Example sentences of "this [vb -s] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been central to the Catholic tradition as we well know . |
| 2 | I would be interested to know whether this has been successful in reducing speed and accidents , but my impression is that it has worked very well . |
| 3 | The EURODASS consortium led by Marconi Defence Systems Limited offered a solution , and this has been subject to rigorous scrutiny to confirm that it meets the necessary technical criteria . |
| 4 | This has been invaluable in challenging simplicities about , say , the ‘ repression ’ of sexuality in nineteenth-century Europe , and in questioning the teleological view which sees a gradual climb towards permissiveness from Victorian darkness . |
| 5 | So the psychology of the course was created and this has been integral to the development of the tournament . |
| 6 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 7 | In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli . |
| 8 | This has been due to the lack of understanding of the origins of this pottery . |
| 9 | " If we have been unable to give Spain greater well-being " , he said , " let it be very clear that this has been due to foreign incomprehension . " |
| 10 | This has been due to agriculture and forestry activities , which must now be considered . |
| 11 | These data are insufficient to establish the variation of seismic wave speeds with depth in the Moon to anything like the same extent with which this has been possible in the Earth . |
| 12 | This has been open to doubt since June 8 , 1989 when an extreme left-wing group pumped 20 bullets into Valenzuela 's former chief , ‘ Wally ’ Fuentes Morrison . |
| 13 | This has been obvious since the seventeenth century . |
| 14 | This has been true at any time between four and 25 years after marriage . |
| 15 | If this has been true of the past , it is even more true of the present and seems likely to be truer still of the future . |
| 16 | The mill still contains its iron half-breast shot wheel together with all the machinery , stones etc , although much of this has been idle since the early 1950s and has fallen into disrepair . |
| 17 | This has been responsible for wiping out entire stocks of fish . |
| 18 | This concerns being fair with regard to what a belief actually claims . |
| 19 | The underlying rule-structure which determines the form that this takes is dependent on how the offence has been perceived , that is , whether it is taken to be demeaning or non-demeaning . |
| 20 | This means being capable of thinking quantitatively and being relatively happy at using figures in a variety of ways in order to : |
| 21 | However , the pattern of merger/approximation that this suggests is complicated by the existence of the raising rule by which /a/ is raised before velars . |