Example sentences of "this [verb] [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 | She broke off as though to allow this to sink in then went on : ‘ Father knew perfectly well that my brother and I did n't agree , that we would part as soon as possible , so he made sure that we would be tied together in all the wrangling that would go on because of the joint legacy . ’ |
4 | 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 ) . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | This has not yet turned specifically against the institutions of the EEC . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | But even this has not yet arrived . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | In most Second and Third World countries this has not generally happened . |
11 | However , this has not necessarily proved to be the case when the time has come to commit the words to celluloid . |
12 | I fear that this has not necessarily taken place in every case . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | This has not always happened , as is examined later . |
15 | Surprisingly this has not directly affected the rate at which interrogation produces admissions . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | This has not only exposed the underlying differences between Likud and Labour which the initiative papered over . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | What about all that 's gone before , like Delta 5 , Au Pairs , Raincoats — this has n't suddenly happened . |
20 | Now this has n't really got going yet . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | However , this has never really come off . |
23 | All this has long since gone , and the problem of rehabilitation is immense . |
24 | They also ran Oliver 's Mill further down the valley but , unlike Damsell 's , this has now largely disappeared . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
27 | In practice , this has very seldom happened except when a local business has accepted a very dependent relationship with an outside investor . |
28 | This involved not only training the student , but also persuading often nervous parents to permit their offspring to travel to and from the college , in a small Wiltshire town , independently . |
29 | In Britain this shift most obviously took the form of the sale of ( shares in ) state-owned industries and the sale of council houses ; but other manifestations of the shift included provision for the ‘ contracting out ’ by local authorities of various functions to private contractors and moves towards the ‘ privatization ’ of certain types of prison facilities . |
30 | We have seen that in the detective story and even in the detective novel , scenes such as this used too often risk boredom in the reader . |