Example sentences of "this [noun] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to their preparing a Four Yearly Report , however , for the majority , formal review of this kind has been unusual : more than half claim that little or very little formal review activity took place in their school before the LEA scheme was introduced . |
| 2 | It would probably be fair to say that views of this kind have been dominant among British socialists from the Labour-left leftwards , but over recent years they have come under increasing criticism , on both theoretical and political grounds . |
| 3 | Later research shows this story to have been unlikely : the Court was not at Wilton at the time and the Earl of Pembroke was not on speaking terms with Laud . |
| 4 | One focus to this resistance has been realistic plot-paradigms which Sukenick constantly subverts in the interest of getting nearer to the real . |
| 5 | Afterwards many people said this experience had been traumatic but positive . |
| 6 | In the USA this experience has been evident in the sense that , when there are movements to restrain the growth of state spending . |
| 7 | Soon , thought Henry , feeling , as he often did , a sense of solidarity with chickens , they would label one with THIS FOWL HAS BEEN HAND-REARED AND TALKED TO NICELY . |
| 8 | Previous findings over this hypothesis had been contradictory . |
| 9 | Offenders in this category had been responsible for more than their share of the increase in crimes of violence , but the enhanced rate of offending at these ages extended to crimes of all kinds . |
| 10 | In recent years this department has been busier repaying savings to the public than attracting them . |
| 11 | We do not actually know , of course , if this effect has been good or bad ; but the tourists keep coming , potential undergraduates keep applying and companies do relocate into the area . |
| 12 | During this drought the amplitude of this effect has been bigger than at any time since reliable pressure records for the region were first taken 50 years ago . |
| 13 | He considered this action to have been successful , as the right wingtip struck the ground first , followed by the nose . |
| 14 | What this lawyer says is true . |
| 15 | The increased emphasis on techniques in this chapter has been deliberate . |
| 16 | This chapter has been concerned to sketch in the general background to the reign of Mary Queen of Scots , and to clear it of some of the misconceptions about Scottish kingship which have tended to confuse the issues . |
| 17 | This chapter has been concerned with the AL of maintaining a safe environment . |
| 18 | Rather , what this chapter has been concerned to make clear is that the potential impact of records of achievement , as well as that of the GCSE , can not be determined without making reference to both initiatives . |
| 19 | This chapter has been concerned with the central machinery for making and executing the decisions of the Crown . |
| 20 | We come finally to a statement which is controversial , and about which much of this chapter has been concerned : ( vii ) Stylistic choice is limited to those aspects of linguistic choice which concern alternative ways of rendering the same subject matter . |
| 21 | So far , this chapter has been concerned mainly with the stock of dwellings and the stock of households . |
| 22 | Much of this chapter has been concerned with specifically linguistic difficulties of quantifying variables . |
| 23 | This chapter has been concerned with outlining the principal methods by which suppliers of products bring their goods and services to the attention of their markets , with the object of increasing their sales or market share , or both . |
| 24 | In general , the results that we have reported in this chapter have been favourable to the rational expectations hypothesis , suggesting at the very least that the usefulness of that hypothesis in one area of macroeconomics can not be dismissed lightly . |
| 25 | The themes of this chapter have been clear enough . |
| 26 | In Britain there has been a notable tension between the demands of law and order ideology and the practical impossibility of increasing prison populations exponentially , and this tension has been one factor encouraging the phenomenon of ‘ bifurcation ’ ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 27 | Later , however , he conceded that this attempt had been unsuccessful , and his earlier rigorous separation of science and ideology misguided . |
| 28 | This alternative has been open to them since 1986 but unfortunately many landowners chose to seek the approval of Licences instead even though it is virtually impossible to arrange for land to be occupied without giving occupation rights . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The rapport the manager has always had with the supporters of this club has been excellent . ’ |
| 30 | This dilemma has been present since the beginnings of institutionalized literary study . |