Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [conj] this [is] " in BNC.

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1 VICE-CHANCELLORS are not normally known for their speed of action and this is how it should be : universities are reflective , discursive communities .
2 Finally Engels turns to the future of marriage and this is seen in terms of past evolution .
3 It is therefore fair to say that , as a general rule , the courts are prepared to imply some degree of mobility into every contract of employment but this is likely to be limited unless the nature of the job or work performed by the employee is one where mobility would be recognised by both sides as being essential to the job .
4 Fee estimate : It is difficult to estimate the time involvement or costs of this category of work as this is a function of the number of funding sources approached and the number of meetings required .
5 The trustees make a capital payment of £65 and this is assessed upon the settlor .
6 Yeah erm so er yeah right that 's er because I mean what 's nice to see in these things is if you 're able to tell some sort of coherent little story from er y'know kind of these er people 's ideas , themes , speculations , evidence from previous studies and all that kind of thing and this is this is the data that we 've got that tells us something about those and says how misconceived they all are or how it may confirm them or whatever and then y'know a couple of bits sort of so it 's like a nice narrative but sort of fairly y'know sort of continuous argument going through which is nice to see and so er yeah .
7 I can not say with any degree of certainty that this is happening , but the rolling performance is part of the bream 's basic instincts , and therefore I can not believe that certain members of a species abandon entirely a basic behavioural activity .
8 Indeed , as already mentioned ( see Chapter 2 ) , the SGA 1979 has special provisions with regard to the determination of price where this is not fixed in the contract of sale ( s8 ) .
9 Under section 6(1) of the Act a court will not be able to pass a community sentence unless it is of the opinion that the offence ( or the combination of any two of the offences concerned ) is sufficiently serious to justify such a sentence ( it is a question of argument whether this is a reference to any kind of community sentence , or to the particular kind of community sentence which the court has in mind ) .
10 It stated : ‘ English and Welsh are the official languages of Wales and , in the conduct of public business and the administration of justice in Wales , the English and Welsh languages shall be treated on a basis of equality and this is to be achieved as provided in this Act . ’
11 The sine qua non , the absolute requirement , is the opportunity to belong to a community of believers and this is the reality of the parish community .
12 This poem has a strong anti-war message warning of the pointlessness of war and this is reflected in the title ‘ Futility ’ which means uselessness .
13 The expectations and priorities of social workers are seen to be very low in relation to the children 's education ; changes of placement lead to changes of school and this is seldom taken into account in placement decisions .
14 These rules must have that generality and universality which make them ingredients in impartial determinations and sufficient precision and bite to be used in making genuine resolutions of disputes , for instance , over territory ; second , the extension of the role and jurisdiction of juridically sound international courts on the model of the International Court of Justice , to which there will be compulsory reference of disorder endangering disputes to be decided by the application of the relevant set of reformed international laws , and the decisions of which would be mandatory with no reservations permitted ; 4 third , the massive extension of non-coercive jural agencies in the area of enforcement where this is taken to mean the monitoring of the behaviour of states in relation to international law and the decisions of international courts .
15 The key to healing the divisions in man 's nature which produce the tension between active and contemplative life is love , only realised in playing the game of faith that this is true .
16 Weathering rates and the intensity of leaching depend critically on the total throughput of water and this is likely to be far higher on a steep , well-drained slope than in flat terrain with poor drainage .
17 There is no harm in definition of terms provided this is given simply and in sufficient detail without embarrassment in the person giving it .
18 We have enough to do in evaluating Marx 's and Engels 's use of anthropology and this is the task of the next chapter .
19 They are , I suspect , fulfilling some obscure sense of obligation that this is ‘ what one does ’ in Vienna .
20 I think people in Poland are losing their sense of humour and this is very dangerous . ’
21 The energy value is measured in Megajoules per kilogram of feed and this is similar to calories .
22 And it was not Marxism for a number of reasons and this is almost certainly going to be very controversial so I hope that it will feed discussion in the , in the second half .
23 This provides an added potential benefit to traffic travelling along the main routes by reducing the number of locations where this is in conflict with turning traffic , but provides little control over speeds once traffic has penetrated the residential area .
24 People who have been encouraged to visit something , or somewhere , or some place , when they 've done so say ‘ well , I 've lived here , you know , X number of years and this is the first time I 've been here ’ and they are so pleased .
25 And it will it will get to this number of people and this is how it will be used .
26 The muscles that connect the two bones are clearly under a colossal amount of tension and this is pulling these two bones together .
27 Malcolm Green says he does a lot of orienteering and this is the big one
28 No I , I think there is , there is a lot of evidence that this is happening in all of the villages
29 It also tends to attract a lot of magic since this is about the only thing your opponent can rely on to slow it down .
30 It is 468 feet long and 275 feet wide ; the nave vault of 150 feet is nearly the height of Beauvais and this is a complete building .
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