Example sentences of "[noun pl] be this " in BNC.

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31 The sole foundation for belief in the natural sciences is this idea , that the general laws dictating the phenomena of the universe are necessary and constant .
32 In what ways is this different to your other states of mind and being ?
33 How it 's done in practical terms is this each Harlow ward returns three councillors yeah ?
34 There are reports in today 's paper Ron that there are problems with the Tony Daley deal to Italy because of personal terms is this true ?
35 One of the points of skeleton arguments is this .
36 In what ways was this landscape unpleasant and in what ways may people get greater pleasure from it now ?
37 SECURITY forces were this afternoon carrying out a major search operation in the Bogside area of Londonderry .
38 What did reach them , over Malawi radio , was Dr Banda 's assertion that ‘ what you should know about the bishops is this : to be fair to the bishops , they have apologised .
39 The crucial question for policy-makers is this : how common are externalities and public goods ?
40 What about this mum 's army of teachers is this going to come to fruition as some point or not ?
41 Cereal growers are worst affected … only with the use of costly slug pellets is this this field of oil seed rape near Abingdon starting to recover .
42 Among other curiousities is this rare corkscrew maple .
43 For none of the members is this their only source of income .
44 In fact she has made a cryptic entrance already in the fifteenth line of this canto : ‘ … of Berengar his heirs was this Eleanor ’ .
45 That was very good and we heard somebody else talking about pennies and how important pennies were this afternoon , Patricia Routledge mentioned pennies as well .
46 House builders were this week accused of going back on their word by increasing the number of homes they intend to build on a Darlington estate .
47 This scheme was relatively modest in comparison with many others such as the £7million scheme , for which contracts were this year placed to resignal fifty-six route miles from Cambridge to Royston , Bishop 's Stortford , Fulbourne ( on the line to Newmarket ) and to a point just south of Ely .
48 ‘ No , I would n't let you , you 'd say thank you very much , the fees are this price , and I 'd like a nice flat of my own with carpets going right up to the wall and no counting how much electric fire we use . ’
49 Context : Brundtland , Rio , Agenda 21 ; UK 's Environment White Papers ; public consultations being this report ; cross-references to Climate Change plan , Biodiversity plan , and forest principles plan .
50 THE , bottom line of these Seminars is this : Ownership and Accountability — both individual and collective .
51 Erm eight men Is this one you 've done ?
52 ‘ What the blazes is this ? ’ yelled the Trunchbull .
53 What the blazes is this ?
54 The unspoken subtext of Barley 's amusing odyssey in search of Raffles is this : was all western imperialism really so bad , and were not men like Raffles far better rulers than the exploiters , white and brown , who came before and after them ?
55 But er wh why from the point of view of the peasants was this radicalization taking place ?
56 all , yeah they 're not , round the corner , all three garages is this is Selby 's and there 's erm , Selby 's is Volkswagen repairer and er , oh no , yeah Lee invite
57 Now the probability of any one step being positive or negative is ½ , so that the probability of having , say , r positive steps and n — r negative ones is This is not the probability of arriving at the point m = r = ( n-r ) =2r-n , however , since the successive steps may be taken in different ways .
58 Perhaps the main reason why we are so strongly inclined to talk of the head as the locality of our thoughts is this
59 Indeed , so fundamental to the outlook of Jacobean Protestants was this identification of the pope with Antichrist that one contemporary went so far as to define a Protestant as one who ‘ can swear the Pope is antichrist and that flesh is good on Friday ’ .
60 Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets .
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