Example sentences of "that it [be] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their justification for doing it is that it 's for this thing , this painting or whatever , and I always wonder if it could n't be more without all that . ’ |
| 2 | He did this so effectively that it is to this day referred to as the Wallace Line . |
| 3 | It seems entirely possible that it is to this period — roughly from 873/1468 ( or perhaps earlier ) to 878/1473–4 — that the Muftilik of Abdulkerim belongs , that he succeeded Fahreddin Acemi on the latter 's death and must then later have resigned or been removed from the Muftilik , perhaps to make way for Molla Husrev when he returned from Bursa . |
| 4 | Indeed it will be argued later in this book that it is at this level — the level of field support — that the greatest single power to achieve innovation may lie . |
| 5 | The Copenhagen school therefore says that it is at this stage that results get fixed and knowledge is established . |
| 6 | One could argue that it is on this account that the restorer applies his efforts to the material element of the work . |
| 7 | To suppose that this century can fix the definition of democracy or , even more arrogantly , that it is in this century that democracy has been finally and definitively realized , is to be blind not only to the probabilities of the future but also to the certainties of the past . |
| 8 | It is probably true to say that it is in this way , rather than in any other , that governments learn exactly where the limits of tolerance lie . |
| 9 | I suspect that it is in this challenge to popular feminist orthodoxies that the book 's significance will rest . |
| 10 | Not until the 1880s did ‘ social purity ’ have any major legislative purchase ; and it is significant that it is from this period that the earliest critiques of ‘ Victorianism ’ stem . |
| 11 | In spite of all that has been said by popular moralists , along the lines of honesty being the best policy , everyone really knows implicitly that it is by this test of universalisability that one should determine what one ought to do . |
| 12 | As one example , we know that it was at this time that he took the opportunity to fill the vacant see of York since the canons were present and thus he could postulate and consecrate Walter Gray . |
| 13 | Talking to Andre Malraux years later , Picasso went so far as to say that it was on this occasion that he all of a sudden received the revelation of why he was a painter at all and that ‘ I realized what painting was all about ’ . |
| 14 | I think that it was during this visit that Peter Duval-Smith tacked on to us when we were going to dine at the Turkish harbour . |
| 15 | As he walked away from the house , Mark had remembered that it was along this street , with its brightly — almost garishly — painted houses that Sophia had once seen a cluster of what she took to be exotic tropical fruits in one of the windows , only to realise that they were tomatoes put there to ripen . |
| 16 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 17 | It is suggested that it was derived from the hauling of boats along the river and that it was from this place that manual hauling of boats along a tow path began , but in all fairness I think this can be discounted . |