasons for wanting one 's own basic beliefs to be infallible is that this would guarantee that they are all true . |
| 4 | Er now I mean One thing that a lot of the literature says is that this might indicate a power , and another thing that the literature says |
| 5 | The danger in quoting fragments of their writings out of context is that this may distort their intention and produce a static picture . |
| 6 | The trouble is that this can present psychological problems if , like me , you are not one of those people who has been riding since you first told some condescending aunt from your pushchair ‘ It 's not a horsy , it 's under 14.2hh ’ . |
| 7 | The not-so-good news is that this can take up to a year . |
| 8 | Their view is that this will lead to clinical resistance and ultimately to a failure to implement . |
| 9 | The suggestion is that this will reduce their chances of finding such work themselves and make them dependent for informal assistance on others whose circumstances are similar to their own . |
| 10 | So what we know is that this must have been blocked up before this doorway was inserted , okay ? |
| 11 | The risk is that this could tend to accentuate institutional complacency . |
| 12 | The acute danger of any use of nuclear weapons is that this could escalate to a full-scale strategic exchange between the superpowers . |
| 13 | On the river side of the High St. there is an area with a strange name , Great Winox , and what this meant we have been unable to discover , but one theory is that this could have been the ancient vineyard . |