Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] this [noun sg] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons for this popularity is the tremendous degree of choice . |
| 2 | One of the reasons for this improvement was the radical shift in the status quo of broadcasting that took place in November 1982 , when the new fourth channel went on the air . |
| 3 | However , the most valuable long-term effect of the plans for this index was the classification scheme which was devised in order to arrange it . |
| 4 | Perhaps the main characteristics of this community were the senses of certainty and order in social life : |
| 5 | The grand characteristics of this remedy are the worse ( < ) from first movement and better ( > ) for continued movement with better ( > ) heat and worse ( < ) cold . |
| 6 | One of the strengths of this offer is the quality of management . |
| 7 | For me the chief attractions of this programme were the two pieces by Hans Gàl , whom I knew towards the end of his long and fecund life ( he died in October 1987 , at the age of 97 ) . |
| 8 | Treading almost on the heels of this conviction was the bogey of Havelock Wilson himself for whom many employers harboured feelings " perilously near hatred " . |
| 9 | The beneficiaries of this movement were the new and expanded towns around the city — Bangor , Newtownards , Ballymena , Antrim , and Craigavon . |
| 10 | One of the saddest aspects of this issue is the heavy strains and burdens placed on elderly people who might have expected their last years to be more enjoyable . |
| 11 | But now , when even quite modest châteaux start at over £10 a bottle , with duty , shipping and VAT still to pay , it seems quite obvious that the main beneficiaries from this system are the château-proprietors themselves . |
| 12 | Er clearly when we have got that situation , we do n't just simply put the numbers in and press the button and you get the answer out at the end , er the people who er did this for us at the time , er are professional er transportation consultants er and given that the key er one of the key outputs from this model was the effect of a er a bypass , then this is something that we looked at in in some detail as well as er the actual effects that the model was putting out . |
| 13 | The main safeguards in this area are the Housing Acts , supported by public health legislation , which is intended to ensure that no person should be allowed to live in a dwelling that is unfit for human habitation . |
| 14 | One obvious reason for the persistence of pronounced regional anomalies on this scale is the fact that the guidance contained in the 1976 Act still affords massive scope for the exercise of discretion by magistrates , thereby enabling different policies to be pursued in individual court areas . |
| 15 | Cos it 'd be , I mean a big disadvantage to a lot of particular schools around this area is the number of erm Asian and |
| 16 | Perhaps the most famous cases of this period were the confrontations at the Saltley coal depot in Birmingham during the 1972 national coal dispute , at the Grunwick film processing laboratory in London in 1977 and outside the Hadfields private steel works during the 1980 national steel dispute . |
| 17 | ( Critics argue that the most obvious signs of this freedom are the huge pay rises awarded by the directors of many privatised companies to themselves . |
| 18 | And here there is at once a difficulty , in that the general productive order , throughout the centuries of the development of capitalism , has been predominantly defined by the market , and ‘ cultural production ’ , as we have seen , has been increasingly assimilated to its terms , yet any full identity between cultural production and general production has been to an important extent resisted , one of the forms of this resistance being the distinctions between ‘ artisan ’ , ‘ craftsman ’ and ‘ artist ’ , and in an important related form the distinction between ‘ objects of utility ’ and ‘ objects of art ’ . |
| 19 | To this day , the sinews of this commonwealth are the transmission belts between Moscow and individual East European capitals , not multilateral institutions . |
| 20 | The descendants of this group are the sharks and rays . |
| 21 | The main disadvantage with structural models of this kind is the possibility of biasing the results by imposing too rigid a structure on the data . |
| 22 | One of the key elements of this study was the exercise of tight control over variables which may influence faecal bile acid profiles ; age , transit time , gall stones , cholecystectomy , hepatic function , hepatic metastases , previous surgery , and antibiotics . |
| 23 | More central to the concerns of this book is the question of whether testing programmes are a suitable procedure for accountability . |
| 24 | Illustrative of the workings of this process is the career of Molla Mustafa b . |
| 25 | The next elements in this column are the semiconductors silicon and germanium , with larger and less strongly bonded atoms . |
| 26 | The killers at this point are the UVF and UFF and that is who they ( the security forces ) should be dealing with , ’ the MP said . |
| 27 | Possible explanations for this diversity are the physical state of the virus ( whether it is extrachromosomal or integrated into the host cell chromosomes ) , the topographical position of the lesion on the cervix , and the presence of possible cofactors such as herpes viruses in carcinogenesis . |
| 28 | The British army created a regiment of light infantry in 1757 for scouting duties in North America ; and in the war of the American Revolution troops of this kind were the most effective part of Britain 's forces in the colonies . |
| 29 | Second only to the Royal Saloons of this time were the 57ft saloons de luxe , built for the accommodation of the Royal suite , when the King and Queen were travelling ; when they were not required for this purpose they could be hired . |
| 30 | Two recent bi-products of this research are the following books : and ( eds . ) , |