Example sentences of "[noun pl] be this " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mass Observation noted , " One very vital effect of the air-raids is this blurring of the future . |
| 2 | What thanks is this for keeping vigil outside in the street nearly all night ? |
| 3 | One of the words that the Bible uses most often to describe a Christian 's relationships is this word ‘ respect ’ . |
| 4 | I think that one of the most confusing aspects is this word corporates , what 's a national account corporate , what 's a national account |
| 5 | Typical of his dramatic handling of words is this passage from ‘ Quanto piu m'arde ’ ( published in 1540 ) . |
| 6 | speakers is this |
| 7 | AMONG the super savings is this voucher which admits up to four people to the American Adventure Theme Park for just £3 each . |
| 8 | Reed Consumer Books was this week locked in dispute with leading wholesalers after proposing to introduce a standardised discount structure and abolishing full credit on returns , in a move which if pursued by other publishers could seriously damage the long-term prospects of the wholesale sector . |
| 9 | In the heart of the city and close to both the main railway station and pedestrian areas is this superb first-class hotel . |
| 10 | Close to one of the excellent shopping areas is this comfortable modern hotel . |
| 11 | So the message for rich countries is this : only by opening their borders to developing-country producers can they create customers for their own goods in the world 's fastest-expanding markets . |
| 12 | The strange brooding power and expectation in some of Moore 's statues is this emotion , carved and chiselled into stone . |
| 13 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 14 | I think the the truth of the matter is that what the committee needs is this information that we 've got in front of us . |
| 15 | One of the troubles is this : the heart is n't heart-shaped . |
| 16 | So what fundamentally came out of those early years was this sense of community . |
| 17 | Paul 's verdict : ease of use and good performance in sheltered conditions are this stove 's good points — and the propane/butane fuel mix makes it suitable for colder seasons . |
| 18 | Among the campaigners is this Kuwaiti princess , in London when the Iraqis invaded , she does n't want to be identified because she fears for her life . |
| 19 | What 's in it for the businesses is this : at the moment they can see Eastern Europe as an emerging market , but it 's very difficult to get in there because the hard cash and the skills that they need do n't exist in those countries , but they want to do something , they want to demonstrate their interest , they want to make contact , and what Enterprise Europe gives them is the opportunity to make a good business contact amongst one the young generation of er of business leaders in those countries er in order , and keep those contacts in order that when they do have an opportunity to go into those markets they 've got some young people there to start off with . |
| 20 | One of the problems is this thing about some are being punished and have to there |
| 21 | One of it 's most famous clocks is this one in Cheltenham 's regent arcade ; another one-off is this replica of Big Ben — destined for an American client . |
| 22 | Where are their democratic rights Is this the new , I quote , the new era of democratic rights about which was talking yesterday ? |
| 23 | That 's right , as , as , as Theresa said at the beginning , one of the prime characteristics of dreams is this kind of visual erm symbolism and in the course of analyzing thousands of dreams of course which he did in his practice , Freud found that very often certain fundamental things that people tend to dream about quite a lot tend to appear in lots of people 's dreams with similar kinds of er representations , and among the most notorious and obvious of these were things related to sex . |
| 24 | ARECORD in the Band Aid tradition of charity singles is this week being recorded this week to raise money for the Vietnamese boat refugees facing repatriation from Hong Kong . |
| 25 | During the next few experiences the discrimination may still be uncertain — ‘ which ’ , we ask ourselves , ‘ of the two wines is this present specimen ? ’ |
| 26 | Ooh , how many Tuesdays is this in the row that plays the dad ? |
| 27 | The message that rang out and clear to the RWC Sevens organisers was this : Do not carry this system on to Murrayfield . |
| 28 | The point of the experiments was this : strong social pressure was being put on these children to agree to a realist answer ( they were not allowed out of the room until they had an answer ! ) and if their usual tendency to interpret questions phenomenally is a trivial and weak effect then this social pressure should obliterate it . |
| 29 | Anyway , a bumper crop of entries have been sent in for my perusal with a phenomenal response for the Hi-Tec and Elvira puzzlers so , waffling aside , let's see who the lucky pilchards are this time . |
| 30 | But that 's as maybe — even if The Chieftains were this decade 's Temptations , Mayfield or Gaye , they still would n't be needed . |