Example sentences of "this is [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah this is to Shell , what do you mean I 'll like it ? |
| 2 | Jupiter which is a huge planet , if you look carefully here this is a this is to scale , this shows you the size of the planet . |
| 3 | This is to date . |
| 4 | I think the best way of looking at this is to kind of take an open-ended version of what the Vienna settlement is all about . |
| 5 | To forget this is to court despair . |
| 6 | The method used to achieve this is to pre-process the information into the system . |
| 7 | The effect of this is to decentre the subject by locating social being in the social practices of groups . |
| 8 | This is to misrepresent the subject simply as a collection of techniques . |
| 9 | Thus , though one might for some purposes characterise the human sciences as concerned with human behaviour in all its fullness this is to misrepresent what turn out to be very different ways of looking at or being interested in the world of human beings . |
| 10 | This is of course in our own interests . ’ |
| 11 | This is of course an extremely simplistic presentation of the after life but it may illustrate why many people , as they approach the end of their lives , are concerned to ‘ put their affairs in order ’ . |
| 12 | This is of course traumatic in itself and involves an interview with the Registrar which we will discuss in more detail in chapter 11 . |
| 13 | This is of course not always so . |
| 14 | This is of course very useful diagnostically where the teacher does not know the class . |
| 15 | At the present stage of development of US television , on the other hand , the schedules of the majority viewing channels ( and this is of course complicated by the much wider dissemination of cable ) are stripped in a way which concentrates particular genres and subgenres within the same time-slot : the competition is directed quite blatantly at the same demographic group or taste constituency , and , characteristically , for the network viewer , the choice is within genres and subgenres rather between them . |
| 16 | On a macro scale , this is of course how Blacks were and to a large extent are still viewed : as a disruptive , damaging force disturbing the previously calm , stable landscape of cultural superiority . |
| 17 | This is of course the area with which certain members of the library and information profession have sought to become intimately involved , and even to command the heights . |
| 18 | This is of course what architects are supposed to do . |
| 19 | This is of course directly contrary to the past experience of most British ‘ curriculum managers ’ , certainly at secondary level . |
| 20 | ( This is of course , a local variant of concerns expressed by Johnson ( 1977 ) regarding the welfare state as a whole , and discussed in Chapter 2 , section 2.2 . ) |
| 21 | This is of course the famous ‘ Principle of falsifiability ’ ( or as Imre Lakatos terms it in his immortal words ‘ sophisticated methodological falsificationism ’ ) . |
| 22 | This is of course a perfectly defensible approach , but it seems to me a limited one : inevitably one comes up against the micro-macro conundrum . |
| 23 | This is of course encouraging , in terms of the potential effects of disclosure regulations under the Consumer Credit Act . |
| 24 | Waterford as highly encouraging — exploration between Kilmeaden and Kilmacthomas found primary gold traces of nearly two ounces per tonne — though this is of course a long way from a commercial proposition . |
| 25 | To the extent that the Church no longer dominates Western thought this is of course correct . |
| 26 | This is of course reflected in increasing public admission costs to airshows . |
| 27 | This is of course with the proviso that these measures can be calculated accurately . |
| 28 | This is of course , in marked contrast to the typical experience of persons found guilty of ‘ conventional ’ crimes ( Martin and Webster 1971 ) . |
| 29 | This is of course the way the Chewong themselves react under similar circumstances . |
| 30 | ‘ The general public , ’ he said , ‘ label all cases sent to the asylum as lunatics ; this is of course incorrect … they are feeble-minded because they are old . ’ |