Example sentences of "[be] this [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have been this connection that took him to Nottinghamshire in 1580 , to work for Arundell 's brother-in-law , Sir Francis Willoughby , at Wollaton Hall . |
| 2 | W will that be this year or does it take much longer ? |
| 3 | Okay so we 'll let U be this thing that 's raised to a power . |
| 4 | One of Einstein 's insights was to infer that because mass generalizes to mass/energy in SR it must be this mass/energy that causes the curvature of space–time . |
| 5 | It is this concept that lies at the back of R. P. A. Edwards ' attack on dial-access retrieval systems : |
| 6 | It is this feature that makes the identification of a ‘ collective strategy ’ largely shaped by two strong-minded headteachers possible . |
| 7 | A further attraction of the approach is its discussion of the role of such resources in deciding how to respond to changes unanticipated at the start of a contract : it is this feature that adds a fundamentally dynamic element to the theory . |
| 8 | However , it is this concern that has led students of social policy to give increasing attention in recent years to the activities of that group of public servants who may be called ‘ street-level bureaucrats ’ , to ask questions about what actually happens in the exchanges between these people and the public . |
| 9 | It is this evidence that led West to the cautious conclusion that ‘ it is reasonable to assume that in the nineteenth century education played some part in economic growth . ’ |
| 10 | I think they thought , who is this bloke that keeps turning up for practices but does n't actually do anything and has never heard of the Who ! ’ |
| 11 | It is this conviction that led her to team up with the Plenary Foundation for Uruguayan Women to launch a multi-media project on the subject of women , mental health and sexuality . |
| 12 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 13 | It is this choice that helps to make reading a pleasurable experience . |
| 14 | She should n't be allowed to stay there if , how old is this girl that 's been chucked out of the house ? |
| 15 | The presently accepted age range for Sivapithecus is 12.5 to 7Myr , and it is this date that provides the earliest evidence for the splitting of the orang-utan from the other hominoids . |
| 16 | The second will be evoked when the consequences of the stimulus are uncertain ; it is this reflex that tracks the value of α. * |
| 17 | It is this stress that keeps the fluid closer to the wall moving ; in its absence this fluid is slowed down by viscous friction at the wall . |
| 18 | It is this discretion that has been used routinely to allow questioning which Parliament had intended should be exceptional . |
| 19 | And it is this struggle that showed us a way . |
| 20 | It is this sector that has suffered most from the low pay strategies of the Conservatives and from unemployment . |
| 21 | wolf suggests that it is this sector that provides the catalyst for rebellion and he shows how , in six major revolutions in the world , it is the middle peasantry who have formed the pivotal group for peasant action . |
| 22 | This is perhaps inevitable since deconstruction resists teleology , and it is this resistance that has enabled its enemies to call it nihilist . |
| 23 | It is this state that fascinates particle physicists . |
| 24 | Wimpey Environmental has built its reputation on the quality of its measurement work , and it is this element that distinguishes us from our rivals . |
| 25 | While it is not guaranteed , it is this possibility that attracts most borrowers to the endowment loan . |
| 26 | It is this principle that forms the central consideration in my example of the stylistics of embellishment , Auerbach 's Mimesis , and I shall explain it further shortly . |
| 27 | It is this principle that guided the development of the ‘ unmanned information points ’ , best developed at the University of Bradford . |
| 28 | It is this action that levels the board out in flight and makes a small hop into a controlled jump . |
| 29 | It is this destruction that has given the wealth of shattered archaic sculpture from the city . |
| 30 | Kelly says that couples living together soon start to share the same skin bacteria , and it is this familiarity that enables women to pick out their men so successfully . |