Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] this [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 The statement before us on the Labour Party and the trade union links sets aside various recommendations on how we are going to cast our block vote at this year 's Labour Party Conference on this issue the options open to us are listed in this paper and I 'd like to make the following observations .
2 Only a few authorities have been treated in this fashion and they are the councils which have substantially exceeded government targets for local expenditure .
3 Materials have been developed from this study and two books describe 12 pre-school schemes and centres which are attempting to develop relationships between parents and workers ( Pugh et al 1987 ) .
4 The Chelt 's course has been diverted in this area and consequently , it no longer actually flows to a mill which , like the majority of the mills on the lower section of the Chelt , is of brick and slate construction .
5 The rudimentary organs have not even yet been formed at this stage and the implications support the existence of a guiding field of electromagnetic energy as a responsible agent for the organisation of the cells of the newly forming embryo via the DNA .
6 Temples are revered in this way and it is not uncommon to observe a priest in prayer moving clockwise around a sacred enclosure , or a Stupa .
7 For a decade , Sri Lanka has been caught between this ambition and the demand for decentralisation that springs from the country 's ethnic troubles .
8 He could get items that had once been owned by this author or that author , and there was a market for these , particularly for letters .
9 There are one or two Well there are two items in there which have n't really been resolved at this point and that 's the i the erm ins er where am I .
10 More trees have been felled at this location and Councillor Brereton has requested that replacement trees be planted .
11 Suggested model memoranda and articles for both limited and unlimited companies are included in this pack and certain provisions in those models ( or provisions to like effect ) are identified in an introductory notes as being necessary if the incorporated practice is to be able to comply with and remain in compliance with the Rules .
12 I think there 's more to love than just simply romantic love erm , I 'm a volunteer campaigner with Oxfam and to me love includes love of my fellow man and fellow women throughout the world and I find it very hard at the moment that millions of people are starving in this world and I feel that I 've got to show my love by helping them
13 But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law .
14 But basically th every time the contract comes up for renewal , what will happen for a company to attempt to win the contract it 's got to cut the hours of its employees and its also got to try and c cut the costs erm by cutting pay and that 's the way that 's the way contracts are won in this situation and as long as that keeps happening then the situation 's going to get steadily worse .
15 Very little work has been done in this field but there has been sufficient to reveal that the refinement of economic theory ( especially in terms of mathematical sophistication ) is akin to fashioning scalpels to cut through jungle when it comes to the real world of policy-making [ Graham , 1975 ] .
16 I take that view because the point has never been decided by this court or in the House of Lords and , as I have explained above , this court , in considering whether private corporations can sue for libel at common law , has not laid down any principle which is conclusive of the point raised in this case .
17 ( The two other new essays in the collection , " The Pensées of Pascal " and " In Memoriam " are related to this mood but are more singular in conception . )
18 Like the previous speakers I greatly welcome the concessions er proposed by the Government er in the police aspect of the Bill , although I c ca n't refrain from commenting that I simply can not understand why they were surprised at the reaction to their original proposal , given what had already been said in this House and by everybody that they consulted , but welcome though these concessions are , er I myself find them falling short of the ideal in three respects .
19 No comparison has been made between this group and parents of H pylori negative children , but work from other sources provides serological evidence for an increased prevalence of infection in family contacts .
20 Volumes have been written on this subject but I will offer a succinct aim that sums up , for me , the essence of good practice :
21 Details of the crime , and even the suspect 's picture , have been featured in this newspaper but all efforts to persuade the police to tell us his name have come to nought .
22 As is traditional , the trophies which were won throughout the year had been saved for this occasion and presented to their recipients after dinner .
23 There 's nothing to suggest the crimes are connected at this stage but wqe are keeping an open mind .
24 We 're driving down this road and I said well Pisa 's down here
25 Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up .
26 Yeah , but they 're looking at this tape and they 're saying cor they 're a bunch of fucking thickos are n't they ?
27 We 're going down this road and John was in front of me and just as John went past this wagon it pulled out and there was a car coming the other way .
28 We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that .
29 Whoever or whatever they are they 're associating with this man and if they do n't know what he does then they should .
30 that you we 're playing with this morning and you did n't put it in properly .
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